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- 6611: Antigone: Civil Disobedience
- Antigone: Civil Disobedience The short play, Antigone, was written in 441 B.C. by the Greek playwright Sophocles. It deals with some of the most basic problems that affect a society. One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both ...
- 6612: Archetypes In The Lion King
- Archetypes In The Lion King The Lion King is a story containing many archetypes. Archetypes are patterns or models of literature that reoccur in many stories. In this paper I will discuss three of these archetypes. They are the hero, death & rebirth of the hero, and the symbolism and associations of water vs. desert. These archetypes can be noticed easily and ...
- 6613: Krapp's Last Tape: Imagery in Color
- ... a ledger. Yet in his latter years, there is an apparent decay of this regimental attitude. His very appearance is an indication of this decline. He is described as wearing "Rusty black narrow trousers to short for him. Rusty black sleeveless waistcoat. Surprising pair of dirty white boots. Disordered gray hair. Unshaven. Very near-sighted (but unspectacled)," which is not the description of an anal retentive person (1627). Also despite the ...
- 6614: Cartoons: Land of Imagination
- ... tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. 3. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. 4. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. 5. All principles of gravity are negated ...
- 6615: The Die Hard Trilogy: McClain An Example of A Hero In America
- The Die Hard Trilogy: McClain An Example of A Hero In America "and he saved the day, got his girl and everyone lived happily ever after." Sweet, short, cut and dry, that was the typical ending of our childhood books and early movies. There was the perfect hero and the bad villain. That was in the pre-modern era, now our hero isn ...
- 6616: David Williamson's "The Club" and "The Removalists"
- ... Ross have gone too far in bashing Kenny, he offers to organise free time with these prostitutes for Kenny in exchange for his silence about the bashing. However when Kenny dies from his injuries a short while later, it is Ross who goes berserk, suggesting that "Let's get a shotgun and make it look like suicide. Shoot his bloody head off." The attitudes expressed towards the extensive police corruption in ...
- 6617: Women of the Civil War
- ... 1862. She undertook at least two intelligence missions behind Confederate lines “disguised” as a woman. She deserted in 1863. After leaving the army, she worked as a nurse for the United States Christian Commission. A short time before her death, she petitioned for a veteran's pension. Two years later the pension was granted to her by Congress. Some women did not dress up as men to fight. Southren women in ...
- 6618: Billy Budd
- ... John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man “in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living but born with him and innate, in short ‘a depravity according to nature’”(38). Here then, is presented a man with a personality and character to contrast and conflict with Billy’s. Sweet, innocent Billy immediately realizes that this man is someone he ...
- 6619: A Comparison of Tragedy in English Works
- ... horror everywhere?"(ode 4 line 1289) This is said after Oedipus punishes himself by digging his eyes out. Oedipus then wanders the land a beggar guided by his daughter, Antigone. Clearly, then, all of these stories represent a great example of tragedy. They follow the rules preset by Aristotle and also the rules of Arthur Miller. We have sympathy for the protagonist in each play but at the same time we ...
- 6620: Peter The Great
- ... had hung 1200 men. The day Peter returned from his voyage, he went to the church about the way Russian men must crop their beards. Peter saw in Europe, that everyone had their beards very short and maintained. Instantly, Peter cut all of his general’s and servant’s beards. If they refused, he made them pay a tax and wear a gold medallion saying they have paid it. At the ...
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