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    To create a modernised version of Shakesphere’s original; Taming of the Shrew (Shrew)‚ Gil Junger devised a plot‚ with added themes and characters to adjust the shift in era and target audience. This is shown perfectly in 10 Things I Hate About You (10 things). Within the two texts‚ intextuality is illuminated through the use of appropriation and transformation. This is clear when analysing the change in context and form. The form of both texts is completely different. One being‚ an Elizabethan 16th

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    10 Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew Comparison Both 10 Things I Hate About You and the play Taming of the Shrew have a lot in common. One of those things is the shared premise. What is premised from the beginning is that there is this woman that nobody really likes Katherine (the “Shrew”) in the movie or Katarina in the play. Then her father makes a rule that Kat must get a husband/date before Bianca‚ the younger and fairer of the two‚ can have a husband/date. So the guy that

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    I don’t like to do what people expect.” This line from the character Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You accurately summarises the attitudes of both her own character and her doppelganger‚ Katherina‚ in The Taming of the Shrew. These texts show us that the differing contexts and societal values of the texts influence directly the development and growth within the characters. The parallels and differences between Kate’s transformations in William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s

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    Is 10 Things I Hate About You simply The Taming of the Shrew relocated to high school? Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is undoubtedly more complicated than a relocation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew into high school. The transformation of Shakespearean comedy into the ‘teen’ movie genre and the integration of Elizabethan values enable the film to be a successful relocation of the play‚ yet the incorporation of modern gender conventions discerns it as something more than a relocation

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    My goal in the life is a willingness to study Islamic International University Malaysia My reasons for learning foreign languages is because I would like to understand the different ways of people express themselves. Its also a way to learn how people interact and socialize with each other‚ and how each society works. Moreover‚IIUM for me learning different languages it can help us to understand how things work and learning languages is much more than making myself able to communicate with

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    create a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew‚ the writers of Ten Things I Hate About You had to change elements of the original story to make it more accessible to contemporary audiences. Though the setting and theme of the story are very different from the original‚ there are clues throughout Ten Things I Hate About You that pay homage to the Shakespearean play. With Ten Things I Hate About You‚ the screenwriter and director successfully update The Taming Of The Shrew for modern

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    If I could create a country of my choosing‚ I would create a Union State similar to the defunct Soviet Union with some important changes. The country I would create would be composed of the same countries that formed the former Soviet Union: Armenia‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijian‚Tajikstan‚ Uzbekistan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Estonia‚ Belarus‚ Moldova‚ Kazakhstan‚ Turkmenistan‚ Ukraine and Russia. This state would also be a one party country dominated by the Socialist Union Party. This is where the

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    MY COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing Mackellar’s deep passion and love for her country‚ Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition‚ personification‚ sound patterns including alliteration and assonance‚ imagery‚ and paradox. The use of

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    modern version of Shakespeare’s piece was created into a film called “10 Things I hate About You”. They are obviously both similar due to the fact that “10 Things I Hate About You” was a remake of the original‚ but they are not completely the same. The modern film version was changed to suit a different audience of the time period and contained more up-to-date features. The play “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ is basically about a “shrew” named Katherine Minola who is infamous for having a bad temper

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    How will I be remembered? This a subject that I’ve thought about a lot during my life. How do I want to be remembered? In my youth I wanted to be remembered as a hero of historic proportions‚ a man who people looked up to as I had looked up to my childhood heroes. A man whose strenth and deeds of daring would live forever. Later‚ in my teens‚ I realized that being considered heroic probably wasn’t everything it was made out to be. I had started to realize that many of my childhood heroes had feet

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