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79Yusef Kommunyakaa's "Facing It"
Yusef Kommunyakaa's Emotional Response Surrounding the Vietnam Memorial Yusef Komunyakaa emphasizes his ethnicity at the very beginning of his poem "Facing It" in the first lines: "My black face fades,/hiding...
10 comments77Theseus Speaks for Shakespeare in A Midsummer Nights Dream
The original speech given by Theseus, opening the first scene of act five in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, lacks key lines that link the speech to themes existing in Shakespeare's 26th...
1 comment77"AIDS" in poetry by Mary Sarton
Overcoming AIDS Many people take love for granted, assured that it will overcome any hardship or obstacle in their lives. However, the author has learned that the contraction of a fatal and contagious disease...
0 comments79The Belgian Blue Cattle Debate
The Quest for Ethical Genetic Experimentation Belgian Blue cattle originated in Belgium as the product of crossbreeding between local red-pied and black-pied cattle and cattle imported from England in the...
2 comments73Internets Impact on Society
What is Internet's Effect on Civil Society? New technology has historically had unpredictable and unprecedented impacts upon society. With the invention of the telephone in 1876, its uses were thought to be...
2 comments77Your Inbred Pug
The Ethics of Creating the Purebred American Pug The American Pug has a very specific ideal appearance. Pugs which successfully exhibit this appearance are the result of intensive inbreeding and selection...
9 comments73Aristotle vs. Plato on the Dangers of Poetry
Poetry's Emotional Effect: Detrimental as Plato Claims or Beneficial as Aristotle Concludes? Speaking well about Homer; it's a divine power that moves you, as a "Magnetic" stone moves iron rings. (That's...
6 comments73A Better MouseTrap
An Idea for a Better Mousetrap Mice are small, slender rodents that occupy a variety of habitats. Compared to rats and other rodents, mice easily adapt to novel situations and objects (Mice: Biology). Mice...
0 comments73The Tragedy of Dido
The Tragedy of Dido's Furor Dido, the Phoenician Queen in Virgil's The Aeneid, is a tragic character who is a victim of the will of the gods. Enchanted by the god Amor, Dido becomes hopelessly enamored with...
0 comments72Viola's Voice in Twelfth Night
Vioa's Critique of Society In the brief passage in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, lines 104-122, Viola delivers a critique of society by showing that societal expectations serve as barriers to...
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