January 30, 2019
January 30, 2019
Grace Chalhoub
November 28, 2018
Filed under Academic Help
Origins of “Hamlet”
Shakespeare, with the exception of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “The Tempest,” borrowed concepts and storylines for his plays from other works, including folk tales, mythologies and histories.
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Grace Chalhoub
October 30, 2018
Filed under Academic Help
Background on Hawthorne and “The Scarlet Letter” publication
Nathaniel Hawthorne (or, as he was known at birth, Nathaniel Hathorne) was born in Salem in 1804, bearing a heavy legacy. His great-great-great-grandfather was ...
October 1, 2018
Grace Chalhoub, Staff Writer
September 26, 2018
Filed under Academic Help
During the 1700’s, the Enlightenment, a philosophical and literary movement emphasizing reason and science, took root in Europe, permanently altering European views on religion, art and philosophy. While the movement inspired soc...
Grace Chalhoub, Staff Writer
September 14, 2018
Filed under Academic Help, All News
Date of conception and composition
“Beowulf” is incomplete. Archaeologists have never managed to find more than the 3,182 lines of “Beowulf” that survived in the form of a single copy, which withstood the dissolutio...
Grace Chalhoub, Staff Writer
September 5, 2018
Filed under Academic Help, All News, Features, School News, Uncategorized
Background
Arthur Miller largely wrote “The Crucible” in response to the paranoid politics of the 1950’s, namely the practices of Senator Joseph McCarthy and a debacle involving the House on Un-American Activities Co...
