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Antigone Vs. Billy Budd

In Poetics, Aristotle explains tragedy as a kind of imitation of a certain magnitude, using direct action instead of narration to achieve its desired affect. It is of an extremely serious nature. Tragedy is also complete, with a structure that unifies all of its parts. It is meant to produce a ...

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The Great Gatsby 2

In the Novel The Great Gatsby, not many people really knew the man known as Jay Gatsby. When he was rich and powerful, he was the man you "want to know." But when he was dead, life went on without him. It seemed as if nobody cared that he was the man behind the parties and all the good times. ...

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Rabies

Perhaps the best-known animal-borne disease, Rabies, or Rage is caused by a Rhabdovirus, a type of virus named for its rod like shape. It is also caused by a ‘Lyssavirus’. This group of viruses includes the Rabies virus traditionally associated with this disease, Australian bat lyssavirus, ...

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Plot Overview of Gone With The Wind

It is the spring of 1861. Scarlett O’Hara, a pretty Southern belle, lives on Tara, a large plantation in Georgia. She concerns herself only with her numerous suitors and her desire to marry Ashley Wilkes. One day she hears that Ashley is engaged to Melanie Hamilton, his frail, plain cousin from ...

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The Hippie Nation and Woodstock

In the mid to late sixties, hippies and wannabe hippies were making their presence known throughout the country. Hippie communes began to pop up and their ideas were misunderstood by the common man. In 1969, the hippies and wannabes came together for Woodstock, a festival filled with problems, ...

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Choices of Love

Dr. Love, also known as Dr. Leo. F. Buscaglia “Happiness and love are just a choice away.” Love, then, is not a determination of fate, but it is a choice. Romeo and Juliet are two naïve kids who fall in love, leading to them end their own lives. Romeo and Juliet meet their untimely fate due to the ...

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Porphyria's Lover

"Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning and it was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under the title "Madhouse Cells." According to (Browning ...

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The Immature Love of Romeo and Juliet

A reoccurring debate since the time of Shakespeare has been whether or not Romeo and Juliet were mature lovers. Using the text of the play, Romeo and Juliet, I shall argue that Romeo and Juliet were very immature in their love towards each other. In the beginning of the play Romeo was in love ...

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Hamlet: Madness or Brilliance

Keion Woulard David Williams HUM 2233 7/6/12 892 words Madness or Brilliance We all know people that we might think are a little off their rocker and might not be all there right? We think that their behavior is just odd and they are completely crazy. Maybe they were playing a game to ...

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The Great Wall of China

"The Great Wall OF China" By: Kiara Avila The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China during the Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty (221 B.C - 206 B.C.). The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. The mystery of the ...

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Faust Comparison

Faust Comparison Washington Irving "Devil and Tom Walker" and the song "Faust, Midas, And Myself" are both examples of Faust legends. In the story of "Devil and Tom Walker", Irving explains the story of a man willing to do anything to gain wealth, and in the song "Faust, Midas, And Myself" it ...

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Romeo and Juliet

The two central themes of Romeo and Juliet would be love, and hate. Love and hate are obviously opposites, but in Romeo and Juliet love and hate are similar because as the two children from feuding families (the Capulet’s and the Montague’s) turn their hatred of each other into loving passion. ...

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Sweat: Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge The play by Susan Glaspell, Trifles, and Zora Neale Hurston’s story “Sweat” tell about a period in history when women were not treated equal to men, and women lived oppressed and lonely lives. Men dominated almost every aspect of their life and women were of little importance. ...

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Social And Psychological Forces In The Changeling and The Revengers Tragedies

"Social & Psychological forces that lead to self-destruction" This paper is an analysis of to social and psychological forces that can be said to be the reasons for the facilitation of the murder and suicide that is prevalent to two particular plays; The Revengers Tragedies, by Middleton Thomas ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished

Many criminals today serve their time in prison and are then set free. Most of them go on to commit other crimes, without learning the lesson their punishment was meant to teach. the worst punishment possible is torture and to live with ones own guilt. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne ...

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Taronga - Victor Kelleher

Discuss how the representations of groups in the novel Taronga reinforce or challenges your attitudes about these groups. Taronga is a novel written by Victor Kelleher, which is set in Australia in 1987, two years after Last Days, a tragedy caused by Chernobyl. Australia had been pushed into ...

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The Life Of Sid Vicious

In May 1957, a baby was born to Anne Randall and John Ritchie, who was named John Simon Ritchie. He brought great joy to his mother, but not to his father who ended up leaving John and his mom when John was only 2 months old. Because of events like this he grew up to be who he was, Sid Vicious. ...

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A Wild Sheep Chase

Boku, thirty years old, is in many respects an average middle-class citizen who, free from excessive financial worries, enjoys the kind of independence his status bestows. A product of 1960’s, he takes endless pleasure in smoking, drinking, and eating in bars, cafes, and restaurants. He dresses ...

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People Or Profits?

In Almeda County, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because the hospital's computer showed that she didn't have insurance. Hours later, her baby was born dead in a county hospital. In San Bernardino, a hospital surgeon sent a patient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird 3

To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were ...

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