… go above and beyond normal just to achieve more than what they already have, Throughout Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Treasure Island, greed possessed the pirates to uncover the buried treasure. The book shows the many things that happened during…

… is ugly, it is destructive, a feeling of prejudice. It won¡¦t make you happy; it can only make you angry and hurt you. Andrew Sullivan tells us that there is a distinction between reasonable hate and unreasonable hate. Reasonable hate stems from knowledg…

… The golden sun was blazing from its zenith. Fleecy cloud scudded across the azure sky. A gentle sea breeze tousled my hair. I sniffed at the refreshing, tingling air. The seashore, a crescent of soft powdery sand fringed with swaying casuarinas trees,…

… to understand people, and, to a lesser extent, animals. In portrait photography, one is taking a picture and capturing a person’s emotions and feelings in that moment in time. Their feelings might be completely different the next minute, but the…

… distraught son of murdered king and the queen of Denmark whom has been filled with the turmoil brought upon him by the appearance of his late father’s ghost in the Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. His obsession and continued distu…

… as the genocidal killings in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge; more than 2 million people were shot, strangled, beheaded, starved or tortured to death in the 20th century. The United States, when monitoring human rights violations such as genocide, should…

… is a nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experiences. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous transcendentalist, said…

… you begin reading The Nibelungenlied, the first chapter is about the main woman character. Unlike the other stories we’ve read, the women usually aren’t introduced until the “important men” are, or after the men fight. Kriemhild is introduced…

… to me. Every since high school I’ve enjoyed hearing the many different versions and spin offs of this classic tale. There are many ways that this story can be broken down and analyzed. To me, it leans very strongly toward the belief in God…

… image. It is something to always be cherished, so as not to ever forget that time and place in ones life. It can also be used to capture a beautiful and unique image. Black and white photographs could also be considered an artform. They are a way to…