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Musical Comedies Science Fiction
609 wordsOne of the longest-running and most successful off-Broadway shows of all time, Little Shop of Horrors, is what could be called an affectionate spoof of the 1960 Roger Corman movie, Little Shop of Horrors. Little Shop of Horrors has become a household name thanks to a highly successful film version and a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. The 1982 play Little Shop of Horrors is one of the most unlikely, but successful, musical comedies of all time. The plot of the Lit...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,082 wordsJ. D. Salinger in his stories portrayed people who don't fit in with the traditional American culture of the 1950 s. The post war society was believed to be happy as standard of living seemed higher, American technology was soaring and, politically, and economically America played a superior position in the world. Though there were some radicals who were not contented with such a situation, they couldnt accept a conforming way of live but they focused not only on a comfortable but meaningless li...
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1,126 words... al assumption is that religion has to do with spiritual vision. And while there may be only one religious reality, this reality must be seen, even if only momentarily through various forms. In this sense he is not a Christian writer, even though there are many references to Jesus in his fiction because his historic Christianity attributes spiritual blindness to sin, not just the lack of sensitivity that Salinger repeatedly depicts. (Lundquist, 33) Zen Buddhism is the closest to Salinger's re...
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The Fairy Queen By Edmund Spenser
2,528 wordsEdmund Spencer was born in 1552 to a poor family. He went to Cambridge and received his Masters Degree in 1576. By 1578, he was serving as secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. The landscape there is frequently mentioned in The Shepherdess Calendar. The Shepherdess Calendar served as propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queens proposed marriage with Duc d Alencon. Spencer and his friends, Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, and Full Grenville formed a literary group called the Areopagus. Spens...
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The Fairy Queen By Edmund Spenser
2,731 wordsThe Fairy Queen by Edmund Spenser Edmund Spencer was born in 1552 to a poor family. He went to Cambridge and received his Masters Degree in 1576. By 1578, he was serving as secretary to Bishop John Young in Kent. The landscape there is frequently mentioned in The Shepherdess Calendar. The Shepherdess Calendar served as propaganda for the Leicester position on the Queens proposed marriage with Duc d Alencon. Spencer and his friends, Philip Sidney, Edward Dyer, and Full Grenville formed a literary...
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Cambridge Cambridge University Women In India
2,675 words... it influences people to treat others, as they themselves would like to be treated. Reincarnation is the belief that a persons soul will return to an earthly body again and again until it is liberated from the cycle of life and death. The way to become liberated is by becoming increasingly detached from worldly things, a process that is understood to take innumerable lifetimes. Belief in reincarnation has an effect on behavior by giving Indians a more casual attitude toward the demands of tim...
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Long Term Affects Violence On Tv
1,654 wordsATV Violence TV Violence A major topic of conversation nowadays is whether or not violence on television causes children to behave more violently. Shortly after I began to research this topic, I realized that it is not a clear cut issue. Evidence can be easily found to support each position. In the following essay I will examine the different positions that can ba taken on this topic and try ro form my own view on the affect violent TV has on children. The first position I will examine is the on...
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J D Salinger World War Ii
1,997 wordsMany critics consider J. D. Salinger a very controversial writer, for the subject matters that he writes... J. D. Salinger? s works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960? s. Critics feel that the works during the 1960 time period were very inappropriate, because of the problems for which he wrote. The main characters were generally misfits of society. In most of his works, he has the protagoni...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol Detroit Mi Gale
2,078 wordsA recurring theme in J. D. Salinger's stories concerns people who dont fit in with the traditional American culture. Salinger's most successful tales are of those who cannot adjust to the real world. His main characters are super-intelligent humans who must choose between the phony real world (American culture) and a morally pure, nice world. Salinger's misfit hero[es] (Levine 498), unlike the rest of society, are caught in the struggle between a superficial world and a conscious morality. In th...
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Franny And Zooey Seymour And Buddy Child
640 wordsWere freaks, the two of us, Franny and I and both of those bastards are responsible I could murder both without batting an eyelash The great teachers, the great emancipators. Childhood memories are ripples of waves crashing serenely throughout my mind. Memories of climbing trees, playing dress-up and other fun-filled reminiscences float through these waters like drift wood. I remember nothing but living in a joyful bliss. My only trade was when Barbies beloved Kens head fell off. We are all incr...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,336 wordsThe images of war remain imbedded in an individuals mind, making it difficult for anyone who has faced the horrors of war to re assimilate themselves within society. People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war have the capacit...
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Catcher In The Rye Franny And Zooey
3,070 wordsBorn on January 1, 1919, Jerome David Salinger was to become one of America? s greatest contemporary authors. In 1938 Salinger briefly attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania where he wrote a column, ? Skipped Diploma, ? which featured movie reviews for his college newspaper. Salinger made his writing debut when he published his first short story, ? The Young Folks, ? in Whit Burnett? s Story magazine (French, xiii). He was paid only twenty-five dollars. In 1939, at the age of 20, Salinger had ...
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West Side Story 20 Th Century
2,203 wordsPresentation The eminence of the musical has been the most significant theatre phenomenon in the world over the last twenty years. It has not only given British theatres a greatly needed financial boost but has changed popular theatre indefinitely. Before this, they never throbbed with subtlety because someone was always bursting into song about how every thing was looking just swell. The musical not only wanted to sing away your troubles, but your thoughts as well. The old style musical theatre...
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J D Salinger Quest For Happiness
1,014 wordsA recurring theme in J. D. Salinger's stories concerns people who dont fit in with the traditional American culture. His main characters are super-intelligent humans who must choose between the phony real world (American culture) and a morally-pure, nice world. Salinger's characters unlike the rest of society, are caught in the struggle between a superficial world and a conscious morality... They do not conform to the material happiness; but search for a spiritual happiness. The works of J. D. S...
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