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Makes The Audience Open The Door
1,070 wordsMany plays have passed the audiences eyes with no recognition. There are some plays which most people do not remember. There are plays about cats, dogs and most anything one can think up. There are also plays which try to send a hidden meaning to the audience. There are plays which are covers for a real purpose of wasting an audiences time. More importantly, there are good plays. As the 1990 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, stands out as one of the greatest plays...
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Whore Giggle ' Ratz Case
1,083 wordsThis is for the Net. Enjoy. - Red Dragon Neuromancer by William Gibson Dedication: for Deb who made it possible with love PART ONE CHIBA CITY BLUES 1 The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. 'It's not like I'm using, ' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. 'It's like my body's developed this massive drug defi- ciency. ' It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional exp...
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Canterbury Tales Chaucer Describes
787 wordsCanterbury Tales Chaunticleer- In the book Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a stunning tale about a rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is the King of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he quotes passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has a libido that runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a very elegant looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of a person belonging to the upper class. Chaucer's hidden meanings and ideas make us think...
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Patriarchal Society Greek Society
984 wordsThe play Medea by Euripides challenges the dominant views of femininity in the patriarchal society of the Greeks. While pursuing her ambition Medea disregards many of the feminine stereotypes/ characteristics of the patriarchal Greek society. She questions the inequality of women in a patriarchal society, contradicts Jasons chauvinist beliefs, challenges the stereotype that women are weak and passive and completely disregards the feminine role of motherhood. Feminism is the belief that women and...
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Listening Skills Personal Communication
663 wordsPart I Personal Communication Ethic I feel that that the best way to persuade people is with your ears by listening to them. Feeling this way, I based my personal communication ethic on listening. If all you do is talk, then you probably dont have too many friends. I know that when I am interrupted in mid-sentence I feel like punching the other person. I feel as if the other person doesnt give a care in the world about what I think, and not only does that take away any respect I had for that per...
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Marry His Mother King Of Thebes
1,410 wordsMany Greek myths and legends have a valuable point or lesson which is revealed when told. Each individual who hears it obtains a different meaning from what the author tries to throw out to the audience or reader. In Oedipus Rex, one part of The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles, there is a lesson of allowing life to take its course instead of steering it to your own advantage or trying to prevent it from coming true as Oedipus and parents have attempted to do so. The Gods have predicted what shall hap...
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Circle Of Hell Divine Comedy
602 wordsIn Dantes Inferno, part of The Divine Comedy, Canto V introduces the torments of Hell in the Second Circle. Here Minos tells the damned where they will spend eternity by wrapping his tail around himself. The Second Circle of Hell holds the lustful; those who sinned with the flesh. They are punished in the darkness by an unending tempest, which batters them with winds and rain. Hell is not only a geographical place, but also a representation of the potential for sin and evil within every individu...
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Family Wants To Adopt Coming To Visit Jessica
476 wordsJessica I need to talk with you Nervously I got up from my desk. My counselor never took me out of class, so my mind was racing with whys, whats, and how come. When I entered her office I sat down biting my nails. Well, Jessica I brought you in here to tell you that a family wants to adopt you! My finger dropped down from being in my mouth for the last 2 minutes biting on my nail that I didnt really have. A family wants to adopt me? I said this with uncertainty, just to make sure that my ears we...
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Merchant Of Venice Main Characters
1,028 wordsDumb jocks! , Women dont belong there, doing that! , He must be a criminal, just look at his clothes. How often have we heard somebody mention these things, yet, how often have we said something similar? Our society is based on face values where we categorize people because of a few actions. All of the above statements are prejudicial notions used to define members of a social or an ethnic group, and are called stereotypes. Stereotypes are explored greatly in the Shakespeare play The Merchant Of...
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Lear And Gloucester Anthology Of English Literature
872 wordsShakespeare's use of parallels (reprinted in Abrams, et. al. The Norton Anthology of English LIterature, Vol I. Sixth ed. [New York: Norton, 1993 ] 891 - 697) is evident throughout King Lear. Once they are deceived, both King Lear and Gloucester place their evil child into power. After losing everything, Lear goes mad and Gloucester is blinded. Both children the come to the aid of their father, after being cast away. Shakespeare goes into great detail in describing the specific parallel between ...
