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    The ideas of love and family are popular in literature and often express the writer’s own feelings on them. Shakespeare is a famous playwright who would often cover these subjects. It is often debated how Shakespeare viewed these ideas because of some of his contradicting works. However in his works‚ Shakespeare often has lovers put in struggle and families that do not seem to care. Shakespeare takes a negative outlook on how family much family cares for and knows about each other‚ and also how loves

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    Trey’s Wuthering Heights Vocab List: Remember folks‚ use CTRL+F to search this X/Y/Z = X Y Z; the /’s are spaces Chapters 1-3‚ Chapters 4-9‚ Chapters 10-17‚ Chapters 18-24‚ Chapters 25-30‚ Chapters 31-34 Misanthropist: Hates mankind Manifested: To appear (also: ship’s cargo) Flags: Flat stones used to pave walkways Soliloquize: Talking to yourself Peevish: Having strong annoyance; Pissed-off Ejaculation: Sudden forceful speech HURR DURR LETS USE THIS ON EVERY LINE OF THE BOOK Surly: Rude

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    Marie Gordon Studying a Modern Play What does the play’s setting contribute to its dramatic effect? A Streetcar Named Desire shows the extent to which the American South is less a geographical expression than an entire way of life. Even today‚ the South’s distinctive culture‚ food‚ literature and music have influenced the rest of the country immensely. Tennessee Williams explored the cultural and spiritual experience of the South‚ to which he belonged and in Streetcar he dramatizes

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    (εὐιώτας χορούς) by performing a song. This cultic activity seems to take place in a utopian locus removed from ordinary existence and is described by the use of a group of features used by many archaic poets to describe various places such as the Elysium‚ the Islands of the Blest‚ the Hesperides’ Island or Olympus. It can be supposed that this fragment comes from the beginning of a poem where the landscape was amply described before a god was invoked (as in Sappho’s 2 V). In fragment 26 CA the gathering

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    Afterlife In philosophy‚ religion‚ mythology‚ and fiction‚ the afterlife is known as the concept of a realm‚ in which the necessary part of an individual’s identity continues to live on after the death of the body. Belief in the afterlife‚ which may be naturalistic or supernatural‚ is in contrast to the belief in nothingness after death. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion‚ esotericism and metaphysics. In many cultures‚ this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm

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    sexual preference was not a reason for gender reversal. Viola/Cesario who has just lost her brother in a shipwreck feels that she needs to dress as a man to survive on the island of Illyria. "And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance his not drown’d what you think." Viola changes her name to Cesario and begins her new life as a man. Viola/Cesario crosses the boundaries and becomes Orsino’s best servant. This portrayal of a woman successfully imitating a man is an

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    In Dante’s Inferno‚ Dante incorporates Virgil’s depiction of the Underworld from The Aeneid into his poem‚ and borrows much of Virgil’s language‚ style‚ and content. Although the Hell depicted in Dante’s Inferno is essentially grounded in the literary construction of the netherworld found in Virgil’s The Aeneid‚ in their features‚ the two realms are quite different. Virgil’s underworld stands largely undifferentiated‚ and Aeneas walks through it without taking any specific notice of the landscape

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    Living through a dystopian world In a dystopian story‚ society itself is typically the antagonist; it is society that is actively working against the protagonist’s aims and desires. This oppression frequently is enacted by a totalitarian or authoritarian government‚ resulting in the loss of civil liberties and untenable living conditions‚ caused by any number of circumstances‚ such as world overpopulation‚ laws controlling a person’s sexual or reproductive freedom‚ and living under constant surveillance

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    Vivian Kuo HUM 110 Online Oct 10‚ 2012 Women History Paper- Coco Chanel Coco Chanel once said‚ “Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem‚ the most important problem‚ is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous (Bio.com‚ 1993).” I want to write on Coco Chanel particularly because of her everlasting contributions to the women and men’s fashion industry in our patriarchal

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    the mid-1940s. It follows the lives of Stanley Kowalski‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Blanche DuBois and the story about a woman coming to visit her sister‚ which ends up going just as bad as any family reunion has ever gone. From the moment Blanche got to Elysium Fields‚ her and Stanley‚ Stella’s husband‚ appear as polar opposites and are constantly at war with each other. They never can agree on anything‚ are always arguing and shouting at one another‚ and want the loyalty of Stella all for themselves. Their

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