“Write an essay on the character of Betty in both acts of Cloud Nine. Your answer should refer to cross-dressing‚ role doubling‚ and the themes of sexuality and identity." Cloud Nine is a play which explores themes of sexuality and identity through cross-dressing and role doubling. Caryl Churchill uses these techniques in a way which is humorous to the audience‚ often due to the way characters are presented‚ but she also manages to achieve a serious and significant underlying meaning or message
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An Opening in the Clouds Essay In countries all over the world‚ people‚ especially teenagers‚ have problems finding themselves‚ figuring out what they want to do with their life and finding their own freedom. There is different ways to obtain this‚ but no matter what path you choose‚ you need to somehow change and develop. In this story we hear about a 19-year old girl named Cassie‚ who is trying to do exactly this. “Monday. It is Monday. Essay there is an essay due‚ important‚ due for Tuesday
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CLOUD COMPUTING IN EDUCATION Abstract The students nowadays are demanding more technology services from their schools. It’s important not only to keep pace with their evolving needs‚ but also to prepare them for the demands of the workplace tomorrow. At the same time‚ education institutions are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less‚ and they need to find ways to offer rich‚ affordable services and tools. Cloud computing can help provide those solutions. It’s a network of computing
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some humor to them. However‚ I thought you should have had a few more slides that had a more serious approach because you are talking about a sad reality in the world. You did incorporate sources throughout the speech backing up the claims you were making. Carlos did use Pathos in his speech when he asked the audience how they would feel if one of their siblings was taken away from them. As for logos‚ he did have some good facts that helped the audience come to the realization of how serious the problem
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Through many of his poems‚ William Carlos Williams presents the reality of poverty among a great portion of the American society. Within Williams’ work of Selected Poems‚ he not only reveals the trapped lifestyle of those living in poverty‚ but he also represents the horror of the war between social classes along with the coinciding war on the poor. Williams’ use of plutonic images among these poems provides powerful meaning to his argument of American societal values‚ claiming the men of America
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“Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” Both poets of “ Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” depict nature in their poems in different ways as well as similar ways with the usage of imagery‚ figurative devices and through the structure. Vachel Lindsay talks about the approaching of modernization and its wreckage to the natural environment‚ including the buffaloes. Boey Kim Cheng is informing about the disintegration of nature by man to ‘Wordsworth‚’ who is the
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AP 1st block 4 February 2013 Analysis of William Faulkner’s Noble Prize of Literature Acceptance Speech William Faulkner was an often misunderstood writer of many novels and short stories. ("William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech ") It was not until 1949 and after his death when he was given the Nobel Prize in Literature that people began to acknowledge him and his works. ("William Faulkner") In his Nobel Prize of Literature acceptance speech‚ at the city hall in Stockholm on December
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understanding. By beginning with that line it only opens the readers mind to the narrator’s thoughts of uncertainty making it easier for us as readers to understand. As a reader I enjoyed the story because it was simple and to the point‚ unlike William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Edger Allan Poe’s stories. There isn’t particularly a metaphorical meaning to it‚ and it can be read over and over again and I can still feel the same simplistic beauty I did the first time. I believe the rhyming and
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The protagonist‚ Little Chandler‚ of James Joyce’s short story "The Little Cloud" is a weak‚ timid man. Chandler is unable to express his feeling through either reading or writing poems and his mind is always thinking of "his friend’s success". These factors lead to an internal conflict he experiences within himself. The internal conflict of Little Chandler is revealed in the narrator’s comments‚ Chandler’s comparison with his friend‚ what he thought of his life‚ and even his marriage. At the beginning
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ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are quite familiar‚ and B. Wordsworth‚ a poet-calypsonian who is the society’s solitary creative voice
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