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Plains Indians' Military Campaigns

that had hired on with the Calvary (Hoxie, 1995). These scouts were just a handful of the thirty-three scouts that were under Cus...

Lines 954 to 997 in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

Tragedy Associated with the Drug Thalidomide

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

January 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crash

the planes horizontal stabilizer trim shortly before the crash and had been diverted to from its initial destination of San Franci...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Its Mystery

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Theme of Conflict

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

An Analysis of Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons

individually must be good for society as a whole (Hardin, 1968). Once this philosophy is adopted, its literally "every man for hi...

Tragedies Like That of Princess Diana

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

Hurricane Katrina Tragedy and Race

one assumes, in moments of crisis like that that has befallen New Orleans" (Lowry, 2005). Jason DeParle sees things quite anothe...

What Oedipus Rex Means to Greek Culture

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus and Fortune Reversals

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

Exxon Valdez Tragedy of 1989 and Its Impact Upon the Environment

Birds were hardly the only species to be impacted by the spill however. Million of fish joined the quarter million of sea bird ca...

Hindenburg Dirigible Catastrophe of 1937

over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...

Characters of Othello by William Shakespeare

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Dramatic Irony

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

Changes Undergone by Macbeth in William Shakespeare's Tragic Play

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

Sleeping and Dreaming in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Relationships Both Natural and Unnatural

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Women's Roles

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin

most pressing issues of the times if none of Hardins suggestions are acted upon, a concept that is rightfully supported by many of...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

Social Standing as a Barrier to True Love

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...