From the climax, the play spirals down to denouement resolution, where many including Desdemona and Othello are killed. ... It becomes clear that this is nothing more than denial of the truth just a short time later when Othello says, "Your napkin is too little. ... Othello is already showing signs of being irritated and short tempered with Desdemona. ... This becomes obvious as he says, "I would not kill thy unprepared spirit. ... I would not kill thy soul" (5.2.33-4). ...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Becoming a Man Richard Wright's short story, "The Man Who Was Almost a Man", illustrates the hardships a boy goes through while becoming a man. ... It would be crazy to give a child a gun and expect him not to kill himself or someone else. ... "Could kill a man with a gun like this. Kill anybody, black or white. ... "Lawd, ef Ah had just one mo bullet Ah"d taka shot at tha house. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Louis, MO. ... Thomas Beckett was killed in 1170 in Canterbury cathedral. ... The short play has two scenes, one about a month before the murder, when Beckett returned to Canterbury from the 7 years of exile in France, and the actual murder itself. As an interlude between them stands Beckett's Christmas Day sermon from that year, and the second scene also includes an interlude in which the four knights who killed Beckett plead their case to the audience. ... The Knights break in and kill him. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It is short and one can only speculate that it is of the same origin as the Reeve's and Miller's tale about sex and sin. ... An old hag tells him the answer, he is not killed, and they are wed. ... Two of the men send the youngest for food and wine, while they plan to kill him for his share of the gold. As they plan the youngest also plans to kill them for there money, he buys poison and pores it into there wine bottles. ... The prioress continues the tales with a tale of a young martyr who was killed by Jews for singing a song of the virgin Mary. ...

• Word Count: 2685
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When William Jefferson Clinton was elected as the 42nd President of the United States of America in 1992 having beaten the current incumbent President George H Bush, and independent candidate Ross Peroe, he took to a stage in Little Rock in his home state of Arkansas and delivered a speech to his adoring public. At the end of the speech, Clinton as he had done throughout his campaign stated that he "Still believed in a place called home". (Clinton Library, Election Victory Speech 1992) At the same time in the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in the six counties of Northern Ireland, a place...

• Word Count: 3479
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," (Shakespeare Prologue Lines 1-3) These are the opening words of William Shakespeare's ageless tale Romeo and Juliet. Over the years many people have proved the timeless ...

• Word Count: 3331
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

Romeo & Juliet I will go through my essay scene by scene as I think this is the most effective and more efficient way of comparing the two different versions of the story and thus answering the task question. I will start by giving an introduction of both stories. First of all, the Zefferelli version. His version of the Shakespear play is set around the time that the play was written by Shakespear around 1599a.d. Secondly, Baz Luhrman' s version made in the 1990's and set in the 1990's. ...

• Word Count: 5983
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: High School

Cases of Induced Abortions by Teenagers without Parental Notice or Consent 1. Background Substantial numbers of pregnant adolescents do not consult either their mother or father prior to obtaining an abortion. A Minnesota study found that 43% of adolescents obtaining abortions used the court bypas...

• Word Count: 3899
• Approx Pages: 16