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    Friday Night Lights Captivating audiences and myself from the first episode‚ Friday Night Lights‚ has a complex and dramatic plot line. Dillon‚ a small Texas town‚ rallies around the high school football team on their journey to the state football championship‚ but the voyage is not without love‚ drama‚ and learning experiences. The characters within the program have diverse dispositions‚ representing the wide variety of personalities within Southern culture. Friday Night Lights exploits the events

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    others‚ the buffoon is represented as an eclectic person paid to say the truth in a comic manner through songs and jokes. Even though Feste in Twelth Night does not speak frequently in the first and second acts‚ he says enough for us to see that he is an observant and clever man. Firstly‚ well associated with the spirit of the twelfth night‚ the night where society reverses roles‚ Feste reflects joy. His name is a great example of the happiness he expresses. Feste sounds a lot like the French word

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    William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi are fascinating plays with convoluted plots that cause the reader to ponder the possible differences of females roles in 17th century society versus the present day. This is what makes the plays so amazing and interesting‚ as good literature can easily invoke feelings in its reader‚ challenging personal morals and beliefs. " In early Modern England‚ both gender and hierarchy‚ with the man at the top‚ and the husband’s patriarchal

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    William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night features many love relationships. These relationships can be difficult to follow. At the beginning of the play‚ Olivia the beautiful heiress‚ has sworn off men for seven years because of the recent deaths of her brother and father. However‚ when a new attractive male‚ Cesario comes to Illyria Olivia quickly shifts her thoughts on men. Desperate to find a man to tell her what to do‚ Olivia quickly falls into infatuation. This infatuation is evident because

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    Van Gogh’s Starry Eyes Brings Out a Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is probably his most famous painting. Instantly recognizable because of its unique style‚ this work has been the subject of poetry‚ fiction‚ CD-ROMs as well as the well known song "Vincent" or "Starry‚ Starry Night" by Don McLean. Starry Night was painted in the mental asylum of Saint-Remy‚ 13 months before Van Gogh’s death at the age of 37. This exemplary painting was made using oil paints on a canvas with the size

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    “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – Albert Einstein. This cannot be more true in the case of William Shakespeare. In regards to his play Twelfth Night his creative genius is seen in his ability to create sharp and clever characters through perfectly crafted plots and themes. His aptitude to generate characters that goes against the dictate of society such as Viola and Maria marks him as one of the greatest playwrights of his age. However‚ his facilities as a writer

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    There is a much deeper meaning to the works of art titled Apse Mosaic done in the St. Apollinare‚ and The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Both are very different forms of art and have what is known as a visionary experience. A visionary experience is known as a visual representation of culture or a meaning personal to either the creator or viewer. Apse Mosaic is a mosaic form of art done in the St. Apollinare‚ and represents another representation of Christ and the many symbols affiliated with

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    “Hamlet” and “Twelfth Night” are two Shakespeare plays of complete opposites. Due to one being written as a tragedy‚ and the other as a comedy‚ many comparisons can be drawn between the two plays‚ on themes and motifs that develop throughout the plays. One of the themes that is easily recognisable in the early stages of both plays‚ is that of deceit and disguise. In “Hamlet”‚ we learn early on that Hamlet decides to act as a madman in order to try and weed out a confession from his uncle about the

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    Marriage in the Role Reversal of Twelfth Night Wouldn’t it be great to somehow wake up one morning in a beautiful house? How about owning an expensive new car? It is safe to say that practically everyone in the world is hoping that someday somehow they will become very successful and rise into a status of power and respect. This concept can be applied to the characters in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Just as Jesse Goldberg stated‚ Twelfth Night focuses on the desires of characters and “certain

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    The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa‚ Texas. The film is a more fictionalized account of the book it’s based on‚ written by author H.G. Bissinger and downplays the more intense issues that plagued Odessa when Bissinger followed the team during the 1988 season. (Briley 1) The film follows Coach Gary Gaines (portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton) as he coaches the Panthers in the football obsessed town. The film portrays

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