1-10 of 36 hubssort by Hot Best Latest
91Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Reflection of Contemporary Society as it Relates to Immorality and Hypocrisy
For centuries in London, the Plague presented a very real danger to its citizens. However, some people were more concerned with other, moral dangers that city life offered, like prostitution, alcoholism,...
4 comments
74Victorian Realism
Realism is different for any single author based on his or her life experiences, just as any reader may interpret a different reality than another. However, in general, realism emerged as a form of...
0 comments
90Romeo + Juliet- The Symbolism of Water
Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet significantly alters many aspects of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, such as the substitution of guns for swords, but one of his most significant changes...
4 comments
86How to Make Unbeatable Guacamole
I want to share my recipe for what I truly believe to be the best guacamole I’ve ever had. Of course, I have been making it for about 10 years, so I’m a little biased. Still, I have not only seen my...
27 comments
76Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm- Challenging Victorian Norms
Olive Schreiner’s novel The Story of an African Farm reconsiders the themes and ideologies presented by the Victorian novelists who preceded Schreiner. Written in the late 19th Century, it presents such...
0 comments
67LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker- Kinship Between Generations
LeAnne Howe's novel Shell Shaker greatly focuses on the issue of the power struggle between men and women and shows the importance of powerful women. Since this story revolves around two similar deaths...
0 comments
70Easy Recipe- Breakfast Wrap- Banana/Yogurt/Granola
Here is a recipe that I’ve been particularly obsessed with lately. After years of running late for school or work and slopping some peanut butter on a piece of toast to devour messily in my car, I finally...
1 comment68Response to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
One of the first things I thought of when I finished A Midsummer Night's Dream was its predictability. Shakespeare's dream vision represents the typical love story in which lovers must overcome...
1 comment69Thomas Hardy- War's "Curiosity"
I’m a pretty political person, especially for a 22-year-old, so war is obviously an issue that I think about from time to time. I struggle with the issue because I understand the necessity for...
3 comments65Shakespeare- The Tragedy of the Comedy
For many characters in Shakespeare's comedies, love immediately becomes a difficult, seemingly impossible, pursuit. In two of these plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, the main...
0 comments
