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    Friends: a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another person. Romantic Partners: Romantic love is a relative term‚ but generally accepted as a definition that distinguishes moments and situations within intimate relationships to an individual as contributing to a significant relationship connection. Relatives: a person connected by blood or marriage. Acquaintances: there is familiarity with someone‚ but there isn’t a personal relationship. Most of the relationships I have I meet the

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    Like most great writers‚ Shakespeare acquired his inspiration from the world that transpired around him. Cultural politics and social norms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era are revealing too many readers through Shakespearean literature. In the play Hamlet‚ Shakespeare displayed precise concepts of the time period he was living in. The most evident concept shown in the play is the struggle for power between ruthless monarchs. This is most prominently noticed in the play when Claudius murders King

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    Protestant churches and executed its followers. After her death‚ her husband King Philip II of Spain gained interest of the British Empire. This sparked conflict between both nations. From 1558 to 1603‚ often referred as “The Golden Age” and “The Elizabethan Era” of England‚ Elizabeth I she accomplished great feats. She was able to defeat the great Spanish Armada‚ reestablish Protestant faith throughout England‚ and experience the new age of literature and play.

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    Wedmore‚ Haley V.‚ "Autism spectrum disorders and romantic intimacy". Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 10143. The paper written by Haley V. Wedmore discusses the challenges that autistic individuals face when pursuing romantic relationships. Due to our present society believing that intimacy which typically leads to the production of family as an important part of the human experience. She discusses the impairments that this disorder brings in terms of communication‚ social understanding

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    Love in Disguise: Analysis of a Shakespearean Comedy Throughout Twelfth Night Shakespeare uses the art of disguise to complicate the relationships formed between the characters of the play. The first character to assume a disguise was Viola who disguised herself as a man in order to get a good job for the count. Other examples of disguise include Malvolio who dresses in cross-garters in order to try and impress Olivia and Feste who pretends to be Sir Topas while Malvolio is locked in the dark

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    No Place to Be Somebody Review The show‚ No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy‚ took place in the Pavilion Theatre on October 4th at 7:30 pm. The show was written by Charles Gordone in 1967. The show takes place during the Civil Rights era and basically consisited of an african american bartender and a white mobster being at conflict. The show was very powerful and played out extremely well. The three main things that made the show wonderful were the actors‚ the objects used in the show

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    Trevor Nunn’s adaptation of "Twelfth Night" is a masterpiece of insight and nuance. Instead of simply playing this gender-bending comedy of mistaken identity‚ the director highlights the dark undertones of the plot which show surprising depth. There are some alterations from the original text‚ but those who are less familiar with Shakespeare among the audience can appreciate the story being more easy to follow. For example‚ when Duke Orsino utters the famous opening line of the play‚ "If music be

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    William Blake lived from 1757-1827. He based most of his works in the style of Romanticism. Much like William Wordsworth‚ Blake wrote from the heart‚ letting natural expression take over. Many of the writers of the Romantic period felt they had entered an imaginative climate‚ which some of them called "the Spirit Age." During this "Spirit Age‚" many authors felt that freedom and spontaneity were the key elements in poetry. Before this creative revolution‚ a poem was considered a classical work of

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    Shakespeare’s comedy is based on cruelty and subversion discuss. Shakespeare created comedy in Much Ado through the characters behaviour‚ dialogue and prose but his comedy is often seen as cruel and subversive. Cruelty can be defined in many ways‚ one definition is behaviour which causes physical or mental harm to another‚ another is to inflict pain or suffering and enjoy the pain or distress of others. Plato said that ‘laughter is an emotion that overrides rational self-control’. From this definition

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    Of Bread and Wine The situation of our region‚ lying near unto the north‚ doth cause the heat of our stomachs to be of somewhat greater force: therefore our bodies do crave a little more ample nourishment than the inhabitants of the hotter regions are accustomed withal‚ whose digestive force is not altogether so vehement‚ because their internal heat is not so strong as ours‚ which is kept in by the coldness of the air that from time to time (especially in winter) doth environ our bodies. — Wm

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