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    Drama and Play

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    Geek tragedies‚ thirty-two plays are now extant ………. seven by Sophocles‚ and eighteen by Euripides. Greek comedy originated from the humorous side of the Dionysian rites. A actual feature was the singing procession‚ or comos. Their song along with a kind of mummery or play-acting developed into comedy. Greek comedy passed through three stages …….. Old Comedy‚ Middle Comedy‚ and New Comedy. The Old comedy was the comedy of political and personal satire. The satirical plays of Aristophanes were directed

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    Advocate Christ medical Center Health Planning and Policy Management EHC 4498 Heather Cooper 2/2/2014 Advocate Christ Medical Center‚ opened in 1961‚ it is a teaching hospital that is ranked as a top one hundred facility and is located in Oak Lawn‚ Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center is a seven hundred sixty-four bed medical center (Center‚ 2014)‚ in 2012 this facility had forty thousand seven hundred and sixty seven admissions. In 2012 alone this hospital performed eleven thousand

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    Theories of Authorship and the Novel At its most basic level‚ literature is commonly regarded as a kind of communication between author and reader. Just as in ordinary linguistic communication where a speaker conveys a message to an addressee‚ so in literature an author sends a message to a reader. The component elements of this definition are‚ however‚ open to criticism. Mikhail Bakhtin‚ Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva explore the position and role of the author in relation to the text.

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    Dystopian Novel

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    violations of the Bill of Rights in the name of protecting the country from terrorists. Although some people argue that the government should use all means to fight against terrorism‚ the government should not be engaged in the surveillance of their citizens in the interests of national security because people expect privacy in their communications‚ travel and personal records and activities. Some people argue that the government should use all means to fight against terrorism. Alexander Hamilton

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    Attitudes on Science and Technology in Novels Three novels that were written in three completely different times all were able to contribute to different views and attitudes towards science and technology. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ The Time Machine‚ and Fahrenheit 451 are all accurate portrayals of the effect that science and technology have had on this world even as far back as 1886 when The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was first published. Although each book was

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    QUESTIONS ON THE FILM "THE HOURS" 1) "The Hours"‚ based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham‚ is more than a biographical movie about Virginia Woolf. How can you describe the importance and co- relation between the three female main characters: Virginia‚ Laura Brown and Clarissa Vaughan? The novel is essentially about women. Women from different periods‚ of different ages‚ and oddly the same in various aspects. We get to know women that apparently lead perfect lives‚ considering the

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    Review on Atonement It is not often that the protagonist of a story be the anathema of the story as well and it is even more of a rarity that the particular character be a young child. Yet‚ this is exactly what Ian McEwan has done with his Crime Novel‚ Atonement. McEwan intentionally turns his readers against Briony Tallis‚ a young girl transitioning from the naivete of childhood into the new and confusing years of adolescence; a point in one ’s life when mistakes are dubbed as necessary stepping

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    NOVEL VS. FILM As with all novels that are adapted into film changes must be made to fit with the tone of the movie Jurassic park is no exception. The changes can range from the smallest plot point to the biggest. It can be from changing a character personality and behavior to his or her appearance to changing a character fate. A character that might have survived in the novel but died in the movie or the other way around Jurassic

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    Doubt the Play

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    Doubt Reflection The short play Doubt builds on many of the theme and central ideas of our class. One thing in particular that I noticed throughout the reading was the use of symbolism. John Patrick Shanley’s literary masterpiece unveils huge controversy that has surrounded the Catholic Church for many years. Most notable in his work is his outstanding use of symbolism. As defined by the dictionary symbolism is the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic

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    The Novels of Jose Rizal

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    granting the kind of reform that would ensure security‚ freedom‚ dignity and education for the Filipinos. If a revolutionary‚ then‚ Rizal remained a cautious one to the end of his brief life. Regardless of these reservations on Rizal’s part‚ the Judge Advocate General Pe=F1a‚ charged with passing the death sentence on Rizal‚ called him el Verbo del Filibusterismo‚ meaning‚ according to the Philippine usage of the time‚ the "word of insurrectionism" or revolutionary separatism. That Pe=F1a thus identified

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