Of Mice and Semi-men Starring Brandon Zhu‚ Michael Roudbai‚ Yusuf Meghji‚ and Kenton Wu GRIFFIN: Brandon Zhu THESEUS: Kenton Wu CROOKS: Yusuf Meghji LENNIE: Michael Roudbai Crooks and Griffin are sitting at a table with four chairs. Theseus and Lennie are on stage and are off to the side. GRIFFIN Give me the damn cards! CROOKS No‚ it ain’t fair how I am treated! GRIFFIN You do what I say‚ and that’s how it’ll be. CROOKS (Angry Why you treatin’ me like this? You ain’t got the
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Memory A motif can be described as a recurring subject‚ theme or idea found in a literary‚ artistic or musical work. These are structures or literary devices that can help to develop a major theme within a work. In One Hundred Years of Solitude there are several motifs that contribute to conveying the theme of a cycle of solitude that the characters are unable to escape from. In his novel‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates an imaginary town called Macondo where the inseparability of the past
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Brilliant Public Speaking Paper Chulynda Castillo BCOM/275 January 7‚ 2015 Kay Sears Brilliant Public Speaking Paper Glossophobia‚ also know as the fear of public speaking‚ is the top rated fear in the United States according to Brandon Gaille. People are far more scared of public speaking than death and even spiders. It is a primal fear of being ostracized and cast out‚ but it is something that should not be fear so highly. With practice and a few good points public speaking can be an experience
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The Impact of Frederick Douglas The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ an American Slave was written by Frederick Douglass himself‚ a runaway slave who had learned to read and wrote against his masters’ wishes. Within this narrative‚ Douglass speaks of many aspects of slavery that he has either seen or experienced for himself throughout his life before freedom; for example‚ he describes how many hours the slaves worked‚ general violence towards slaves‚ and the relationship between master
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time-constraints and force. The level of intensity given to the Mayan people and given off by their reactions also holds a huge factor to the reasoning behind such events and how and why they are completed. The threat of a potential massacre given by Colonel Guzman fails to allow the Mayans any sort of leverage to control the situation therefore that is their biggest and most detrimental downfall. The Mayan people are working under means of fear and lack of experience for such events so they unfortunately
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Inherit the Wind Inherit the wind takes place in July in a rural town called Hillsboro. The play describes itself saying that it takes place in the not so distant past; however the play was written based on the famous scopes trial in 1925 so it may have been set around that era. The place take about a week from the time we meet the protagonist Bertram Cates until his sentence is read in court. The story is written in third person‚ because it is a play and is not inside the mind of one specific
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and a transition into the new generations direct‚ ‘thoughtless’ way of getting things done. Colonel Sartoris was still oppressive of African Americans‚ creating the law that women of color had to wear aprons in public. By placing this law‚ he added a daily reminder to those previously oppressed‚ that he still saw African Americans as living for his servitude‚ reaffirming emancipation. Although racist‚ Colonel Sartoris‚ followed the old tradition of chivalry towards a white women. He sympathized Emily
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compassion to some and murdering others‚” (200) This shows how people can go from murdering to being compassionate humans. We are able to be on both ends of the spectrum and produce both good and evil actions. Man is not inherently good or evil. The colonel‚ the Nazi guards‚ and the few killers‚ who spared some people‚ shows that people aren’t all evil or good. Humans lose our rationality and are blind to the instinct to follow the herd but‚ we are not pure evil. Good people can corrupt and be ruthless
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Prejudice has Prevailed I believe that prejudice will always exist within America. As long as out-groups and competition exist‚ society will never be moved beyond prejudice. In the article “The Formation of Ingroups‚” Gordon Allport‚ an American Psychologist‚ claims that Americans will always exist in in-groups. In addition‚ with in-group‚ implies the existence of some corresponding out-groups‚ where prejudice exists. Therefore‚ Allport’s outstanding point of view claims that prejudice will always
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Favorite Brand Paper Brandon White MKT/421 09.01.2014 Frederick Beiermeister Personal Branding Plan Paper Within this paper the reader will read about 3 to 4 companies the author would like to work for with detailed explanations as to why. Furthermore‚ the reader will learn ways of engaging those companies in the most effective manner in communication that guarantees the author’s acceptance of those position(s)‚ and what makes the author potentially valuable to
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