Ann Richards Ann Willis Richards is arguably one of the most important women in Texas history. Her broad political life included County Commissioner‚ Treasurer of the State of Texas‚ and the second woman Governor of Texas. She created opportunities to countless women‚ improved Texas economics‚ and made reformations of many crises faced by early Texas. Ann Richards was born Dorthy Ann Willis in Lakeview‚ Texas on September 1‚ 1933. She grew up in Waco‚ Texas and was granted a scholarship to attended
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Analysis of Richard III Members: Natalia Molina Melisa Ocanto Melina Pustilnik Vanesa Verna Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa Universidad Nacional de San Martín RICHARD III 1) Richard III: hero or villain. 2) Analyze women in the play. 3) Analyze the use of dramatic irony in the play. 4) Analyze the opening soliloquy in Richard III. 5) Which is Richard ’s hamartia? When does it occur? 6) Where do you find the climax of the play? 7) Where do you find the catharsis and where
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The comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” circa 1591 and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking for Richard” (LFR) reveals the capacity of these texts to transcend their timeframes due to their exploration of ideas perennially relevant to human nature. As humans‚ there is an innate desire of us to exert our ideals and beliefs on others as well as an underlying ambition for power‚ hence these texts explore the way in which art can be used to shape and reshape historical perceptions as well
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Paper #2 Richard the Third February‚ 15tth Analyze the use of Christian allusions “Two drops of virtue for a Christian prince…” A prince of what exactly? That is a line said of Richard as he enters in Act 3 Scene 7. It was of course as Richard was standing in between two bishops pretending to be pious. He is more like a Christian prince of darkness‚ and he refers to himself as devil to state his mind. It can be said of Christian allusions in this text that Richard plays the part
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Concert Band 12 Laine Jackart Mr. L. Olson March‚ 2013 Richard Wagner Biographical Information Richard Wilhelm Wagner was born on May 22‚ 1813 in Leipzig‚ Germany to Carl Friedrich Wagner‚ the Registrar at the Police Department‚ and his wife Johana. Richard was their ninth child. When Richard was just 6 months old‚ Carl succumbed to Typhoid Fever which was rampant in Leipzig because Napoleon had laid siege to the town‚ and there were dead bodies floating in the river. As
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Minister‚ Educator‚ Writer our great Founder Richard Allen was born into slavery in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania on February 14‚ 1760. He and his family were later was sold to a Delaware Farmer in 1767. At the age of 17‚ Allen converted to Methodism after hearing a white itinerant preacher rail against slavery. His master‚ who had also converted agreed to let Richard and his brother buy their freedom for $2‚000 each. After attaining his freedom in 1783‚ Richard took the last name Allen and moved back to
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Shakespeare is trying to tell the audience the way Richard II rules England through imagery. In both of the scenes in this paper Shakespeare uses imagery to describe the way King Richard II has brought the country to ruin. This king needs replaced and in both speeches his bad deeds are spoken of through a metapohor of a garden. The speech in Act 2 Scene 1 is a way for Gaunt to tell Richard exactly how he feels about the way things have been going in England. In his dying breathe he describes
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In the poem‚ Richard Cory is believed to be superior in contrast to the working people. The poem states‚ “Whenever Richard Cory went down town‚ we people on the pavement looked at him” (754). The working people had very little money and work consistently to survive‚ “So on we worked‚ and waited for the light‚ and went without the meat‚ and cursed the bread” (755). The people admired Richard Cory and wished to one day have the same wealth as Richard Cory‚ “And he was rich—yes‚ richer than a king”
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1- Richard III‚ The Protagonist “Yet neither can his blood redeem him [Richard III] from injurious tongues‚ nor the reproach offered his body be thought cruel enough‚ but that we must still make him more cruelly infamous in Pamphlets and Plays.” (1617—William Cornwallis. From Essays of Certaine Paradoxes) Richard III is written in 1591-1592. Richard III is the dominant character of the play as that he is both the protagonist of the story and its major villain
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Richard Frethorne‚ an indentured servant‚ a young man forced to grow up in a challenging area known as Colonial Virginia. Becoming an indentured servant‚ one must sign a contract giving them a working environment hoping for some land in return once the contract has expired. Depending on age‚ one would typically work for around five years. Richard Frethorne wrote this letter to his parents back home describing his struggles‚ his thoughts and opinions‚ and work environment. Richard Frethorne was forced
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