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Man On My Left Hair And Wore Water
902 wordsDriving across the bridge over Lake Ray Hubbard one sunny Saturday afternoon, I was overcome with the gentle breeze blowing through my open window and decided to stop for a little while. I pulled off the highway and parked the car. Upon exiting the car, I walked to the edge of the water and sat down. As I sat on the warm sand, I began to pick up handfuls of the sand and let it slowly filter through my open fingers. I also became aware of the activities going on around me. A man to my left was ba...
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Commedia Dell Arte Stock Characters
949 wordsCommedia dell " arte is a truly popular form of theatre - of the people, by the people, for the people. Discuss this statement with specific examples of Commedia dell " arte scenarios, stock characters, performance features and circumstances. Commedia dell " arte is definitely an artform centred on people and their world. Although its origins are hazy due to the illiteracy of its first performers and audience, it is believed to have stemmed from the carnivals in Italy during the sixteenth centur...
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Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes And Scandal In Bohemia
1,131 wordsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel was first published in 1892. A Scandal in Bohemia was a short story about a woman who has pictures of herself and a high English nobleman. She used them to blackmail him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a novelist, a detective-story writer, and a physician. He was born on May 22, 1859 and died on July 7, 1930. He began writing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1890 and finished writing it in 1892. Sir Arthur Conan D...
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Sitting Bull White Man
1,390 wordsIn 1831 an indian child was born, of the Sioux Nation and the Hunkpapa Tribe. His father, Sitting Bull, and mother, Her-holy-door, did not name him Sitting Bull, he was named Jumping Badger. He was never called Jumping Badger, he was called Slow because of his willful and deliberate ways. When Slow was fourteen he insisted on going along with the adult warriors into battle. Usually the untrained youths were errand boys while learning about battle conditions. Slow, screaming a war cry, jumped int...
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Moved To New York Antonia And Jim
1,606 words1. Jim Burden, a successful New York City lawyer, leaves an acquaintance a memoir of his Nebraska childhood in the form of a recollection of their mutual friend, Antonia Shimerda. Jim had first arrived in Nebraska at the age of ten, when he was made the trip west to live with his grandparents after finding himself as an orphan in Virginia. On this same train, Jim has his first glimpse of the Shimerda's, a Bohemian immigrant family traveling in the same direction. As fate would have it, the Shime...
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Women In Ancient Greece Athens And Sparta
1,324 wordsMost people think of ancient Athens as the city of freedom and democracy, while they think of Sparta as a highly restricted society. The schools teach us that modern democracies are modeled on Athens, while military dictatorships are modeled on Sparta. However, history shows us that women had much more liberty in Sparta than in Athens. In fact, the democracy of Athens was available only to free men who were citizens of Athens. Moreover, to claim citizenship, an Athenian had to prove that both hi...
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Beginning Of The Film Camera Angles
569 wordsSymbolism in The Grifters The Novel and Film of The Grifters had many uses of symbolism, supporting the theme of sexual corruption, and the fall of the three main characters craft of the grift. In the novel, symbolism was tougher to pick out. However, the descriptions of the characters created symbolic visualizations of their personalities and human nature. The film had more obvious uses of symbolism through the choice of womens clothes, the characters actions, and their language. In the film, s...
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Moral Lesson Christian Belief
890 words# 8216; The Red Shoes' is an imaginary and unreal story related by Hans Christian Anderson. Anderson makes effective use of fantasy to teach a moral lesson. He builds up the story in such a way that the reader does not care for the validity of the incidents. The moral lesson is that the proud and the disobedient must suffer. Disobedience is a sin, and according to the Christian belief it is what started the demise in the heavens above, so anybody who commits it must suffer. Whatever sins man com...
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Mini Van Thirty Minutes
1,508 words... reason why he left Alabama. A man named Floyd Walton originally owned the land he inherited. He allowed our family to sharecrop on the land after the civil war. Our family roots traced back to Alabama. My ancestors were his slaves. That's where we got the last name Walton. My grandfather was given the name Floyd just like the master. Grandpa told me horror stories of mob violence and public humiliations. He even described in graphic detail a gruesome lynching. These are things that he person...
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Small Children Medicine Corn
1,228 wordsI was born in No-doyen Canon, Arizona, June, 1829. In that country which lies around the head waters of the Gila River I was reared. This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our wigwams were hidden; the scattered valleys contained our fields; the boundless prairies, stretching away on every side, were our pastures; the rocky caverns were our burying places. I was fourth in a family of eight children four boys and four girls. Of that family, only myself, my brother, Price, and my sist...
