“And welcome back to channel two score alpha. This is Olli Sweetalker bringing to you the latest news on the Great Space Race. We have with us racing expert Buzz Harding, four time winner of the Space Race Cup. How’re you going, Buzz?”
“Great Olli and thanks for having me.”
“Our pleasure. Now we’re all hanging out [...]
The Great Space Race Season 54
January 21st, 2010
The Construction of Identity in “King Lear” and “Twelfth Night”
January 21st, 2010
Identity and how it is perceived is a common theme throughout Shakespeare’s works especially in King Lear and Twelfth Night. Both plays witness the cathartic self transformation of the main protagonists; King Lear undergoing an identity crisis and Viola removing her disguise and thus the assumptions placed upon her by society. Other characters such as [...]
The Great Escape Season 54
January 18th, 2010
Betrayal. That was what drove me; that and the need to escape a dying solar system.
The radio crackled. “And Earth? Earth is scorched and has long been abandoned to the ferocious storms that tear the flesh from your body and turn your bones to dust!” LOST CHANNEL… SCANNING… “Our home system is a wasteland…” SCANNING… [...]
A Thought on “Beowulf”
January 18th, 2010
Beowulf is unique as it is written in Old English yet, unlike other poetry from this era, it does not commemorate the history of the audience but instead depicts another culture, the Geats and the Danes, from a time long since past. This epic tale portrays a warrior people positioned on the cusp of [...]