I found the novel ‘Of Mice and Men‘ by John Steinbeck an inspirational read as it has made me aware of the importance of dreams. It is also a story of defeated hope, which illustrates the idea that dreams can be beneficial, but unrealistic dreams just lead to disappointment and grief. The story concerns two [...]

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an author during the Romantic Period and also the Industrial Revolution in the 1850s. Love stories were popular in the Romantic Period. Man had begun to explore science, which brought forth the Industrial Revolution. In the Industrial Revolution, technology started to overtake the need for man. Hawthorne firmly believed science corrupted nature [...]

Childhood obesity is a serious health and societal issue. Rising at extreme rates, one may call it an epidemic. Childhood obesity increases incidences of mortality later in life, causes asthma and type II diabetes, which was only found in adults. With these ill effects, childhood obesity is an issue that should not be taken lightly. [...]

Salvador Dali was one of the few artists to become famous whilst still living. He is mostly known for his surrealist style paintings, the most infamous piece being an oil painting named ‘The Persistence of Memory’, which was painted in 1931 and now lives at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dali was [...]

The search for justice causes one to act blindly through anger, rather than through reason. Everyday we are confronted with a problem that requires us to make a decision. In most cases, the decisions are made without much thought, and therefore result to catastrophic consequences. In the play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare creates an elegant hero, [...]