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Outward Appearance Rhyme Scheme
447 words
Both Sides Now - by Joni Mitchell. This is a poem
about a girl who has once had good experiences
with love but now sees men and love as things that
just get in the way. The last lines in the second
and third stanzas explain this: "But clouds got in
my way. " and "I really don't know clouds at all.
" She is comparing clouds and men. My initial
reaction to this poem is that it is not
particularly easy to understand but after you
think about for a while you can figure out what it
means. This poem i...
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Martin Luther Protestant Church
668 words
The work of Martin Luther had a profound effect on
Bach's chorale music. Just o give you a little
background on Martin Luther, he and Bach were born
in the same province of Eisleben. Luther was
raised in a strict religious atmosphere of the
Roman Catholic Church. Luther was terrified by
thoughts of the wrath of God. He continually
sought a means in finding inward peace. To achieve
this goal, he entered an Augustinian Monastery in
1505. Two years later he was ordained as a priest.
During this tim...
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Reservoir Dogs Police Officer
1,452 words
Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as
Stealers Wheel when they recorded a Dylanesque pop
hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of
1974. The single reached number five on the charts
- little did they know that eighteen years later
it would become a cult favorite. In 1992 Quentin
Tarantino, a little known writer / director , took
the Cannes film festival and the world by surprise
with his motion picture Reservoir Dogs. The movie
is about the difficulties that occur when five
"mas...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,634 words
Two great writers of American musical theatre,
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, had one
idea in common. They wanted to present to the
American public a new and revolutionary musical
that would stand out above the rest. They wanted
to make an impact on the societies of the era.
They wanted to be creative and do something that
was considered rebellious. When they finally
combined their ideas together they created an
American masterpiece in musical theatre: Oklahoma!
. It was the first Rod...
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Male And Female Ancient Greek
773 words
In Euripides Medea, the protagonist abandoned the
gender roles of ancient Greek society. Medea
defied perceptions of gender by exhibiting both
"male" and "female" tendencies. She was able to
detach herself from her "womanly" emotions at
times and perform acts that society did not see
women capable of doing. However, Medea did not
fully abandon her role as a woman and did express
many female emotions throughout the play. In
ancient Greek society, murder was not commonly
associated with women. Thr...
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Description And Analysis Of Oratorio Art Song
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This article will give a description of what an
Oratorio and Art-Song are. It will also inform you
on the stylistic characteristics, a summary on the
historical background and a brief outline on the
composers who helped develop and excelled in these
styles of fantastic vocal music. Oratorio is based
upon a substantial story of a religious or
spiritual character. It is written for solo
voices, chorus and orchestra and is often
performed in churches or concert halls. Oratorio
resembles an opera bu...
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Iambic Tetrameter Third Stanza
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Comparative analysis of Anguished Grief by
Christine de Pisan and Grow Old Along With Me by
John Lennon Christine de Pisan, the author of
Anguished Grief, was a famous Renaissance French
poet, prose writer, and humanist, born in Venice,
Italy. Her childhood was spent at the court of the
French king Charles V, and she later wrote his
biography. After ten years of marriage to the
court secretary, Etienne du Castel, she became a
widow at the age of 25. Thereafter, she worked to
support her family b...
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Character In The Play Literary Criticism
343 words
GREEK DRAMA: the actors The actors in ancient
tragedies were hired and paid by the state and
assigned to the tragic poets probably by lot. By
the middle of the fifth century three actors were
required for the performance of a tragedy. In
descending order of importance of the roles they
assumed they were called protagonist first actor
(a term also applied in modern literary criticism
to the central character of a play), Dueteragonist
second actor and tritagonist third actor. The
protagonist took ...
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Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex Oedipus Gods
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Oedipus Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex Oedipus was not
composed by his fate; he was responsible for his
own conduct. From his very birth Oedipus was
predetermined to marry his mother and murder his
father. His situation was inevitable. Although
Apollo exhorted the prophecy in Delphi, this event
only drove Oedipus to fulfill his destiny. There
were a series of events that occurred causing
Oedipus did to lure himself to destruction.
Oedipus wouldnt have cursed himself so ignorantly
had he been more dilig...
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Power Corrupts Personal Feelings
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How Power Corrupts Medea To Acts Of Vengeance
Euripides creates an effective representation of
the way power corrupts in his tragedy Medea. The
main character, Medea is led in the pursuit of
power because she is initially powerless, and the
oppression within which she lived as the wife of
Jason lent itself to her defined need to create
her own power. As a result, Medea is able to
achieve power, especially against Jason, but not
without an exorbitant cost: the lives of her two
sons. The pursuit o...
