King Lear: Motifs
.... the play, deceives his father
in order to gain his favor. Edmund, the Earl of Gloucester's bastard son, tells
his father that Edgar, Gloucester's legitimate son, is plotting to ruin
Gloucester. This causes the Earl to banish Edgar and give his title and land to
Edmund.
The ironic misuse of power used by the Earl of Gloucester shows up in both plots.
Gloucester punishes Edgar and later finds that Edmund was the one taking
advantage of him. Similarly, Regan and Goneril gain Lear's favor, while Cordelia
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Othello: Discuss The Techniques Iago Used To Manipulate Others
.... was in my own personal opinion
one more technique, and that was that he knew how to use all his options and
could use his wits and cunningness.
Iago's number one technique was his ability to make people trust him. He
had just about everyone spun in Iago's web. Rodrigo, Othello, Cassio, Desdemona,
Emilia, and etc. And he got every one of them to trust him, although he still
hadn't got Emilia into his web fully. She still had suspicions about him. He
could gain the trust of people as if it was not .....
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The Star Wars Trilogy
.... Aboard the Falcon get near the
old planet they are caught by the Death Star. Once in side they escape there
captors and seek to escape the Death star. While doing this they find Leia and
free her. Ben also find his long time student turned evil, Darth Vader, and
fights to the death. Vader wins but Ben spirit remains with Luke. The others
escape but the Empire has already found the location of the rebel base and are
on their way to destroy it.
The heros flee to the rebel base to warn them and a last dit .....
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Movie: Delta Force - Suicide In Chinatown
.... The blond man using beard was
wearing sport clothes. He was carrying a medium black and white suitcase, from
where they pulled the gun. The woman was also young, may be working to 20 or 22
years old. She was wearing shorts and a red shirt.
She was the most nervous and she was the one who ordered everybody to
line on the floor and picked the guys as hostages.
When they ordered the hostages to line on the floor, one girl escaped
from the place and called the police.
The couple didn't ask for an .....
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The Crucible: Characters
.... in witchcraft
themselves, and are therefore doubly to be distrusted. (Warshow 116) The court
convicts the victims on the most absurd testimony, and the reader has to wonder
how the judges and the townspeople could let such a charade continue.
The leading character of the play is John Proctor, a man who often
serves as the only voice of reason in the play. He had an affair with Abigail
Williams, who later charges his wife with witchcraft. Proctor is seemingly the
only person who can see through the chi .....
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The Labours Of Mendevolin
.... you out working magic as
he once did.
MENDEVOLIN: As much work as it may have been, it wouldn't have seemed a burden,
because it would have been spent with my father. Now it's too late. Please
take me to him now so that I might spend these last few moments of his life with
him.
HIGH PRIEST: Come with me. He's resting in the basement of the church, you'll
have to make it quick, he doesn't have much longer.
(HIGH PRIEST and MENDEVOLIN exit stage right.)
ACT I SCENE II
(MENDEVOLIN'S father lies o .....
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The Pit And The Pendulum: Movie Vs. Book
.... room of all the torturing
devices. He goes to his wife grave, which they dug up to prove she was dead,
and she popped out of her grave. She chased him through the dungeon until they
met with the doctor. Then Nicholas fainted, and his wife, who never really died,
told him that it was all scheme. She and the doctor were having an affair. He
chased the doctor and he fell into a pit and died. He stuck his wife in a
torture machine out of sight and gagged her.
Then her brother came down. Nicholas seize .....
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The Tempest: Bringing It All Together
.... Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the
audience.
All of what Prospero has said is very nice cute, but the most
interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now
that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means,
now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The
"Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the
audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of
[y]o .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman - A Tragic Hero
.... Willy and Linda
reflects Willy's disappointment in Biff and what he has become, which is, for
the most part, a bum. After failing to deal adequately with his feelings, he
escapes into a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon
for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer
themselves up so that they are able to deal with the problems they encounter,
but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so
strong that in hi .....
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Art
.... order. The creators of art make
discoveries about the wonders and beauty of nature and the dignity and nobility
of man. They give these concepts an order to help us understand life in a
greater depth. In understanding the history and style of any period of art, we
have to comprehend the balance between social and political development of that
particular era. Within each and every period, development of style is affected
by a response to particular philosophies, social and economic conditions,
pol .....
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Tobacco Advertising And Its Effects On Young People
.... because they like cartoons, and they think
that a cartoon is harmless and what the cartoon does is harmless too. There is
so much cigarette advertising out there a child is sure to be struck by its
attention.
The companies deny that these symbols target people under 21 and claim
that their advertising goal is simply to promote brand switching. Illinois Rep.
Richard Durbin disagrees with this statement stating “If we can reduce the
number of young smokers, the tobacco companies will be in trouble and .....
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Paul Bernardo
.... what he saw.
He lusted a women who was submissive and eager to please. This was the
beginning of his abnormal sexual behavior.
One year out of high school, Paul began his journey into the world of
sexual control were he dated a sixteen year old high school student. This girl
perfectly fit the description of Pauls ideal in being naive and unsophisticated.
Over the three and one half years Paul was with her he used her like his
personal sex toy. Throughout the entire relationship he convinced her that .....
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Special Effects
.... Although the special effects persons of old were strapped with limits, one
of these was not make-up. They relied heavily on this prop to portray the many
monsters and aliens in their films. "Nosferatu" a German film about the vampire
with the same name was a huge success even in America, where thousands marveled
at the intricate detailing of the blood-sucker's razor-like teeth, bulging eyes
and a pointed nose and ears. "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" used a
somewhat new technique of a body sui .....
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Movie: Twelve Angry Men
.... available to anyone, and that the testimony of the key witness is suspect.
Gradually they are won over by his arguments and even the most narrow minded of
his fellow jurors hesitantly agrees with him. Their verdict is now a solid not
guilty.
Arriving at a unanimous not guilty verdict does not come easily. The jury
encounters many difficulties in learning to communicate and deal with each other.
What seems to be a decisive guilty verdict as deliberations begin slowly
becomes a questionable .....
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Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Bueller's Day Off And Jurassic Park
.... like that? I chose not to
choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who
needs reasons when you've got heroin?" It is very difficult to resist the film's
great energy.
"Trainspotting's" subject matter is raw and raunchy, including AIDS, overdoses
and violence as well as obscene situations described in unprintable language.
This is a film that makes you laugh of things that can in no way be described as
funny. How is this possible? In the film's signature scene, where R .....
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