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Color and Emotion Association94

Color and Emotion Association

This article is to help you better understand how color effects your emotionn and mood. All colors have an effect on your mood, negative or positive.

42 comments    love life family
Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' - What does each Soliloquy, in Acts 1, 2 and 3, reveal about Hamlet's true Feelings?  (To be ...)91

Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' - What does each Soliloquy, in Acts 1, 2 and 3, reveal about Hamlet's true Feelings? (To be ...)

Soliloquies in Hamlet ~ what can we learn from Hamlet's soliloquies? Do they help us to understand Hamlet, the character, and 'Hamlet', the play, better? How does Shakespeare show his own talents through the soliloquies? Shakespeare's soliloquies give the reader ~ or the audience ~ the opportunity to find out what is going on in a character's mind; and possibly to access some of Shakespeare's own thoughts and ideas. This article concentrates on the Hamlet's soliloquies on Acts 1,

20 comments    shakespeare hamlet claudius
Top 15 Reasons Why Americans Love England93

Top 15 Reasons Why Americans Love England

Americans are simply in love with England. They just can't help themselves! There are many reasons to love England, but here are the top fifteen, from the accents to the royalty to the literature.

387 comments    america england americans
Fight Club and the Illusion of the Self91

Fight Club and the Illusion of the Self

Fight Club and the Illusion of the Self by Justin Thurston “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. Our culture has made us all the...

6 comments    literature philosophy buddhism
Template for Creating and Building a New Fantasy Race for your Fictional World95

Template for Creating and Building a New Fantasy Race for your Fictional World

In fantasy world building and writing, the term "race" is loosely used to describe a sentient or sapient life form with a similar degree of intelligence and awareness as that of a human. Generally a new race will have shared traits and will be aware...

5 comments    writing literature fantasy
Emily Bronte - the Female Victorian Writer Who Wrote Wuthering Heights95

Emily Bronte - the Female Victorian Writer Who Wrote Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, a complex Victorian novel of love and obsession. Emily Bronte, the quintessential Gothic writer - brilliant, reclusive (agoraphobic), possibly anorexic, socially awkward in a house on a hill, writing in secret and wandering her beloved English moors - a short bio with pictures and interesting links as well a reading of her poem "Fall Leaves Fall."

57 comments    english literature emily bronte
The gruesome origins of your favourite fairy tales.94

The gruesome origins of your favourite fairy tales.

Everyone knows the classic fairytale stories, especially as immortalised by Disney. But it may intrigue you to know that the original versions of today's fairy tales were much stranger, darker fare than Disney would have ever dared publish. Read...

29 comments    entertainment literature history
Famous Legends91

Famous Legends

The history is full of legends that have still mystified the world. All these legends of different cultures are held as strong beliefs, however some of them have faded away with time. These famous legends of the world are mentioned below: The...

16 comments    literature water gold
Ten Books That Will Change Your Life91

Ten Books That Will Change Your Life

Let me open this hub by making it clear that this isn't going to be a list of self-help books. I'm not a huge fan of the plethora of self-help books which will tell you how to do everything and anything better (and I'm sure there are plenty of...

34 comments    literature books fiction
Examples of Funny and Bizarre Epitaphs91

Examples of Funny and Bizarre Epitaphs

Quoted here are some of the funniest and most bizarre epitaphs I have come across. I am sure they will make you smile too, and I would love to hear of any others you may know of.

133 comments    family funny literature
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