Rufus Sewell

With every day that passes, history is being made. Within these past few weeks, two current events have occurred that will be documented in future textbooks and discussed in future United States history, and Latin American history classes. These events are Donald Trump’s strike on Syria and the political protests against the government of Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro. These are two presidents making history which is recorded in many ways as the modern times has reached a pivotal point of

Fanny Fern: The Not So Humorous History of Feminist Satire In the 21st century, many women, myself included, take for granted that we can wear whatever we desire and say what we want, in public, without the fear of being thrown in jail. However, that was not always the case. While the fight for the continued advance of women’s rights rages on, women of the 19th century lived a very different life than the one, us women, lead today. The feminist agenda was just emerging on the horizon. One particular

The Beauty of Walt Whitman's When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer My father is an amateur astronomer. It is his passion, after he comes home from work at the office, to wait outside in the fields surrounding our house with his 10" LX200 F6.3 telescope until all hours of the morning, waiting for the perfect shot of galaxies like NGC 7479 or M16. The next evening at dinner, despite being awake for over thirty hours, he speaks non-stop about how he finally got the perfect shot after five hours

Meaning and Texture of the Seventh Poem in Leaves of Grass   Walt Whitman's seventh poem in his work, Leaves of Grass, displays the subtlety with which the poet is able to manipulate the reader's emotions. In this poem there are no particular emotional images, but the overall image painted by word choice and use of sounds is quite profound. This poem, like many others written by Walt Whitman, is somewhat somber in mood, but not morose. It is serious, but not to the point of gloom. Whitman

A poet who would agree with Albert Einstein statement of “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” is Walt Whitman. For in his poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” he has his speaker try to learn through education then experience. Walt Whitman first presents to our readers to a speaker who wants to learn astronomy and attends a lecture. By doing this, Walt Whitman wants to illustrate the disadvantages of education and how it solely relies on numbers and

Influence of the Roman Theater on Cicero’s Oration Pro Caelia By Cicero’s oration in defense of M. Caelius Rufus shows many substantive and stylistic borrowings from the Roman Theater, particularly the comedies of the 2nd century b.c.e. This would scarcely seem remarkable to Cicero, to employ such devices is only to make use of the tools of his trade, as a practical and practicing rhetorician. In this case using the theater as a framing device to guide his audience’s response. So too would

Cicero believed that a good orator must do three things in his speech: earn the favor of the audience, provide persuasive arguments, and move the audience with emotional appeals. In his defense of Marcus Caelius Rufus one finds an excellent example of Cicero’s work and through close examination can glean some additional information about what Cicero felt was needed in a good speech. With such scrutiny it becomes readily apparent that each of the three objectives need not be attained equally. Because

Individualism is important. This statement is made clear in Walt Whitman’s book, Leaves of Grass, published in 1855. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection composed in the nineteenth-century, during the Westward Expansion. Contrary to popular poetic style in that period, Whitman wrote in free-verse, meaning there was little to no rhyming or tempo. Individualism is a theme that sets the tone of Whitman’s poems. Whitman uses the literary devices of repetition, asyndeton, imagery, and conflict

One thing I noticed was the main character William (Heath Ledger) had bright blond almost golden hair that I think helped symbolize he is the good guy as opposed to the villain in the movie Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) who had very dark hair and very unwelcoming eyes. Rufus is the perfect actor to play a bad guy because of his vilionis look and cocky attitude he made you want to hate him which is what you want in a villian. I thought the cast was very put together and seemed like they had

the film that I watched was “A Knight’s Tale”; this film was released in 2001 and directed by Brian Helgeland. The major characters/stars in this film are; protagonist William Thatcher played by Heath Ledger, antagonist Count Adhemar played by Rufus Sewell, Roland played by Mark Addy, Wat played by Alan Tudyk, and Jocelyn played by Shannyn Sossamon. The major topics and events that are covered in this film are the topics of the separation between the lower classes; these include servants, thatcher’s