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    Don Juan

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    broken heart and near fatal eroticism. “As Byron’s satiric genius developed‚ it tended to employ less and less of the traditional axe-swinging of the neoclassic satirists and to approach more and more the mocking and ironic manner of the Italian burlesque poets...Finally‚ when his satiric genius had fully ripened‚ Byron found complete expression in serious and social satire” (Trueblood‚ 19). From an early age‚ Don Juan was destined to wander through a maze of sexuality. One can see this unfolding

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    The History of Jazz Dance

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    Maggie Miller Dance Appreciation Erin Leigh 11-10-2005 Jazz Dance "Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people‚ reflecting ethnic influences‚ historical events‚ and cultural changes" (Kraines‚ 2005‚1). When I was younger I used to take dance. I hated ballet‚ liked gymnastics‚ and thought tap was okay; but I loved jazz. I took jazz dance three times a week and never complained; it was my life. People all over the world are familiar with

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    Paper #1: The role of anthropomorphism in Greek mythology. "God created man in his image‚ and man‚ being a gentleman‚ returned the compliment." -Mark Twain In his beginning‚ man was part of nature. He knew little about the causes of natural phenomenon and certainly knew of no way to control them. This is perhaps the reason for his creation of ritual and later religion. As man evolved he began to consider the possibilities of gaining some type of control over his environment. If nature

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    Tok Persuasion

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    Images are often not appealing to reason‚ but to emotions. This is not to say that a lot of thought does not go into graphical expression‚ but that the images are all ways aimed at moving the viewer visually. For example a form of visual theatre‚ burlesque will often attack something by representing it so as to look inane. In this case there is an interpreting process going on‚ but the audience must necessarily have an emotional response to what they see. Expression through images may have some interpreting

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    Percy Shelley

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    but his first publication was a Gothic novel‚ Zastrozzi (1810)‚ in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi. That same year‚ Shelley and another student‚ Thomas Jefferson Hogg‚ published a pamphlet of burlesque verse‚ "Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson‚" and with his sister Elizabeth‚ Shelley published Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire. In 1811‚ Shelley continued this prolific outpouring with more publications‚ and it was one of these that

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    How did the Great Depression influence the evolution of American vernacular dance? In the Great Depression‚ the American dream had become a nightmare. What was once the land of opportunity was now the land of desperation. The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America‚ Europe‚ and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Nevertheless‚ it

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    “Life’s but a walking shadow‚ a poor player‚ that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing.” – William Shakespeare The theatre has been a part of entertainment since ancient Greece‚ around 4th century BC or thereabouts. The theatre grew out of festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Aeschylus created the first play in her honor. The first Greek plays were all tragedies but eventually comedy

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    The White Tiger – A Review  “Neither you nor I speak English‚ but there are some things that can be said only in English.” - Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai during the mid-1970s to parents who hailed from a small city in Karnataka. He was welcomed into a very well educated and well-connected family. He kept the name of his family flying high when he ranked 1st in the State of Karnataka in the SSLC exams in 1990. He also went on

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    BookRags Literature Study Guide The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton For the online version of BookRags’ The Seven Storey Mountain Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-seven-storey-mountain/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context

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    A Modest Proposal

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    "Proposal" has been read as a parody of this sort of pamphlet (Rawson 189). There can be no solid support for such a thesis‚ and it would be wrong to infer that what is at work in Swift’s "Proposal" in any important sense is a burlesque on project concerning the poor or on the titles of certain

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