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Swan Lake Four Years
1,251 wordsDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called "one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet. " As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his pare...
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Life As A Singer Ability To Love Eliot
1,199 words... side her community (Eliot 544). In giving up Daniel, Leonora made the ultimate break from any role society would have for her, and for a time her experience vindicated her decision. The different names that Leonora adopts throughout her life take on a great deal of significance in the examination of her struggle to break from society. Born with the name Alcharisi, that of her father, it represents the repressive culture in which she grew up. Upon becoming a singer she changes it to Alcharisi...
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Order To Make Princess Of Wales
1,799 wordsWilliam Wallace, Joan of Arc, George Armstrong Custer, and the list goes on of the people or groups of people who have had historical films made about them and their accomplishments or blunders. Many of these films have different areas in which they indirectly comment on every aspect of life from the roles of women to a particular look at social class. The idea that film is a medium in which a director can comment on the ills of society has been around since the first motion picture was made. Th...
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Movement On Stage Pleasure To Watch Play
1,068 wordsMy paper report came a bit late but I was extremely exited to go. I got to watch "Love's Labor's Lost" preformed by the drama department in Juilliard School in Manhattan. I went alone and got through on a waiting list. I never read the play and had no idea what to expect. It turns out that a play is much easier to understand if you are watching people act it out on stage than if you are reading it from a script. And that play was meant to be watched. It was full of obscure jokes, and strange lan...
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King Of England King Philip
1,742 wordsIn the year 1122, soon to be Duke William X of Aquitaine was informed that his bride of one year, Aenor, daughter of the Viscount Aimed, had bore him a daughter. She was christened Alia-Aenor, or Eleanor. Since Aquitaine consisted of more than a third of the entire land of France, she was a heiress of some esteem. Soon after, Aenor gave birth to another daughter, Aelith (Petronella) and then to the heir that William so desired, William Aigret. Unfortunately, when Eleanor was eight, both her moth...
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Analysis Of Briar Rose By Jane Yolen
751 wordsBriar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. Yolen compared a story that fictitiously occurred during World War II with Sleeping Beauty, which allowed one of the main characters, Gitl Mandelstein, to indirectly tell her horrifying experiences during the war. The story beings ...
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Role Models Entire World
1,995 wordsRole models surround us; they are those who possess the qualities that we would like to have and those who have affected us in a way that makes us want to be better people, to advocate for ourselves and our goals and take leadership on the issues that we believe in. We often don't recognize our true role models until we have noticed our own personal growth and progress. In the midst of the modern world, we often look to our matriarchs and patriarchs for moral guidance. Just as we look to them as...
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Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
489 wordsDescriptive language that makes Vronsky a tender and affectionate flirt Leo Tolstoy uses descriptive language to make Vronsky a charming and handsome man who inspires affection in all, who meet him, which strongly affects Vronsky's interaction with women. Vronsky's ability to win over womens affection is illustrated through the opinions of other characters and Vronsky's actions. The other characters give opinions that use descriptive language that shows Vronsky as an affectionate and caring pers...
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John Smith John Rolfe
1,079 wordsIn 1605 the English were just discovering the new country of America, and the Indians were just discovering the "pale face. " The Indians feared the English and the English feared the Indians, so of course a war broke out. Pocahontas single handily forced one of the few eras of peace between the Indians and the hated European colonist. A captain named John Smith and two of his troops were walking through the forest, when all of the sudden arrows shot out of the bushes and killed the two men. Joh...
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Action Of The Play Golden Fleece
1,894 wordsEuripides lived during the Golden Age of Athens, the city where he was born and lived most of his years. Born in 484 BC, his infancy saw the repulsion of the Persian invasion, a military victory that secured Athens' political independence and eventual dominance over the Mediterranean world. His death in 406 came as Athens was surrendering its supremacy as a result of its protracted defeat to Sparta, its main rival, in the Peloponnesian War. Sandwiched between these two wars lies a creative perio...
