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Fate in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet When William Shakespeare wrote ‘Romeo & Juliet’ he told a tale of “A pair of star crossed lovers”. The role of fate plays an important role in the play. The themes of conflict, love, revenge, religion & destiny all tie in with the role of fate. Romeo & Juliet were both born into and “ancient grudge” fuelled by two formidable families, the Capulets and Montagues. Fate plays a very important role in the play, and at the

hip-hop rhythms with a Mediterranean flair, giving the song an overall hypnotic quality with a hint of sex appeal. Despite its upbeat tempo and steady beat, lyrically and visually, Bad Girls is full of political and social undertones. The first verse of the song, “Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well”,

19th-century norms, where artists, architects, poets, and thinkers alike either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re-envision a society in flux" (Britannica). Modernism mainly represented by an orientation towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple points of view different from the Victorian and Romantic writing (Britannica). T.S. Eliot’s impact on poetry is unrivaled in the 20th century. Although his work was criticized for nonconformity, Eliot gained a

Breaking Through BREAKING THROUGH Myrna Pena Reyes    Haltingly I undo the knots  around your parcel that came this morning. A small box should require little labor, but you’ve always been thorough,  tying things tight and well.  the twine lengthens,  curls beside the box.  I see your fingers pull,  snapping the knots into place  (once your belt slapped sharply against my skin)  You hoped the package would hold its shape  across 10,000 miles of ocean.  It’s not a bride’s superstition  that leaves

William Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, features a wide cast of characters and follows a variety of plotlines that deal with love, loss, deception, and redemption. Within the scenes of the play, the old adage “you don’t know what you have got until you lose it” is clearly applicable, especially in the case of Hero and Claudio’s love story, but this sentiment could surely be changed to “you don’t know who you are until you lose it”. This changed aphorism could almost constitute as a

Literary ballads is considered the seminal inspirational work of literary romanticism in Britain. The publication of Lyrical Ballads represented a turning point for English poetry. Though the book was not originally received as a radical experiment, it was rather controversial for its time. Being released straight during the French revolution which was seen as a social experiment in itself. Coleridge encouraged Wordsworth to write a preface to Lyrical Ballads which would explain the work contained

I personally connected to this film, because it is easy to go with the flow and make my family happy than do what I want. It was easy to identify with Benjamin’s blank stares and lack of motivation and truly inspiring that he attempted to forge his own path. I felt that the film connects to the song “Love Song” by Sara Barellies because Barellies didn’t express an interest in writing love songs and she had been writing

her family members, given the widely known paranoid horrors and excesses of the Stalinist regime, together with the fact that she had been recognized as an important poet during the czarist period (Russia) and had always refused to "write optimistic verse that glorified Soviet accomplishments." Only few people withstood this era in Russia and lived to tell about it. The stanza aforementioned, ties in with suffering because her grief was enough to stand out in her creative poetry than even she probably

Trip to the Creation Museum While in San Diego, California I went to The Creation Museum. This museum is dedicated to educating the public on the Christian viewpoint of Biblical creation and its significant effects and logical implications on history. While there, I took a tour with some other families. The ages of the participants ranged from young children to elderly adults, all seemed eager to learn. The educational discourse that I discovered in this museum was unlike any I have ever seen

following a scriptorium form, they also display unique qualities reflecting individ- uals. For example, a scribe managing text often left the ornamentation of the letters found at the start of verses to an illuminator, but another scribe formed a habit of incor- porating bright colors for text and repeated versus in blank spaces. The question of identity between artists and scribes is one of the many mysteries surrounding the man- uscript.! The Book of Kells follows several of the iconographic, as well as