Life Essays

The distinction between love and lust is not necessarily clear in certain aspects of Renaissance literature. In ‘The Rape of Lucrece’, we are presented with an obvious distinction between the chaste Lucrece and her example of married love, and Tarquin’s violent expression of lust. However, in ‘Venus and Adonis’, sexual …

Connectionism is a theory that has dramatically grown in importance in recent years. It refers to the study of the design and functioning of ‘neural nets’. Neural nets are computers in the sense that they accept an input of information, process it, and then provide an output. However they are …

Actual documentary evidence detailing the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall is virtually non-existent. The ‘Scriptores Historae Augustae’ tell us very little, in fact the sole classical literary reference linking Hadrian to the wall was written by Aelius Spartianus, towards the end of the 3rd century. It simply stated: ‘He instituted many …

This is a story of four young budding chaps, who were naughty as well as intelligent and life was very easy for them. The story reminds me of a message from the movie ‘Forest Gump’ that life is a box of chocolate. As it is rightly said every human being …

Globalization is a disputed issue, with arguments for and against it. Even the term causes friction, and there exists differing theories that surround it. There is a contention over the focus of globalization, with various theorists choosing to concentrate on separate specific areas within globalization. This essay will firstly provide …

“The Audacity of Hope” was not originally a book by Barack Obama. In his memoirs Dreams from my Father it is the title of a sermon that Reverend Wright gives. In that sermon Wright speaks of a harpist on a mountain looking down at the world, but also daring to …

Just days after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, CBS issued a press-release confirming the sexual assault of its Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lara Logan at Tahrir Square. Certain segments of media commentary were problematic in the way they constructed sexist misrepresentations of women who choose to report from dangerous conflict …

The portrayal of OFW’s in Filipino movies neither fully supports nor opposes stereotypes in the same way that it doesn’t totally represent nor debunk reality; rather, the film industry defines a fine line between this typecasting and the status quo. The advent of Filipinos leaving the country in search of …

Ken Harrison changes throughout the play as he fights for the right to decide his own fate. What you must keep in-mind as you perform is that Ken used to be a creative, useful person leading a normal life yet now he is frustrated by the injuries he has suffered …

I am the most boring person I know, I do the most tedious things, I lead the dreariest life. My life is like a bittersweet symphony like the words to a sad song full of empty lyrics with no meaning, my life is a pointless existence so it seems, but …