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    “Othello‚ the Moor of Venice‚” is a play written by William Shakespeare sometime during the beginning of the 1600s. Typical of plays at the time‚ it was written in a dramatic style and tells the tragic story of Othello‚ a general in the Venetian army‚ and his marriage to Desdemona‚ the daughter of a politician in Venice. Influenced by the jealous Iago‚ a man who has multiple ulterior motives throughout the play‚ Othello becomes transfixed on the idea that his wife is having an affair with his recently

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    Essay 3 Toy guns: To Play or Not to Play Jennifer Thompson Baker College Online Division Children all over the world have been playing with toy guns for generations. There are some toy guns that shoot darts‚ some that shoot BB’s‚ and some that make a loud blast or noise. Some toy guns look very cartoonish and are bright colored‚ but some look very much like real guns‚ and are hard to tell that they are toys. Lately there has been so much gun violence affecting our world there has begun a heated

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    chosen to analyze is a letter titled Dear Racists‚ written by Charlemagne the God in 2015. Charlemagne the God‚ or Lenard Mckelvey‚ is a proclaimed TV and radio personality who speaks on behalf of Black Americans. Mckelvey’s letter is directed towards white Americans and its purpose is to make the end of racism start with white Americans denounce racist white Americans. He does this by reminiscing the events of racial injustices across the country. He depicts racist white Americans as “subhuman‚ savage

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    Throughout Shakespeare’s work‚ more famously in “Hamlet”‚ “Romeo and Juliet”‚ “Othello”‚ and “Merchant of Venice”‚ there are cleverly placed puns in the poems‚ plays‚ and some sonnets. A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. These puns are either overlooked‚ unrecognized‚ or not credited well enough. The puns that Shakespeare utilizes in each of his works can have either an erotic‚ humorous

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    “Death in Venice” starts with the author‚ Thomas Mann‚ introducing Aschenbach‚ an honorable‚ rational and well thought out older man who lives in Germany. All Aschenbach wants to do is become successful in his field of work‚ writing. As a young child‚ Aschenbach was raised to be a successful‚ fundamental and polite person‚ creating apollonian like qualities within him. But as the book goes on‚ Aschenbach’s apollonian like qualities seem to dissipate‚ leading this careful‚ fundamental person to a

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    Luke Williams THTRE 110 Theatre Critique 10/10/14 Avenue Q Critique I saw on October 4th a play called Avenue Q at Illinois Central College Performing Arts Center. Avenue Q had four directors. Here they are as follows‚ Chris Gray-Director‚ Julie Clemens- Music Director‚ Tony Jones- Orchestra Director‚ and Jarrod Bainter- Technical Director. They play had eleven actors. Here are their names followed by who they performed as. Trisha Bagby- Kate Monster‚ Ryan Groves- Princeton‚ Matthew Henry- Gary

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    Few books in American literature have been as influential or as controversial as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Many critics consider the novel to be racist due to the use of racial slurs and the unflattering depiction of the South. However‚ Mark Twain was not a racist but a true revolutionary who shed light on a dark time in American history. Twain uses the protagonist Huck Finn and the Mississippi River to help guide the reader through a time of turmoil as they explore the

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    The grey sleet drizzled onto my already damp hair as I stepped into the clinical-like office building where my day would be wasted. As I walked into the horrid building‚ an animated receptionist greeted me with fake pearly white teeth‚ hardened ice blue eyes and bleached blond hair‚ repeating the same line every morning‚ “Good morning Mr Lubin”. I felt my eyes roll in my head as I pressed the small button‚ making an almighty ‘beep’‚ summoning stained grey steel door’s to take me to where I would

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    Assassinations‚ espionage‚ shoot-outs‚ and defusing bombs - these are activities that the common public typically associate with the United States Intelligence Community. I have a future career goal of working for the FBI or the CIA‚ which are agencies catalogued under the intelligence community. However‚ I aspire to work in a more mundane capacity than the typical field-agent stereotype. I want to work in an American intelligence agency as a forensic accountant. The path needed to get from my current

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    happening in different homes around the world? Rationale The purpose of this article was influenced by Attorney David Engler’s “Racist Mom in the House… What Do You Do?” which was published in November 28th 2011 on “Wordpress Law Blog”. Throughout the blog Engler shows how racism is still alive in certain homes‚ where the races may be mixed with one of the parents being racist‚ and how this may affect children within the household. Engler’s point of view is at the end of his blog post saying that “racism

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