Carl Hagenbeck

“Free as a bird. It’s the next best thing to be… What ever happened to the life we once knew? Always made me feel so free!” This song, by the Beatles, shares the well known idea of being free as a bird. Since the beginning of time, mankind has wondered what it would feel like to fly, to travel around the world, and to be free. Humans have idolised the talents of birds for this reason. They can go wherever, whenever, and always seem happy soaring through the sky at their own leisure. While birds used

After spending the past two months examining the arguments of four great thinkers, it is clear that there is a lot more to politics than people assume. Despite the four different opinions as to what the ends and goals of politics are, there was one theme in particular that stood out to me: all of the thinkers based their arguments on their perspectives of human nature. Political science is an extremely social discipline, and this justifies the diversity of thought and opinion regarding this subject

Unconscious sexual drives are the most powerful behaviours of mankind. Libido, colloquially known as sex drive, drastically affects one’s thoughts and actions and leads to abnormal behavioural consequences. Guy de Maupassant’s “Was It a Dream?” is about a man who spends all his spare time mourning over his lover’s grave. The story reveals the adverse psychological relationship to sexuality, as the man’s actions are molded by his affection towards his lover. Hence, sexual drives lead to an unconscious

‘Texts became valued over time when they explore challenging and enduring ideas relevant to humanity - To what extend does Hamlet reflect this statement? William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is a timeless play which continues to remain relevant across all generations due to its presentation of ideas that are fundamental to humanity. The play highlights aspects that relate to the society of not only Elizabethan England but also that of our modern society. Hamlet, as a character, considers ideas from outside

idea that many immigrants and Americans strived for in order to become successful. Unlike most countries where rising from rags to riches was highly uncommon and a hopeless dream, America was a place for people to work hard and achieve their dreams. Carl Sandburg was a very influential poet who came from very humble beginnings under immigrant parents who had moved to America. He believed in an ordered society where people could strive and accomplish what they chose without being influenced by the majority

female family members by the name ‘Zohra’ (9) because it was her mother’s name too. She becomes schizophrenic as she fails to distinguish between reality and imagination. The second interpretation of an incident in The Pakistani Bride is through Carl Gustav Jung’s

Hero. He didn't slay dragons or walk through fire. He didn’t conquer the world or go on an adventurous quest. However, he did something most people are afraid to do. He stood up for what he believed in regardless of whether he stood alone. Made by Carl Foreman, this movie contained a marshal named Kane. News went around town that Frank Miller, a criminal Kane put in prison a while back, was coming to town on the noon train to get his revenge. Instead of leaving town, he decided to stay and fight

schools, classrooms and so much more. It has given students, teachers, and staff access to new and higher resources than ever, but the question is whether this huge growth has made a positive impact? In the essay “How Google Is Making Us Smarter” by Carl Zimmer, he gives examples and an explanation on how we as people have adapted to the internet so much that we’re like cyborgs, also the improvements and results made from it. Another article titled “Technology: Using Power for Good” by Hansdeep Singh

Spending his entire life developing the way he wrote, Carl Sandburg created a very distinct writing style. He continuously traveled throughout his life, experiencing new things and people which shaped his view and therefore his writing style. Because of this change in writing style throughout his life, he wrote in both the Modern and Contemporary American literary time periods. Contributing to this was his early fascination with language easily traced back to his time on the Illinois prairie, where

In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois is thrust into a series of unfortunate events and undergoes drastic changes in an effort to come to terms with her completely changed life. Through these events, Blanche happens to be the only remaining individual left to take care of the once valuable and prestigious family belongings, and her psychological mind spirals out of control in her attempts to restore the family’s honor. In addition to experiencing loneliness and feeling