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    Humanities Final

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    Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable

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    FAMOUS WRITERS WORKS Caedmon and Cynewulf. Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales‚ Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess‚ The House of Fame‚ The Parliament of Fowles‚ The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ‚Truth‚ Gentilesse‚ Merciles Beaute‚ Lak of Stedfastnesse‚ Against Women Unconstant Thomas Malory’s (1405-1471) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia‚ The History

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    There was once two brothers who were separated at birth one brother lived as a Mycenaean and the other as a Dorian. The Mycenaean brother’s name was Acrisius and the other brother’s name was Adonis. The brothers actually were half brothers really. Their mother was a slave one point in her life and had a child with her owner and that child name was Acrisius. She was separated from Acrisius after birth and the newborn had to fend for himself. He was left outside in the cold‚ the child was supposed

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    A bower quiet for us‚ and a sleep Full of sweet dreams‚ and health‚ and quiet breathing‚ Therefore‚ on every morrow‚ are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth‚ Spite of despondence‚ of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures‚ of the gloomy days‚ Of all the unhealthy and o’er darkened ways Made for our searching: yes‚ in spite of all‚ Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. (I‚ 4-13) Here Keats determines upon the necessity of having beauty in the lives‚ particularly

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    Candice Mullen April 1 2013 Dr. Paul Farkas Memorial Scholarship Chaucer‚ Shakespeare‚ and Eunuchs Chaucer and Shakespeare have created literature that has lasted for centuries by no coincidental matter. Many similarities link the two men together‚ but I believe that the most prominent characteristic that the men share is their innovativeness. More specifically their innovative construction of gender confused characters. Dinshaw’s examination of the eunuch Pardoner in her essay “Eunuch Hermeneutics”

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    Susanna Beauty

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    Beauty is defined in the Oxford dictionary as; “A combination of qualities‚ such as shape‚ colour‚ or form‚ that pleases the aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight” . An ideal is; “a person or thing regarded as perfect”‚ or “a standard or principle to be aimed at”. It can represent “an abstract or hypothetical optimum”‚ “existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality” . The concept of “ideal beauty” we can then surmise‚ is an abstract‚ unattainable perfection

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    John Donne ’s position as a revered and respected poet is not unjustified. The depth and breath of literary works written about him along with the esteemed position he held among his comtemporaries is evidence of his popularity. As a metaohysical poet his poetry was frequently abstract and theoritical and he utilised poetry to display his learning and above all his wit. He was most certainly an innovative love poet who moved away from the Shakespearian focus on form intensely literary style. He was

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    THE GLOBE THEATRE‚ LIFE IN LONDON AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE GLOBE THEATRE The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company; the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and was destroyed by the Great fire of London on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642. The precise location of the building remained unknown until a small part of the foundations‚ including one original

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    Hannah Shumaker Miss Mueller English I March 21‚ 2013 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered one of English’s best writers and he impacted the world (Merriman). He’s also praised for his great works (Merriman). Shakespeare combined and contorted roots of Latin and French (“William Shakespeare”). He created thousands of everyday words that way (“William Shakespeare”). Some words are watchdog‚ stillborn‚ schoolboy‚ radiance‚ leapfrog‚ hunchbacked‚ downstairs‚ dewdrop‚ courtship

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    starring Michael B. Jordan (Adonis) and Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) as the main characters. This movie is a spin off from the many Rocky movies however it focuses on one of the opposing characters in the Rocky movie series and the extension of his life. The young son of Apollo Creed‚ Adonis Johnson‚ follows in his father’s footsteps at a very young age as he displays a natural talent to fight/box. Though Adonis never met his father (because he died before Adonis was born) Adonis seems to have a fiery

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