Change Essays

I would like to examine how the views of war and patriotism have changed since the 1900s. To do this I will be studying three poems: “Vitai Lampada” written in 1892 by Henry Newbolt, “Disabled” written by Wilfred Owen during World War 1 and a modern poem called “Why Patriots are a Bit Nuts in […]

Othello is a tragic play based on a foreign yet eloquent man being manipulated into changing his perceptions of others. One of the most noticeable changes in the play is the apparent transformation of Othello’s character; from a “noble Moor” to a “blacker devil”. Shakespeare presents this change through a number of means, such as […]

Human beings-as is every form of life on Earth-are the product of millions of years of random, unintentional mutations to the DNA of, at every stage, a less complex and more poorly suited organism. It is a process whereby something of low entropy keeps decreasing; whereas in the physical world, the general rule is the […]

Both the Western Rebellion and the Kett Rebellion of 1549 were partially caused by a lack of satisfaction with the changes to religious policy, and it must be noted that the overall religious opinion was greatly divided. The Western Rebellion, otherwise known as the Prayer book Rebellion, took an anti-protestant attitude, whereas the Kett Rebellion […]

Firstly, there will be an explanation of what respiration and gas exchange are. Then, the essay will look at the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and how they work together for gas exchange. There will be an explanation of what happens to inhaled air as it is inspired and prepared for gas exchange in the body. […]

In the society I live in – in the UK – everyone has freedom of speech. In the past there used to be a lot of countries in which your feelings towards something were only to be known by you. Dictatorships do not allow freedom of speech nor even a freedom to be in certain […]

Throughout these three poems a sense of conflict, inequality and difference is created. All three represent one form of these emotions in ways that are similar to each other and others that are different to each other. The first poem, Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes’ is about the social […]

Nobody can help have feelings- they are a part of everyone. We feel differently towards an issue as different things happen to us. Feelings do not change with time. What we feel as a child stays with us even when we are older. Feelings can be positive or negative. The poets Tatamkhula Afrika and Grace […]

This is the start of the relationship, which leads to the witty yet serious story of two opposites, written by Willy Russell. The play “Educating Rita” depicts the integration of two societies, with Rita who is a dissatisfied hairdresser, who comes to Frank (a middle-aged tutor), in search of educational enlightenment.Rita enters the play as […]

‘Educating Rita’ is a play written and set in 1985. There are two characters, Rita and Frank, though others are referred to during the course of the play. Rita is a working-class, twenty-six year old hairdresser. She has taken the decisive step of enrolling on an English Literature Course at the Open University. It was […]

Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. Russell comes from a working class background and grew up with his mother, grandmother and aunts around him, he said that this has had a big impact on his writing career, where he reflects opinions on class and women as in ‘Educating Rita’. When he left school […]

Willey Russell’s Educating Rita presents a modern version of Pygmalion, depicting the protagonist, Rita, as an unrefined and poorly educated individual from a working-class background. Rita is dissatisfied with different aspects of her life, causing frustration. Pursuing education offers a way to break free from working-class culture, with significant effects on her life – both […]

Information Technology has brought about an entire industry. Many thousands of people now make their living directly in the information Technology world. Example, Programmers, Systems Managers, Technicians, consultants, Data Processing Staff, Systems Analysts, Network Designers, Network Managers ,Web Designers and Technical Authors. Every Week Thousands of Computer-Related jobs are advertised. There are never enough people […]

Well-known playwright, Willy Russell, wrote the play ‘Our Day Out’ in the 1970s. ‘Our Day Out’ turned out to be such a successful play that in the early 80s a major national channel (i. e. Channel 4) transformed it into a short film lasting approximately 90 minutes. The play is about a group of secondary […]

Throughout the play, there is a constant struggle within the protagonist’s mind to determine which force holds more power in his life – his own free will or fate. While he tends to rely on his cunning, in Act 5 Scene 2 he reveals to Horatio that he has been grappling with an inner conflict. […]

Hamlet and Faustus have differing views on death at the start of each of the plays. Faustus is a typical character of an Elizabethan drama in the role of a man overreaching himself in his quest for knowledge: he believes that he knows all there is to know about what happens after death and Faustus […]

The book “The Wave” is about a history class experiment. Most people in Gordon High School are enjoying being part of a large society; however what they do not know is how the “Wave” is spreading – by force. Set in Paulo Alto, California, in 1969, this book proves that although society may not notice […]

Fiona Farrell and Tatamkhulu Afrika, the writers of the two poems convey similar feelings about oppression and injustice through many different techniques, such as layout, line length and choice of language. Charlotte O’Neil’s Song is about a general servant working for an upper class family who finally decides she has had enough and moves on. […]

The Places Fault: This is an autobiographical poem recounting a short unhappy period of the poet’s childhood. He was evacuated to North Yorkshire during the war years. While he was little there, he experienced severe bullying, both on the streets and in school and the suffering and taunts and beatings he endured at the hands […]

‘Nothing’s Changed’ and ‘Ogun’ are very good examples of hymns of protest. A hymn of protest is a poem that raises awareness about an unjust issue or suffering in the world. The main reason why these poems were written was to show suffering, inequality, racism, and slavery in the world. Therefore their aim is to […]

I have been studying poems from different cultures. The two I have been studying are Nothing’s Changed, by Tatamkhulu Afrika and Charlotte O’Neil’s Song, written by Fiona Farrell. Nothing’s Changed was written about District 6 in Cape Town which was really racist which is now not even though it still is racist. Charlotte O’Neil’s Song […]

This Shakespearean tragedy displays the collapse of a central protagonist, Macbeth. The enhancement of his secret ambition by the illusions and manipulative Lady Macbeth enables him to murder King Duncan, Banquo and the innocent wife and children of Macduff. Hence, his ‘overriding’ ambition leads him to break all moral boundaries. The famous ‘floating dagger’ soliloquy […]