One summer night‚ July 20‚ 2012‚ a gathering of joyful people pile into a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ waiting in anticipation to watch the midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Half-an-hour into to the movie‚ an intense gun-fighting scene comes onto the screen‚ and a man dressed in tactical clothing walks in front. Smoke starts to rise and spread through the theater. The audience members soon have burning eyes and itching throats. For the slightest moment for some
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Impossible To Find Shakespeare’s Dark Lady William Shakespeare’s supposed mistress may be the reason behind his remarkable‚ yet dark last twenty seven sonnets. She “has come to be known as the Dark Lady‚ a name that reflects her morals as well as her complexion” (Andrews “Love…” 64). Along with being Shakespeare’s mistress‚ the Dark Lady was married and musically inclined (Love). She challenged not only her bed vows‚ but Shakespeare’s also. The Dark Lady influenced a significant deal
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The Dark Ages were good for these three reasons. First‚ the dark ages provided people with creative and useful ideas‚ without the dark ages people wouldn’t have needed these inventions. Second‚ colleges and universities were started during this time period. Third‚ a lot of unique art and music were created during this time. In other people’s perspectives the Dark Ages might have been bad for these two reasons. First‚ there was a lot of torturing and massive amounts of executions. Second‚ the Black
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Kasia Whitelaw Professor Yves Saint-Pierre The Play: Page‚ Stage‚ Screen April 9th‚ 2013 The Imaginary Child in ‘Who ’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Albert Einstein once said “imagination is more important than knowledge”‚ however it is important to keep reality and imagination separate. In the play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ by Edward Albee‚ it is discovered what happens when a couple mixes their reality with illusion. Through a long night of drinking and chatting with their new neighbors
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Review of ”Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The drama “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was directed by Mike Nichols and released in 1966‚ starring Elisabeth Taylor as Martha‚ Richard Burton as George‚ George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. The film is an adaption of the play of the same title written by Edward Albee. The film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won in five categories including Elizabeth Taylor for Best Actress and Sandy Dennis for Best Supporting Actress.
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The Mayan Dark Age is No Longer a Mystery The main idea of this article is about how archaeologists have recently found what may have been the cause of the mayan “dark age”. The Mayan civilization was considered the most advanced for humans before the europeans arrived. The Mayans created a writing system‚ accurate maps‚ and huge pyramids that we can still see today. The Mayan dark age is an event that happened in 540 A.D. during a 100 year period the mayans stopped all research and construction
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Hypnosis has been used throughout the world for over 4000 years as a way of curing ills and gaining knowledge. For many early years it was seen as a “dark art” of occultism but the same practices forged into our scientific knowledge of today. In the 1700’s Franz Anton Mesmer was the first to propose a rational basis and a consistent method of hypnosis‚ he passed this on to his followers as a ritualistic practice he called mesmerisation. Mesmer liked to perform mass inductions by linking patients
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Kalli Hartman Section Four 1/14/2013 Topic: Particulars and Details Word Count: 701 Zero Dark Thirty‚ Affecting America Describing the murder of Osama Bin Laden‚ Zero Dark Thirty remains top in the box office‚ garnering over five Oscar nominations and deeply affecting its audiences. Disturbing and poignant‚ this “R” rated production accurately depicts the nature of war in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan‚ while viewers vicariously experience the violence of terror attacks and observe
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Emily Cloonan‚ Miranda Haddock‚ Ryan Getherall November 3‚ 2014 Light/Dark Paragraphs In the novel‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the author uses light and dark to set the tone. The tone of this novel is mysterious‚ dark‚ and depressing. At the beginning of the novel‚ Dickens says “It was the season of Light‚ it was the season of Darkness‚ it was the spring of hope‚ it was the winter of despair” (7). In this quote‚ Dickens uses paradox to explain the controversy between the light and darkness throughout
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REAR WINDOW Sample Essay Successful crime writer’s know how to realise their intentions of keeping the responder’s mind constantly busy trying to work out ‘who dunnit’‚ often feeling as though they are working side by side with the detective to solve the crime and find the murderer. As well as effective characterisation‚ character motivation‚ and settings‚ crime writers must know the conventions of their chosen sub genre and more importantly how to use and subvert these conventions to achieve
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