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    10 March 2012 Disillusionment of American Literature Have you ever had a dream‚ where you wake up and you are stuck in this strange world? A world where everything you once knew was different; people were dying‚ or people that were once beautiful‚ had to wear a mask to make sure that everyone is equal‚ you may ask what’s left in this world. The answer is disillusion; a sense of loss‚ or all things hopeless. In the short stories “In Another Country” written by Ernest Hemingway and “Harrison

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    interest to her. Nenny‚ Esperanza’s little sister‚ spots a record player but is unaware of its nature. She discovers that it is a music box and Esperanza’s hopes immediately soar; she longs for a pretty box with flowers painted on the exterior‚ and a ballerina inside. This beautiful thought fades away as she discovers that the box is instead just a dusty record player with a brass record that has holes in it‚ which when played‚ sounds like a cacophony of moths. The hope she had been given was crushed.

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    Obligation isn’t always driven by reason. What a person feels obliged to do may not be the most reasonable choice of action. In fact‚ this choice may even physically harm them in some way. The following short stories‚ The Inheritor‚ Tell-Tale Heart‚ and Harrison Bergeron are all examples of a sense of obligation leading someone to make an unreasonable choice. In The Inheritor‚ Tell-Tale Heart‚ and Harrison Bergeron‚ the main characters are all forced to make a choice to either follow what they felt

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    Analysis of Major Characters Harrison Bergeron Harrison represents the part of the American people that still longs to try hard‚ flaunt their attributes‚ and outpace their peers. At age fourteen‚ Harrison is a physical specimen: seven feet tall‚ immensely strong‚ and extremely handsome. The government does everything in its power to squelch Harrison‚ forcing him to wear huge earphones to distort his thinking‚ glasses to damage his sight and give him headaches‚ three hundred pounds of metal

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    I am standing on a ledge‚ nearly tripping off‚ surrounded by the depths of the ocean. According to me the world cannot end‚ but reality is never what you think. The entire world is currently under the grasp of Mistress Ice‚ inside her Nation or so-called kingdom. My job is simple‚ go kill her and save the Earth. Sounds pretty heroic right‚ yep‚ it’s easier said than done! I have been asking myself that ‘why me?’ I hate Ice! She has practically sunk the entire world‚ but she has left small ledge for

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    Oklahoma! "The Essence of Dance" The stage performance of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma was a beautiful integration of book‚ song and dance. The three elements add richness and aesthetic quality in very distinctive ways. Dance is a form of expression using rhythmic movements of the body. Facial expressions and the use of body language through dance offer portrayals of feelings that compensate for dialogue. The choreography done by Agnes de Mille integrates dance into the lives of the frontiersmen

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    Extended Essay Visual Arts Degas and his misogyny May 2008 Sarika Nair Vishwashanti Gurukul 002767-046 Word Count:

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    had short bobbed hair and wore short skirts stopping just below the knees‚ dresses that hid body shapes and “wore loose fitting sweaters to further minimize the appearance of their breasts” (Johnson and see fig. 1). Fig. 1. Meyer‚ Adolf De. Ballerina Desiree Lubovska in a dress by Jean Patou‚ 1921. Digital image. Smithsonian. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. During this time people thought women couldn’t “handle the stress of competition” and therefore thought women were incapable of playing sports but many

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    never experienced before. The main character lives the normal teenage life listening to the latest music and going out with her friends to the mall. “They must have been familiar sights‚ walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk” (753). One night with her friends changes her life forever. Someone that notices her at the restaurant would eventually become the person that makes her leave everything she knows and enter a world she has

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    There are not a whole lot of great reality TV shows. When it comes to reality TV‚ it can be hard to keep new content rolling every week. The goal for most reality TV shows is to create drama to make sure it’s interesting‚ which might not happen naturally. However‚ Dance Moms on the other hand has new drama every week to ensure that viewers stay absorbed in each episode. The whole show is based on a group of 5-10 girls who compete at dance competitions every week. With new dances every week‚ watchers

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