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The Music Lessons
Number of Words: 933 / Number of Pages: 4
... this
Chizuko becomes angry: “CHIZUKO: I know you don’t care ... right now. I’m just
saying you shouldn’t let your emotions run away with you” (2,4). Chizuko feels that Aki
should be spending time with kids her age: “CHIZUKO: If you want a friend to talk to,
find someone your age who can understand you” (2,4). For a mother it is important to
Chizuko that she watches out for her daughter. No matter how hard Chizuko tries to
convince Aki that Karou is too old, it results Aki being frustrated back.
Aki is mad at her mother for not understanding her need to be with Karou. Aki
feels that ...
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A Tale Of Two Cities
Number of Words: 1032 / Number of Pages: 4
... came power. Darnay would not take it
because he did not want to exploit the French people as his
uncle did. Around 1790, while the French Revolution was in
full swing, Darnay decided to go to France to save a family
servant. Upon his arrival, he was immediately jailed. Lucie
and Dr. Manette soon showed up in Paris at the doorstep of
Tellson's French office, where Lorry already was present.
Dr. Manette managed to get Darnay released after a year,
yet he was re-jailed the same day by Madame Defarge because
his family, the Evremondes, had previously killed off her
family. Darnay w ...
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Underground Railroad
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... they were not told how to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wanted to escape. They wanted to get away from the situation they were forced into. Those who were free were the "whites" who were somewhat separated in values. The North, was a more industrialized area where jobs were filled by newly imported immigrants, making them less dependent on slave labor. The South ...
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Slavery In The Eyes Of The South
Number of Words: 1134 / Number of Pages: 5
... their creator with certain rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But the men who wrote and supported this revolutionary declaration of separation from the British did not believe that this equality applied to the slaves. This statement is supported in the Dred Scott decision. This is something that the Southern states would argue, that the men who built this nation like George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John Marshall all had slaves. They would argue that men like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackso ...
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Piranesi Carceri Xi
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... and the Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, went one step further in suggesting the Carceri was
...a gesture of defiance to the partons and
architects of Rome who had failed to measure
up to the creative possibilities suggested by
the ‘speaking ruins’ surrounding them.
This particular print is an excellent example of the etching method. It represents an intensely private work, far ahead of its time in the usage of dramatic design elements. The most relied on element is that of perspective. The walls and stairs are gigantic in comparison to the tiny figures on them. This illustrates Piranesi’s p ...
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Social Sciences In Theatre
Number of Words: 337 / Number of Pages: 2
... How do the social sciences show theatre used in everyday life?
Helbo uses sociology and biology to site instances through which theatre is used in everyday life. Sociologists see theatre in the social structures we face on a daily basis. A handshake, tipping a doorman and even the forbidden middle finger is what Erving Goffman terms “rituals of interaction.” Every culture is immersed in some aspect of performance, even biologists can see theatre in everyday occurrences. The biologist Laborit sees behavioral functions associated with theatre as liberating. He also states that theatre relea ...
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The Constitution In The 1850's: Unity Or Discord
Number of Words: 1251 / Number of Pages: 5
... between the North and South. This helped push the United States closer to the Civil War (Grolier, Kansas-Nebraska Act).
Peculiar Institution was an "euphemistic term that southerners used as a pseudonym for slavery"(Dictionary, 241). John C. Calhoun defended the "peculiar labor" of the South in 1828 and the "peculiar domestic institution" in 1830. The term came into general use in the 1830's when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd Garrison began to attack slavery (ibid, 241).
Slave states were those states where slave-holding was authorized by law before the Civil War. After the Ameri ...
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The Boston Massacre
Number of Words: 1865 / Number of Pages: 7
... walking about the town, carried large clubs, for the
purpose of assaulting the people.
Many would say that the colonists had every right to be mad and
irritated. But what about the soldiers. They were just taking commands
from the country that they are defending and fighting for. To them they
were just doing the right thing. But we all know that they went to extremes
by the frequent wounding of persons by their bayonets and cutlasses, and
the numerous instances of bad behavior in the soldiery. This also led the
colonists to figure out the England did not send those troops over for
their well ...
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Hamlet
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... addresses his purpose clearly. As Polonius puts it so perfectly:
"And thus do we of wisdom and of reach^Å
By indirections find directions out"
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 71-3
The many falsehoods and deceptions uttered in Hamlet are expressed
through eloquent, formal, poetic language (iambic pentameter),
tantamount to an art form. If deceit is a painted, ornate subject then,
its foil of truth is simple and unvarnished. Accordingly, when the
pretenses of illusion are discarded in Act 2, Scene 2, the language is
written in direct prose.
Addressing Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet plead ...
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A Portrayal Of Honor
Number of Words: 550 / Number of Pages: 2
... first officer to die for the Union was Captain Constatin Blandowski, one of many immigrants who earlier had fought for freedom in Europe and then joined Lincoln's army. Born in Upper Silesia and trained at Dresden, Germany, he was a veteran of democratic struggles - a Polish revolt at Krakow, the Polish Legion's battles against Austria, and the Hungarian fight for independence. Some nationalities contributed more than their share of Union soldiers.
Some immigrants earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. Italian American officer Louis di Cesnola, was the Colonel of the 4th Cavalry Regiment. At Ald ...
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