Plays are meant to be staged; poems are often read aloud and books are often made into movies. What aspects of the two works you have studied would appeal to an audience’s eyes or ears? Both The Visit and Maus are highly praised works of art that have a very wide and diverse audience because of their subject matter. Both pieces of work deal with dark subject matter in their own fields even though one is a play (The Visit) and the other is a graphic novel (Maus). They each have many themes such as
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Comparison and Contrast: Penelope vs. Penny Though Penny Wharvey McGill is portrayed as a “Southern 1930’s” version of Penelope‚ this heroine has many contrasting characteristics compared to the wife of Odysseus from Ancient Greece. In the Odyssey‚ Penelope stayed loyal to Odysseus while he was gone at sea for 20 years‚ and Penny couldn’t even stay faithful to Ulysses Everett McGill‚ who was only in jail for 2 years. Many pieces of evidence show the lack of allegiance Penny had to Everett. When
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Name: Date: Graded Assignment The Comparative Essay: Early Civilizations Complete and submit this assignment by the due date to receive full credit. (45 points) Score 1. Compare and contrast key characteristics of two early civilizations (choose from Mesopotamian‚ Shang‚ Indus Valley‚ Chavin‚ and Phoenician) in terms of three of the following: economy‚ political system‚ art and architecture‚ religion‚ technology‚ legacy. Answer: Of the world’s first civilizations‚ all successful and renowned
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Ayanna Myrick 6/18/14 Comparison and Contrast Essay EGL 1010 Professor Alvin R. Parrish‚ Sr. Nordstrom and Forever 21 are retail stores that sell popular‚ trendy‚ fashionable clothing‚ accessories‚ and shoes. I shop at the Forever 21 and Nordstrom stores in Annapolis Mall. Many people enjoy shopping at both stores because of their trendy apparel. Since Forever 21 has inexpensive clothing‚ teenagers like to gravitate there. Nordstrom is a high end store that sells top of the line clothing and
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contrasting of characters‚ the development of a tragic hero‚ and the progression of the play throughout one important and unforgettable interaction between two characters. In Oedipus Rex‚ there are many characters that contrast Oedipus‚ the main character. The person that shows an obvious contrast to Oedipus is the blind prophet‚ Tiresias. Tiresias’ brute honesty shows just how stubborn and hard-headed Oedipus truly is. The text states‚ “None of you understand‚ but I shall never/ reveal my own troubles‚ and
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never imitate‚ that technique was only a tool and not an objective. He believed that a successful portrait was not a cold‚ hard‚ photographic study of likeness and costume. That it was the duty of a the artist to convey the person being painted a s flesh and blood. This is completely opposite of what Close has done with Fanny since Fanny/Fingerpainting is all about Super Realism and creating art from a
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Compare and Contrast Essay Langston Hughes What happens when you don’t hold on to a dream? Langston Hughes’ “Dreams” and “Dreams Deferred” discuss this issue. They are written with similar themes‚ but differ in writing styles. In the poem “Dreams” a direct approach is used. Hughes uses statements and metaphors to make his point. The authors statements tell us to hold on to our dreams. This is the focus of the poem. He uses metaphors to reiterate this thought‚ and expand the readers
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In “Lancelot” the writer focuses less on Lancelot’s heroic status and more on the fact that Lancelot had an extramarital affair with Queen Guinevere. Robinson focuses more on the romantic part of the story because the period in which he wrote the poem‚ the 1920s‚ is famous for love stories. The “roaring
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In these two stories “The Sniper” by Liam o’ Flaberly and “Cranes” by Hwang Sunwon. They have a lot in Common also there’re about war. Soon you’ll find out more about these two stories next. “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaberly is about a Republican Sniper fighting for his life and is in a civil war. The Republican Sniper is on a roof facing the other Sniper across the street then a women saw the Sniper and told the turret where the Republican Sniper was at. The Republican Sniper open fired and killed
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The characteristic that separates primates from hominids is bipedalism; means walking in two feet. These characteristics can be seen in the skeletal structures that have different traits that are: the pelvis is vertical‚ the spine is curved in an S shape and the last trait is that the arms are shorter than the legs. HOMINIDS THROUGHOUT TIME Scientists have found many different fossils of ancient hominids and have named 18 types. Fossils are classified as hominids when they share some characteristics
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