down.” This quote was said by Malcolm X‚ who was an African American Minister and a human rights activist. It means that sometimes you have to fight in order to achieve peace. I agree with what he said because in order to get what you want you have to fight for it. Two literary works that reflect this quote are Fences‚ a play about the struggles of African American before and during the Civil Rights Era in the 1950s and 60s‚ by August Wilson and “The Yellow Wallpaper” a short story that shows the difference
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“Interrupting The Ceremony” This depicts Woodrow Wilson officiating the marriage of a woman labeled “foreign entanglements” and Uncle Sam from a book labeled “League of Nations”. As Wilson asks if anyone objects‚ a man labeled “U.S. Senate” breaks through the window with the constitutional rights. Here we can see the reason is twofold. First and foremost‚ the United States wanted full power to decide when and if it went to war. The League
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people commonly think that the American dream is all about being rich and other kind of lazy stuff. In other words “easy money”. But that is not actually true. The real idea of the American dream is: opportunities‚ because in America you have the opportunity to pursuit your dream. In the American dream you have the opportunities to be‚ create‚ have or build almost whatever you want in other words to “live good”. One of the biggest exponents of this complete idea of American dream is Mark Zuckerberg‚ the
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BILLY ELLIOT The film Billy Elliot emphasizes the notion of ‘Into the world’ by describing concepts of growth‚ transition and change. Whether this change is physical‚ emotional or intellectual‚ there is a transition by the individual from one stage to another. The individuals had to face many barriers and obstacles which needed to be overcome. Billy overcame stereotypes as did other characters in the film. The themes of emotional growth and stereotypes are constantly explored in this film and
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Billy Elliot the Musical On November 2‚ 2010 I attended the Broadway show “Billy Elliot the Musical” at the Durham Performing Arts Center. I must say this show was definitely one of the most emotional Broadway shows I have ever seen. I do not think there was a single dry eye throughout the whole show. The shows controversial plot about a young boy‚ who wants to dance and all the people in his town who won’t let him‚ makes for an exciting and heart racing show. One of the amazing things about
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August Wilson Any person that can rise up from the bottom rung of the ladder to the top is able to achieve great things in life. Renowned playwright August Wilson‚ a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes‚ and other awards for his work‚ is an example of such persons. He grew up in a lower class black family‚ faced the difficulties of an African American‚ and turned himself into the great writer he is. August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel on April 27‚ 1945 to Daisy Wilson and Frederick Kittel
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Herman Melville’s Billy Budd‚ Melville uses the literary device of foreshadowing to allow the audience to be aware of Billy’s inevitable fate before the characters in the novel‚ thus creating a feeling of suspense within the novel. In chapter one‚ the incident with the Red Whiskers (12) functions as a foreshadowing of Billy’s confrontation with Claggart. This is very similar to what happens later between John Claggart and Billy (58). Melville uses the incident to show that although Billy Budd is a gentle
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Despite the fact that the narrator infrequently implies the Bible unequivocally‚ Billy Budd contains numerous certain inferences to the symbolism‚ dialect‚ and stories of the Bible‚ making a managed parallel between Billy’s story and Christ’s Passion‚ the narrative of Christ’s torment and demise on the cross. Like Christ‚ Billy gives up his life as the pure casualty of an unfriendly society. Captain “Starry” Vere’s part in the story parallels that of Pontius Pilate in the Gospels‚ as he is the official
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Billy Sunday once said “Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.” This wasn’t Billy Sunday’s mindset his whole life‚ he wasn’t even a christian until his older adult life. Billy Sunday is an extraordinary muckraker and christian evangelists‚ even best know as one of the best evangelists of all time. Before Billy Sunday turned into an evangelist he was an even greater baseball player. It may not seem like Billy Sunday did much to greater the world but he actually
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