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- 2631: Communism
- ... Communist governments do not approve of this, by controlling their freedom. The government can rule the people's daily lives. America is formed as a political state in which we as people give up our personal right to interpret the law (anarchy) for a guarantee that the community will protect their natural right of life, liberty, and property. People living under communist rule have very few personal belongings; the government took most of theirs. The communists try to make everyone equal by not allowing personal property. They also state that everyone must work. Economic freedom allows people in democratic countries to get ahead in social status and wealth. The economic and social classes of the people in the US ...
- 2632: Infomercials and Other Dishonest Commercials
- ... earn a degree in the convience of your home" advertisements. The idea is to trick people into spending money to earn a degree that in actuality is nothing more than a piece of paper with writing on it. The degree carries nothing of importance behind it, or any sign of work used to get it. People are lead to believe that this "degree" will improve their life. They claim that "this ... The hotlines depend on people calling back and spending time on the phone, so that the "psychics" can lie to the callers and rob them of money. Once the caller becomes reliant on "their own personal psychic" for information about their future life, there is almost no turning back. These hotlines, I have to admit, are a really good money maker. Who would not want to know what is going to ...
- 2633: Shakespeare's World
- ... of all time. But what of the man himself? Who was William Shakespeare? The life of William Shakespeare is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of him receiving an education, buying a book or writing a single letter, and no original manuscript of a Shakespeare play survives. There is no direct record of his conversations, and no one in his home town seems to have known that he was a ... he was offered a permanent place in the troupe. Shakespeare began his new career at James Burbage's Theatre in London, where he made extra money by looking after the patrons' horses. Before long his writing potential was noticed by the Earl of Southampton, who used his influence to make Shakespeare a full-time actor and eventually a dramatist. In 1592 the playwright Robert Greene warned the country's most distinguished ... and Richard II. Other than these plays, he also wrote the two long poems, Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucrece. These were the first of Shakespeare's great works, and his experience in writing plays grew with the increasing number of popular plays that he wrote. Many critics have remarked that the work of this period is, as a whole, extremely slight in texture. His critics have also ...
- 2634: The Merchant of Venice: A Tragic Play
- ... The comicness is also brought out by each character by the necessary parameters to do so for the viewer or reader. The Merchant of Venice also states that supply and demand can vary depending on personal opinion and outlook from a single personal view on the subject. Deriving a picture from this play is extremely easy due the descriptive and emotional content of it. Greed in The Merchant of Venice is the most popular and looked upon subject ... wanting something just for the appreciation of it or something else. Through the eyes are some characters where they don't even realize what greed is because they are constantly surrounded by it. In my personal opinion, I think that The Merchant of Venice is a decent play, but not as good as some of William Shakespeare's other plays such as The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and ...
- 2635: The Tempest: Magic
- ... that, well executed, would have fooled Shakespeare's audiences, and would even have a shot of passing muster today. However, this banquet sequence was in the masque scene, theoretically added two years after the original writing of the play. The question that begs to be answered therefore, is why didn't Shakespeare fund some other way of including a more sophisticated magic effect into the play? The most logical answer would ... about magic and witch techniques after he wrote the play. Maybe at first he was unable to grasp the explanations in the Scot text, or maybe he didn't even read it before the original writing—possibly it was just called to his attention, and he was unable to lay his hands on a copy until after he wrote the play Whether or not Shakespeare ever read the Scot text in its entirety, or whether or not the banquet disappearance was added before or after the original writing, neither is relevant to magic's central importance to the play. Obviously, magic could grab audiences of Shakespeare's time. As it happens, magic had been grabbing audiences since 2500 BC (according to a ...
- 2636: Macbeth: How Money Killed
- ... Venice, both written by William Shakespeare. On Wall Street people are driven by the greed of the people they represent, their own greed, and a general atmosphere of greed. In Macbeth, Macbeth is driven by personal ambition and his wife to become king at any expense, including slaying some of his personal friends and their families. Also, in The Merchant of Venice, Shylock the Jew is driven by a hatred for Christians and personal greed. In both plays the character with the greed driven personality end up on the short end of the stick. Macbeth's and Shylock's drive of greed is revealed after just the first ...
- 2637: The Meaning of Chow Yun-Fat (It's In His Mouth)
- ... person dressed in a bird costume as fodder for my Bad Essay, noting that while this poor drone was only trying to earn a living in tough times, I was deriding his efforts and then writing about them for Bad Subjects. At the time, I called this 'cultural imperialism.' My discomfort was perhaps well- deserved; I was indeed using this bird-person for my own enlightenment. My mea culpas began because I felt funny writing about something I didn't like to begin with. It was one thing to take apart Murphy Brown, I suggested, because I was trying to understand a text I enjoyed. It was another to take ... but nevertheless enriched by the experience. I don't want to belittle that enrichment. The beginning of this essay is testament to how much I love my relationship to Chow Yun-Fat. But I began writing because I couldn't get beyond my attraction to Chow's coolness, and the longer I write, the more I come to believe that I will never understand Chow as well as I understand ...
- 2638: Ben-Hur
- ... Gutjahr that Wallace was "obsessed with historical accuracy." Gutjahr continues by saying that Wallace went to the Library of Congress and researched extensively on subjects such as history, geography, and even botany before beginning the writing process. (7) All major dates of historical events checked out with references. The story crosses the reigns of both Augustus and Tiberius. "Augustus ruled from 30 BC to 14 AD and Tiberius ruled from 14 ... and many members of the audience. This novel was the perfect type of literature needed during the battle amongst church and science. People couldn't help but be drawn to the story regardless of there personal beliefs about the existence, or lack of existence, of god. If Wallace got just one person to sit back and reconsider their doubts concerning the Christian religion then his book should be considered a success ...
- 2639: Infomercials and Other Dishonest Commercials
- ... earn a degree in the convience of your home" advertisements. The idea is to trick people into spending money to earn a degree that in actuality is nothing more than a piece of paper with writing on it. The degree carries nothing of importance behind it, or any sign of work used to get it. People are lead to believe that this "degree" will improve their life. They claim that "this ... The hotlines depend on people calling back and spending time on the phone, so that the "psychics" can lie to the callers and rob them of money. Once the caller becomes reliant on "their own personal psychic" for information about their future life, there is almost no turning back. These hotlines, I have to admit, are a really good money maker. Who would not want to know what is going to ...
- 2640: Review of "Saving Private Ryan"
- ... a conclusion. This sequence is rightly praised for its' grim depiction of the chaos and casualties of the invasion of Normandy. Spielberg's approach is to portray the confusion and violence of battle on a personal, not a tactical level. There are no establishing shots or god's-eye views of the beach. We never know how the battle is being played out because the hand held camera has a personal point of view, following only a handful of the film's main characters. I believe that Spielberg is showing off in the first sequence. This scene is full of small details that could not have ... three sons. The way in which Spielberg presents this idea is yet another good use of film art. It's important, I think, to keep Spielberg's technical facility in mind, since a director's personal style is often the hammer that drives the nails. Saving Private Ryan is long on irony and profundities and even have a couple of speeches that could catch the attention of many award givers. ...
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