The "Space Traders" Commentary on Racism "Space Traders" is a short story written by Derrick Bell‚ a current professor of law at NYU. Bell is not a science fiction writer‚ nor does he claim to be‚ but he uses science fiction to portray a story of racism that sounds ludicrous upon first reading. However it does in fact tell a story that is relevant to the issues America faces on racism today. Being a lawyer‚ Bell approaches this story from a political standpoint‚ giving symbolic meaning to even
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“Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment
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Commentary on Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green started out with a montage of America in the early 1980’s and ended with New York City in 2022. The movie was based on what the future could look like for the world if we continue to become over populated. It looked beautiful in the country with plenty of hay for the cattle and food for people‚ taking a ride in the afternoon in the country side was a beautiful luxury‚ people were trying different experiments like the Wright Brothers in
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The Great Gatsby cover Commentary The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a detailed account of a summer that Nick Carraway‚ the narrator spent in West Egg‚ long island‚ living in a house next to a colossal mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was known to throw many “little parties” which were anything but “little”. The story includes many influential characters such as Daisy Buchanan‚ who is Nick Carraways cousin‚ Tom Buchanan‚ who is Daisy’s husband‚ Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s
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circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to point out that ‘aristocratic life is brutal and corrupt’.[2] The focus of this commentary will be concentrated on marriage and to what can lead one to fall apart. The first scene (Act I)‚ deals with the characters of the play’s main plot: Leantio‚ Bianca and the Mother. In this scene‚ the readers come across with the insulting
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Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors By Andrey Levchenko One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen‚ either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors‚ but with time a got used to it‚ and now I know how to do it easily
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A successful piece of social commentary selects an issue (or feature) of a society and identifies a series of aspects that contribute to that society. By doing this‚ the author raises the awareness amongst readers and makes them reconsider the accepted state of affairs and challenges a position held on those certain issues. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a severe indictment on American society in the 1920s‚ with particular emphasis on the disintegration of the American dream corrupted
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and ignorance of the upper class in society‚ whilst also stressing the brutalities of war. Sherlock employs lots of comparisons in this poem to emphasise the carelessness of the nobilities and highlights the unequal nature between the difference social positions. In the beginning‚ the author creates a sumptuous environment for the riches’ dinner party with the background sound from the pantry and video. In this poem‚ he symbolises the radio to the death as the radio was playing the news from the
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The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov ’s last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however‚ Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production‚ directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return
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Commentary about “London” by William Blake London‚ which consists of sixteen lines‚ is not just a description of William Blake’s birthplace but also a detailed poem of how the social status works in London. The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis delivered with passionate anger. It is revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology‚ the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. The reason why
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