even started was because Abby was in love with a man that wasn’t her’s to have in the first place‚ and she wanted to do anything possible to get rid of his wife so that she could replace her. When Abby’s uncle‚ Reverend Parris‚ catches the girls dancing in the woods‚ Abby goes into defense mode. All she cares about is how she can get herself out of the mess she is in‚ and how she can bring down Elizabeth Proctor and all the other people she doesn’t like in the midst of things. Somehow the only logical
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hypocrisy was beginning to be noticed by the more aware citizens of the Puritan homestead. Reverend Parris‚ a “man of God”; is one of the more dishonest characters in the play. Claiming to be a man of God‚ Parris‚ upon discovering hisniece and daughter dancing in the forest‚ refuses to let Abigail tell the truth because his reputation would be ruined and he would no longer be paid for his services. While exploring his biography‚ the reader may discover how Parris is a former merchant who “turned to God”;
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the strut‚ the waltz‚ and the tango. 6) The Group of Seven was a group of landscape painters‚ who encouraged Canadians to appreciate the beauty of the landscape of Canada. 7) Three forms of entertainment in the 1920s were picnics‚ snowshoeing‚ and dancing. 8) Five popular sports in the 1920s were golf (Sandy Sommerville)‚ basketball (Noel Robertson)‚ hockey (Bill Cook)‚ running (Percy Williams)‚ and swimming (Gertrude Ederle). 9) The “Bluenose” was famous because it won a number of international sailing
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Arrianna Theriot Susan Adams AP English Lit & Comp 17 November 2014 Close Analysis: “Daddy” Sylvia Plath was a talented young woman born to a German father and Austrian-American mother. After the death of her father‚ she fell into a downward spiral of depression‚ revealing her talent as a poet. In the poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses intense diction‚ sporadic syntax‚ and a unique style of figurative language to express the resentment she feels toward her father. Throughout the poem‚ Plath’s German
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Action: When Lane’s husband falls in love with his patient Anna‚ Matilde and Virginia try to help each of them deal with their new life situations while also trying to find their own selves in the process. Act 1 Scene 1: Matilde tells a joke in Portuguese to the audience. Scene 2: Lane tells the audience about how her maid doesn’t clean her house‚ and that she took her to the hospital to be medicated. Scene 3: Virginia tells the audience how she loves to clean her house‚ and that she
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together‚ biking together‚ watching movies‚ eat together‚ and eat ice cream at DQ. I love her because she takes care of me and cooks fabulous food for me and my family. My mom likes chocolate‚ shopping‚ and learning about history‚ and she dislikes dirty dishes‚ Burnt food and loud motorcycles. If I would describe her in 4 words it would
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people were thinking of the good of the country?’’ The Other Side of the Fence 1. When Najaf and Nemat first hear the news at three o’clock in the morning that they are granted visa’s and are able to live in Australia both Najaf and Nemat were dancing in joy but then the security officer had made a mistake and Najaf was furious. After the security officer had got it wrong the first time he had doubt when the second time he had told them that they both had been granted visa’s then eventually they
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Film Analysis of Thelma and Louise Background Thelma and Louise is a 1991 movie directed by Ridely Scott‚ written by Callie Khouri‚ and starring Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis. Louise is a restaurant waitress with a inattentive boyfriend and Thelma is a house wife with an impatient and angry husband. The two women decided to take a break from their caged life and take a road trip. Louise shot a man trying to rape Thelma and they begin a journey of running away from the police. During this journey
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The bread-and-butter of the film industry is the action movie. Each summer‚ audiences can expect to see car chases‚ gunfights and explosions‚ and studios can expect to see millions and millions of dollars in return. Though most viewers and critics see these movies as "fluff" entertainment (and rightfully so)‚ there is one director that puts as much heart and soul into his "fluff" as any number of talented directors put into their "serious" movies. His name is John Woo. Even though you may not have
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drowsy‚ describe the blues‚ the type of music the narrator is hearing. Hughes’ imagery is further reinforced by his description of the ambient light as a “pale dull pallor of an old gas light” (5). An old gas light‚ giving off a faint glow from behind dirty and yellowing glass‚ helps illuminate the weariness of the blues player as he does a lazy sway to his weary blues. Everything described in the poem is melancholy. The “poor piano moan[s] with melody” (10)‚ the stool is rickety‚ and the tune is a
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