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Diggin The Dancing Queen - Mur
Number of Words: 1026 / Number of Pages: 4
... show no desire for a better future and the father, Bill reinforces his families' low self esteem by constant negativity. Muriel's desire to get married is at some level her opportunity to escape this environment.
Throughout the film, Muriel demonstrates avoidance behaviour. Music plays a large part of this process and becomes a symbol of freedom from her environment. She allies herself with a group of "trendy" and popular girls in an effort to disassociate from her lower class, dysfunctional family. Her motivation to improve herself and her circumstances become the main focus of the film. She be ...
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Inherit The Wind 2
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... I don’t believe in the literal deciphering of the Bible, but
that it is a book of ideals that we must trust in it’s veracity. It isn’t meant to be explained!
Ironically, the thing that people are the most hungry for, meaning, is the one thing that science hasn’t been able to give them. Enter God, the means
that mankind has clung to for purpose. If there isn’t a God, does that mean
that 95% of the world is suffering from some sort of mass dillusion? There
may be a thousand arguments against there being a supreme being that we can
think of, but it’s all th ...
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Creative Writing: A Murder On The Eighth Night Was Caused By An Old Mans "evil" Eye
Number of Words: 347 / Number of Pages: 2
... us snoop around the house to show us
that nothing was wrong. He said he had a bad dream. Then when he took us into
the old man's sleeping chamber he started to get real impatient and started to
act weird that is when he confessed the murder to us." explained a detective.
"When we took off the planks we saw the dismembered body parts and then we
arrested him." said detective Smith. "If it wasn't for that neighbor that heard
the scream we would have never known there was a murder." The butler is now in
a hospital for the criminally insane. The butler is now awaiting his court dates
yet to be announce ...
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The Great Gatsby - Male And Fe
Number of Words: 1230 / Number of Pages: 5
... for the shame his affairs may bring onto his wife.
Daisy comes to represent a treasured and sought possession for both Tom and Gatsby. Although on the surface it appears that Gatsby has an ever-lasting love for Daisy, I feel that his longing for Daisy stems from his need to recapture a possession which he lost during his youth. Nick comments "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy" (117). Furthermore by possessing Daisy's love, Gatsby can reject defeat and feel successful as a man.
In the nov ...
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The Short Story Of Night - A C
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... is also placed at this level as she is "raving" during her interrogation on her involvement with witchcraft. Therefore, following the same train of thought, the use of this arrangement suggests that her examiners, namely the Inquisitor, are merely acting out of ignorance.
Most tangible however, is the complete black appearance of the set that helps considerably to establish the notion that the play is a representation of place in a period of discord. The darkness of the set creates a sense of eerieness and obscurity that draws the audience into the social upheaval of this period. More interestingl ...
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Hamlet - A Comparison To Humanity
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... exploration and implicit
criticism of a particular state of mind or consciousness.In
Hamlet, Shakespeare uses a series of encounters to reveal the
complex state of the human mind, made up of reason, emotion,
and attitude towards the self, to allow the reader to make a
judgment or form an opinion about fundamental aspects of human
life. (192)
Shakespeare sets the stage for Hamlet's internal dilemma in
Act 1, Scene 5 of Hamlet when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and
calls upon Hamlet to "revenge his foul and ...
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Addicted To Love
Number of Words: 1244 / Number of Pages: 5
... as cruel, he is fooled into believing she is his. This repeated scenario of torture is by far the highest tragedy in the romance. The climax of the abuse is when Mark questions his own senses after the discovery of the couple copulating in the garden. Blinded by the violent inebriation of amour, he disavows empirical proof of Isolde’s betrayal. While through the omnipotent narration the reader sees that Isolde never loves Mark, the king is nevertheless betrayed. First of course, he betrays himself. All indication points to the affair. His heart is not a friend at this point for Mark. Isolde’ ...
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The Function Of Profanity In Modern English
Number of Words: 3807 / Number of Pages: 14
... Are efforts to repress them futile? Does the popularization of such
vocabulary create the need for new words with the same taboo status as the
original words? To summarize: Does profanity serve a useful purpose in the
English language?
In order to answer a question this complex, certain guidelines must be set.
The word "profanity" has a long list of taboo words associated with it, not
all of which can be accommodated within such a short study. It is therefore
necessary to limit which words we consider. Since this is a study of modern
English, the words should be representative of the kind of pr ...
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Cry Wolf
Number of Words: 2854 / Number of Pages: 11
... ignorance of our ancestors. However, in seeking to address a situation
created by the human compulsion to control nature, it is crucial to discern
how much human interference is necessary. Human control must be tempered by
respect and restraint. Programs designed for the protection and restoration
of wildlife must reflect deference for the natural order rather than
dominance over it.
The consequences of human actions involving the elimination of the gray
wolf have been especially acute in Yellowstone National Park, where the
lack of a natural predator has resulted in the overpopulation of bison,
deer ...
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The Snow Leopard
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... in motion once again.”(198) Nevertheless this oneness is very hard to achieve in practice and harder still to maintain. Drugs always leave you short of the goal of oneness because the drugs themselves are an obstacle, a mist that will always stop you short of total oneness.
Drugs will always hold you back because they are harmful, and while you are experiencing a drug trip you are doing nothing but experiencing a drug trip; the drugs can do nothing but induce that hallucinogenic state. Also you are unable to do anything other then experience that state. This is also a reason why drugs are a ...
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