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William The Conqueror Curtain Wall
1,549 wordsChepstow which is a Norman castle was constructed beginning in 1067. This was less than a year after the new king, William the Conqueror, was crowned. It was built high over the river Wye in Southeast Wales. The Normans werent the first to realize the strategic value of this position. We know this because the arch above the main doorway into the hall was built by bricks taken from a Roman fort that used to stand close by. This position was an advantage partly because it allowed allies to bring s...
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Hotel Suite For Tito Suite For Tito Play
817 wordsIn the following summary of Lend Me a Tenor I will look at many different aspects affecting the play such as: actors, directing, lighting, scenery, costumes, text, and characters. With myself seeing this play eight times and almost getting all of the lines down myself I know that this will be the best summary of this play, or at least hope. What I am going to try to do is walk you from the beginning to the end pointing out the points that I think are important to the play. When you walk into the...
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Hills Like White Elephants
475 wordsHills Like White Elephants is a story that portrayed many symbols. White Elephants have always been gifts that are unwanted. Hemingway in this selection uses these white elephants to describe abortion through one couples eyes. He uses different items and views that happen around this couple to symbolically describe abortion. People who have white elephant parties, wrap gifts that they do not want in their house anymore and give them away as a gift for someone else. Jigs unborn child, in this sto...
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Due To The Fact Fathers Death
636 wordsMaybe Shakespeare's Hamlet is rightfully named after the star of the play. After all, he is not only the key character, but the driving force behind most of the questions that are asked about human nature. Hamlet has many traits that contribute to the success of his chapter and the success of the play in general. The three most important characteristics are his indecisiveness throughout the play, his fatalistic views, and his over dramatic persona. Hamlets indecisiveness is evident throughout th...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Holy Land
1,673 wordsKing Edward I of England made a number of military campaigns during his reign, in two of which he captured modern-day Wales. In order to hold his gains he built a series of castles, which are said to still be some of the world's greatest strongholds. But, over 3500 kilometres away a period of fascinating castle building took place prior to Edward's as a result of the crusades. These constructions were designed by absorbing the constructive wisdom of the crusaders and those they came into contact...
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1,702 words... aladin and Baybars yet still many castles either didn't fall or took an entire season of campaigning to capture. The general idea to effectively siege a castle was to starve or blockade it until surrender was the only option, but these castles were designed to hold enough food. Kerry when besieged by Saladin held enough food but not enough arms, a strange turn of events in the medieval ages. Margat on the other hand had supplies enough for a five-year siege. In 1269 after the garrison of Gas...
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Son In Law Fra Pandolf
595 wordsA dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet recites the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but the reader of the poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a dramatic monologue, the reader learns about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. Robert Browning is said to have perfected this form of writing. One of his most famous dramatic monologues is "My Last Duchess. " The speaker in the poem is an Italia...
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Band Started To Play Started To Play Slipknot
704 wordsThe young boy motioned with his arms where to park, as the vehicle came to a stop. My friends and I got out of the car and looked up to see a line of people waiting to get inside. I asked them "So what now? ", since this was my first concert, I did not know what to expect. They said, "Hear that?" I listened and heard music playing in the background. We started walking towards the end of the line that had formed. As we grew closer to the gate, the music got louder, and my heart beat faster. While...
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Cold War Tensions House Un American Activities Committee
2,073 wordsThe Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and cultural life from 1946 -- when Winston Churchill announced the descent of an Iron Curtain separating the Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellite states from the non-communist West -- to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The influence on the American film industry was deep and long-lasting. Hollywood became a highly visible target of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the late 1940 s and 195...
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1960 And 1970 War In Vietnam
2,076 words... Korean War films raised questions about the willingness and the ability of Americans to live up to those ideals (See: The Korean War); and the Cold War films showed how those ideals can be called on to prevent war while at the same time containing the Soviet Union. They also favored subjects that featured those weapons most closely associated the nuclear war they were designed to prevent: the long-range bomber and the nuclear submarine. The first and most successful of the Air Force films, S...
