“Archie is a scheming and manipulative character who controls the ‘entire school in the palm of his hand’ Do you agree?” In The Chocolate War‚ written by Robert Cormier‚ Archie Costello is the main antagonist who enjoys torturing his victims psychologically. In the novel he is portrayed as a manipulative and cunning person. Archie Costello is a character who is powerful enough to control the entire school. The novel shows how Archie can turn a bad situation for him into a good one – demonstrating
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interpretation of the world around artists can be demonstrated by the exploration of the practice of traditional artist Eugene Von Guerard‚ modernist artist Rosalie Gascoigne and post-modern artist Janet Laurence. It is from this the audience is able to determine how the physical environment has influenced art and in turn provide insight to the varying perspectives on the appreciation of artworks. Eugene Von Guerard (b. Austria 1811 – d. London 1901) is a traditional European artist who explored the western physical
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LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT BY EUGENE ONEILL Act I‚ S 1 Summary: 8:30 AM in the living room of the Tyrone family’s summer home‚ August‚ 1912. The room is adjacent to the kitchen and dining room‚ and there are stairs leading up to the upstairs bedrooms. The living room is handsome and full of books; the collection is impressive‚ and all the more so because the books have the look of having been read. The Tyrone family has just finished having breakfast‚ and Mary and James Tyrone Tyrone enter
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Samuel Beckett‚ Eugene Ionesco‚ and Jean Genet. When the play was originally staged at the Intimate Theatre in 1908‚ its strange‚ avant-garde style and grim view of the world made it unpopular with critics. It wasn’t until the famous director Max Reinhardt staged the play in Berlin in 1916‚ then toured it to Strindberg’s native Sweden in 1917‚ that it won acclaim from audiences and reviewers. Reinhardt’s production toured central Europe through the 1920s‚ and the play was produced by Eugene O’Neill’s Provincetown
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and out of past and present tense‚ the story is simple. Anne (the protagonist) went on a camping trip with her boyfriend Teddy‚ and Eugene Trask (the antagonist) suddenly appeared to murder Teddy‚ then he kidnapped Anne‚ resulting in her missing for four days. In the end‚ Eugene tried to rape her near Lake Pleasant‚ and when she tried to defend herself‚ it gave Eugene a reason to turn and kill her instead. Her body was found near an old mine near Speculator by two kids searching for gold and garnet
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Malcolm X U.S. Black-Rights Activist and Religious Leader As well all know we are in the month of February. February is the month of love and the month to celebrate black history. Today I am going to talk about the one and only Malcolm X. I asked many people who they thought Malcolm X was and none of them knew. They were saying that he was a boxer‚ a black dude‚ or a random guy who was celebrated. But little did they know that he was kind of like Martin Luther King except that he believed in taking
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1 Introduction to African American Studies (AFAM 201) Iowa State University Professor Eric Lewis Williams Spring 201 4 Office: Ross Hall 657 Phone: Office Hours: T BA I. COURSE DESCRIPTION An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of African American culture which includes history‚ the social sciences‚ literature‚ religion‚ and the arts‚ as well as conceptual frameworks for investigation and analysis of the African American
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Dramatic Arts Essay-Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs is a play about a family who comes together due to an unfortunate death and co-exist under one roof while facing financial troubles. I will be discussing the character Nora and the way that she develops herself and reacts towards the other characters. Nora is a sixteen year old girl living in Brighton Beach‚ New York in the late 1930’s. She is Jewish and lives with her mother‚ Blanche and younger sister‚ Laurie‚ in her Uncle’s
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Character List → Brewster Place - The name of the housing development in which the novel is set. Although Brewster Place is a physical structure‚ it is personified and endowed with a spirit that brings it to life. Brewster Place is at once a warm‚ loving community and a desolate and blighted neighborhood on the verge of collapsing. Mattie Michael - The most important character in the novel. Mattie moves to Brewster Place late in life‚ after her son abandons her and forces her to lose her home
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Africa is in Europe. Here is Russia and here is France‚ and we are in the middle. That is my map of Africa.” (Doc 3). He argues that he is focusing on Europe and he is only willing to establish colonies because France and Russia are doing it as well. Eugene-Melchior de Vogue‚ French diplomat‚ describes how the European balance of power is now becoming a world balance of power (Doc 10) in the book‚ The Master of the Sea. Nations would have to develope more colonies in Africa in order to stay visible to
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