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Summary Of The Movie: Saving Private Ryan
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... - Sean Ryan at "Omaha Beach" Normandy, Peter Ryan at
"Utah Beach" Normandy, and "Daniel Ryan" in New Guinea. Only one son
survives......Private James Ryan (Matt Damon). The decision is made to
find him and send him home. However Private Ryan is lost somewhere behind
enemy lines and the army hierarchy aren't even sure whether he's still
alive...
With the massive invasion of Normandy as a backdrop eight men are
sent to find Ryan, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks). It is a mission
where the lives of eight men are put in peril for the sake of saving one.
Is it worth it? "This is ...
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Predestined Fate Of Oedipus
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... out to the mountains and let him die of natural causes. Some
people might argue that they are still indirectly responsible for the death but
apparently the Greeks only considered it bad if you were directly responsible
for the act of murder. The problem is that this person never left Oedipus on the
mountains as he was instructed to and therefore Oedipus never died. So Iocaste
and laios go on living worry free thinking that they outsmarted the gods and
avoided their horrible fate, but it will catch up with them soon enough. They
can't change their fate, there is no way to avoid what the gods already de ...
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Fate In Oedipus The King
Number of Words: 1134 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Delphi as a young man, he was told that he was “doomed to sleep with [his] my mother, doomed to murder [his] my father (1080).” For most of his life he was forewarned of this horrible fate. One could argue that it was this inescapable fate that led him to marry the Queen of Thebes and kill the King, unknowingly fulfilling his prophecy. Also, fate could have brought Oedipus to Thebes. Once he was notified of his prophecy he left Corinth to escape fate; however he ran towards it by ending up in Thebes. It was very unlikely that on his travels he would meet and kill his own father, and coincide ...
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A Comparison Of Tragedy In English Works
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... too
nice of a person and therefore he gets taken advantage of. He lets Cassius
persuade him into killing Caesar for the good of Rome. Because he does for
others more than himself he makes a fatal mistake, he lets Antony live. Brutus
says to the conspirators, "For Antony is but a limb of Caesar"(Act II scene I
line 165) meaning that if Caesar is killed Antony will die off too. Brutus
clearly does not regard Antony as being a threat, but little does Brutus know
that Antony will stir up the town to seek revenge after the assassination of
Caesar. This mistake will cost him his own life. When he dies h ...
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Dial ‘M’ For Murder
Number of Words: 1020 / Number of Pages: 4
... Tony brings up the problems with his wife’s affairs with Marc. And starts saying that sometimes he just wants to kill her and how he wants to do it. And then he starts bragging his friend with money to kill her. He has a whole plan worked out already on how he could go about doing so. And so he shows the friend all the steps to make in the apartment and what to kill her with and where to kill her too. The friend finally agrees since there was not much else he could do about it. The night comes along where they have planned do go on with the murder. Everything is working as planned, except for the f ...
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Baal Of Desire
Number of Words: 869 / Number of Pages: 4
... life. So, Baal
kills her since he can't have her for his own. By the end, Baal has nothing but
himself to blame for his condition. His drinking problem and his problem of
seducing every woman he meets drives him to his death, and causes everyone to
repudiate him.
The acting ranged from not-so-great to very good. The only problem was
that since not all the actor's names were used, it was difficult to figure out
who was who in most cases.
Baal, played by Robert Seay, was in the very good part of the spectrum.
The amount of lined he had to memorize was great and he didn't stumble on them
once. His em ...
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Comparison Of Hamlet And Claudius
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... will work him To an exploit, now
ripe in my device, under the which he shall not chose but fall. And for his
death no wind of blame shall breathe”1. Gertrude's trust is betrayed by
Claudius at that moment because Gertrude believes that Claudius loves Hamlet,
when in fact, he despises him and wishes death upon him. Claudius is not the
only character that betrays in the play Hamlet. Hamlets makes Ophelia believe
that he loves her for a long time, until one day he tells her things that break
her heart. Because Hamlet suspects that someone is listening to his
conversation with Ophelia, he acts like ...
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The Supernatural In Hamlet And Macbeth
Number of Words: 867 / Number of Pages: 4
... has expressed his fears
about Hamlet following it, ³What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
or to the dreadful summit of the cliff².
The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst
for Hamlet¹s later actions and provides insight into Hamlet¹s character.
The information the ghost reveals incites Hamlet into action against a
situation he was already uncomfortable with, and now even more so. Hamlet
is not quick to believe the ghost, ³The spirit that I have seen may be a
devil... and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy..abuses me to
damn me², and thus an aspect ...
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Katherine
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... be great. “Petruchio can
have no illusions about the fabled shrew, Katherine, for others are quick to
tell him quite frankly what to expect”(Vaughn27). Petruchio and Katherine's
father meet and decide that Petruchio will get twenty-thousand crowns if he
weds Katherine. Petruchio and Katherine meet and they do not start off on the
best of terms. But Petruchio decides they should get married anyway and he sets
a date. Petruchio then leaves to get ready for the wedding . The wedding day
arrives and Petruchio arrives at the wedding in ridiculous clothing and drunk.
During the ceremony he hits the priest. ...
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Macbeth: Many People Were Involved In The Death Of Duncan
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other." (I,vii,l.25-28)
In this speech Macbeth broadcasts his immense ambitions which are the only
reason he is pursuing the witches prediction. Macbeth, upon hearing the witches
speak was startled at their prophecy. Banquo said to him "Good sir, why do you
start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?"(I,iii,l.54-55) Macbeth
was startled because of the implications of the forecast. Macbeth had thought
before about the very thing that he was now being ...
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