Keith Hamrick 4/26/2010 Creative Presentation – Les Miserables as a Musical Les Miserables (Les Mis for short) is a musical that was composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg with the libretto‚ or text‚ by Alain Boublill and lyrics by Herbert. It is one of the most performed and well-known musicals in the world. On October 8‚ 2006 Les Miserables celebrated 21 years on London’s West End and became the longest running West End musical in history‚ reaching 9‚500 performances
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How It Feels To Be Colored Me “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” is an original writing from Zora Neale Hurston. The writing describes Zora Hurston’s own perception of her life and being colored. Zora begins by describing her life in the small all colored town of Eatonville‚ Florida. The town had no whites except for those that passed through. Most people didn’t acknowledge the whites that passed through but she was fond of them and enjoyed talking and preforming for them. She did not see the whites
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reader. Both the writers of ‘Flight’ and ‘Your Shoes’ the narrative technique of symbolism. In ‘Flight’ the grandfather uses a pigeon and in ‘Your Shoes’ the mother uses a pair of new white training shoes (trainers). Both symbolise purity‚ they are portrayed as precious and in need of being looked after. In both stories‚ the treatment of the symbolic objects shows how both the grandfather and the mother wish to protect their loved ones from the evils of the outside world. They are also showing that
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live in these bodies are actually living a kind of death. The status of this dialogue as a dream also raises the question of whether it is more or less real than walking life. At the beginning of the dialogue Scipio says that he recognizes his grandfather Africanus who was more familiar from his" image". This theme of a heavenly dream turns out to be more real than the things of this earth pertains to be. Instead Africanus encourages Scipio to go beyond the opinions of others and be true to his own
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Tyler Jones Brown Eng. 12/ p.2 When I was One-and-Twenty In the poem‚ When I Was One-And-Twenty‚ by A. E. Housman‚ the author begins by describing the setting around the time when he was twenty-one. He mentions how an older man had given him some advice. The wise man could possibly be a mentor‚ father‚ grandfather‚ or another male figure in the author’s life. The wise man tells the author‚ “Give crowns and pounds and guineas‚ but not your heart away.” The man means that you can give away
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“Artificial Nigger” & “Judgement Day” Analysis Regarding Color After reading this story over five times I certainly think I have an understanding of what this story is about. Mr. Head is an old racist who believes everything that he says is word. He is domineering and seems to argue with Nelson whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be about the place Nelson calls home or the color of skin. Nelson is only ten; it makes you wonder why a man who is supposedly intelligent seems awfully absurd
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not proud to be related to Rizal. Instead he gave a faded photocopy handed by his maid‚ an article of an Ilocos Review by a grandson of Isabelo de los Reyes showing how Rizals of Calamba were related to Florentinos of Ilocos‚ then the 24-year old grandfather of Rizal‚ Lorenzo Alberto Alonso‚ had married a 12-year old Ilocana name Paulo Florentino in 1814. Years later‚ found the same Lorenzo Alberto Alonso in Binan living-in with Brigida Quintos‚ where they had five children including Teodora Alonso
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Darwin married Emma Wedgwood‚ his cousin‚ and they moved in to a house in London where Darwin could focus on his work. His health started to fail‚ so they moved to the country. Darwin soon became entangled in the enormous project of dissecting and describing all of the barnacles of the world. The project took eight years and in 1854 he finally finished‚ and was able to turn back to the problem of evolution.
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Cotton Mather Description: He was the son of Increase Mather‚ and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather‚ all also prominent Puritan ministers. Mather was named after his maternal grandfather‚ John Cotton. He attended Boston Latin School‚ where his name was posthumously added to its Hall of Fame‚ and graduated from Harvard in 1678 at age 15. After completing his post-graduate work‚ he joined his father as assistant pastor of Boston’s original North Church.[1] In 1685 Mather assumed
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story written by Alice Walker. Walker tells us about her experiences and knowledge with cigarettes‚ the effects it had on her father‚ sister and self‚ and relating them to her daughter’s problem with smoking. Furthermore Walker touches on history‚ describing her father’s terrible death due to cigarettes and also a brief description of the history of tobacco. In reference to her past experience with smoking and in an attempt to prevent a reoccurrence of these bygone events‚ Walker strives to convince
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