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    The movie‚ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants‚ is a really great movie that shows many themes like friendship‚ love‚ growing up‚ and other important life themes as well. Most of these themes also deal with many different types of social support and they all help to create a really interesting movie that teaches people a lot about how support in one’s life can really affect different life events that one may experience throughout their own life. In this movie‚ there are many examples of the

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    Historical and Biographical Approaches Historical criticism seeks to interpret the work of literature through understanding the times and culture in which the work was written. The historical critic is more interested in the meaning that the literary work had for its own time than in the meaning the work might have today. For example‚ while some critics might interpret existential themes in Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ a historical critic would be more interested in analyzing the play within the context

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    age of adolescence we are still under the supervision of our parents. But when the right time comes and that we are already in the right age‚ and we are ready to engage ourselves with relationships‚ we must be given the independency from them. Electra complex termed by Carl Jung refers to a girl or woman who falls in love with her father and becomes jealous of her mother and or the girl daughter and the father has an intimate relationship towards each other. “House on Zapote Street”‚ a short story

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    Tragedy in the Modern Age

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    art developed in the ancient Greece out of the ritualistic performances in the honour of the pagan deity Dionysus. Aristotle formulated his theory of tragedy on basis of the plays composed by the then Greek tragedians like Aeschylus‚ Euripides and Sophocles‚ and he regarded these plays as the most comprehensive instances of this genre. Plays by Roman tragedian Seneca‚ and those by such Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists as Marlowe‚ Kyd and Shakespeare are also generally considered the examples of tragedy

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    The external conflict of the story „My Oedipus Complex“by Frank O’Conner? The story „ My Oedipus Complex „written by the well-known Irish author Frank O’Connor is a sacred narration of the youth and growing-up problem. There are three characters in the story: Larry - protagonist‚ his mother and father. The story is told by a little child Larry‚ who is 5 years old and who grows up in his nonhazardous world with just himself and his “beloved” mother. He is not ready to share his mother’s attention

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    The Greek air was crisp and cool breeze ruffled up the colored leaves that cluttered the ground. Soldier Aturmica stopped for a moment. She closed her eyes‚ and allowed her senses to amplify; from a deer chewing while grazing the fields to a leaf falling on the ground she heard it all. “What’s the hold up?” Realizing that she was not in her own world she blushed. She was holding up the rest of the soldiers behind her. “Are we there yet?” Another asked. “We keep heading east‚” The commander

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    Greek vs. Roman Theatre

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    Historic playwrights such as Sophocles‚ Euripides‚ Aeschylus‚ and Seneca were described as prolific philosophers and geniuses of their times. These men actively participated in the politics surrounding them‚ and were respected and revered in their society. Each had their own individual style and portrayed their personalities through each of their noted works. Nevertheless‚ as with a majority of playwrights throughout history‚ most fodder for their plays have been adaptations of previous plays written

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    Antigone by Sophocles

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    Pride is shown through out the reading “Antigone”‚ when she gives her brother a proper burial. Since her brother is not allowed a proper burial‚ Antigone sets out to do it herself. She is found committing this crime‚ faced to the king‚ and is supposed to be killed because she did not obey the laws. Pride is a crime in this tragedy‚ and it is what leaves everyone dead. Antigone is furious that her “own brother” cannot be properly buried. She decides that she will do it herself‚ and does not care

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    Part B 1) Overall evaluation of current website design A) Checklist B) Summary of evaluation Overall‚ the website is usable but it still has several obvious problems. First of all‚ the design of this website might be not attractive enough‚ especially the design of the form of character‚ which might make it look unprofessional. Additionally‚ the same basic format is not applied consistently throughout site

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    Karina Lazcano Oedipus the King by Sophocles English Literature Anderson Many will argue that fate cannot be escaped in Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ where the main character is portrayed as a tragic hero with a predetermined fate. Both the concept of fate and freewill played an innate part in Oedipus ’ downfall. The play suggests that fate dominates over free will. Oedipus never had control of his fate; the day his mother gave birth to him‚ his parents attempted to kill him in order to prevent

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