Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it! Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60‚000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough‚ wait till you get a boss. Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger
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What formal features of Romeo and Juliet might lead critics to categorise it as a tragedy? To analyse the formal tragic features of Romeo and Juliet which could lead to its critical classification as a tragedy first and foremost is the understanding of the formal definition of tragedy as given by Aristotle and the understanding of it with regards to Senecan tragedy which provided the model for Elizabethan tragedy‚ and the contemporary view of tragedy. Aristotle’s formal elements of tragedy
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Percival Everett put a 70 page novella called My Pafology into the middle of his novel‚ Erasure‚ in order to criticize the authors‚ audience‚ and industry of African-American novels. He uses the form of meta-fiction‚ and tells the story from the perspective of the novel’s protagonist‚ an author named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. From the beginning‚ Monk makes it clear that society is mistaken in its identification of “black life” by telling the reader how much he doesn’t fit in. “While in college
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Archaeology The Nature of Archaeology History: Focuses on written sources‚ written sources restricted to the last 5500 years‚ written sources are limited to literate societies‚ written sources from ancient societies were mostly written by men‚ reflecting a male bias. Archaeology: Focuses on physical sources‚ physical sources extend as far back as the beginning of human history into prehistory‚ physical artefacts provide information about all human activity‚ and archaeologists usually study
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This image describes and symbolizes a struggle between two opposing mythical warriors. Both from different worlds and ways of life‚ both attempting to conquer the other in battle. The first being in the image (the one on the right that is about to slay his enemy) is a great mythological warrior‚ the son of Peleus‚ named Achilles. Achilles is a famous Greek hero that many Greek citizens‚ at that time‚ could relate themselves too. He had characteristics that almost any Greek male wanted to imitate
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was Queen of Laconia‚ a province within Homeric Greece‚ the wife of King Menelaus. Her abduction by Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ brought about the Trojan War. Elements of her putative biography come from classical authors such as Aristophanes‚ Cicero‚ Euripides and Homer (both The Iliad and The Odyssey). In her youth she was abducted by‚ or eloped with‚ Theseus‚ and in some accounts bore him a child. A competition between her suitors for her hand in marriage sees Menelaus emerge victorious. An oath sworn
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The second epigraph in the book is “Never that which is shall die” – Euripides. Robert’s final act on earth captures his essence. All the characters who have a transcript in this novel remember Robert Ross in different ways‚ depending on their relativity of truth; some consider him a hero‚ and some a traitor. Although he is dead‚ the metaphorical footprint he leaves on the world in his final act‚ remains in the mind of all those who knew him. Robert Ross’ eventual demise at the end of the novel‚
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In a drama‚ a tragedy is the occurrence of unfortunate and consequently‚ disastrous events or circumstances that fall upon the protagonist in the play. Looking back hundreds of years ago we come across playwrights like Shakespeare and Euripides. Both have written some very tragic pieces‚ but which one wins for writing the most tragic play? A comparison between Hamlet and The Bacchae shows many similarities but also‚ many differences. This two pieces show very revealing characters enduring human struggle
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theatre seems to have its roots in religious celebration that incorporated song and dance. Like this Greek theater shadowed by the religious aspects of the Greeks we can easily find the reflections of religious beliefs in the plays of Homer‚ Iliad‚ Euripides‚ Aeschylus and Sophocles. Later‚ a Greek philosopher who was student of Plato revealed six essential elements of theater through his seminal theatrical critique ‘Poetics’. These elements are Plot‚ Character‚ Idea‚ Language‚ Music and Spectacle. Where
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Structuralism and “The Wars” Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He has written many novels such as The Last of the Crazy People and The Butterfly Plague. Findley also writes an extraordinary novel titled The Wars. This novel is about a young man whose name is Robert Ross and is on his way to war because he feels guilty about the death of his sister. Mentally and physically he is not ready for war because he feels much violated of his privacy. As Robert is in the war to end
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