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    Twelfth Night

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    The play twelfth night‚ mainly a comedy‚ presents the challenges faced by the characters throughout the play. During the play many relations those were already going on were broken while the new ones started. The most interesting relation that developed was between Duke Orsino and Viola. The love between them never started as a normal love because Viola always met Duke in the disguise of a male named Cesario and Duke found Cesario a trustworthy person and uses him as an intermediary to confess his

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    “I used to worship you . . . On Thursdays‚ I sat for hours waiting for you . . . I thought about you all the time . . . I didn’t know you were ashamed of me.” (pg. 50 *Mariam’s last words to Jalil‚ her Father*) In Part 1 of A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Mariam is broken to pieces when she realizes her mother was right all along about Jalil being ashamed of her. He was scared that letting her into his normal life would affect his reputation which he did not want tainted. He did visit her occasionally

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    A SCARY NIGHT

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    A SCARY NIGHT It was an old and creepy house‚ my friends and I where on camping. The wind blew heavily that the tress where dancing and there was lightening. One of the girls was in the kitchen and another in the palour watching TV. Suddenly the lights went out‚ we were all scared. We heard screaming coming from the neighborhood which made us more frightened. Suddenly we heard a bang which made us run upstairs to the room. We all went under the bed as terrified as we were. We saw shadows and movements

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    Genocide In Night

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    awaiting salvation. Meanwhile others realize that they are alone and that no benevolent being would allow such violent acts to happen. This one most accurately represents Elie Wiesel. Ellie was a jew raised in transylvania who wrote about his story going through the daily life at extermination camps with his father during the second World War in his novel‚ Night. For Elie‚ faith was a huge part of his life growing up‚ but as he experiences the horrors that go on in the death camps he loses his faith

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    Joseph Campbell is the author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”‚ a book in which he explains the concept of what is a “Hero’s Journey”. This is also called monomyth‚ he proposes that all myths‚ storys around the world follow the same pattern. Campbells puts this monomyth in a template or outline based on tree steps: Departure‚ Initiation and return. But‚ they can also be more deglosed in more steps: Call to adventure‚ Assistance‚ Departure‚ Trials‚ Approach‚ Crisis‚ Treasure‚ Result‚ Return‚ Life

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    A Beautiful Night

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    sang the night long‚ every night‚ in a horrendous voice. The forest animals were distraught and at their wits end. They tried stopping his crass ‘Minstrelling’ with sticks and stones‚ insults and bricks but to no avail. In sheer dismay they cried for divine intervention. To all this‚ the frog remained impassive and resolute‚ intent on airing his heart’s glad ‘elation.’ One night‚ when in the sky hung a pale moon‚ a nightingale perched on the sumac tree and sang entrancingly into the night. The creatures

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    Explore the theme of gallantry and honor (think heroism) as evidenced in any of the characters from Hamlet and A Thousand Splendid Suns. You may also explore this theme in earlier readings in order to compare or contrast. The only essential goals for your character choices are to use at least one character from Hamlet and one character from ATTS and to use a minimum of three characters.  How does this theme connect with the concept of “The Literary Hero: A Quest for Bravery”? You need to use QUOTATIONS

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    Title For Night

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    book ’’Night"? Tagged with literature‚ nightnight (elie wiesel)‚ significance‚ title 2 Answers | Add Yours user profile pic clane | High School Teacher | (Level 3) Educator Posted November 13‚ 2007 at 12:23 AM (Answer #1) dislike0like Night is a very personal time for Elie and so it is a strong symbol throughout the book. At the beginning of the book Night‚ Elie feels that night is the only time when he is certain that he is safe so he treasures the hours of darkness. He uses night to measure

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    Horses of the Night

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    Personal Response: Horses of the Night In the short story‚ "Horses of the Night"‚ the author‚ Margaret Laurence‚ discusses the idea of escaping reality. Chris‚ the male protagonist‚ is the character who is trying to escape reality. Chris is a young man who is struggling with life‚ and in order to escape his life‚ he dreams up his own world where anything can happen. Chris doesn’t understand reality‚ and he doesn’t want to be a part of it either. In the story it seems like certain things don’t

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    Night Essay

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    Night Essay Surviving the Holocaust can alter a person’s faith – it can either strengthen it or cause it to falter. In 1941‚ in the village of Sighet‚ Romania‚ twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends the majority of his time studying the Talmud and exploring other aspects of the Jewish religion. One day‚ all foreign Jews‚ including Elie’s instructor‚ Moishe the Beadle‚ are expelled from Sighet. Upon his return‚ Moishe tries to warn the Jews of the horrific dangers that lie ahead. They all refuse to listen

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