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2010-07-31

  Shakespeare and The Globe

In 1599, the first Globe Theatre was completed on the south bank of the Thames River. William Shakespeare, along with three other actors, bought a share in the Globe. It stood for 14 years and presented many of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. During a p...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author
2010-01-27

  William Blake's "The Tyger"

William Blake (1757–1827)William Blake was born in London, in 1757. Although he had little formal education, he made his living with his engravings and watercolors.In 1789, he published his book of engravings and poems entitled Songs of Innocence and a...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author
2009-09-14

  Fathers and Sons in Hamlet

Shakespeare's Hamlet is a revenge play, but throughout the play we get a clear picture of the character of Hamlet as a man who sees his duty before him but who shirks it at every opportunity. Part of his dilemma is tha...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author
2009-03-04

  The Mayan City of Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza is a Mayan City on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It was established hundreds of years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and most likely served as the religious center of the Yucatan.Today it is the second most visited site of M...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author
2008-03-29

  The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West, Florida

On March 7, 2008, I visited the Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West, Florida. Hemingway purchased the house on Whitehead Street in Key West and owned the property for thirty years from 1931 until his death in 1961. He actually lived in the house for ten ...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author
2008-02-15

  The Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida - written and produced by Michael Minassian

Jack Kerouac is the most famous of the Beat Generation novelists. The author of On the Road and Dharma Bums, Kerouac lived in Orlando and later in St. Petersburg where he died in 1969. The Kerouac House is located in the College Park area of Orlando an...
  noreply@blogger.com (mikial) author