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    achieve something more and accomplish great things. It can be a positive force‚ but can easily become a negative one when clouds by one’s desires and greed. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ blind ambition has blurred the morality of many of the characters and causes them to fall to their demise. To convey the theme as effectively as possible Shakespeare uses numerous rhetorical devices throughout the play‚ one of which is a character foil between Macbeth and Banquo. Both Macbeth and Baquo are ambitious

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    Color Blind Casting Essay

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    Color Blind Casting is for Everyone Who Is Not a Minority Numerous opportunities are given to people in the entertainment industry. While some people struggle with making it in Hollywood‚ others flourish and become prosperous in their abilities. In that fact‚ you can find so many talented people that are not cut out for “stardom.” Most of the time character roles are not based on talent‚ but one’s looks; looks that are features of a person‚ like skin color‚ face shape‚ and much more. That can’t

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    West Side Story

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    The importance of the target market mentioned in this case is extremely important. With fifty percent of the movie market being movie goers who are under the age of twenty-five‚ production companies are creating movies that specifically cater to their liking. While 33 percent of the market is those from ages 26 to 39‚ they more than likely consist of those parents bringing their children to the movies or out with their girlfriends for a night. The remaining 17 percent are those over the age of 39

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    force‚ to the yearning for the happiness. Maybe‚ at beginning‚ what Chris McCandless pursuing was the happiness‚ but he hadn’t realized it yet. But finally‚ he realized it. The sad childhood experiences of Chris McCandless underwent caused a dark side in his heart. With these experiences‚ he actively started to seek the significance of his life and to pursue the essence of happiness. At first‚ he thought that if he escaped from the hypocritical society he would gain freedom and the life he hoped

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    center themes‚ there would be no story of Excalibur. In the movie‚ "Excalibur" a lot of magical incidents took place‚ mostly done by Merlin. If not for Merlin‚ Arthur wouldn’t had ever been alive. Merlin is the one that conjoured up "the dragons breath" which allowed Uther to change his own identity in order to have sex with Tintagil’s wife ‚ and thus Arthur was born. Excalibur‚ Uther’s sword‚ was created solely by some sort of magical forces. Merlin uses his magic through out the entire movie. Merlin

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    Paradise of the Blind‚ by Duong Thu Huong‚ is written about a young woman’s journey and memories from her past and present in both Vietnam and Russia. The different cultures were discussed‚ along with different aspects of the context of the novel in order to help better understand the novel. Vietnam and Russia were both Communist states at the time period‚ both going through political tension. Huong shows these issues through Hang’s journeys in the novel. Vietnam was at a time of intense political

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    Kate Chopin The Blind Man

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    In the story ’The Blind Man’ Kate Chopin chooses to make the main character poor and blind to emphasize how isolated people can be if they’re different. An effective and memorable character is created by the blind man being created as a representation of a whole community of less fortunate people. This allows people to connect with the blind man; making the story memorable. Kate Chopin makes the reader feel what it is like in the blind man’s position‚ by describing the man in such detail. For

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    The movie "The Dead Poets Society" is about a group of private school boys in the North East. They encounter a teacher‚ Mr. Keating‚ whom is a little different than most teachers. He wanted to instill the motivation to look past what society was telling them to do rather than teach the normal curriculum. He used Thoreau’s ideas on transcendentalism by showing them to transcend or go beyond the rules that society poses and create their own independence. Mr. Keating succeeded in his efforts by teaching

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    Side Show Analysis

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    Side Show was put together through the Kent Theatre Department. The set design‚ acting‚ and theme came together to create the love story of Daisy and Violet. Side Show was written by Bill Russell and directed by Amy Fritsche. The production of this musical created a performance that was exhilarating and unforgettable. The authors of the production were trying to emphasize that even though Daisy and Violet are conjoined twins‚ they were meant to be together. Throughout the musical‚ there were times

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    Do blind people dream

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    Do Blind People Dream? Sight or vision is the capability of the eyes to receive visible light through the retina of each eye to where our nerve receptors send messages to our brain that we translate as colors‚ hues‚ and brightness. We have two main receptors in our eyes called cones and rods. Rods distinguish light not color. Cones are responsible for all the colors we see‚ but are sensitive to dim light‚ for example it’s difficult to make out colors in poorly lit situations yet you can see the

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