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Appearance Versus Reality Hath Not A Jew
969 wordsThe Merchant of Venice Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is still relevant today because it deals with issues which still affect us. Show how two of those issues are discussed in the play. Throughout the play a distinction is made between how things appear on the outside and how they are in reality, or on the inside. The issue of appearance versus reality is demonstrated in varied ways, mainly by the use of real-life situations. The first representation of this is Shylock's generosity with hi...
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Rest Of The Poem End Of The World
934 wordsDeath Perspectives From Dylan Thomas A Refusal Death Perspectives From Dylan Thomas A Refusal To Mourn The Death By Fire Of A Child In London Death. Even the mere suggestion of the word is able to conjure up visions of dark, grisly impressions and cold, somber moods. The subject of death is neither an appropriate nor amusing subject of conversation among people because of the ill feelings of tragedy and mourning so often associated with it. Through his poetry, Thomas attempts to reverse the comm...
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End Of The Platform Lee
409 wordsLee Smith was on his way to town with his girlfriend sharon. Lee was 32 and a postman from magill. They were going to town to get some wine for their dinner party that night. Lee? s car had been taken off him when he had drunk and drove 3 months before, so they were going by train. The station was only a few minutes walk from their flat so they were on the train in time. The train left the station at 10. 00 am and headed towards town. By twenty past they were there. Lee helped Sharon on to the p...
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Victor Frankenstein Mary Shelley
468 wordsFrankenstein Frankenstein Mary Shelley 192 pp. Frankenstein Copyright 1957 Almost Publishing Pyramid Books The conflict in the story Frankenstein is self vs. another. Victor Frankenstein is a man interested in chemistry, who alters dead flesh therefore creating a superhuman being of rotted corpses. Mr. Frankenstein is very interested in chemistry, and he basically tries to play God by creating a life in a laboratory. However, the life that he makes is a monster. One day Frankenstein receives a l...
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Victor Frankenstein Younger Brother
785 wordsjygdcfyjsfg, The story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man who created something that messes with nature, and nature came back to mess with him because nature is more powerful than man. Victor Frankenstein was very interested in natural philosophy and chemistry and basically tried to play G-d by creating life. When he found the secret of activating dead flesh, he created a superhuman being composed of rotted corpses. What he did was considered unthinkable, and he was haunted by his ow...
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Christian Values Trial Scene
898 wordsThe idea of mercy is important in the Merchant of Venice because it provides a focus for the contrast between Venetian Christian society and the alien invader, represented by Shylock. Mercy occupies a central position in the trial scene (IV. i. ), where the power struggle between aristocratic Venetian society and the threatening force of Shylock comes to a climax. My thesis is that the contrast between (and equation of) mercy and revenge in the trial scene reveals the true nature of Venetian soc...
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Swift Essay
1,397 wordsIn Jonathan Swift? s essay, ? A Modest Proposal? , Swift proposes that the poor should eat their own starving children during a great a famine in Ireland. What would draw Swift into writing to such lengths. When times get hard in Ireland, Swift states that the children would make great meals. The key factor to Swift? s essay that the reader must see that Swift is not literally ordering the poor to cannibalize. Swift acknowledges the fact of the scarcity of food and empathizes with the struggling...
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Days And Nights Noahs Ark
415 wordsGilgamesh and the Bible In both the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible a common event takes place, a flood. The flood in both stories destroys all mankind. I feel that each flood serves as a symbol. Each one is a representative of rebirth and of a new beginning for all mankind. In the epic, Gilgamesh the gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights Gilgamesh and the other gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights. Utnapishtim and Noah wer...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Days And Nights
449 wordsThe Epic of Gilgamesh and The Bible: Comparing the Flood Stories In both The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible, a flood takes place. The flood in both stories destroys most of mankind. These floods are a symbol. They represent rebirth and a new beginning for mankind, as well as the gods or God s wrath. In the epic of Gilgamesh the gods decided to destroy mankind by flooding earth for six days and nights. Utnapishtim was chosen to build a boat in order to restart mankind after the flood. In The Bib...
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Town Of Vec Men Of God Brom
1,396 wordsThe ill-begotten town of Vec is in shambles. The churches have all been burned, and Satan's reign has spread to the top-land through the desire and meddling of five young men. The men call themselves the Satanic Cult of the Spirit. They, alone, are Satan's army brought from the bowels of the Nether regions to take arms against goodness and all that is holy in the world that exists today. The cult ritually performs seances to conjure the demon for further instructions. The body of lead clansmen B...
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