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Wanted To Hear Oedipus Tyrannus
1,456 wordsBecause Oedipus knows nothing about the past of Thebes, he is not an assassin. Oedipus committed murder but unknowingly of who King Laius was. Oedipus honor was his claim against the murder. Had it been the other way around and Oedipus had lost the battle, King Laius alibi would have also been for reasons of honor: for reasons of royalty. Oedipus was royalty and knew it as well did King Laius. The main idea behind Oedipus innocence is this royalty. Regardless of either of their class standings a...
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Chain Of Events One Month
1,253 wordsUpon my first reading of Jorge Luis Borges Death and the Compass I found myself reacting to the chain of events not unlike the bland but efficient Inspector Treviranus. The Hotel du Nord with its hateful whiteness, numbered divisibility, and general appearance of a bordello seemed a natural place for a crime of greed and betrayal to have gone sour on a luckless criminal. The lure of priceless sapphires and mistaken destination was more than enough to recreate the crime that had taken place. Insp...
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Woody Allen Romantic Comedy
561 words(b. Shelton Jackson Lee, 1956) Brooklyn-born filmmaker whose independent first feature, She's Gotta Have It (1986), a spirited romantic comedy, had critics calling him "the black Woody Allen. " (Lee reportedly despised the moniker; both men have a child named Satchel. ) With major studio backing Lee focused his talents on dramatizing race relations in films like School Daze (1988), Do The Right Thing (1989), and Jungle Fever (1991). (Widely considered Lee's strongest picture, Do The Right Thing ...
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Stand To Gain Begin To Question Conform
803 wordsA Japanese proverb says, "The nail that sticks out will be hammered down. " Society tries to place many rules on us as individuals as to what is acceptable and what is not. We must decide for ourselves whether to conform to such a social decorum. We are taught as soon as we are old enough to grasp the idea that it is bad to be unique and to avoid being different. At some point, however, we must decide within ourselves whether to spend every day trying to be like everyone else because society say...
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Late Night Talks Dies You Lose One
1,474 wordsYour sister is a part of your essential self, an eternal presence of your heart and soul and memory. Susan Cahill Patricia, Jessica and Janice are my sisters and great ones at that but today I will be focusing on the rather volatile relationship that my sister Patricia and I have endured over the past nineteen years, mainly in the past nine years. It is often said that a sibling relationship is based on that of genetic binding and a built in love like that of ones love for their parents, , Lovin...
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Men And Women South Dakota
1,469 wordsA Book Report: on The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 2001. Tom Brokaw is hailing from South Dakota, graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He started his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. During Watergate scandal investigation, Tom Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC news. He had anchored from 1976 to 1981 Today on NBC. Since 1983, he has been sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly news. Tom ...
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Thirty Minutes Big Game
784 wordsCCI March Lemon Mobile Megan Care CCI March 8, 2000 The Lemon Mobile Ever since I set eyes on my car, I have had nothing but a headache. Not only is it the loudest car, but it also drifts right into the trees, and it shakes at thirty and sixty m. p. h. Even with all of my car? s faults, nothing prepared me for its final act of cruelty. My lemon died thirty minutes before warm-ups for our big game, and I had the starting line up with me. Laura, Allison, Kristen, Kerry, and I had all packed into m...
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Interest In The Conversation Man Responds Home
732 wordsThe Insignificance of Words A man walks down a dimly lit street; the bright red lights above the hospital s exit are now just a faint glow behind him. As he staggers along the city blocks back to his quiet row home, he ponders the tragic news he has just received regarding his mother s failing health. A couple blocks from the refuge of his home, he runs into some of the neighborhood locals. Some he knows most he doesn t, but greets them all the same. How s it goin? he says, in a voice that is le...
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Makes A Good Good Point
1,382 wordsMernissi makes the claim that Any man who believes that a Muslim woman who fights for her dignity and right to citizenship excludes herself necessarily from the umass a man who misunderstands his own religious heritage, his own cultural identity (Mernissi viii). She goes about supporting this claim by delving into the very detailed documentation of Islam history. She attributes misogyny in the past and present Muslim culture to the male elite. She gives many examples of how Muhammad and Islam ha...
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00 P M 30 P M
2,006 wordsIt was a gorgeous Thursday afternoon. The men were in the family room watching the special Thanksgiving Day football game. The Chicago Bears were playing against the Minnesota Vikings. Norton McCarthy and his brother-in-law, Simon Fletcher, were wagering as to whom had the better offense. From looking at the score, you would have to agree with Norton; the Vikingsdeep in Bears territory were winning, 24 - 7, late in the fourth quarter. As the Vikings scored yet another touchdown, it all but settl...
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