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Story Of Oedipus Oedipus Rex
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Summary for Oedipus Rex The storytelling method
that is employed in most classical writing, i. e.
the Iliad and the Odyssey as well as Greek
tragedy, allows for the development of two
stories. One is the story of the now. The now is
told through the actions and events of the play or
story. The other story that is told is the past.
The past is composed of stories that are told by
characters and gives needed background information
about the main characters and events. In Oedipus
Rex, the realizati...
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Child Neglect Didnt Give
535 words
Daddy didnt give affection and the boy was
something that Mommy wouldnt wear. Child abuse is
something that can be considerably harmful on a
child and among these forms of child abuse comes
the issue of child neglect, child neglect can
cause children to become socially challenged,
angry and even abusive themselves. The song Jeremy
by Pearl Jam talks about this form of abuse and
tells a story of child neglect and its affects on
a boy named Jeremy and his experience with
neglect. King Jeremy the w...
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Johann Sebastian Bach Bach Cantatas Music
657 words
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was
born March 21, 1685, in Eisnach, East Germany.
Unfortunately, Bach was declared an orphan at the
young age of ten. He moved in with his oldest
brother, Johann Christoph who lived in Ohrdruf. At
age 15, he enrolled in Saint Michaels Church,
where he sang in the choir. He stayed there for
two years. Soon after he left the school, he
became an organist at Saint Boniface Church, then
at Saint Blasius Church. In 1717 he was employed
as a court organist,...
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Good And If You Dont Nigga Chorus Cause
505 words
Juicy It Juicy The Notorious B. I. G. Juicy It was
all a dream I use to read Word Up magazine Salt n
Pepa and Heavy D Up in the limousine Hangin
pictures on my wall Every Saturday, rap attack Mr.
Magic Mary Mar I let my tape rock Till my tape pop
Smokin weed and baby Sign on private stock Way
back When I had the red and black Lumberjack; With
the hat to match When remember rain do The high,
the high You never thought that hip-hop would take
it this far Now Im the lime light Cause I rhyme
tight T...
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Apollo Physical Actions
431 words
Sophocles use of language allows his characters to
show what is going on inside them to the reader.
Many works of literature deal with what happens to
a person physically and the resulting
consequences. Many do deal with the issues that a
person endures internally as a result of physical
actions. In Sophocles work the events that take
place in the human mind are the catalysts that
drive on the story, the greatest events are not
when an action happens but when the characters
come to terms with wh...
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Commedia Dell Arte 21 St Century
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World Drama: Analytical Essay by Ryan Colbran
Masks have served humankind for centuries as
artistic instruments, educational tools and have
often reflected and magnified human nature while
revealing the inner desires and fears of the human
heart. However, as we stand in the 90 s we have
little or no need for masks. Theatre has developed
and moved swiftly, parents and schools educate
children and humankind no longer feels the need to
see their true feelings interpreted and portrayed
by performers...
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Seven Deadly Sins Marlowe
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? Pride: The Tragic Downfall of Faustus?
Christopher Marlowe? s Tragical History of Doctor
Faustus is about a man who seeks power that comes
from knowledge beyond the human realm. Throughout
the story, the seven deadly sins are shown and
have an impact on Dr. Faustus during his search
for ultimate power. However, it is one of these
vices of the seven deadly sins that plays a
particular and key role in his demise. Pride,
creates Dr. Faustus? inability to repent,
therefore ultimately resulting in ...
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Nicknamed Attic Bee Wealthy Armorer Named Sophillus Sophocles
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Sophocles was born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497
B. C. Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named
Sophillus. When he reached adulthood he was
already established as a great tragic playwright,
and the citizens of Athens loved him. He was
nicknamed Attic-bee by the Athenians because he
could take pure honey from words. Sophocles was
born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497 B. C.
Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named
Sophillus. Sophocles had a good childhood.
Sophocles, at age sixteen, led a...
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Apollo Physical Actions
431 words
Sophocles use of language allows his characters to
show what is going on inside them to the reader.
Many works of literature deal with what happens to
a person physically and the resulting
consequences. Many do deal with the issues that a
person endures internally as a result of physical
actions. In Sophocles work the events that take
place in the human mind are the catalysts that
drive on the story, the greatest events are not
when an action happens but when the characters
come to terms with wh...
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Fate And Free One
786 words
The first ode in Sophocles Antigone contains
analogies that represent the paradoxical
relationship between fate and free-will. The
relationship that these two ideas have can be
interpreted differently; yet, it is always
possible to say that it is your fate to believe in
free-will and go against your fate. One of the
more evident phrases / verses clearly shows how
the amalgamation of the two can be formed; the
chorus recites, the stormy gray area, in the ode,
the word gray is used in a metaphoric...
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