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Hamnet: A Book On The Inspiration Behind One of Shakespeare's Greatest Plays William Shakespeare      Maggie O' Farrell's novel Hamnet  is an amazing book. If you like reading about the black plague, Shakespeare, or the 1500s, then this book is for you. O' Farrell's style of writing is so incredibly detailed and it really accentuates the story. The book is about William Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his wife and family, and how Hamnet's death inspired Shakespeare's play Hamlet. After Hamnet dies, the story really captures how it can feel when someone you love dies. The utter sorrow, the heartbreak of realizing that you're never going to see that person again, everything you could feel is written down in the pages following Hamnet's death.       At first, the story starts with Shakespeare's family before he meets his wife Anne, although the story refers to her as her nickname, Agnes. He is shown to be in conflict with his abusive father, and teac...

     In our society, it is very important to be attractive. Influenced by the media and beauty standards, teens specifically are striving to achieve the unrealistic body images they see. A study found in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, reports that out of the 13,601 high school students involved, "teens who perceived themselves at either weight extreme — very fat or really skinny — were more than twice as likely as normal-weight teens to attempt or think about suicide" (CBS News 2005). Notice that the study used the word "perceived" because many of the students who thought of themselves as over or underweight were not. The students who were actually over or underweight "were only slightly more likely than normal-weight teens to have suicidal tendencies" (CBS News 2005). This demonstrates that many students from the previous statistic who think of themselves as "not about the right weight", are actually in the "normal-we...

  Why Is It Important for People With Different Political Beliefs to Talk to Each Other? The United States is a very split nation. According to a Gallup poll, in 2021, 46% of adults surveyed at random identified as Democrat or Democrat-leaning and 43% identified as Republican or Republican-leaning. Political parties have all sorts of opinions on a variety of topics. Abortion, gun control, animal rights, and vaccines a few of the hotly debated issues in the U.S. currently that people on either side of the argument have a lot to say about. Broadening your world view is more important than ever nowadays as people tend to surround themselves with others who have similar ideas. With tuned feeds on many social media platforms tending only to show users information they will agree with, it’s easy to not have a broad spectrum of ideas. Here are some reasons why it's crucial to have the ability to develop your own opinions. First of all, we live in a censored society in regards to wha...