Remembering the Vibrant Soul of Ann Richards Ann Richards once said‚ “I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead‚ you never look back” (Lewis). The world was born free. As beings‚ we are given the right to choose freedom or simply live by the rules. What good is freedom in the world without the relentless spirit of courage? There comes a time in every man and woman’s life where they must choose how to live and what makes them different from the rest of the world
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understanding of context and values Examinations of Shakespeare’s play ’King Richard III’ and Pacino’s docu-drama ’Looking for Richard’ reveals relationships between the texts and their respective audience. The fifteenth century and twentieth century contexts demonstrates the values of each text and enables understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. ’King Richard III’ portrays a hateful‚ corrupted Richard exploring divine justice and the notion of appearance versus reality in
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scenes of both. (50/50) Due: Thursday 16th Shakespeare’s play King Richard III and Al Pacino’s documentary Looking for Richard are two text composed more than 400 years apart that can be linked through their themes and techniques. The influence of these themes or values however‚ is subject to the context of the audience. Both texts explore the characterisation of the main character Richard and how he is presented. They explore the craft of performance‚ presenting two different
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It’s important to clarify that the term “achievement gap” stems from the deficit ideology itself. As Gloria Ladson-Billings has incessantly urged‚ the term “education debt” is much more fitting. This term allows us to conjure long term solutions for inequities that have historically accumulated. However‚ as mentioned before‚ the literature on the disparity of academic performance‚ is still debated between the two main groups of the deficit ideology and the education debt. We will take a closer into
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Apple Of My Eye: A Summary of Michael Pollan’s ’The Apple’ from The Botany of Desire Micheal Pollan begins his bestselling novel‚ “The Botany Of Desire”‚ with a question‚ what is the difference between humans‚ and the bumblebee? Pollan argues that humans do not have control over nature as we tend to believe‚ he believes that nature plays an equal or even more dominant role in our relationship. He states‚ “this book tells a different story of man and nature”(xxv) and he tells this story through the
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Goolagong Cawley born 1951 and a former Australian world number one tennis player won fourteen Grand Slam titles in the 1970’s through to the early 1980’s. Korff (2015) writes about Evonne’s achievements as she “was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 1971.” She had many achievements in the tennis world including Australian of the year in 1971‚ Order of the British Empire in 1972‚ Order of Australia in 1982‚ Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and International Tennis
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examine a play‚ they will find that the plot has linear unfolding from scene to scene. Also‚ there will be various types of characters with different types of personalities and behavior such as the protagonist and antagonist. The play‚ A StreetCar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ shows characteristics of protagonist and antagonist. This play is about a woman named Blanche DuBois‚ who moves with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and her husband‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ in New Orleans. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior
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The loss of identity is an oft-discussed subject in literature. A character’s tie or affiliation to a defined identity in a piece has the tendency to illustrate how the archetype of the character functions in society as a whole. In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the symbolic death of the aristocratic Southern lifestyle of grandeur serves as a notion that illuminates on the meaning of the piece. Comparing and contrasting characters such as Blanche DuBois‚ a typical Southern belle who
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Richard Branson Richard Branson was born in England in 1950. Since a little kid‚ he was encouraged to be independent accomplishing challenges set by his mother at short age. Branson “saw this as opportunities to overcome weaknesses and conquer a small part of the world”. He was not a good student‚ for he was struggling at school due to dyslexia‚ and ended up dropping from school at age of 16. It was the beginning of an entrepreneurial career. At that time he founded a Magazine called “Student”
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statistics can be trusted. According to the CAP‚ a report proposes a resolution to diminish the achievement gap. This simple solution is universal preschool‚ making high quality‚ early learning available for all families. A study shows that going to a preschool of high quality could allow low-income children to decrease their academic gap by 41%‚ African American children to almost close their achievement gap in reading‚ and Hispanic students to completely close the educational gap between them and
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