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…Antigone and Oedipus The King, written by Sophocles, are deeply tragic plays with a dramatic ending. In both plays, fate arises the question: could have Creon, Oedipus, Antigone, and the rest of the family, prevented the misfortunes, which fell upon them…

…For my midterm short story review, the two stories I chose to read were: 1. O. Henry's, The Ransom of Red Chief (because I was in the play version of the story in high school) and 2. Stephen King's, Suffer the Little Children (because I really like…

…are guides for the common people to achieve the good life. However, philosophers like Aristotle and a more contemporary Martin Luther King Jr must be aware of the deepest possible meanings of all known truths and not simply just choose one path since each path…

…Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, being men of great figurative speech, had similar levels of integrity on segregation, voting ability, equal opportunity, opposition of violence, but differed in the involvement on sit-ins demonstration. They changed…

…Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were both respected ministers and established leaders of the African-American people. These two men, how different they may have seemed to be, had the same goal: They wanted to end exploitation, discrimination and racism…

…Francis Morgan, a friend of the family. Soon, however, Ronald went off to King Edwards School and then to Oxford University. Tolkien went to Oxford for a degree in English language and literature. He developed skills in philology, the study of languages…

…"All the doors of Morannon swung back wide. Out of them streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters" (Tolkien 206). A suspenseful tale of good and evil, "The Return of the King", written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by Ballantine Books…

…and happiness back into a once cold and frozen life. One episode in the last book of the trilogy, The Return of the King, that illustrates the magnitude of the effects of a choice is one of the last scenes in the book, which takes place at the Cracks of Doom…

…a prophecy Laius, the former king of Thebes, tries to kill his son by leaving him in the mountains with his ankles pinned. Unfortunately for Laius, the shepherd that was supposed to abandon the baby Oedipus in the mountains took pity upon him and gave him…

…. White’s Once and Future King, (1) and was understandably a very large undertaking, necessitating the use of a sole director. The change of medium used to depict this story resulted in the changing of parts of the story. The restrictions and conventions…