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Flower Girl Stage Directions
1,096 wordsIn the preface Shaw describes the Oxford phonetician Henry Sweet, on whom Professor Higgins is modeled, but warns us that Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet. Shaw says that he wrote the play in order to make the English aware of the importance of phonetics, and he is grateful that the play has been a great success on the stage. He complains that the way English is written has little to do with the way it is pronounced, and he pleads for a new alphabet and a reform in spelling. A heavy late-night...
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Divine Intervention Trojan War
1,252 words... ake's Odysseus extremely attractive, so much so that Nausicaa comments that "I should like my future husband to be just such another as he is, if he would only stay here and not want to go away" (Scroll VI). It really does seem that the girl has been manipulated into falling in love with Odysseus. This sort of manipulation appears to be acceptable in the name of the general goal, getting Odysseus home. An interesting question to consider throughout the text in light of events like this, howe...
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Fifth Business H 2
1,025 wordsMany people dislike a certain individual when they meet or exceed certain predefined criteria. In the novel FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies, the antagonist, Percy Boyd Staunton, performs a number of incidents, which leads one to dislike him. He denies his guilt of throwing a snowball, happily displays nude pictures of his wife, and commits adultery. In his early childhood, Boy throws a paperweight concealed in a snowball at Mrs. Dempster. Towards the end of the book, Boy denies ever throwing ...
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Makes Fun Human Society
1,072 wordsGrendel has a sarcastic and cynical mind, which serves to entertain both him and the reader. Through his expositions of situations, we see humor where others would simply see violence, and irony where others only fact. These others are the humans, the Danes, unwitting neighbors of Grendel, forced to stand night after night of slaughter. What is a traumatic and terrifying experience for them, is simply a game to Grendel, and the reader. Grendel bursts in on the Danes, ready to kill, and they sque...
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Hand Over His Heart Hester And Pearl
1,698 wordsNathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel about the guilt of sin in a Puritanical society and how sometimes it is better to face your mistakes and admit them than to hide them and suffer inside. The result of sin can often produce something beautiful. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are the sinners in this book. They commit adultery and bring a child into the world. That child is Pearl. Pearl is a beautiful and stunning girl. Everywhere she goes the attention is on her. There is no...
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Consequences Of Human Desire In The Scarlet Letter
684 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. Throughout the novel, Pearl is a symbol of the sin that her mother has committed, and also suffers from this sin. Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of vice, and is even characterized as demonic by her mother. The austere Puritan society isolates Pearl, causing animosity between her and the other Puritan children. Pearl is conceived in sin, is a con...
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The Green Dream In Great Gatsby
636 wordsWhen was the last time you looked at something so hard, hoping you would get something out of it? Well, that's what Gatsby does in this novel. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the green light to represent Gatsby's longing for Daisy and the fact that the American Dream can not be achieved because of the structured class system. In this book, it shows that you can not move up and down in class ranks. Once you are in one rank, then you stay in that one. Gatsby tries to move for Daisy, ...
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Analysis Of The Red Badge Courage
867 wordsAs The Red Badge of Courage opens, we meet Henry Fleming, who has signed up for the army against his mother's wishes, full of dreams of becoming a hero. But so far he has done nothing but sit around the camp. With all that time on his hands, Henry begins to worry whether he will be able to fight bravely, or whether he " ll run away when the shooting starts. He talks to some of the others about it, but because he cannot really explain his fears, he feels more and more alone. Jim Conklin, a friend...
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Comparing Le Mort Darthur And Excalibur
559 wordsSir Thomas Mallory wrote the story Le Mort Darthur, which is a story about medieval times and the day of King Arthur. From those times to the present day, a variety of stories have been crafted. Some examples of these stories (which also could be put in movie or television form) would be like A Kid in King Arthurs Court, Excalibur, Knights of the Round Table, and much more. In this essay, I will be comparing the differences between Le Mort Darthur and the movie Excalibur. One major difference be...
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Waste Products Raw Material
869 wordsRecycling Programs Each of us throws out huge quantity of waste. On the average person throws out more than 360 kg of household waste products annually. And it is only waste products of the individual consumer. This average doesnt include building and industrial wastes. It is necessary to say that we throw out junk in organized way (in garbage cans, urns, etc. ) and in unorganized way (anywhere). If all junk which has been thrown out for a year by inhabitants of New York allocate by an equal lay...
