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The Tragedy Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... go through life, and Hamlet had a short one,
lose all of the people that you love and expect it to not dishearten you a
little. And in Hamlets case it pretty much drove him insane.
The human spirit is a very fragile thing, and something as tragic as the death
of a loved one can damage it greatly. As in Hamlets case, when his father was
murdered, this started a sort of devastating chain reaction of the psyche. He
started to "go nuts", and it showed. The people around him started noticing this
drastic change in his personality. But his insanity was most evident during the
play which he set up and calle ...
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Advertising, What Is It ?
Number of Words: 362 / Number of Pages: 2
... better with no
advertisements because T.V shows and basketball games would be on
continuously without any commercial interruptions. For example, my
advertisement is advertising Reebok, but I don't need it, I can live with
slippers or nothing at all; nevertheless, wearing a pair of Reebok shoe
would be more comfortable.
I think advertising is the right to choose. When something is
advertised, it does not mean that you have to buy it, but it is giving you
a choice. For example, my advertisement is trying to persuade me to buy
Reebok, but it is just giving me one choice of my several choices of ...
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Springer Vs. Winfrey: The Battle Of The Talk Show Giants
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... homes, devil worshipers and the popular talk topic of the Klu Klux clan goes on. The Springer show is a display and misuse of societies’ moral tragedies. Yet people love to be voyeurs to the moral dilemmas of others.
Oprah Winfrey was once a follower of the same trash TV format, but her long running popular TV talk show changed for the better. Like the Jerry Springer show, the Oprah Winfrey show takes talk TV to the extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction. Oprah is probably the most impeccable talk show there is and ever will be. It is extremely unlikely you will find a quest on ...
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Nell
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... proved that she had developed intellectually. While the
language that she used was different, Nell still gave a good list of very
abstract ideas that someone who is mentally retarded could not possibly
comprehend. Nell understood why she was different saying that she was raised in
a small world and knew small things unlike the large things found in the city of
Charlotte, N.C. This proved that Nell was very capable of living by herself and
taking care of herself.
3) The experts, in the beginning of the movie, said that Nell was not
capable of making the correct judgments to make in the world b ...
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“A Doll’s House”: The Theme Of Individual Vs. Society
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... freedom. A
personal freedom that she had craved for all of her life.
Torvald just about is what society expects of him. Torvald runs
his household with an iron fist. He is this way most likely because he is
afraid of what might happen if he did not do what the world expected him to
do. He wants society to see him as a respectable man with a great position.
Torvald in fact fires Krogstad because of this: “he thinks that entitles
him to take a familiar air around me. . . .I tell you, it’s been
excruciating for me”(993). Torvald sees his worst nightmare come true when
he finds out that his wife h ...
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Hamlet: Madman Or Misunderstood
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... worms a e'en at him." (Act IV, scene III, lines 20-21)
Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia, is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. During the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, Hamlet professed how much he loved her when he said, "Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 272- 274). However, Hamlet told her that he never loved her when she returned his letters and gifts while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sa ...
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Death Of A Salesman Vs. Hamlet
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... father. Hilarity ensues.
Ophelia, Hamlet's love interest, commits suicide/dies (that's up
for debate elsewhere) after going slightly mad from the impact of her
father's death, then Laertes, Polonius' son, arrives on the scene enraged
and ready to kill Hamlet for what he's done, and just when you thought
things couldn't get any worse, unbeknownst to Hamlet, Claudius has been
plotting to kill him. Talk about your bad days.
A duel takes place between Hamlet and Laertes where Laertes, using
a poison-tipped sword, cuts Hamlet, thus giving way for his impending
death. Hamlet eventually gets hold of th ...
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M*A*S*H
Number of Words: 1265 / Number of Pages: 5
... found tat tere were no black surgeons during te Korean war). One of te most memorable scenes in te movie was te "suicide" of Painless Pole (played by Jon Scuck) wic featured te song "Suicide is Painless".
Te movie was released in te fall of 1970 wen anti-Vietnam sentiment was ig, and was an instant it. Ring Lardner Jr won te Oscar for Best Screenplay and te film was nominated for Best Movie. Sally Kellerman also received a Best Actress nomination for er role as otlips.
It was William Self (te president of Twentiet Century Fox) wo turned te movie into a television series. Wit te movie set still av ...
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The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Hero
Number of Words: 510 / Number of Pages: 2
... truth about him. John says, “You have made your magic now, for now I
do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.” John rips up the
confession he has just signed when he realizes that what he is doing is
just going to make his family's lives worse.
John decides not to confess because he does not want to ruin the
Proctor name. He does not want to lose his reputation over something that
is not true. John does not want his name taken away. He says he will not
sign the papers. He says “No because it is my name! Because I cannot have
another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself t ...
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