Life / Literature / Self

Advice to your younger self

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Dear younger me, be patient Collect memories. Do what you want to do. Don’t let anyone stop you from what you want. Focus on your future and not your past. Be your […]

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Literature / School

Why I Was Wrong About Classic Literature

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Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Oedipus Rex are three examples of classic literature that almost all students are made to read in high school. However, students don’t know why they […]

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History / Literature / School

Should classics be part of the university curriculum or not?

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There is a widespread issue, or probably a dilemma, of whether classics are useful for people or not. This question is from time to time posed within the university units, and each […]

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Literature / Philosophy / Reviews

The Case for Pride

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In 2017 legendary artist Taylor Swift came back with a thrilling and vengeful song titled “Look What You Made Me Do,” in which Swift states in the pre-chorus, “But I got smarter, […]

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Literature

The Real Reason Medea Killed Her Children

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In Euripides’ tragedy Medea, Medea’s children are a symbol that represents the love between Jason and Medea, and when Jason marries someone else, he breaks his promise, which leads to the destruction […]

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Literature / Philosophy

A Transcendental View: Walt Whitman

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In the song The Court of the Crimson King, the band King Crimson writes, “The gardener plants an evergreen/Whilst trampling on a flower,” (King Crimson 19-20) The song makes a statement that, […]

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Literature

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, a story of self worth weaved in with swashbuckling naval action

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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester is a riveting coming-of-age episodic novel set on the high seas off the coast of Europe during the Napoleonic Wars about the exploits of Horatio Hornblower, […]

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