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Scriptwriters' Patronising Depiction 'charmingly' Primitive Stupid Sycophantic Village
1,095 wordsWhoever had the crazy idea of dyeing Miss Tierney's hair blonde? Had the world gone mad? Whatever the reason, playing the part of an Italian village girl with platinum blonde hair can have done little to further Gene's career, especially since she does not even attempt an Italian accent, and limits herself to mechanically following a dreadful script which does not allow her to develop into any kind of believable character at all. This is a tasteless film in more ways than one: the scriptwriters'...
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Montague And Capulet Mercutio And Benvolio
1,801 wordsScene 1 Act 1: Scene one opens with a fight on the streets of Verona between servants from the Montague and Capulet households. While attempting to stop the fight, Benvolio is drawn in by Tybalt. The heads of both houses (Montague and Capulet) arrive on the scene. Prince Escalus arrives and stops the fight, forbidding any further brawls. Montague and his wife discuss Romeos strange behavior with Benvolio and ask him why he is acting that way. They find Romeo and have Benvolio talk to him. Benvol...
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Madame Defarge Buried Alive
2,462 wordsIt is the year 1775. Dickens begins the novel by describing this year with one of the most famous sentences in literature: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" In short, despite the rapturous joy or painful suffering that everyone seems to feel, the time is really no less different than our own. It is filled with people who think "in the superlative degree of comparison only, " and who believe that the world is not going to change. The narrator describes the goings-on in England...
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Act Ii Scene Act I Scene
911 wordsOthello, the Moor of Venice Throughout history, powerful empires with boundless control have had a tendency to fall victim to corruption. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice contains several themes, but one theme in particular supports the truth of this knowledge. In Othello, the Moor of Venice, the theme of control is one that causes corruption. Othello's control is stolen by Iago and, Iago's overbearing control of Othello's e...
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Che Guevara Fidel Castro
2,959 wordsOn November 25, 82 men left on a yacht leaving from Mexico. Most of the men were sea sick. They soon overcame it a little. I was a stormy night when the men left Mexico. On December 2 they landed in Las Colorado. They were spot by the coast guard and it was telegraphed it to Batista. They soon hurried off the yacht and left quickly into the swamps. Being attacked by enemy planes but no casualties. They were led by one of comrades and was led to solid ground, where they were lost. December 5 they...
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Romeo And Juliet Venus And Adonis
3,702 wordsWilliam Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He was baptized on April 24, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the third of eight children born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, three of whom died in childhood. John was a well-known merchant and Mary was the daughter of a Roman Catholic member of the gentry, or high social position. The house where Shakespeare spent his childhood stood adjacent to he wool shop in which his father plied a successful trade as a glover and dealer...
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Brutus And Cassius Antony And Octavius
1,876 wordsAct I This first Act contains only three scenes, but each are important for many reasons. It begins with two tribunes, Flavius and Murellus, who scold commoners who parade down the street to celebrate Caesars victory over Pompey. The two tribunes shame the commoners for celebrating the death of one of Romes former leaders, and they depart solemnly. On February 15 th the festival of Lupecalia is celebrated, and Caesar arrives in the city along with Antony and Brutus. A soothe sayer approaches Cae...
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Brutus And Cassius Antony And Octavius
1,463 wordsJulius Caesar Summary Julius Caesar opens with conflict, the plebeians versus the tribunes. The plebeians are celebrating Caesars victory over Pompey. The tribunes yell at the people for their fickleness in celebrating the defeat of a man who was once their leader. Caesar enters Rome with his supporters and a crowd of citizens. It is the feast of Lupercal, a day when two men run through the street and strike people they meet with goatskin. Caesar orders Mark Antony to strike his wife Calpurnia s...
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Louisa May Alcott Older Sister
3,947 wordsLouisa May Alcott was an exceptional novelist in a time when few female authors were recognized. She lived in the midst of the turmoil caused by the American Civil War. As a nurse in that war, she saw horrors that no one should have to experience. Later, she would draw on these experiences to write Hospital Sketches (1863). Bronson Alcott, Alcott's father, was a pioneer of the transcendentalist movement, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He founded several schools that all ...
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Father Butler Lunch Counter
3,451 wordsMore Joy In Heaven Chapter 1, Pg. 11 The dawn of a windy, snowy Christmas witnessed Senator Maclean, a selfish, pink faced powerful banker who anxiously awaits the arrival of 10 year inmate Kip Caley and Father Butler who instilled deep, peaceful, confident, qualities in several prisoners including Kip Caley. As he had previously, Father Butler returned this time with Caley. After a tearful goodbye, Caley left with the Senator towards town. On the way Kip expressed how he yearned for freedom. Ca...
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Love For Juliet Benvolio And Mercutio
2,687 wordsAct Scene 1: One morning in Verona, two young servants of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory are joking around with each other with puns and friendly teasing. Suddenly they are confronted by Abraham and Balthasar, two servants of Montague. The mild joking and humor soon turn bitter, aggressive, and dangerous between the foes. It is not long before a fight inevitably breaks out. Benvolio, the nephew of Montague comes in and tries breaks it up, but ends up fighting with the hot-tempered Tybalt, and a ri...
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