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“James Perry, fondly known as Jamie, was the best eight-year-old that any parent could wish for. He was the sweetest little boy that loved taking care of others despite his young age. He’d hold his grandmother’s hand when she’d go down the stairs, he’d help his mum feed his baby sister, and he’d adorably carry little buckets of water to his dad whenever he had to wash their family car. Everyone that met Jamie agreed that they were truly blessed and lucky to have met the little boy. He was the epitome of positivity, and everyone hoped that it would be so for the rest of his life. However, noticing that Jamie’s drawings started to take on more dark and sinister themes, Mrs Perry questioned him but got no reply. His pictures showed a clear transition from bright colours to blacks and dark blues. One day, he approached his sister who was sitting on the floor doodling and tried to shove her on the floor and stab her with a pencil, but fortunately their mother having being around, the baby...

Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His works showcase the deepest feelings of humans, that the majority of us would be too ashamed to even admit the presence of. On reading Othello, I have been awed by such human emotion that is so vividly portrayed in Shakespeare's words. I also realised the amount of energy that a person, overcome with jealousy and hunger for power, is willing to put into another's downfall, instead of using this energy to improve oneself, and that even though this world has evolved in various aspects such as social and technological, those basic feelings are still prominently expressed and also underlie conflicts that occur at different levels, be it international or personal. The themes of his work are based on human feelings. He shows that by being infatuated by one thing, and by being overcome with strong degrading feelings, you become rather possessed and unable to function on activities that you believe to be ...