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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Suicide Is His Downfall
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... you want in life. His false values showed again when Biff stole a football from school and a whole case of them at the sporting goods store were he worked. Willy’s motto was that biff didn’t mean any harm. Willy even laughed when the boys stole lumber from a construction sight nearby. This proves that Willy is passing his false values to his sons.
Secondly, Willy is a dishonest man. Willy tries to get Bernard to let Biff cheat off of him on a math test. Willy says to Bernard, “you’ll give him the answers” (1366; act1). Barnard refuses to give Biff the answers. Willy is also dishonest to Lind ...
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The Tempest: Comparing The Cultures In The Tempest And Ours
Number of Words: 1177 / Number of Pages: 5
... how to name the bigger light, how the less, That burn by day and
night; and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle,...
For I am all the subjects you have, which first was mine own king."(I,ii,334-
354). We see he is treated as a lesser being because he is not of the same race
as Prospero and Miranda. Prospero describes him as "A freckled whelp hag-born -
not honour'd with a human shape."(I,ii,282-283) Clearly, the people of different
races were treated as inferior human beings in Shakespeare's time. In this
culture, because someone is different, they are less of a human tha ...
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Television Shows Reflect American Culture
Number of Words: 1087 / Number of Pages: 4
... by accident;
what followed was a time of mourning for David and a recollection of many fond
memories of the times they shared together. This episode's tragedy brought the
characters in the show closer together.
Many innocent children, and sometimes adults, are killed accidentally
playing with guns, or by drive-by random shootings. This is a major problem in
the United States and the show is trying to get the message out that it is not a
safe thing to do. It also raises the question as to why access of guns is so
readily available to anyone.
Every night on the news, someone can see many inciden ...
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Macbeth: Lying
Number of Words: 857 / Number of Pages: 4
... new "half-true" knowledge,
Macbeth makes rash decisions that lead him to paranoia, grief, and his
downfall.
The first set of prophecies the witches reveal to Macbeth, in act 1,
scene 3, was that Macbeth is to become thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and
that he shall be king. They also said "Thou shalt get kings, though thou
be none." Macbeth was shocked when the first two prophecies came true. In
act 1, scene 3 he spoke of his fears, saying "unfix my hair, and make my
seated heart knock at my ribs." In Elizabethan times, witches were known as
creatures of the devils; satanic creatures who ...
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Darkness; Beacon Of Chaos In Macbeth
Number of Words: 452 / Number of Pages: 2
... Macbeth has changed from "noble" and "kind" to the diction of Act
4 witch describes Macbeth as "black Macbeth" and a "tyrant". The Castle that
Macbeth lives in, Dunsanine is also indicative of darkness. Dunsanine is similar
to the word dungeon a dark and dirty place. In Act 4 Macbeth is an agent of
disorder, he murders and he consults witches, because of this he is described
using dark imagery.
Scotland under the rule of Macbeth is described as, "shrouded in
darkness", by Malcolm. Scotland in Act 4 has fallen off the "Chain of Being" and
is now occupied with the forces of chaos and disorder. ...
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African Art
Number of Words: 1444 / Number of Pages: 6
... in the history or the culture of the land and the people. However, this statement is very untrue, to the individual who has taken the time to study the history and culture of the Africa on its own while eliminating as much bias thought as possible.
For example, when we look at pottery we can disprove the theory that all early Africans were nomadic. In African History, it is stated that “ceramics are a good indicator of a sedentary life style because their weight and their fragility makes them unstable for a nomadic life (P.5).” From this we can asses that all early Africans were not hunter gathers ...
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The Preponderant Lysistrata
Number of Words: 1195 / Number of Pages: 5
... sex is to the men of all city-states. Without the women, the men “walk around the city bent over like men lighting matches in a wind” (726, 1028-9). Lysistrata uses her knowledge to gain power over them by summoning all of the women together and calling for “a sex-strike against war” (701). This “sex-strike” puts the men in “a pretty high-strung condition” (727, 1102) and also puts them at the mercy of the women. Sex is the only commonality of any significance between the different groups of men; therefore, sex has to be the object or action to be boycotted to give control over the men to the women.
T ...
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The Downfall Of Macbeth
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... business"(I, vii, 32). Yet,
after speaking with Lady Macbeth he recants and proclaims, "I am settled, and
bend up /Each corporal agent to this terrible feat"(I, vii, 79-80). He allows
himself to be swayed by the woman he loves. Lady Macbeth gave him an ultimatum
and provoked him by saying:
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man..... (I, vii, 49-51)
She provokes him by questioning his manhood and then saying that he would be a
much greater man if he were to go through with the deed. Macbeth then had to
make a decision. ...
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The Cherry Orchard: Reality, Illusion, And Foolish Pride
Number of Words: 1719 / Number of Pages: 7
... desperate that they need to compromise any of their dignity.
Lopakhin: As you know, your cherry orchard's being sold to pay your
debts. The auction is on the twenty second of August. But
there's no need to worry, my dear. You can sleep soundly.
There's a way out. Here's my plan. Listen carefully, please.
Your estate is only about twelve miles from town, and the
railway is not very far away. Now all you have to do is break
up your cherry orchard and the land along the river into
building ...
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Blood, Violence And Gore As Entertainment
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... that affect children the most.
Computer violence is a quite new phenomenon. It was introduced with the
launch of Wolfenstein in 1990. In «Wolfenstein» you are trapped in a maze among
an army of nazis. You'll have to kill your way out. This kind of violence
probably has a deeper influence on children, because they do the killings
themselves. It is interactive violence. In several countries the follow-up game,
Doom, was banned. The software company claimed that it didn't have a negative
affect on children, because they killed mutants, not humans. But is cutting up a
mutant with a chainsaw good enterta ...
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