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    Comedies were performed in the Great Dionysia just like tragedies; also comedies were entered in contests in other festival‚ known as the Lesser Dionysia‚ and it was celebrated in the winter. Comedies combined poetry with coarse language. For example they featured buffoonery‚ slapstick‚ obscenity‚ and horseplay. The comedy actors dressed in weird costumes that had paddled bellies or rumps for outrageous effects. “The comic playwrights made their own plots and they focused on important matters

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    Homecoming by Bruce Dawe

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    Homecoming by Bruce Dawe The Vietnam War was the “unpopular” war and was intensely criticized by the Australian people for the reasons stated in the poem‚ Homecoming‚ by Bruce Dawe. In the poem “Homecoming” by Bruce Dawe‚ Dawe identifies his personal concerns of the Vietnam War and then presents them through the use of poetic techniques. It is clear to us that Dawe’s foremost concerns are that of the number of dead‚ the lack of respect and the dehumanisation of the dead‚ and the careless attitude

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    Comedy Essay

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    Memories will never fade. A lot of people in today’s generation are easily embarrassed. Sensitivity can be the reason why‚ or it can just be one did something very stupid. Some people just don’t seem to get embarrassed because they just see the funny side to it. I was asked to write about a funny moment I have experienced while being on the Bar-Ilan one-year program. When I think about it‚ I definitely have a sense of humor‚ however‚ I have an inner feeling that lacks satisfaction. Satisfaction

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    The Divine Comedy summary

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    Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is a trilogy of poems describing three realms of the afterlife. Each of the three books in “The Divine Comedy” symbolize an afterlife station‚ “Inferno” representing hell‚ “Purgatorio” representing purgatory and “Parasido” representing paradise. The story is told in the first person‚ and is originally written in Italian‚ the language of the masses. This was unusual as most literary works of the time were written in Latin‚ a language not easily read by the common person

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    Habits How are habits formed? How can they be changed? 11/9/2013 Psychology 103 Almost everyone (if not all people) have a habit; it could be a good habit or a bad one. One thing most do not know is how a habit is formed? Can they be changed? A habit is a recurrent‚ often unconscious pattern of behaviors that is acquired through frequent repetition‚ and tends to occur subconsciously. Habits emerge because the brain is constantly seeking ways to conserve energy. It looks for a cue that

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    Bruce Dawe - Americanized

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    Bruce Dawe is strongly opposed to consumerism‚ as shown through his poem‚ Americanized. The poem is written in a predominantly bitter and ironic tone. The title itself is ironic. Bruce Dawe is Australian and has spelled the title using American spelling rather than Australian spelling‚ with the ‘s’ being replaced by a ‘z’. Stanza one is set in the morning at breakfast time. It involves the mother and her child. Instead of the usual loving mother‚ we see a cold mother and one that is doubtful of

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    Comedy Of Errors Essay

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    A Comedy of Errors is made better by the July 15th production because of the physical acting‚ portrayal of both Antipholous’ and Dromio’s relationships‚ and the situational comedy of Shakespeare. Physicality is the biggest addition to Shakespeare’s original piece. Some of these instances aren’t in Shakespeare’s stage directions‚ but only serves to enhance the performance for the audience. The first time Antipholous S. comes into contact with his twin brother’s wife for example. In the play Adriana

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    Fixin’ Nixon After the infamous Watergate incident‚ President Nixon was looked at as the worst ever occupant of the white house. Although he had some flaws‚ Nixon did many good things for America that changed our country for the better. History has definitely not judged him fairly. Nixon‚ who was the 37th President of the United States‚ did do a lot of good things while in office. In 1972‚ he reopened America’s relations with China‚ which was necessary to acquiring the goods our country needed.

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    Bruce Dawe Speech

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    are born and raised in a house with a family who influence your every move and important lifestyle choices. Dawe demonstrates how something as simple as sport can be more important throughout a person’s entire life Poetry expresses an individual’s most intense emotions in the least amount of words. In the poems ‘Enter Without So Much As Knocking’ and ‘Life Cycle’ Bruce Dawe expresses what the true Australian perspective is in his straight forward way of telling people what living in Australia is

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    Bruce Dawe Essay

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    Essay – Bruce Dawe What is Bruce Dawe saying in ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘Televistas’ about the impact of the media on modern society? In your discussion show how the poem uses persuasive and poetic techniques to convey the viewpoint. There are many different ways for poets to get a message across to an audience about the impact of the media on modern society. The two poems that are closely being looked at are ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘Televistas’‚ both poems are by Bruce Dawe. Dawe brings out the

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