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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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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Assignment Three: Leadership of Richard Branson By: Earl Kenneth Remo Jr. Dr. Ronnie Holmes MGMT 500: Modern Management Thursday‚ March 12‚ 2015 Richard Branson is a good leader-member relations and treats his employees with respect‚ like his own family‚ even to the extent of giving invitations to his junior members for home for parties. He always welcome the feedback and new ideas of the employees. Branson gives his employees the freedom and initiative has to be creative. He obtained his
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led him to serve as the President of the National World War II museum in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ write many books detailing accounts of several divisions involved in World War II‚ and several biographies based on the lives of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Band of Brothers is the exhaustive work by Ambrose which contains first person accounts of soldiers who fought in the E Company‚ 506th Regiment‚ 101st Airborne of the United States Army. In this work‚ Ambrose chronologically records the recollections
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Richard Kuklinski When a man is a product of his environment and the environment is filled with violence and hatred‚ the possibilities are horrifying. Richard kuklinski is a prime example of just that. His childhood was something no human‚ let alone a child should go through. His anger built up and his life eventually was overcome by it. He then progressed to a cold-blooded killer‚ starting small‚ and then ending with the mob until his capture. Richard Kuklinski was born on April 11‚ 1935‚
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Richard Branson Shoots for the Moon Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group‚ a leading international investment group and one of the world ’s most recognized brands. Virgin employs more than 50‚000 people on over 50 countries around the world. Branson is conceived both a manager and a leader; but‚ it is his unique leadership style that distinguished them apart. Risk taker‚ caring‚ inspires people‚ innovative‚ passionate‚ persistent developer‚ energetic‚ and obsessed with making radical
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the values in texts. How does Pacino’s film “Looking for Richard”‚ reveal his response to the values explored in Shakespeare’s play‚ “King Richard III”? Through changes in context and form a fresh perspective can be offered on the values in texts. Pacino’s film “Looking for Richard” [LFR] reveals his response to values such as; the allure of evil‚ conscience and the artistry of language‚ that are explored in Shakespeare’s play‚ “King Richard III” [KRIII]. The change in context often offers a fresh
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CATE LARSEN//PD7 RICHARD NIXON 11/26 Richard Nixon; the name alone brings to mind terrible words along the lines of scandal and failure. Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was also the first and last president to resign from office. However‚ the scandals leading to Nixon’s resignation definitely overshadowed his humble beginnings and the accomplishments he made as president during the notorious decades of the Cold War. Richard Milhous Nixon was born to Francis and Hannah
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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 Branson Despite never interested in becoming an entrepreneur‚ Richard Branson evolved into one of the most successful and wealthy business men of the 20th century. Born in England‚ Branson was raised by encouraging yet unorthodox parents. He struggled with dyslexia as a teenager‚ but overcame his many school related issues to thrive as a young adult. At the young age of 16‚ Branson started a Student magazine at Stowe School‚ and later went on to turn a record retail shop into one of the
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