My Modern-Day Cinderella Story P3 Language Arts It was pouring outside. Not just pouring‚ that word doesn’t suffice how much water was aimlessly falling from the sky and crashing to the ground with every footstep that Ella Kess took on her way home. Today was the day that seven years ago her parents died in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean. It was strange‚ how she had to live on after the death‚ but she pulled through with the help of her best friend Kylee Lainer. She would have been
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Colton Estes Quarles English III-4 6 January 2017 Modern Day Witch Hunt More than 18 million citizens were put in concentration camps in Western Europe during 1939 through 1945. Approximately 11 million people died during those time with 1 million of them being children. Adolf Hitler‚ who was the Chancellor of Germany‚ targeted people who had different beliefs then him. This is why the Holocaust is a modern day "witch hunt". Holocaust is similar to the "witch hunt" in Salem because of how
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William Shakespeare’s works have spanned through generations and are still celebrated to this day. The importance of the prevalence of theatrical works is this: that characters are assigned a certain role and often stick to that character’s’ limitations or grow in a way that serves the plot. The importance of this‚ however‚ is not that each character plays a certain role‚ but rather that those separate roles exist. Therefore‚ the analysis and comparison of the principles of each time will show
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Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy‚ an epic poem which was split into three parts: The Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory)‚ and Paradiso (Paradise). The Divine Comedy is a religious allegory‚ which teaches a moral lesson. The Inferno is a telling of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. He begins his journey through Hell on Good Friday and ends on Easter Sunday. This symbolizes the journey of Jesus‚ crucified on Good Friday‚ where he descended into Hell and resurrected to live
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sentenced him to death. They dragged Stephen out of the city and stoned him. Right before he died‚ Stephen said “Lord do not hold this sin against them”‚ he then died. Stephen was very significant because he was considered to be the first martyr. My “modern day” martyr is Father Ragheed Ganni. This priest was born in Iraq in 1972 in Iraq. Father Ganni studied and Rome and
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of our modern day civilized life. A key person of interest in our World’s most prominent literature is Dante. Famous for his beautifully crafted Divine Comedy‚ Dante has provided the basis for Italian literature even until this day. Throughout his Journey through the circles of Hell‚ Dante imagines many prominent figures in history who have been banished to Hell by God. None are more controversial than those of the Islamic faith because of his depictions of Muhammad. Throughout
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Haiti’s modern day slavery start with children. The specific term is “Restavec” or “staying with” as a translation in French. The use of Restavek takes children away from their homes and force them into solitude in a rural neighborhood unlike their own. However‚ slavery existed over 200 years ago as Haiti was a site for free slaves but contemporary slavery still exists. The Haitian revolution gave Haiti independent in 1804. The Code Noir or black code was to prevent slaves from pertaining freedom
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Expect No Mercy What goes around comes around. When sinners reach hell they are forced to experience the counter-suffering of contrapasso. For each sin‚ Dante gives a specific punishment relating to that sin. Some of these sins include violence towards self‚ violence towards God‚ sorcery‚ and hypocrisy. For the despicable lives they lived on earth‚ they are doomed to suffer relating consequences for all of eternity. “No green leaves‚ but rather black in color‚ no smooth branches‚ but twisted
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to fit our modern society. Katherine (the shrew) refers to Katarina (Kat)‚ in the play the tamer of the shrew corresponds too Petruccio while in the movie refers to Patrick or (or ‘pat’). The changes in the names are quite noticeable. In both the play and the movie Katherine’s and Katarina’s sisters name is the same‚ Bianca. The language of the text is an obvious sign of the type culture present in shakspeare’s era. Shakspearean English is more poetic and advanced then our present day lingo.
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in theatre are called actors or thespians. Modern day theatre is influenced by the ancient Greeks because it uses the same terms and basic play structure for performances. A lot of languages now still use words‚ terms‚ phrases and roots from the ancient Greek language.
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