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    in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You. How does each composer’s use of this story reflect the time in which each was composed" The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. The patriarchal society of this time is reflected to a large extent in the text and various implications of traditional values can be noted. The modern appropriation‚ Ten Things I Hate About You‚ goes along the same story

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    10 Things I Hate About You (how it explore relationships) ‘10 things I hate about you’ is a movie by Gil Junger. The Stratford sisters- Katarina (A.K.A. Kat) is a feminist and intelligent‚ while Bianca‚ is superficial. Bianca feels the need to date to be part of the socialites; however‚ her father won’t allow her to date. The rule changes to ‘Bianca can date when Kat starts to date.’ This deteriorates Bianca’s situation as Kat is a termagant. In a series of convoluted schemes‚ Patrick Verona is

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    her the shrew just shows the very prominent sexist ideals in this play I think making it very unromantic‚ men do not like her because she speaks her mind and it very independent unlike her calm and beautiful sister Bianca. In the time that this play was popular it was a normal thing to find women like Katherine undesirable‚ although this is true it is still something that very common in this day and age. In the scheme of things women are still told to shut their mouths and hold back their oppinions

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    Don’t Waste Your Time with Trivial Things There are some people saying that the language is sexist. Generally‚ considering the words that are mostly used for both genders such as man‚ mankind‚ chairman‚ or the word history‚ especially feminist women see this issue as a big problem. Those people may present the famous philosopher Aristotle’s utterance "Man is a rational animal" as evidence. However; when looked at the etymology of the word "man"‚ it is easily seen that the original meaning of "man"

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    his play in theatre‚ or watched a video based on one of his works. There are so many movies that are influenced by his plays. Two of them are “The Lion King”‚ “10 Things I Hate About You”. Many shows mention his name. So here is the lingering question: why are we still so intrigued by him‚ a man who died almost four hundred years ago? I believe that in order to truly understand why William Shakespeare is still very much remembered‚ why so many movies are based off of his work‚ and why we still quote

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    My article is called Living long beneath the sea‚ and I got it from www.sciencenewsforkids.org. Some individuals who were involved were Hans Roy‚ a biologist from Aarhus University in Denmark. Who was been studying microbes that live beneath the Pacific Ocean‚ near the equator. Karen Lloyd‚ a biologist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She’s worked with Roy but not on this study. Lastly‚ Seth Shostak‚ an astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain

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    Nigeria My Country

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    have contributed substantially to Nigeria’s public debt problems‚ as the majority of projects financed by public borrowing during the late 1970s and 1980s failed to generate an adequate rate of return needed to improve the repayment capacity of the country. Thus during the 1970s‚ public expenditure was primarily financed from oil revenues‚ made possible by the high oil prices in the 1970s‚ some domestic borrowing‚ and relatively modest external borrowing. At the time of the second oil shock in 1980

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    Century audience. Since film has the ability to reach a mass audience a more modernized version of Shakespeare’s play was created -“10 things I hate about you”‚ directed by Gil Junger. Although different in its appropriation‚ by comparing‚ -‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘10 Things I hate about you’ it is evident that the modern appropriation ’10 things I hate about you’ is successful in shaping the understanding of a modern day audience‚ so that they can further understand and appreciate the original

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    Title – 10 Things I Hate About You Date – 27th October 2011 Question: Describe an interesting idea in the text. Throughout the visual text of 10 Things I Hate About You‚ Gil Junger (the director/author) applies emphasis regarding strive for individuality. This is portrayed via the main character’s (Kat) actions‚ particularly her determination to do completely the unordinary‚ yet that goal is not “her”. Kat strongly strives for somewhere that she believes is where she belongs‚ although as a matter

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    My God, My Country and Me

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    I am proud to be a Filipino. Our Lord God’s plan is for me to live my life as a Filipino and therefore‚ in my heart and in my mind‚ I shall always be a Filipino wherever I may be in the world. God wants me to belong to the Filipino family and as such‚ I am a “kapatid” [brother]‚ kapamilya at kapuso to anyone and everyone who is Filipino‚ wherever he or she may be on earth. You will recognize me with polite words "po at opo” in my sentences. We also have our signs of respects with kissing the hand

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