The vagina monologue is an episodic play written and starred by Eve Ensler. The play is made up of several personal monologues that touched subjects such as sex‚ love‚ body image‚ birth‚ and orgasms and even hair. Ensler interviews a variety of women from different ages‚ ethnicities‚ races‚ social classes‚ and many other identities. Each story provided different perspectives and responses on vaginas. The play enhances the empowerment a vagina is to a female. The lightning of the stage and use of
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Some people say Jimmy Valentine has committed a crime. A crime Jimmy Valentine deserves to be free. A crime is any criminal activity and those who are in it. Jimmy is not guilty of this. Jimmy Valentine should remain free. The first reason Jimmy Valentine should have stayed free is that he saved a girl’s life. In the story it says “In the darkness inside the safe‚ she was wild with fear.” It also says “In ten minutes-faster than he had ever done it before-he had the door open‚” and “Agatha was
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Shacole Smith TOPIC: Shirley Chisholm GENERAL PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform my audience about Shirley Chisholm SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To inform the audience on her speaking and speeches. CENTRAL IDEA: Shirley Chisholm Speeches I. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter-How many of you know who Shirley Chisholm is Preview Statement- Today I am going to talk about Shirley Chisholm’s background‚ the major ideas of her speeches‚ and analysis her speeches
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would having to be the constant monologuing. I don’t have any problem with monologues as a literary device‚ but Shigatsu uses it too much. It takes away from the impact of the monologues. I’m a big fan of showing‚ and not telling as much‚ but Shigatsu just barely does any *real* showing. There are plenty of monologues that can be taken out of the show‚ and it would be for the better. When there’s at least one monologue per episode (usually more)‚ it really starts to get tiring for me personally
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dream and reality‚ narration sets the pace and tone of the feature‚ with the audience being prompted by the omnipresent observations of the protagonist. Boyle’s efforts to elevate vocals to greater prominence is seen through Renton’s “Choose Life” monologue in Trainspotting (1996) or Richard’s expository interjections in The Beach‚ Damian’s saintly stories in
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"The Possibility of Evil"‚ by Shirley Jackson‚ is a twisted story. It starts off with Ms.Strangeworth‚ the main character‚ having pride in her family and roses. She goes to the grocery store and has friendly conversations with the town’s people‚ but goes back home to write anonymous‚ cruel letters to the same people she talked to. She later on gets caught and everyone knows all the letters were from her. By writing the letters‚ she thought she was stopping the evil in her town‚ but‚ the ironic part
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short stories‚ the author‚ Shirley Jackson‚ described the characters‚ the themes‚ and the situations to create an illustration for the reader. Laurie and Mr. Summers are both portrayed as characters who want to push the boundaries of the rules. Shirley Jackson made Mr. Summers a single man‚ who organizes the lottery. Mr. Summers doesn’t like the idea of the black box. The black box represents death and bad traditions in the community. Mr. Summers likes the idea
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surprise that when a bright and young new face came onto theater screens‚ people latched onto it with extreme fascination; some near obsession. This rising starlet‚ who could put a smile on even the saddest face‚ was Shirley Temple. In 1935‚ at just three and a half years of age‚ Shirley instantly became the number one box office sensation and held onto the title for four straight years; yet she remained successful way beyond those years. Men‚ women‚ and children adored her loving personality and innocence;
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their lips” (Shirley‚ 3). This is important to the story because the wetting of their lips alludes to wild animals‚ such as wolves. Wolves and people can both be friendly‚ until they’re put into a crowd or ‘pack’. Just as wolves‚ these people were waiting in anticipation to see whom they get to kill. Another form of imagery in this story is when Old man Warner snorted‚ “Pack of crazy fools… Next thing you know they’ll go back to living in caves… There’s always been a lottery‚” (Shirley‚ 3). This goes
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson In “The Hunger Games‚” the district really never has a say so on that is selected‚ but yet everyone gathers to watch. Similarly in “The Lottery” villagers gather to select a ticket to find one villager to be stoned to death. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ the events of the narrative seem to suggest that traditions are a normal part of society. However a close look at the use of irony and foreshadowing demonstrate the lack of normalcy in the community. The tension
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