before to now being 25-1 and the 2nd ranked team in the state this is a season to remember.This is the story of the Wacko Lions. The year is 2005 and everything seemed normal. Eastlake won the Indiana state championship sweeping every team that stepped in front of them. That year while they went 26-0 and had the top scorer in the state‚ Tyrese Walker averaging 34 ppg. The Wacko lions went 4-22 the most wins that we had in 3 long seasons under Coach Knight. It was my senior season and even though being
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The Fisher King: The Fisher King was one of Terry Gilliam’s greatest filming masterpieces of all time. There were many key movie elements used that all somehow led to or showed signs of the overall thematic issue of the film. The clear message of this film is forgiveness and grace. Different significant motifs and odd filming techniques are some important filming elements have to do with the overall theme. The Holy Grail is mentioned very frequently throughout the film‚ and quickly becomes
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What is Jane King explicitly saying about herself? What can I read between the lines? How honest do you think the presentation is? Why? In Jane King’s profile there are a lot of questions that could be pondered. The first thing that caught my eye was her relationship status. In my opinion‚ “it’s complicated” means that the answer just depends on who is asking‚ also it suggest that she may enjoy being involved with drama since that will provoke questions from interested people. From her profile
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Adam Hochschild’s “King Leopold’s Ghost” is an account of a man’s rise of power who was very cruel and did unimaginable things. When I began reading‚ I wasn’t sure where the novel was going‚ but I soon caught on to what Hochschild was revealing. As the story begins to unfold he tells a story of King Leopold II of Belgium who managed to seize land next to the Congo River in Africa. King Leopold used political manipulation and lies to get what he wanted. King Leopold had everyone fooled that he was
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mind like double consciousness. In the novel‚ In the Skin of a Lion‚ Patrick who is the main character finds himself an outsider in the society and tries to measure himself through the other’s look ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Postcolonial criticism‚ like postmodern criticism‚ rejects the universal and large scale in preference for the local and specific. In In the Skin of a Lion Ondaatje challenges the dominant narratives and gives a voice to
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Sophocles’s use of both plot and character within his classic tragedy “Oedipus the King” portray the religious and ethical views of the Classical period of Ancient Greece to such an extent that Knox goes so far as to say that “the audience which watched Oedipus in the theatre of Dionysus was watching itself.” Marlowe uses similar tools of character construction and plot in “Dr Faustus” to reflect the beliefs and moral attitudes held in Elizabethan England. The playwrights both use the conceptions
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of Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ King Claudius’ soliloquy is presented in the midst of the climax. During the staged ‘play’ it is made known to Hamlet and the readers that Claudius is most certainly guilty of royal treason which leads him to confront his own actions. Throughout his soliloquy‚ Shakespeare uses dismal metaphors and allusions and Claudius’ conflicting self dialogue to portray his guilt and inner turmoil over his actions that led him to become king. In the first three lines‚ Claudius
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day King Minos was a very powerful man. This one town called Athens and every year he would go to war with them. So they made a deal with the king that if he stopped the war with them they would 7 kids every year to his maze where he had his monster very hungry for humans. So the King liked the deal and went on with it and said yes. That was a very sad day for the Athens and cried every year when they had to send 7 kids who tried to kill this monster but never came back. So one says the Kings son
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took the Monkey King 500 to return to his true form to escape the rock pile. In the book Jin Wang must return from Danny to his real self in order to go back home. Jin wang returns to his true form to show the monkey King and he is able to return home to see his friend. The monkey King also had to return to his true because he was pretending to be Chinkee Danny’s cousin. Another character who had to transform back into his true form was Wei Chen because he was really the monkey kings son. But Wei Chen
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In the novel‚ "In the Skin of a Lion‚" by Michael Ondaatje‚ the main character‚ Patrick Lewis‚ searches for identity and light. Without these elements‚ he lacks love and cannot survive the world. A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. "Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their lives. He searched out things‚ he collected things
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