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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,254 wordsLenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider, or more commonly known as Lenny Bruce, was a comedian, a family man, drug addict, and philosopher. A conventional Jewish child from Long Island, who joked about homosexuality, drugs, religion, and race. Arguably, he paved the way for the comics of today, paying the price for being twenty years ahead of his time. Addicted to vulgarity and drugs he became a regular in courtrooms across America. The humiliation he caused a Philadelphia judge is thought to be an...
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Plague Of Tics Stories A Plague Sedaris
1,177 wordsOne may view David Sedaris, without the knowledge of his background, as abnormal or even weird. However, throughout the two stories, A Plague of Tics, and Ashes, he breaks down the wall of otherness and allows an audience to take a look at his own personal life. Sedaris incorporates all sorts of humor to somewhat ease the tension of revealing his life and the awkwardness the audience may feel while reading his stories. The autobiographical point of view allows the audience to get a real sense of...
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Cyrano Play Audience
350 wordsThe character Cyrano De Began, portrayed by Jose Ferrer is a brave and boastful man. His confidence is refreshing, and his words are profound, in addition, he is a gentleman. He has such an unique personality people either love him or hate him, but never would they want to cross him. The Cyrano character is a great character because he has so many layers, but the common man can still relate to him. Whereas in Hamlet, few guys can experience being a handsome and strong man with royal parents. How...
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Streetcar Named Desire True Nature
750 wordsTennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire is considered by most people to be his most flawless masterpiece. This is because Williams work blends both tragic and comic elements together. He shows the true nature of the hero and doesnt let the reader judge the characters based on one single action. Most readers think because there are so many tragic events that take place through out the story that it is indeed a tragic story. The comical circumstances encountered in the play contradict the rol...
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Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare Wrote
1,584 wordsAround 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. They had dreams of one day becoming actors, but only one of these children fulfilled this dream. This child was the mayor's son, William Shakespeare. At this time, actors in England usually spent t...
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Taming Of The Shrew Sexist Attitude
1,025 wordsThe Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare is probably one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies. Its plot is derived from the popular 'war of the sexes' theme in which males and females are pitted against one another for dominance in marriage. The play begins with an induction in which a drunkard, Christopher Sly, is fooled into believing he is a king and has a play performed for him. The play he watches is what constitutes the main body of The Taming Of The Shrew. In it, a wealthy land owner,...
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Commedia Dell Arte 21 St Century
1,345 words"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. Masks and mask work must take their place ...
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Film George Jungle
549 wordsThe film George of the Jungle, directed by Sam Weisman is a romantic comedy and parody. In other words, it fully rips off Tarzan and makes a classic story seem stupid. In the beginning of the film the audience is shown a short cartoon about how George came to be in the jungle. When he was a baby George was flying over the jungle in a plane when it crashed. The passengers never found him and so apes raised him. Then the scene it cut to the present when a woman called Ursula came to the jungle as ...
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Ice Cube College Students
724 wordsThe movie Friday was one of the best comedies I have ever seen. It had a great director, a talented cast, a good plot, a spectacular soundtrack, and is filled with funny gags and jokes. It was by far the most hilarious movie of the decade. I have never laughed so hard in all of my life. I loved this movie. The cast of the movie was sensational. Playing the main character was famous musician and actor, Ice Cube. He is such a serious person that at first I was skeptical of his performance in a com...
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Plot Of The Play Human Relationships
735 wordsPlay analysis 1: Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies Donald Margulies' play Dinner with Friends is a reflection of time, feelings and human relationships. The author considered his play the mirror of real life. And this life is very changeable with joy and rage, marriage and divorce, real feelings and illusions. Thats why the plot of the play seems to be known to many people. But before summarizing main crucial moments, it is necessary to know more about main characters; because the play is ...
