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    Baseball Motif in Fences

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    In Fences‚ August Wilson uses the motif of baseball to at first develop Troy’s character‚ and then he uses it to relate to vital themes‚ relationships between characters‚ and conflicts throughout the play. Once the plot becomes more developed‚ Wilson uses the motif within Troy’s speech to allude to significant themes‚ such as the recurring theme of death. Secondly‚ in the duration of the play Troy uses metaphors about baseball when relating his relationships with other characters‚ for example‚ he

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    Portrait of a serial killer

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    PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER PAGE 2 A serial killer is a person‚ who has committed a series of two or more murders‚ as separate events by one offender acting alone. Common found characteristics of serial killers include: There are four basic types of serial killers. Power and control-Experiences sexual gratification by humiliating and controlling Visionary-

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    Artist Producer

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    need to: 17.2 Marketing Strategy Produce a marketing strategy suitable to promote and sell a musical artist or band. You can choose yourself as an artist or any band that you are working with‚ in or outside of college‚ as long as they are unsigned. You need to 1) Describe the artist you are to market i.e. their style‚ genre and selling points 2) The intended target audience for the artist 3) Describe what publicity materials you will need to generate to effectively market your act e.g. web

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    Creative Artists

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    creative artists is always made the gravitation to contemporary society. And masterpieces are generated with the freedom idea in their mind. This raise a tangible issue to whether artists can do what they desire without government constraints. From my point of view‚ their artworks should be recognized through a justify prism of authorities to before publish them to general public. There are two inducements to interpret my opinion. Firstly‚ we agree that the responsibility of an artist is to

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    plethora of literary techniques and strengths integrated within itself that separates it from other novels and work in tandem with the plot to form an enjoyable novel. A significant technique used in Lord of the flies is its multitude of motifs. Two of these many motifs include power and savagery and are brought up many times in the novel. The use of these literary techniques are to emphasize the insanity the boys on the island go through. In our pastiche we wrote an alternate ending to Lord of the flies

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    things we can’t touch like love‚ loyalty‚ freedom‚ friendship‚ and imagination that are concealed within everyone’s lives. These universal ideas can also be motifs; a motif is a dominant idea or distinctive feature in an artistic or literary composition. Motifs are used to teach a lesson to others throughout out dance‚ art‚ or literature. Motifs have been around and hidden in literature for a very long time. Almost 3‚000 years ago there was a tale told by Homer‚ his story is now translated into an

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    4 Motifs In Hamlet

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    In the story their are four motifs that take place in the play of hamlet. Revenge‚ decay & corruption‚ sanity vs insanity‚ and appearance vs reality. introduced in Act One. Queen Gertrude asks Hamlet why he is still so heavily mourning the death of his father‚ claiming that he seems to be grieving more than is necessary. He responds to this by saying ‘Seems‚ madam! nay it is‚ I know not ‘seems’’ (Act 1‚ Scene 2‚ line 78)‚ highlighting the idea that there can be a schism between what things appear

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    Throughout the novel‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ several motifs are used as a way to bring a deeper meaning to quotes that may see you uninteresting from the surface. One very prominent motif in this novel is dreams and premonitions. These motifs are used throughout the novel as ways to introduce foreshadowing and insight into what characters may expect to happen. Most of the occurrences where dreams and premonitions appear are when characters are looking forward to an event or occurrence

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    Motif Of Life In Hamlet

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    In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the “To Be or Not To Be”soliloquy has a strong connection of growth and uncertainty that is shown throughout the text using a motif and repetition of life and death and the simple and difficult ways of life. Throughout the text the motif and repetition of death is displayed. When hamlet is talking about death he os making death sound like the better option in his case. In the text Hamlet says “No more; and by sleep to say we end/ the heartache‚ and the

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    The Great Gatsby Motifs

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    Great Gatsby‚ we follow a “commoner” around in a very rich environment. We witness the absurd and strange events that occur in East and West Egg‚ Valley of Ashes‚ and New York. Fitzgerald’s use of reoccurring motifs shows readers the characteristics of public and private parties. This motif ties all the events together‚ leading readers to make subconscious assumptions. At times of a big party or small meals‚ readers can expect alternate personas or the revealing of carefully guarded secrets.

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