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Movie Review: Dangerous Minds
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 621.... the movie, the students are expected to fail and if it
were not for the determination of LouAnne Johnson these students probably
would have failed. At the beginning of the movie it shows how two teachers
have already quit their job at this school and had given up on these
students. Many educational stereotypes are out in today's world, which
makes people believe that these students do not want to learn or just do
not care about their futures. While this may be true in some instances
many students are desperate to connect with someone who cares about them.
Life has taught t .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Chance And Its Role
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 713.... and Capulet servants just happen to cross
paths in a public place. This is a chance meeting. Coincidence cannot be
involved now because it is too early in the story. Also by chance, the
servants are talking of their hatred of the other family and there
unwillingness to bear insults. The opening line of the play is, "Gregory,
on my word, we'll not carry coals. "(pg.6)" Meaning he will not stand for
any insults. This results in the fight that forces Prince Escalus to make
the decree that "If ever you disturb our streets again your lives shall pay
the forfeit of the p .....
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Masaccio: The Holy Trinity
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 949.... the person looking at the work is standing in. The adjustment of the
spectator to the pictured space is one of the first steps in the
development of illusionistic painting. Illusionistic painting fascinated
many artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The proportions in this painting are so numerically exact that one can
actually calculate the numerical dimensions of the chapel in the background.
The span of the painted vault is seven feet, and the depth is nine feet.
"Thus, he achieves not only successful illusion, but a rational, metrical
coherence that, by main .....
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Oedipus
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1419.... thwart fate and the will of the
divine.. Within the principle of determinism, this outright contention to divine
mandate is blasphemous and considered sin. This ideal itself, and the whole
concept of determinism, is quite common in the workings of Greek and Classical
literature. A manifest example of this was the infamous Oedipus of The Theban
Plays, a man who tried to defy fate, and therefore sinned.
The logic of Oedipus' transgression is actually quite obvious, and
Oedipus' father, King Laius, also has an analogous methodology and transgression.
They both had unfortunate .....
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The Crucible And Similarities To The McCarthy Era
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 557.... gave certain people uncontrollable amounts of power. In Salem, many people turned on one another to save themselves from being victims of the witch hunts. These people were rather hypocritical and deceitful to their friends because they would often turn them in under false pretenses of practicing witchcraft even if they themselves were actually guilty. This hypocrisy caused hysteria in Salem because of the race to turn one after another in. No one knew who to trust anymore. This hypocrisy and hysteria gave the girls who were involved an uncontrollable amount of power bec .....
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Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: Tragic And Comic Elements
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1198.... serves to enforce a sense of both reality and drama that are present in everyday human life. The comic elements in the play serve as a form of determined self-preservation just as the tragic elements add to the notion of self-destruction. This is the true nature of a tragicomedy. By juxtaposing two irreconcilable positions, ambiguity is produced in the judgement of the main characters, most notably Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois.
Ambivalence in the play is largely caused by the relationship between Stanley and Blanche. They concurrently produce both appalling and appe .....
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Macbeth: Lady MacBeth
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 599.... the opportunity MacBeth
does. This shows how mad and sadistic she was. She had absolutely no self-
conscience, and thought nothing about the wrong they were soon to commit.
Later on, after the murders, she, unlike MacBeth, still shows no signs
of a conscience. She is very cool and collected, while MacBeth hallucinates and
goes temporarily mad. Lady MacBeth on the other hand, takes everything calmly.
She takes the daggers back to the King's room, smears blood on the drunken
guards, and attempts to destroy all evidence of MacBeth ever being there. She
knows what needs to b .....
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Antigone
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 563.... a much better leader if he would have just kept an open mind and listened to what others, especially his family, told him. He was too concerned with how good he looked and how powerful he seemed. Creon needs to learn how to stop being so arrogant. He also needs to learn how to be wise in many different ways. Ismene seemed to be scared to do things. She didn’t do what she knew was right because she knew she’d be killed. was by far my favorite character. I think that part of the reason for it was that I am very stubborn, just like she is and I’m not afraid to fight for what I fe .....
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