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…Is the image of servants, maids and housewives a reality? Does a handsome, rich prince always rescue these helpless women? And most importantly, do they always live happily ever after? The simple answer is no. Guilty readers, these "Once Upon A Time…

…The movie Gladiator is an epic tale of a Roman general who is betrayed by the Roman government who kills his family under the leadership by a corrupt Roman prince who is turned king, the roman general comes back as a gladiator to seek revenge…

…with this, by stating "That story" throughout the poem, she is trying to remind us how every fairy tale is the same. It always goes something like this: poor girl meets prince...and POOF! They live happily ever after! Now, when is life ever that easy? By adding her own…

…. Polynices and six foreign princes marched on Thebes. All were defeated. The brothers killed each other in a duel, making Creon king. Creon ordered Eteocles buried in honor and left Polynices to rot on the pain of death. It is dawn, and the house is still…

…were mostly little esteemed by his educated contemporaries, who considered the English plays of their day to be vulgar. Shakespeare's career took off when he bought a share of the profits in his acting company, the Chamberlain's Men, later called the King's…

…William Shakespeare could have started an endless debate between psychologists in his play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet does such a good job feigning madness there are times that it is almost believable. The reader is frequently reminded…

…Empire in 1586. The British installed a Hindu prince as ruler in 1846. The Muslim and Hindu peoples of Kashmir have lived in relative harmony and friendliness since the 13th century when Islam first became the majority religion of Kashmir. Occasionally…

…, and because they offered such good protection if utilized efficiently, the princes and castellans all in within their own territories developed a system of 'mini-kingdoms'--wherein they not only were keen to "defending their own districts, or rather plundering them…

…. Hamlet’s major conflict was his existentialist view of the world. Does a prince of Denmark have any worth if “Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he…

…Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables. It is a fiction book about a girl named Anne Shirley who is always getting into trouble. This story is set in the small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island in a time long ago. It begins by Mrs…