Inherit the Wind‚ based on the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" in the small town Dayton‚ Tennessee‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was not intended to depict the actual history or the proceedings in the Scopes’ trial but it was used as a vehicle for exploring social anxiety and ant-intellectualism that existed in the Americas during the1950s. Lawrence and Lee wrote the play as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the
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They Cage the Animals at Night is a heart-dropping autobiography novel. This book is written by Jennings Michael Burch‚ who is the main character. His father is an often drunk alcoholic and has left a family of six boys to his wife. Jennings is twelve years old‚ and is always trying to pull the family together and keep his mom from crying. The mothers main goal is to have a close family and has the obstacles of alcohol to do so. She becomes sick almost all the time because of her addiction. One
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century was both radical and revolutionary by today’s standards. Due to its obvious conflicts with Creationist views brought about by the Bible‚ the theory was not commonly adopted by people who worshipped the Bible’s teachings. The play Inherit the Wind‚ written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ models itself directly after the famous 1925 Tennessee v. Scopes trial in which Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Bible’s Creationism which were at odds. The defendant Bertram Cates and his defense
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takes to save her city of Tara from the Civil War. Margret Mitchell gives us a thrilling adventure to follow in Gone With The Wind‚ leaving us on the edge of our seat the whole time. I enjoyed this book in particular because it takes you back in time‚ as if you were there yourself. Letter: Dear Mrs. Margaret Mitchell‚ I really liked your book‚ Gone With The Wind. It was one of the most magnificent books I have ever read. It gives a perfect image of what the Civil War was like and it also
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The play‚ Inherit the Wind‚ by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is about a trial with a teacher who teaches evolution. Bertram Cates knows that the studies of evolution is against the law but decides to teach it anyways. Henry Drummond is the lawyer who defends Bert Cates in the trial. Drummond’s changes his goals throughout the play. In the beginning of the play‚ his goal is to defend evolution. Throughout the play his goal is to prove Cates is innocent and win the case. After the trial he wants
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND Summary The autumnal west wind sweeps along the leaves and "winged seeds." The seeds will remain dormant until spring. The wind is thus a destroyer and a preserver. The west wind also sweeps along storm clouds. It is the death song of the year. With the night that closes the year will come rain‚ lightning‚ and hail; there will be storms in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The poet pleads with the west wind to endow him with some of its power‚ for he feels depressed and helpless
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Global Wind The region of Earth receiving the Sun’s direct rays is the equator. Here‚ air is heated and rises‚ leaving low pressure areas behind. Moving to about thirty degrees north and south of the equator‚ the warm air from the equator begins to cool and sink. Between thirty degrees latitude and the equator‚ most of the cooling sinking air moves back to the equator. The rest of the air flows toward the poles. The air movements toward the equator are called trade winds- warm‚ steady breezes
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definitely been taken into account in the production of the films “the Wind that Shakes the Barley”. In order to understand how the producer conveys his meaning and themes you must first fully understand the methods of construction and how these convey attitudes and values. In film a producer may use technical‚ symbolic‚ audio or written codes to convey his meaning of the text. Lighting plays a major part in the film “The Wind...” The Irish weather has a slight affect as it is very soft‚ humid
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through explicit imagery and personification of the wind. Petry is able to establish the obstacles of understanding a new place that may seem dark and harsh. . Petry again personifies the wind“fingering its way along the curb” and trying to discourage the people walking along the street” to further show the constant chaos that exists within the Urban setting. In luties attempt to read the sign she in fact fails because the wind is “twisting the sign away from her and holding it at
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Percy‚ Annabeth‚ and Grover board the truck and see three circus animals trapped in cages‚ which makes Grover especially angry. They look miserable‚ and Grover promises them they will help them in the morning. Annabeth explains why she freaked out back at the water park: a woman named Arachne got turned into a spider because she challenged Athena to a weaving contest‚ and Arachne’s children have been taking revenge on Athena’s since. Percy also realises who Grover actually is: the satyr who tried
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