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King And Queen Curtain Wall
593 wordsCastles were very important during the Middle Ages. From castles, one can learn much about the daily life of those that worked and lived in one and the advantages of having a castle during a time of war. A castle was built nearby the best natural defense, usually next to a river or any water formation, for an easy escape route in case the castle was destroyed and the people had nowhere else to go. In order to build a castle back in the Middle Ages, many workers were needed for the job. It was ha...
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National Security Council World War Ii
3,258 wordsLess than a year after the end of World War II, the great wartime leader of Britain, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. After receiving an honorary degree and being introduced by President Harry Truman, he delivered a historic speech. Churchill said, ? It is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that l...
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Richard Shakespeare
2,284 wordsConsider The Presentation Of Evil Characters In Consider The Presentation Of Evil Characters In Poetry: Shakespeare? s? Richard III? , Robert Browning The three pieces of poetry I will be looking at, Shakespeare? s? Richard III? , Robert Browning? s? My last Duchess? and W. H. Auden? s? Victor? share the same central relationship: the evilness and cruelty of their main characters. In most cases, this is fuelled by the characters jealousy, although all three appear respectable when taken at face ...
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2,563 wordsHow Is The Atmosphere Of Mystery And How Is The Atmosphere Of Mystery And Suspense Built Up In The Two Short Stories? ? The Signal Man? An Both of the stories are very gripping and keep you in apprehension throughout When it comes to ghost stories, both hold the general key to a first-class story, mystery. They both take a slow approach to getting to the main climax, which encourages you to keep reading. When making a scary film, it is a lot easier to make a viewer scared as you can use music, s...
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1,976 wordsA Directors production plan for Juno and the Paycock by Sean O Casey. In the production plan, you should explain your general approach to staging your chosen play, referring to any aspects of the play you consider significant. You may consider such aspects of staging as costume, set, lighting, make-up, props, acting methods, choice of venue, etc. Your answer must be supported by appropriate non-written material. A director s production plan should integrate all elements of theatre so to put acro...
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Things In Life Dramatic Monologue
1,924 wordsOne of the greatest Victorian poets and masters of the dramatic monologue, Robert Browning was born in London on the seventh of May in 1812. His father was a clerk at the Bank of England and mostly educated Browning at home. He attended London University in 1828, but withdrew after his second term. After his first publication in 1833, Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession, he received little attention and only random criticism of his later works. It was not until 1869 when The Ring and the Book wa...
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Things In Life Dramatic Monologue
1,904 wordsMy Last Duchess One of the greatest Victorian poets and masters of the dramatic monologue, Robert Browning was born in London on the seventh of May in 1812. His father was a clerk at the Bank of England and mostly educated Browning at home. He attended London University in 1828, but withdrew after his second term. After his first publication in 1833, Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession, he received little attention and only random criticism of his later works. It was not until 1869 when The Ring...
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Fra Pandolf Dramatic Monologue
1,183 wordsMy Last Duchess My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue about a duke who is showing the portrait of his first wife, the duchess, to a servant of his future father-in-law, the Count. In a dramatic monologue, the speaker addresses a distinct but silent audience. Through his speech, the speaker unintentionally reveals his own personality. As such, in reading this poem, the reader finds the duke to be self-centered, arrogant, controlling, chauvinistic and a very jealous man. The m...
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Norman Bates Central Characters
728 wordsthriller Psycho Alfred Hitchcock? s fantastic thriller Psycho was made in the late 1950? s. Since then it has become a cult classic all over the world. Janet Leigh plays the helpless victim Marian Crime, brutally murdered in the shower by the psychotic Norman Bates. ? When Marian arrives at the small, isolated motel she has no clue to what is around the next corner. The rain is beating down so hard you can? t hear anything all you can see is the big old house with a shadow of someone in the wind...
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World War Ii End Of World War
487 wordsSoon after the end of World War II, the United States was again engaged in war. This was the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the United States were locked in battle to see who would become the most powerful military presence in the world. Because of this, each country was constantly pushing the limits of their technology. These technological advancements inaugurated the Space Age. Sputnik, the first in a series of launches, was the reason the United States entered the Space Race. Some historians ...
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