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Love For Desdemona Othello And Desdemona
1,644 wordsCorrect anal ization of Shakespeare's work has and always will be the question on every readers mind. In our case, Othello has simple yet twisted turns throughout the story. Not only does the plot of this story introduce William Shakespeare's thoughts, but what he is capable of, from a writing stand point. Othello is considered one of Shakespeare's most fast-paced play. Most of the action is gathered into one day and all the scenes begin in the middle of conversations between characters. Except ...
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Bright Colors Fianc E
1,657 wordsTwo Gentleman of Verona Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Mr. Wolfe, depicted an excellent plot through strong acting and characterization. In addition it possessed humor that perfectly affixed into the era of the sixties. The play was transformed from its original time era and placed in the sixties. The main plot outline surrounds two gentleman from Verona who were best friends. These two best friends named Valentine and Proteus were played by Geoffrey Kidwell, and Noah Silverman. The story ...
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Importance Of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
464 wordsOscar Wilde The world has seen many talented literary writers. One of the more famous appeared in the late 19 th century. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854. His life produced award-winning poetry and highly acclaimed plays. Although he had a troubled childhood, Wilde gained large popularity for his outlandish wit and compelling personality. Despite his overwhelming public appeal as a playwright, Oscar Wilde ultimately died a sad and lonely death. Oscar Wilde grew up in ...
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Oedipus Rex Greek Tragedy
2,558 wordsInfluence of Ancient Greek Times All through history the Greeks have influenced our lives in more ways than most people could imagine. To this day we use many ideas and ways of life that the Greeks used thousands of years ago. Everywhere Greek traders went, they took Greek ideas with them. People throughout the ancient world were influenced by Greek thought and culture. Their greatness was largely the result of achievements of their artists, scientists, and philosophers. The Greeks developed the...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Martin Luther King Jr
2,598 wordsKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was depicting the life and the struggles of African-Americans in the United States in the 1960 s and not a futuristic, someday society in his short story Harrison Bergeron. Harrison Bergeron is really an account of a black who showed extra-ordinary talent and yet was shunned and suppressed by society because he was different and therefore regarded as dangerous. Vonnegut, Jr. , who was named one of 100 AUTHORS WHO SHAPED WORLDHISTORY (Perkins 84), often used his short story for...
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Young Goodman Brown Fellow Traveler
252 wordsIn comparing and contrasting the stories? Worn Path? and? Young Goodman Brown? . Several things come to mind. We see that both authors use a lot of symbolism as well as foreshadowing. Also, Both stories take place in the forest or along a path. In the story? Worn Path? the author makes use of symbolism in diffident ways. The most obvious example is that the path, itself, symbolizes the old women. She is desc- red as bent, crooked, old and wore out. This description would also fit the well wore p...
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Game Was Played Didn T
951 wordsThe mesoamerican ballgame, known as ullamaliztli or ollamalizitli in the native language Nahuatl, was played for many different reasons and by many different people. The game was played all over what is now Mexico. It was played by two different groups, the Aztecs and Mayans. There is a very extensive history of the ballgame. Ranging from how it was discovered to whom discovered it to different personal accounts. The people who played the game were Mayan and Aztec. Some of the courts they found ...
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20 Th Century Bass Guitar
783 wordsThe nights of April 21 - 22, 1999 in Berkeley, California, The San Francisco Symphony was joined by the rock band, Metallica for a performance at the Berkeley Community Theater. It was conducted by Micheal Kamen. The hall was filled to capacity with both hardcore Metallica fans. Before the concert even started, they were on their feet, cheering for both Metallica and the members of the symphony. The were all dressed in street clothes. Most opted to wear jeans and a Metallica shirt. The members o...
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Brill Mrs Women Wore Couple
629 wordsMrs. Mrs. Brill Mrs. Brill Mrs. Brill, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, takes place in Jardins Publiques seaside town in France. The story is about an elder lady by the name of Mrs. Brill who frequents a nearby park on Sundays to hear a band play. Before leaving to the park she removed her fur. Shaken of the moth powder and brushing it of Mrs. Brill admired her fur wrap. The tail was placed within its mouth and its black composite nose was no longer firm, giving the impression that the wrap...
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Red Velvet Slippers Clapped Their Hands Bella
733 wordsOnce upon a time there was a beautiful Dancer who lived in Mexico City. Raquel: What was she called? Maria: She was called Bella. Raquel: Oh. (Raquel s prettiest doll is called Bella. ) Bella was the loveliest dancer in the world, and all the people wanted her to come and dance at their parties. In the evening she would go down to the clubs or else she would dance in their gardens on the lawns among the statues and roses and fountains, where all the trees were hung with lights like coloured star...
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