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Introduction

Travelling in time is something my cousin Walt has been fascinated in. Given the fact that Walt has experienced none of what is touted as perhaps the most interesting era in the modern history of the United States (US) – one that ran between 1954 and 1974, he has made it a point to find a way in doing so, henceforth inspiring him to build his time machine. As a peace-lover, Walt became curious with the period in US between 1954 and 1974, perhaps to see how peace is fought for during those times. Indeed, the tumultuous years that unfolded Continue reading...

A Psycho-Analytic interpretation of Hamlet

The magnum opus of Shakespeare is filled with concepts that can be best explained by psychoanalytical approach. Sigmund Freud himself took an interest in analyzing the play and in interpreting it in the light of his own psychoanalytical theory. Finding the reason behind the hesitation on the part of our hero became the prime interest for Freud. For Freud, it was the repressed Oedipus complex that was the reason for the indecision of Hamlet.
According to Farber, the most significant point to analyze in the play is Hamlet’s hesitation in killing the King. Hamlet’s indecision is a Continue reading...

Rear Window was released in 1954 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. . The film revolves around a professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies (James Stewart), who broke his leg and confined to a wheelchair. As days go by, he only overlooks the peculiar set of characters that inhabit his apartment complex due to his wheelchair issues. One day, he feels that a murder has taken place in the building across from his building. His observation becomes an obsession as he sets out to prove that the murder took place. Rear Window is a delight as it one of Hitchcock’s most Continue reading...

Literatures that enlighten and give crucial details on the interaction and bonding between man and nature are rare. However, Edward Abbey is one of the writers who enjoy writing about natures and the association or connection it has with humankind. In his novel “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” Edward Abbey explicitly describes the relationship that exists between nature and man.
Specifically, the book ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ is set in Southwestern United States. The principal characters in the story are four environmental activists working to stop logging, strip mining, and oil drilling in the region. It is amazing how the Continue reading...

Aeschylus and Sophocles are the two greatest dramatists of Ancient Greece. Both of them wrote their works in the fifth century BC, and along with Euripides were the greatest Greek tragedians. The main motive of tragedies Aeschylus' and "Oedipus the King" and Sophocles' "Agamemnon" is idea of omnipotence of fate and hopelessness of the fight with it. These tragedies are also about sufferings, not only sufferings but fair sufferings to main characters. Both authors have used in their texts violence as the punishment for previous crimes. It can be sought in the different episodes from the tragedies. Both tragedies Continue reading...

In the spread of the religion, it is essential for the preachers to put the words into context to deliver the right message to the people. In many circumstances, different people tend to interpret the same teachings differently. Nevertheless, the different cultures could also interpret the same words differently leading to the confusion among the people (Harrison, 2006). As a result, confusion arises in most people due to the failure to differentiate between the secular and the religious. Therefore, he preachers need to understand the different cultures that people practice to know the language to use and how to Continue reading...

Why We Get Sick

Chapter 6. Toxins, New, Old, and Everywhere
There are lots of novel toxic hazards to which we are exposed. There is alcohol, agricultural pests, nitrates, toxic dust and fumes, spray insecticides that enormously harm our health day by day. It seems obvious that our modern age must be more hazardous than that one our ancestors lived in. But this is not true because the contest between consumer and consumed can generate an evolutionary arms race.
Most plants contain toxins that would be harmful if eaten in more that a minimal amount. These toxins keep herbivores from eating the plants Continue reading...

The title of the movie is “Murder on the Orient Express”. It is based on a famous novel by Agatha Christie. The novel has been adapted for television two times (Laurel, 2010).
The protagonist in the movie is Hercule Poirot who boards a luxury passenger train called the Orient Express that is traveling to London from Istanbul. On the second night of the Orient’s journey, the train gets snowbound in Yugoslavia (Eirik, 2013). That night a businessman with American origin by the name Samuel Ratchett (Toby Jones) gets murdered. Samuel has been stabbed several times, and it also Continue reading...

Part 1

The Alaska Young character in Looking for Alaska emerges as first the friend and eventually the romantic interest to the main figure of the story Miles “Pudge” Halter who narrates the story of this alter protagonist to Miles. Both alluring and perplexing, Alaska Young is a connoisseur of wine drinking, digging for books at yard sales, and hoaxing the day students at the Culver Creek School with Mile’s roommate, the Colonel. Alaska has a wild and unpredictable disposition, and changes moods at any moment because she continues dealing with the psychological and emotional ramifications of the death of Continue reading...

The fifth rule suggests that the culprit must be determined by logical deductions. The stories of sir Author Conon Doyle usually teems with logical deduction, but in the case of "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" Doyle has departed from his norm. In the story, no logical deduction was required as the culprit was known from the very beginning. The story was more on the theme of an adventure story rather than a detective story.  In the very beginning of the story, Holmes introduced the culprit in the following words “I'll tell you, Watson. He is the king of Continue reading...