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Six Hours Of Television
Number of Words: 1753 / Number of Pages: 7
... four hours, three are on television every
Thursday night, and include the tremendously popular FRIENDS, the SINGLE GUY,
the hits SEINFELD and CAROLINE IN THE CITY, and the most popular show this year,
ER. For the remaining hour I choose to look at THE TONIGHT SHOW, with Jay Leno.
Between these shows there are many similarities and many differences. All of
these shows can be directly compared with each other, having some of the same
qualities. Looking at these shows in the perspective of an anthropologist some
disquieting trends emerge. I will present the information as if an outsider,
from anot ...
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Hamlet: Hamlet Resembles A Real Person
Number of Words: 1708 / Number of Pages: 7
... Gertrude, has betrayed his father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may be obsessed with the idea that all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia, because when he finds out Ophelia has died, he cries out, "I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma.
In Shakespeare's plays, supernatural characters are not always to be trusted; think of the three witches in MacBeth, who are instrumental in his downfall. Hamlet does not know whether the ghost is telling the truth or not. If Hamlet ...
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Hamlet: Finding Courage To Die
Number of Words: 520 / Number of Pages: 2
... know
what happens after one dies. He is not positive of an afterlife, therefore he
doesn't have the courage to end his life.
"Now might I do it prat," (Beaty, 1363) is a soliloquy in which we see a
shift in Hamlet's rationalization. Hamlet, as his fathers only son, is seeking
revenge for his fathers death, but is afraid that a quick death for Claudius
would not be enough. Hamlet feels that waiting until Claudius is in an immoral
situation would make him suffer in death because he would not be allowed to
repent for his sins. During this soliloquy Hamlet is caught up in his plot for
revenge and h ...
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Interpretation Of Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Number of Words: 1316 / Number of Pages: 5
... depicts the role of women as subordinate in order to emphasize the need to reform their role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her husband; and Nora's flirtatious nature contradicts her devotion to her husban ...
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The Swamp Dwellers: Tragic Flaw Of Igwezu
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... to till the soil, did I not give the soil his due? Did I not bring the first oil upon the altar?” No one questioned where the goods went, because it was almost blasphemous to do so. “Makuri: I must go after him [Kadiye] or he’ll stir up the village against us. This is you home, Igwezu, and I would not drive you from it for the entire world. But it might be best for you if you went back to the city until this is forgotten.” Yet, Igwezu had the courage to face the useless Kadiye and become a “slayer of serpents”. He was able to see through tradition and realize that the Kadiye had nothing to d ...
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The Advantage Of Commercials
Number of Words: 655 / Number of Pages: 3
... it powerful impact.
It is also similar to print or newspapers because TV is able to show the product
alone, in a setting, or in use. Finally, unlike any other advertising vehicle,
TV can portray the object in motion while the other forms of media cannot.
TV is believable mostly because of the old of "seeing is believing" an
that is what TV does. Commercials have an unbelievable capacity to induce
belief because of this old saying. The other major print that make TV
commercial believable is that the actors make the commercials and A or the A+.
What is meant by this is that when and actor uses a ...
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The Tempest: Bringing It All Together
Number of Words: 580 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the
performance of the play, he was being release from his career as a playwright.
But there are more reasons to clap besides the obvious r ...
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Understanding The Misunderstood Art From Different Cultures
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... upbringing, and nothing more. To certain
culture, a smiling monkey is the scariest thing they could ever imagine, and to
another, it means laughter. A close minded person viewing an ancient religious
mask would see nothing more than nonsense, while one who wishes to understand
art would see the beauty of that culture and it's beliefs, and would try to
place themselves in a way so that they may understand the original meaning ofthe
mask, and form an educated opinion on it.
Anyone can enjoy a piece of art, but what is it that makes a piece of art
"good"? Is it the realism of the piece? Or the abs ...
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Hamlet: Fate
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... shape" Hamlet thought that the spirit may be trying to mislead him in
the quest to find his father's killer. Characters of the play become unsure of
their intentions due to the odd twists of fortune that they are dealt.
Characters in the play that were so sure of their decisions became
uncertain. This uncertainty arises when the plans of characters are somehow
altered. The alterations change the fate of many characters. Polonius was killed
in the wake of Hamlet's plan to find his father's killer. Hamlet had no
intention to kill anyone that did not deserve it. It was by chance that Polonius
was in the ...
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The Walkabout
Number of Words: 429 / Number of Pages: 2
... film were just unexplainable. I did not understand why the father in the beginning did anything that he did. Having a picnic in the desert, shooting at the kids, committing suicide and then blowing up the car. I also thought that the oasis was quite odd. The water and fruit were there and disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.
I really liked the part when the three of them were playing in a tree together and at the same time the Aborigines were playing in the car. It was almost like the two swapped places. I thought that it was funny when the radio turned on and they all ran away. It was ...
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