In the Elizabethan time period, acting was not an easy job. Actors had to go through strenuous training before they could receive a main role in a play. Elizabethan actors had to be skilled in dance, voice, and fencing to maintain their position on stage. Elizabethan actors had to be skilled in da...

I was walking in darkness where life is in messery and hopeless. That place was the cave of my nightmare where all my hatred pains and fears were hidden. I see nothing but black. I was like a blind person who never knows the beauty of colors. I continued walking even allmost of the part of my he...

In the last few days, I've had to tell a lot of people that my mother passed away, but every single time I've said it, it sounded like I was talking through a cup. The low muffled sound of my voice could only say a few brief words of sorrow. The words "my mother" did not even come close to descri...

I remember the day I met Jennifer there she was - standing there - with dimples that made my heart jump. She was the captain of the cheerleading squad and everyone knew her in school. I couldn't stop looking at her. Thoughts raced through my head. What is her name? Does she have a boyfriend? Do...

Great Expectations Commentary The well-known novel 'Great Expectations' was the last great work by Charles Dickens. It is about an orphan, Pip, who is brought up in the early nineteenth century. Pip meets a girl named Estella who is of the upper class, this encounter leads him ...

Minor characters often add another dimension to a story as a contrast to the main character. Though the Fool only appears in select scenes, he plays three major roles in Shakespeare's King Lear. First, he serves as Lear's conscience, providing sane reasoning and wisdom at much needed tim...

A Shape of Thing I have enjoyed the performance by the actors in the play, A Shape of Things, The actors dealt the issued of relationship with dignity, especially Adam who took the heart broken news with acceptance. Evelyn shows no emotions after using Adam for her thesis presentation. Phillip ...

Leslie is my girlfriend whom I love with all of my heart. Whenever she comes near, I can smell the perfume that lifts me off of my feet, smelling her makes my whole day slip away. It's like the first rays of sunlight right after a terrible storm. When I see them, I don't ever want the moment to go....

Field of Dreams Imagine you have a dream. It can be absolutely anything in the world, from baseball to movies. One day you hear a voice speaking to you, giving you the slightest hint that this dream can come true. You would be ecstatic, much like the main character in the movie. His dream ...

An Experience to Remember Throughout my life I have met many people. Some of them have left a very good impression on me, but some others haven't. Nonetheless, could you have a very clear image of a person you have just met? This is certainly not an easy question; this is the case when first...

The title of the animation is "Last Call" by Jaime Castaneda. The story is set in a bar after its closed for the night. It begins with a cashier machine displaying the name of the animation "Last call". There is a fan on the wall in the left up corner, next to the bar that's...

The novel Lord of The Flies written by William Golding, published in 1954, is a novel with a strong theme of how there is darkness in all of mankind. In the novel the boys realize, and demonstrate evil is all around them. Killing is a way that evil comes out in them. "His mind...

Online Love The first time Jack and Sandra saw each other face to face was at the New York International airport. This was the place where Jack lived. They had actually met one night while online in a chat room six months before that, and had become lovers through their computers. After meetin...

Divorce is a word that all people have heard about and some people have experienced. Since I had moved around the first ten years of my life I never had the single thought of my parents being separated. On one side of my family I typically saw divorce and I told myself that I am glad that my pare...

Proposal: Abortion: Should women have to get the fathers approval before going through with the procedure? In a recent survey of 2624 women, 43% say that they should be allowed to go through with the procedure even if the father objects. Abortion, for over 15 years, has been a heated debate of mor...

In the Eyes of Death That's when he looked me in the eyes and said, "What's wrong, you look like you have seen a ghost!" as he pulled out a nicotine filled, tar packed, cancer stick out what looked like to be a coat pocket. By the bright flare of the match as he stopped to...

Spinning out of control like a tornado, I couldn't control myself. My vision was blurred into a mosaic painting, palms were sweating, and mouth was dry. I didn't know what to do. I needed to sit or down, or I would fall down. My stomach was churning, like an ocean, I think I might be sick....

About two years ago, my mother and I went for a day of shopping at Pebbles. It seemed like a regular day, but I was fooled. I did my usual thing. I left my mom and went shopping on my own. As I walked around the store, I felt eyes watching me. I didn't pay attention to it though. I found a...

The Enmity Of Man In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding reveals, through the characters in his novel, the extent of evil in human nature and the complete dominance that malificence has on this young society of innocent school boys. When an airplane full of english school boys crashes on ...

William Faulkner's "Dry September" depicts a view of Southern society that is to say the least a bit disturbing. The characters of Jefferson are struggling with the oppressive weight of frustration, a frustration that presses down on every aspect of their lives. It is a frus...

The Best Surprise As a child a habit that involved sticking my little nose in closets and under beds in search of possible gifts sometimes got me into trouble. Always knowing what kind of presents I would receive before I got them was fun when I found them. This habit caused me not to be surprise...

Ralph's tears of pain and sorrow trickled down his roughed up face, the suns beating rays warmed his body. As Ralph looked up and wiped the tears from his face, he parted his golden hair so he could see the naval officer. In a whimpering voice Ralph said "It's been such a long time ...

Family Emergency. My brother and I were standing in a white room where people were franticly running around. I looked at this man being wheeled by lying on a blood soaked bed. His eyes were swelled shut and he was moaning in excruciating pain. I took a closer look and realized his skull was e...

The book Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy that is trapped in the Canadian wilderness after his plane goes down. In this book the main character Brian has to fight for his life alone. Brian has to defend himself and find food and a city boy doesn't know all of these things. Brian is lost and he onl...

¡®Anthem for Doomed Youth¡¯ written by Wilfred Owen is a poem about a war. It is like a series of comparisons that show the difference between death on the battle filed in wartime and death at ¡°home¡± in peacetime. Reading this poem, I could feel the sorrow of sentimental lonelines...