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72Henry V, a Realistic Machiavellian Ruler
Machiavelli’s The Prince has always been a handbook on power. Political leaders, military personnel, students, and businessmen alike find the rules and advice to be engaging, insightful, and sometimes...
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81Concepts of Freedom in John Updike’s “A & P”
John Updike’s “A & P” offers a first person narrative of a young supermarket employee in a typical blue collar town. Sammy tells us a story about the events and observations that lead up to eventually...
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78Telling Lies to Experience the Truth in Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”
Tim O’Brien, in “How to Tell a True War Story”, instructs his readers that truth is not actually factual and morals are not always absolute. By using a variety of story-telling techniques, and...
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72Catharsis in Shakespeare's As You Like It
Literature is meant to teach. Its purpose is to shed light upon the soul and offer up the best and worst of humanity. All the stories we read, all the characters we relate to and begin to understand,...
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69A Freudian Perspective of Lady Macbeth
The year was 1923 and a young Austrian psychiatrist published “The Ego and the Id,” creating a new theory on the human psyche. Sigmund Freud theorized that a human’s personality had three distinct...
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70Six Absolutely Must Know Book Sites
The six must know book sites that I love on the internet. Includes free book sites, audio books, indie online store, and more.
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69Teddy Roosevelt: A Popular, Progressive Hero
Theodore Roosevelt was a professional historian, learned naturalist, explorer, hunter, woodsman, author of thirty five books and numerous essays, a member of the board of police commissioners in New York...
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66How To Buy Cheap Textbooks for College
A great list of ways to buy cheap textbooks for college. Includes links to sites, stores, and the facts of why books are so, so expensive.
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77The Role of Hendiadys in Hamlet
liam Shakespeare is unarguably one of the most influential writers of all time. He penned thirty-seven plays and one hundred fifty four sonnets, created an estimated seventeen-hundred new words of...
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