Oedipus Rex
.... much hardship. Given all the circumstances, Oedipus still manages to live through to the end without losing composure. Sophocles would definitely honor such a man.
Both Oedipus’ life and his kingdom were filled with riddles, paradoxes, and mysteries. Oedipus’ beginning and ending at Thebes both arose from the riddle of the oracle. Without his parent’s confrontation with the oracle, Oedipus would not have been cast away from Thebes in the first place. Yet without the riddle of the sphinx, Oedipus wo .....
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Diamonds Are My Best Friend
.... will be sitting in the box seats of a ballpark, and a young child will take the seat beside me. I can captive his imagination with anecdotes of Cal Ripken Jr.’s remarkable streak, Ozzie Smith’s amazing back flips, Pedro Martinez’s menacing fastball, and the magical summer of 1998 when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire mystified the world with their long ball heroics.
Only in recent years have I begun to truly appreciate the game for what it really is. While some go to the ballpark to s .....
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Overpopulation
.... mouth, hesitating and stuttering through sheer intimidation. “Well, I see that you’ve moved into this box here? Well, I’m not sure if this is the best box to spend your night in… Yeah, my friend Bob was picked off here last week”
Little Billy, finally able to break through his inability to speak, breaks his silence and says,
“P-P-P-Picked off?”
“Yeah man, and the week before that, it was Jason… but they didn’t actually get him IN the box, he tried to escape, they didn’t catch him until he go .....
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Diary Of Anne Frank
.... in the Secret Annex, her diary was her friend. Eight people lived in the Secret Annex. There were the four members of the Frank family, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot and Anne. Three from the Van Pels family, Herman and Auguste Van Pels and their son Peter, and an elderly named Pfeffer. The four people acted as helpers for the Frank family and the people living in the Secret Annex. They brought them food, supplies and news.
Anne and the seven people, who shared the Secret Annex, were sent to .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... lost his temper and in a rage he killed them all, except for one servant who escaped "... I found myself upon the self-same spot where, you say, the king perished ... When in my travels I wa come near this place where three roads meet, there met me a herald, and a man that rode in a colt-carriage ... And the old man himself, would thrust me, I, deing enraged, strike him who jostled me-- The driver-- and the old man ... He paid though! duly I ay not; but in brief, smitten by the staff in this right han .....
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Dionysus
.... were conducted. The most important festival, the Greater Dionysia, was held in Athens for five days each spring. It was for this celebration that the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote their great tragedies. Also, after the 5th century BC, Dionysus was known to the Greeks as Bacchus.
Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is the only god to have a mortal parent. The birth of Dionysus began when Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt only as a divine presence .....
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In The Play King Lear, Lear Re
.... kingdom. She also did not want Lear to stay with her, but out of pity she did offer Lear a place to stay. But Lear refused, because he had to have a great big army with him to fill his ego, and cytologically Lear needed to still live like a king, even though physically he was no longer a king. From Regan, Lear learned that at times humbleness and humility can be advantageous in some situations, and Lear also learns that not to take words literally to heart. He also learned that she is like Goneril evil .....
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Discussing Literary Genre
.... the defining characteristics of a particular genre can alter so drastically that the preliminary era in a new genre may not resemble the modern literary works in that genre. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, considered to be the father of the modern short story, show the contrast between the classification of short fiction in the 19th century and today. Poe’s short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, provides suspense and mystery; however, the story does not include the main character .....
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Dizzy Gillespie, His Life.
.... finally replace him in the Cab Calloway band.He
played 3rd trumpet,but was mainly an arranger for the band.Back then
,arrangers would often hand-write parts so they didn’t have to pay a
printer.One day the band was reading a chart and john couldn’t read the
misic.The band started calling him the Dizzy cat because he couldn’t read
the parts.On a gig one time,he was late and the director said”Where’s
Dizzy?!?”.The audiance laughed.The band decided that the nam .....
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King Lear Edmund
.... we first see Edmund, he is already knee deep in treachery. His need for power has already clouded his mind to the extent that his first act is a double-cross of his own brother. Edmund composes a false letter to his father implicating his brother, Edgar in a plot to kill Gloucester. Edmund then goes to Edgar and convinces him to run away. Edgar, like his father is easily deceived, and runs.
Edmund’s evil trickery continues to increase in its cruelty until he commits an inconceivable crime. Edmund has .....
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric
.... is electric. Another source of happiness in this world, stems from something called an empathy box. Inside this box, is an individual called "Mercer." The box is accessed by dialing a pattern of numbers which all translate into different emotional feelings. Other people feed their different emotions into this box, making them available for others to dial into and experience. This box resembles the addictivedrugs of today such as cocaine, heroine, and tobacco.
The plot of the book involves seven n .....
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King Lear
.... Gloucester and Edgar. There's
the triangle of Goneril, Regan and Edmund in which the two
sister's fight the battle of love over Edmund and lose it with
their lives. There is also the triangle of Regan, Goneril, and
Cordelia, in which the two sisters hated Cordelia and did not
wish her well. Then there is the triangle of the Goneril,
Regan, and the King, in which the two daughters cared for
nothing more than getting .....
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Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
.... to be seen again. Vonnegut gives the Children's "Crusade" as an example of the atrocities and in-humane acts which transpire under the auspices of War. That is why Billy Pilgrim invents a world where a justification can be given, where life and death are meaningless and feelings of guilt disappear. The only way Billy Pilgrim can confront this guilt is to excuse his survival and trivialize the gift of life and the cruelty of death. He creates a new world where he can be free from his guilt. That world is c .....
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Do It Now ( Not Tommarow But T
.... your advantage it can greatly help you “the now alone can furnish all our needs” allowing you to accomplish whatever you want or set out to do in life. Allow you to attain things that will outweigh and help overcome the tribulation that might present itself in your future. Almost anyone who is successful in life has taken advantage of the future and used it to overcome things and get places. Time should not be taken for granted on a regular basis, everybody procrastinates, but how much you p .....
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King Lear
.... that Lear is humiliated by his daughters and flees into the storm. Gloucester's sympathy helps Lear to Dover to meet
Cordelia, yet leads to his own blindness and his going to Dover for suicide.
Edgar becomes embroiled in the main plot when, disguised as a madman, he meets Lear on the heath. His destruction of
Oswald, Goneril's steward and his defeat of Edmund in the duel leading to Edmund admitting he has given secret orders for
the execution of Lear and Cordelia, together with his alliance w .....
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