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Golden Apples Eternal Youth
1,111 wordsHero Cycle Paper Once upon a time there was a king named Arthur. Twelve strong heroes served him. Lazar, the Youngest was the strongest hero. Nobody was able to defeat him. When Lazar was 20 years old, his parents started to advice him about marriage. The hero wanted to listen to his parents; however, he couldnt find the girl in his own country. So he started to ask parents: - Please, send me far away to find my destiny. I want to have a look at the great wild world. Parents agreed and Lazar pre...
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Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem
1,360 wordsBody of Essay: Evaluation of the Communication in the Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of communication. Within this essay, the various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to...
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Father And Uncle Marco Polo
1,264 wordsMarco Marco Polo MARCO POLO Marco Polo is one of the most well known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo s life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19 th century. Marcos father, Niccolo, and his uncle Maffeo had traveled to C...
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University Of Toronto Margaret Atwood
999 wordsCanada has had It s fair share of great author s like Farley Mowat, Steven King, Stanley Burke, and many more. But one Author that stands out from the rest is a woman who is not afraid to speak her mind. A feminist by the name of Margaret Atwood who has written poems, novels, short stories, children s books, and television scripts. Atwood was also the president of the writer s Union of Canada. Most would say that Atwood is the greatest Canadian writer of all time. Margaret Atwood was born in Ott...
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Henrik Ibsen Sexual Relationship
1,778 wordsFreudian Symbols in The Master Builder The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, is a play about individuality, morality, and self. But beneath those very ambiguous descriptions lies a play with symbols that clearly depict the collective unconscious. Through a careful psychoanalytical critique of the text, the relationship between the symbolism and the psychological themes can be discovered as they interact throughout the play. Within a play, ? symbolism has a broader role as a kind of natural metaph...
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Golden Fleece Play Medea
733 wordsIn the play Medea there were two main characters Medea and Jason. We have seen these characters before in the story of The Golden Fleece. Medea met Jason on his quest for the Golden Fleece. They immediately fell in deep passionate love for each other. Although Medea had a little help because she was under a love spell put on her by cupid. During this story Jason pledged his life long love for Medea. That life long love did not last for long because the entire play of Medea is about Medea's ways ...
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Merchant Of Venice Love And Friendship
1,360 wordsMerchant Of Venice-Portia &# 038; Bassanio's Indifference To Merchant Of Venice-Portia &# 038; Bassanio's Indifference To Wealth How little is the cost I have bestowed in purchasing the semblance of my soul, (3. 5. 19 - 20) is where the heart of this play is in my eyes. Portia doing what she can for her one true love, Bassanio. Money is of no importance to her especially when it comes to the happiness or unhappiness of Bassanio. There are many places in the Merchant of Venice that show Portia an...
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Royal Family Rich Man
1,109 wordsMonarchy in the UK Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Robert Lacey Little Brown, pp 492 The Monarchy: An Oral History of Elizabeth II Deborah and Gerald Stroke Hutchinson, pp 550 Robert Lacey's Majesty, published 25 years ago to mark the 1977 Silver Jubilee, made its author a rich man. By obligingly reigning for another quarter century, the Queen has offered Lacey the possibility of becoming a very rich man indeed. His sequel has bestseller written all over it. Royal sidesteps the challenge o...
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Appeared To Have Changed Golden Fleece Jason
640 wordsOften, we can be found talking about how our friends have changed. He / she just isnt the same person as he / she used to be, is a common complaint heard. Yet, have they truly changed that much, though? In Euripides play Medea, a good case could be made of the difference in character that occurred throughout the play. However, the depictions of Jasons personality traits were quite consistent during his existence. He was driven by a force focused completely around one thing - himself. In the begi...
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Plot Of The Story Obi Wan
949 wordsBy George Star Wars Star Wars By George Lucas Paperback, November 1998 Star Wars is a science fiction adventure novel. The symbolism and characterization was really excellent in the story. The story gives a great look into the future as it has many different types of things we have not yet invented; blaster rifles, space ships that go the speed of light, fat alien slugs, and beam swords. The plot of the story sucks you into the novel and makes you want to continue reading the novel. The plot of ...
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