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Love For God Order To Reach
2,318 wordsFinal Writing Assignment The Inferno is part epic. The theme in Canto II is that of courtly love: much medieval literature deals with the love of a knight for an unattainable and lovely lady. In the literature of courtly love, the knights hopeless devotion spurs him on to chivalric feats, which he accomplishes in order to honor his chosen lady. In some lyrics of courtly love, the perfection of the desired lady undermines the religious morality of the poetry: a Christian should love God above all...
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Sexual Content 1994 P
690 wordsThe Mask In the movie, The Mask Jim Carrey is playing diffident bank teller Stanley Ipkiss. The movie revolves around Stanley, who is living quite lonely life. Stanley spends his free time with his dog Milo and likes to watch cartoons. He is quite a kind man, who probably cannot do anything wrong to other person. Even when Stanley thinks of suicide, he still remains a warm-hearted person. Stanley attempts to rescue what he thinks to be a drowning person floating down the river, but discovers the...
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Sir Toby Sir Andrew
987 wordsThe Truth About Foolishness In Shakespeare's Twelfth The Truth About Foolishness In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The Truth About Foolishness in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare used a unique device to explain how foolishness is an unavoidable part of everyday life. He employed many specific examples of foolishness in his comedy play titled Twelfth Night. Each of the characters he created were all foolish in one way or another. Not only do the characters entertain the audience, bu...
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Lord Chamberlains Men Shakespeare Was Born
633 wordsPag William ShakespearWilliam Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writers plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a leather shop. John Shakespeare was a wel...
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Physical And Mental Vita Nuova
1,186 wordsCRUELDantes Inferno Johnson, Brad# CRUEL PUNISHMENTS OF SINNERS IN THE RAGING INFERNO Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1265. In his life, he composed two major books of poetry: Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. The Vita Nuova is composed of love poems, sonnets, and lyrics. The Divine Comedy, is an epic poem segmented into three books, each of which recounts Dante s travels through hell, purgatory, and heaven. The first section of The Divine Comedy, Dantes Inferno, is a narrative wi...
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People Laugh Make People
989 wordsDavid David Letterman David Letterman David Letterman grew up in a small town in eastern Indiana. He was born to Joseph and Dorothy Letterman. After reading the novel, David Letterman: On Stage and Off by Rosemarie Lennon, I have learned about all his struggles and joys. Because of this book, I feel sorry towards one of the funniest people on Earth, David Letterman. I also admire him for his good acts and abilities. To realize why I feel what I feel toward Letterman, you have to look at some of ...
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Current Affairs Real Life
826 wordsFrontline exposure of current affairs programs makes a mockery of journalistic integrity. Through humorous portrayals of important issues, and clever imitation Frontline makes viewers aware of ridicule towards journalistic integrity. While current affairs programs are based on real life stories, which are enhanced to make good news, Frontline is based on the making of these stories. Frontlines purpose is to inform the audience of the life behind a current affair program but more importantly its ...
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Makes The Artist Wesley Snipes Genre
794 wordsGenre in filme+re (zh n+re) noun 1. A type or class: Emaciated famine victims... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent (Helen Kitchen). 2. a. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: his six String Quartets... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's (Time). b. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life. [French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-...
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Evil Man Didn T
572 wordsHuman Comedy In the Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Mrs. Macauley, an intelligent mother of four in Ithaca, California, states, If a man has not wept at the world s pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world. (p. 131) People are different in many ways but how people deal with pain gives the world an insight to the character of that person and who they truly are inside. In a section of the Human Comedy, Mrs. Macauley shares her view of people, pity, and pain. When pai...
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Men And Women Romantic Comedy
590 wordsIt s a Good Thing Harry Met Sally The 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally is a romantic-comedy masterpiece. It exhilarates us, and leaves us breathless, desperate for more. It isn t the best romantic-comedy ever made, but it certainly falls right into the category of classics. Genius Rob Reiner (The American President) directs us into the lives of Harry and Sally, and also featured is an exceptional score from Harry Connick, Jr. Beautifully written by Nora Ephron (You ve Got Mail); her witty, tongue...
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