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    Why Muhammad cannot be drawn? Islam has a strict mindset that Allah and Muhammad cannot be drawn and there was an event last year where the whole Saudi Arabia protested against ‘youtube’ for allowing the video of Muhammad to be uploaded. They argue that they have specific reason for these believe. First of all‚ Muslims do not draw their prophet out of respect. This is because no matter how artistic a person could be‚ they would not be able to draw exactly like Muhammad himself as we have only

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    Dorian Gray Motif Notebook Beauty: “If this girl can give soul to those who have lived without one‚ if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly‚ if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own‚ she is worthy of all your adoration‚ worthy of the adoration of the world” (59). Sibyl has inner beauty and Basil realizes that‚ but Lord Henry and Dorian only see the physical or symbolic beauty of her form. This

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    Throughout The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ Dorian Gray struggles with the desire to stay forever young. Because of all the hardships he experiences throughout his life in order to achieve this he loses his innocence along the way and eventually all of what he has done catches up to him and leads to his suicide. To him‚ youth is the only thing that has any importance and he does all that he can in order to maintain youthful without understand the repercussions of his actions until it is too late. One

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    A. Background of the Study Language is one of the most important things in communication and it is used as a tool of communication among nations in all over the world. As an international language‚ English is very important and has many interrelationship with various aspects of life owned by human being. Studying English is not easy for many Indonesian students since it is a foreign language. Foreign language is the language that is being learned not spoken in the local community. Although English

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    passed away before I was born. The only thing I have of them are pictures. These pictures are not color. They are black and white. So‚ I am guessing these were taken sometime in the early 20’s or 30’s. Some of these pictures are faded. By looking at the pictures I can see a lot of history. My grandparents bootlegged moonshine. At that time alcohol was illegal. This didn’t stop my grandparents. They had their own saloon. The picture tells me that my grand parents didn’t care about the law. As long

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    The theme of decadence in The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde Staring from the definition found in the dictionary‚ the decadence is a literary movement especially of late 19th-century France and England characterized by refined aestheticism‚ artifice‚ and the quest for new sensations. [1] In decadence‚ important is not necessarily what is seen‚ but the hermeneutics: what man feels when he sees the creative result of this feeling. It is the current that requires a co-operation

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray is an American horror-drama film centered on Dorian Gray‚ a handsome wealthy young man living in the nineteenth century in London. Even though Dorian is a very intelligent person‚ he often finds himself easily manipulated and this fault will ultimately lead him to failure. Dorian has his picture painted by a friend named Basil‚ and when Dorian meets his friend Lord Henry Wotton‚ his life will soon collapse. Dorian begins to believe that youth

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    In “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde‚ one of the most distinct and significant motifs is that of the color white. The color white is often associated with light‚ goodness‚ innocence‚ and purity. The meaning of this color evolves as the novel progresses‚ changing in relation to Dorian’s character. The deteriorating portrait is a reminder of this loss of innocence and purity‚ and it shows the detrimental effects of sin. The sins Dorian commit disfigure the beauty of the portrait. Although

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    Nature of Society” in Oscar Wilde’s single novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The main reason why this novel has been chosen is because the title of the novel attracted my attention. Moreover‚ the idea of a portrait that changes appearance raised my curiosity to read and analyze the novel. The goal of this diploma paper is to explore the disagreement between Victorian values and reality by reading and analyzing the above mentioned novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray does not display exactly the theme of

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    Before the 1930’s or the first set of "talking picture films‚" all films were completely silent. Usually‚ they had some form of text card that would flash upon the screen explaining what had happened in the previous scene. To keep the film from just being a projected book‚ the film would be accompanied with anything from full orchestras to a pianist. A correctly timed note or a special tone would almost give a sense of depth to a two-dimensional image. Not only this‚ but the music had a second purpose

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