A Film Unfinished‚ The Last Stage‚ and Diamonds of the Night are all films that deal in some way with the Holocaust. However‚ the perspective and director’s intentions are so unique for each. A Film Unfinished was able to pick apart the lies of a Nazi propaganda film by including Holocaust survivors’ reaction to the film‚ as well as journals and interviews of people directly involved with the propaganda footage. The Last Stage is authentic because real Holocaust survivors were recruited to act in
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Topic 8: The comic journey of twelfth night is usually from the darkness of ignorance to the light of self knowledge. Discuss this journey in Twelfth Night. The play‚ Twelfth Night‚ was written as a comedy‚ however‚ one can clearly see that it served many purposes such as criticizing the society of the time and as a result posed difficult questions on a society which in itself was ignorant on many issues in the society. Many characters undergo a change from ignorance to being enlightened by self
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appearance or statement. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night tells the story of a shipwreck survivor Viola‚ who disguises herself as her brother for a job on the Duke’s estate. Similarly‚ Some Like it Hot tells the story of two musicians Larry and Joe‚ who dress as women to join an all women’s jazz band‚ in order to escape their neighborhood mob. The theme of deception through appearance can apply to Some Like it Hot‚ which is a natural descendant of Twelfth Night. Through the many forms of deception‚ self-deception
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playwrights that would be remembered and studied for years to come‚ but Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night specifically addressed the theme of rebelling against traditional American norms in a very interesting way. O’Neill‚ born on October 16‚ 1888‚ was one of the most admired playwrights of all time. His talent and love for writing provocative and moving plays such as Long Day’s Journey Into Night directly represent many of the trials and tribulations he faced in his own upbringing. He was
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A short literary analysis of Maxine Kingston’s classic “No Name Woman” As part of the first generation of Chinese-Americans‚ Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her struggle to distinguish her cultural identity through an impartial analysis of her aunt’s denied existence. In “No Name Woman‚” a chapter in her written memoirs‚ Kingston analyzes the possible reasons behind her disavowed aunt’s dishonorable pregnancy and her village’s subsequent raid upon her household. And with a bold statement
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their praises up “warm with love” and cry over the stories that they share‚ continuing to show the sorrow and pain they feel. Beowulf is cremated on a huge funeral pyre and put into a massive tower that stands on a piece of land that juts into the sea. His warriors ride around the tower‚ sharing their stories of Beowulf and mourn his loss. This
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Starry Night) is a song written by Don Mclean. Don McClean‚ “Donald‚” III is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his 1971 album American Pie. American Pie is best known for McClean’s two hits “American Pie‚” and “Vincent.” “I was sitting on the veranda one morning‚ reading a biography of Van Gogh‚ and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag.” (Brown) Starry‚ Starry Night is a
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Night is associated to darkness‚ emptiness‚ and sometimes-even loneliness. Robert Frost’s “Acquainted With the Night” shows the character‚ which is the narrator‚ being overly too familiar almost friendly with the nighttime. The narrator of the poem is a man who described what he felt as he took a walk at night seemingly searching for something he had apparently lost. This “modernist” character was disposing loneliness throughout the whole poem. He is a representative of the alienated person typical
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The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien is classified as a children’s novel‚ this would be the first steps to the series‚ he would later publish; The Lord of the Rings which resides in the same fictional world established in The Hobbit. The work of The Hobbit mirrors that of various mythos and aspects of the real world. The Hobbit shares many of it’s themes and several of its key qualities in characters with those established in previous stories or myths‚ starting with Bilbo Baggins. The aristocratic
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wrote‚ “Who Makes the Journey.” She has gotten several awards‚ such as the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and Song the Shelley Memorial Award‚ in her career. Cathy Song’s poems have been filled with imagery and tone that have left readers awestruck. “Who Makes the Journey” is about growing old and growing up too fast. In the poem‚ the reader is taken to through an elderly woman’s life through a third person’s perspective. In the first stanza of “Who Makes the Journey‚” Song introduces the
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