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    In Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray‚” he defines masculinity in tangible terms such as age‚ attractiveness‚ profession‚ and philosophy instead of decency and sincerity. Harry‚ Basil‚ and Dorian are members of the upper-class society and the most qualified among those in their professions. However‚ their expertise causes the men to struggle with their masculinity and question the masculine social norms. The men are codependent and immature‚ but Lord Henry is portrayed as unlikely to learn

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    Oscar thought that the same thing could happen with each girl that he had will be with the other too‚ but in first moment that he meet them wants that every girl give him the same love and he doesn’t care about their past or something they are how dont want to share things where maybe they can be judged. Ybon is one of them how had a difficult past‚ she can’t be herself‚ she have a job that doesn’t like it but not have other options because her past conviction; Ybon is not interesting in no body

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    “Just the tourist sites and the atmosphere‚” Wilde said. Performers like Dwaino can work outside the Café in their free time to not only collect donations‚ but to also contribute to the atmosphere Hack Bartholomew‚ a trumpeter‚ describes as “relaxing and entertaining”. Bartholomew plays his trumpet

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    Although many of the early critics found Oscar Wilde’s final play strictly humorous‚ it clearly conveys social hypocrisies of the upper-classes of the period (late-Victorian). Wilde was being satirical and paradoxical in his play to show the hypocrisy and entertain the viewers in a play that is still being repeated till today. It is a witty and amusing comedy which conveys real life everyday themes such as real love as opposed to selfish love‚ religion‚ marriage‚ being truthful and country life as

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    the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz‚ we see Oscar de León‚ a Dominican American young man‚ who resides in Paterson‚ New Jersey with his family going through many different relationship experiences in his life. One of those experiences is during his childhood; he is an outcast and is considered a nerd. Another love experience that Oscar encounters is when he goes to Rutgers University to get his education. One more experience that Oscar has is when he travels back to his native

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    Contents Introduction 2 Main body 2 2.1 Waldorf Astoria Hotel – The Caledonian 2 2.2 What is Afternoon Tea? 3 2.3 History of Afternoon Tea 4 2.4 Waldorf Astoria and Afternoon tea 5 2.5 Applying theories 9 2.5.1 The four realms of experience 9 2.5.2 The tourist gaze 10 2.5.3 Five steps in staging a memorable experience 10 2.5.4 The Theatre Metaphor 11 Conclusion 11 Works Cited 12 Appendix 1 13 Introduction “Experience” as a noun can describe the way of learning something‚ the way a human being

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    Oscar Banks and his father‚ Campbell‚ are overwhelmingly and scarily similar. Although they are related‚ being father and son‚ the way they act as almost the same person is eerie and concerning. Both use lying‚ trickery‚ and other forms of manipulation to get what they want‚ however they both have very different agendas. Although both Oscar and his father Campbell believe in manipulation‚ Campbell uses manipulation as a way to control everything‚ where Oscar uses manipulation to undo his father’s

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    Oscar Wilde’s use of satire in The Importance of Being Earnest “Ignorance is like an exotic fruit…” writes Oscar Wilde as he sets the literary table with a rich display of Victorian satire (Wilde). Born in Dublin to affluent parents‚ Wilde experienced a social advantage that gave him more than a taste of indulgent upper class life to ridicule. He attended Oxford on a scholarship and was considered a genius. Wilde was characterized as humorous‚ frank‚ and showy. Writing novels‚ poems‚ and essays

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    constructs continue to persecute and alienate black people‚ as seen when Oscar is treated with “inhuman cheeriness” (Diaz 49) because of his black skin and afro and when Beli is seen as a “sign” of a curse after she is born “black black” (Diaz 248). In a world where “people [take] their child’s black complexion as an ill omen” (Diaz 248) and blackness is something to be “obscure[d]” (Diaz 148)‚ it is important that Beli and Oscar‚ as black humans‚ not succumb to their beatings as they must survive to

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