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House On Mango Street
1,061 wordsWomens need for male support and their husbands constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza's stories were about womens dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect family and home. Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva are women who gave me the impression of [damsels in distress]. CLICH, its ok though. Its relevant They wished for a man to sweep them of their feet and rescue them from their present misery. These characters are ...
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Kit Kat Social Commentary
891 wordster> 'How do the cabaret songs and routines comment on the social issues which are the background for the story of Cabaret?' Satirical on every level, Bob Fosse's 1972 film Cabaret redefines the previously accepted genre of the musical. Using the songs and routines as cunning tools of social commentary the musical numbers both predict and interpret the world of Berlin in 1931. The opening routine, 'Wilkommen', is a powerful introduction to the opposing worlds of the protagonists Brian ...
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Kit Kat Club 'life Is A Cabaret' World
869 wordster> 'Life is a cabaret... ' Do the events of the film support this view of Sally? Sally's powerful closing song, in which she asserts that 'life is a cabaret', indicates her decision to turn away from reality. She chooses the world of the cabaret as a way forward in life over her real relationships with Brian or her father. The song's call to a frivolous life stands in stark contrast to the events portrayed in the film. Sally is characteristically ignorant of the fact that Berlin may ...
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Lack Of Concern Femme Fatale
958 wordster> Brian says 'you " re about as fatale as an after dinner mint!' Is Sally really harmless? Brian's exasperated accusation that Sally is 'as fatale as an after dinner mint' is expressed at the end of a weekend away with Max. The outburst reveals Brian's opinion that Sally is not the seductress she fancies herself to be, but is simply 'deluding' herself. However, one must stop to consider the meaning of harmless when applied to Sally Bowles. She is essentially self-absorbed and theatr...
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End Of The Film Kit Kat
1,100 wordsIn Cabaret Fosse uses many techniques to convey his message that escapism is dangerous for the individual and as a society as a whole. Firstly he uses a musical to highlight the dangers of escapism. This is an ironic choice because a musical is typically for pure entertainment. Musicals are normally escapist entertainment, but in this case Fosse has a serious message. Fosse sets his film in the Kit Kat Klub, this is a place where people go to relax and escape from their troubles. Fosse also enha...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,016 wordsHolden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator of the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for academic failure. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, but he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Though he never says so outright, he longs to live in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearably painful; his cynicism is his attempt to prote...
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Attending Physician Suicidal Thoughts
1,325 wordsDr. Daniel Gray bill [ ] Chapter 7: Case Study for Depression Sally Jone was a 16 -year-old African-American female referred to the adolescent unit of an inpatient psychiatric hospital. She was referred by her mother, Mrs. Jone, who had discovered her bleeding from her wrists in her bedroom. The amount of blood was not substantial, but Mrs. Jone had brought Sally to an emergency room anyway for treatment. The attending physician had said that Sally was not seriously injured but recommended that ...
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Huckleberry Finn Aunt Sally
987 wordsCollier pg. 1 The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Longhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain. (Lyttle pg. 16) He was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Ever since The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published there has been a wide variety of objections about the literature found in the book which are represented as racist or hatred, because Twain Attributed a stereotyped ^Negro^ dialect (Cox pg. 129). There has been acts of depriving children ...
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