The Adventures of Priscilla‚ Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a lavender coloured tour bus they have named “Priscilla”. On their journey they encounter various groups of men who each represent Australia in different ways some of which include being racist‚ sexist‚ bigoted and even violent. While on the long journey through the remote lands
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MERCUTIO Well dude‚ it sounds like Queen Mab visited you last night. BENVOLIO Queen who? MERCUTIO The great Queen Mab. She assists fairies when they give birth and is no bigger than the marble stone on a councilman’s ring. Her wagon is drawn by atoms‚ and she rides over men’s noses as they sleep. She uses spiders’ legs as the spokes of her wagon‚ and the harnesses are made of the tiniest spiderwebs. The cover of her wagon is made of grasshoppers’ wings and the collars on the atoms are made from
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked scenes rather than a fully realized grand opera. The Queen of Spades followed in 1890‚ and was again a success (though others in between were not). More formally rigorous than Onegin yet not entirely traditional‚ it offered a mixture of traditional themes and motifs with moments of surprise and even self parody
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Typical compounds formed by your element The history of your element’s discovery Pierre Janssen in France first noticed a bright yellow line during an eclipse (1868) Norman Lockyer in England noticed a yellow line in the solar spectrum (1868)Sir William Ramsay discovered helium on earth (1895) Five uses for your element or its common compounds 1. Main filling for blimps (airships) 2. Used to fill balloons 3. Detects leaks in sealed containers 4. Gas shield for arc welding
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John Smith’s 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain: Most admired Queen‚ The love I bear my God‚ my King and country‚ hath so oft emboldened me in the worst of extreme dangers‚ that now honesty doth constrain me to presume thus far beyond myself‚ to present your Majesty this short discourse: if ingratitude be a deadly poison to all honest virtues‚ I must be guilty of that crime if I should omit any means to be thankful. So it is‚ that some ten years ago being in Virginia‚ and taken prisoner
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Queen Victoria Reigns After the Romantics From the romantics‚ to queen Victoria; it was a time of great social struggles for the poor. Yet a different story was occurring for the middle class‚ the higher classes where in a time of “relative political and social stability” (Gray 783). These conditions helped shape and greatly impacted the novel writing of the era. In the midsts of the reign of Queen Victoria‚ the poor went through a time of great struggles‚ however reforms were occurring‚ and
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21st March Explain the impact of Queen Elizabeth’s reign on Britain. 1. Outline the contributions Elizabeth made to Britain 2. Highlight the impact of these contributions 3. Summarise the legacy of Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I was a very independent and contentious woman in British society who revolutionized Britain’s past which is also referred to as the Golden age or the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I was born on the 7th September 1533 and was crowned Queen of England in 1558. She reigned over
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and published in 1845 in the second collection of the New Fairy Tales‚ “The Snow Queen” has been a very popular and well-known children’s story for over 150 years. This fairy tale is one of Andersen’s longer pieces and‚ additionally‚ is one of his highest praised works. Just like many of Andersen’s other works‚ there are strong moral values that are clearly evident throughout the fairy tale. In the case of “The Snow Queen‚” the moral of the story is that good triumphs over evil and love is able to overcome
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An Analysis of the “Testimonial” Perspective of the First Peoples in Residential School Abuse in Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomson Highway This literary analysis will define the testimonial point of view of Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis through a First people’s perspective on emotional and sexual abuse in Kiss of the Fur Queen by Thomson Highway. Champion and Ooneemeetoo witness European religious values as a means of eradicating their identity as Natives in Canadian culture. Highway narrates
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