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    “The Glass Menagerie” and “The Death of a Salesman” In Tennessee William’s Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ the reader can see two characters who make their best effort to move on from their pasts. Biff and Tom both grudge the lives they feel cornered in‚ as if they were forced on them in the form of family responsibility; while Biff blames Willy‚ Tom blames Amanda. Both characters search for a way out from their sorrowful lives‚ often in the appearance of adventure‚ whether

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    Man Vs Machine

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    Man vs. Machine Scientists are able to study the way dogs‚ cats and any other animal thinks and reacts. We are able to understand the methods by which these animals think and live. However we never can be sure if we understand the way they are thinking or if we just know the way they are thinking through our own perspective. No matter how many times we try to put ourselves in the place of an animal we will still be seeing that animals life through the perspective of a humans. If we can never view

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    Man vs Nature

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    This poem “Kangaroos near Hay” by John Foulcher is a poem that represents man vs nature‚ this concept is shown through the image of a kangaroo being horse like‚ through the opening lines “head like a horse.” This reinforces an image of power and full of strength‚ to being twisted by the back bone into a coil which gives a very powerful‚ violent and gruesome image in the mind of readers. In the opening line “into a coil‚ a scythe”‚ this juxtaposition between “head like a horse”‚ refers to a majestic

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    The CD I review was “Fanfare for the common man‚ The man and his music on Aaron Copland” conducted Michael Tilson Thomas. The style of music is classical and the music is played by the San Francisco symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas had a personal relationship with Aaron Copland and admired him in many ways. Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film. He was also a well known pianist. He was born in 1900 and died in 1990. The style of music Aaron Copland wrote was modern music

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    About twenty minutes after the chat with the policeman‚ a man walks up to me. “Bob is that you?” asks the man “Is that you Jimmy?” I ask hopefully “ oh my gosh‚ long time no see‚ old pal‚ follow me to a shop so we can sit down and chat!” “lead the way.” said jimmy “Ok‚ how has the world treated you?” asked Jimmy “Bully‚ I have

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    stuck becoming something they don’t like or simply aren’t good at. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a son named Hamlet is trying to avenge his father’s death who was killed by his own brother who marries his wife. The father of Hamlet is old Hamlet who comes back as a ghost demanding his son to kill his uncle but to leave his mother alone.In Miller’s The Death of a Salesman the father Willy wants his oldest son Biff to become

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    philosophical book that focuses on literary theory. Through this‚ he created the tragic hero and states‚ “a man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his downfall.” According to Aristotle‚ the hero must endure a reversal of fortune (peripeteia) due to his tragic flaw (hamartia). They must then discover their mistake (anagnorisis) and receive their harsh fate. Arthur Miller’s play‚ Death of a Salesman‚ mostly portrays Willy Loman‚ the main character‚ as a tragic hero. Willy believes wholeheartedly

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    Welfare Vs Common Welfare

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    Our nation protects the common welfare while protecting our natural rights. There is controversy‚ on some issues‚ whether the common welfare‚ the whole country‚ is more significant than the individual rights of the people. However‚ one simply cannot be more vital since they correspond with each other. The definition of common welfare is what is in the best interests of everyone in the country while natural rights are the right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration

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    Nadia Fayad English 91 First draft title This play is real to life ‚and shows us a man struggling to have that American dream. Death of A Sales Man is about a salesman’s ‚Willy Loman that is trying to suicide the American dream At the age of sixty-three Willy loman has lost control of his life or he’s relationship with his older son biff. Willy’s betrayal of cheating on is wife Linda ‚and him loosing biff had lead him to suicide

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    The theme of “The American Dream” is similar in “Death of a Salesman” and “A Raisin in the Sun” because in both the families struggle to attain their “dream”. In “Death of a Salesman”‚ Willy has trouble getting somewhere in life‚ because he thinks the way to do it is though being well-liked and charming. Both of Willie’s sons also struggle to achieve their “dream” because their entire lives Willy made it seem that they were better than everyone else. Because of this mindset‚ they could not accomplish

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