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Merry Go Round Feet Per Second
367 wordsThe Coriolis Effect was discovered by the nineteenth-century French mathematician, G. G. Coriolis. Coriolis found that all moving objects on the earth seem to sidle from their positions-an eastward movement in the Northern Hemisphere and a westward movement in the Southern Hemisphere. The effect is caused simply by the earth? s rotation and appears in all motions. The Coriolis effect can best be exemplified by a merry-go round. Let us suppose that two people, P and Q are riding on a merry-go-rou...
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Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg
1,029 wordsSaving Private Ryan Film has the power to take audiences to meet new people, explore worlds both imagined and real, it can show you the past and send you reeling into the future. A cinematic experience can be all encompassing; it can stimulate your senses through images that the director has created, as long as the editor is on top of game and does his job properly. Through the course of this paper I will attempt to analyze the techniques Academy Award winning editor, Michael Kahn uses in Steven...
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Lives Organized Crime
1,309 wordsFay Weldon? S The Life And Loves Of Fay Weldon? S The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil And Fitzgerald? S The Great Gatsby Gatsby vs. Ruth: The Battle of Self-Creation In Fay Weldon? s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and F. Scott Fitzgerald? s The Great Gatsby, the main characters, Ruth and Gatsby, go through a process of re-inventing themselves. Each character tries to change themselves so they can, in some way, improve their lives. Though each character tries to re-invent themselves, both of th...
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Corruption Of The American Dream Repeat The Past
1,108 wordsGatsby's Corruptive Nature The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a portrayal of the withering of the American Dream. The American Dream promises prosperity and self-fulfillment as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. A product of the frontier and the west, the American Dream challenges people to have dreams and strive to make them real. Historically, the Dream represents the image of believing in the goodness of nature. However, the American Dream can be interpreted in differen...
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Point Of View Flannery Oconnor
1,266 wordsFlannery OConnor has an amazing ability to convey deep meaning through the folly of the characters in her stories. The lessons learned from Oconnor's flawed main characters are the driving force of her thought provoking literature. Mrs. Turpin is no exception. In Revelation, there are two main settings: The waiting room and the pig parlor. The events that take place in these settings are crucial to understanding the underlying meaning of the story. In Revelation, Flannery OConnor uses symbolism ...
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Mother Quot Steinbeck Shows
650 wordsEast of Eden by John Steinbeck is an optimistic film about a boy becoming a man and trying desperately to earn the love of his father and mother in the troubled times of the Great Depression. Cal, the main character is a troubled teen who lives with his entrepreneur father, and a brother who is following closely in his fathers steps. Cal? s mother left him and his brother to become a madam of a whorehouse. The struggle takes place between Cal and his father due to his fathers lack of compassion ...
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Free Throws Effective Game
217 wordsOffensive Philosophy In the offensive side of my basketball program there are a few main factors that all my players must be able to execute to remain players on my team. There are such things as free throws, seeing the lanes, out of bounds plays, good cuts, squaring up to the basket and setting effective screens. Free throws will kill a close game. If you can be confident that you will not have anyone like Shaq that can be taken out of the game just by fouling him and forcing him to make a shot...
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Mr And Mrs Point Of View
1,315 wordsPut Yourself in My Shoes Put Yourself in My Shoes is one of the longest and most complex stories in the collection, and one of its finest. In addition, it brings together a number of the themes and images that have recurred throughout the book. For example, it depicts the kind of interaction between two couples that we have seen in Neighbors and Whats in Alaska? ; in this case, the Myers go to visit the Morgans, whose house they had lived in for a year while Professor Morgan and his wife were in...
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Force Of Nature Puritan Society
997 wordsPearl is one of the most interesting and mysterious characters of the novel The Scarlet Letter. One tends to wonder why Pearl is the way she is. Why does she act so strangely and so differently than all the other characters? She acts this way because of a relationship she has with the force of Nature, which Hawthorne personifies as sympathetic towards sins against the puritan way of life. Because of this trait Hester's sin causes Nature to accept Pearl. Finally, Pearls acceptance of Nature is wh...
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Leads The Reader Stanley Kowalski
690 wordsIn the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois? s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister? s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. His brutish and ferocious actions during the play leave the reader with a b...
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