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    Shakespeare’s romantic comedies such as As You Like It & Twelfth Night are all full of various love-relationships. The central pair of lovers in As You Like It comprises Rosalind & Orlando‚ and the love is an example of love at the first sight which‚ nevertheless‚ does not run smooth. The love originates in the Duke’s Court during the wrestling bout won over by Orlando. It‚ however‚ matures in the pastoral setting of the Forest of Arden‚ where Rosalind takes the initiative by being disguised as

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    Throughout act I of Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare we are introduced to a lot of events going on between different characters in the play. In act 1 we are introduced to a lot of characters one of which is named Viola. We learned that she is a quick thinker and is determined to change her appearance. She does this because it gives her more options and more social mobility after she believes that her brother did not survive the shipwreck they encountered. In scene one‚ she was talking

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    drawn to literature about the underdog overcoming odds because we as a species enjoy seeing the little guys win. Three pieces of literature in particular come to mind when speaking of hope and how it fills mankind with a fight for survival. The books‚ Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ The Glass Castle‚ By Jeannette Walls‚ and Red Rising‚ by Pierce Brown all feature main characters believing in themselves and

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    The play twelfth night is a great story and has many different themes throughout the play but I’m going to focus on one. Manipulation there is many different ways to manipulate ether a person or the situation. Throughout this story it shows us they there is a good and bad type of manipulation. Viola a main character in the story shows the most manipulation because she disguises herself as her brother (who she thinks is dead) to work for a duke. Throughout the story she gets everyone thinking that

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    William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night introduces a wise fool named Feste. As a licensed fool‚ Feste plays an integral role within the plot of the play. Feste acts as the voice of reason in a play filled with cross-dressing‚ disguises‚ confusion‚ trickery‚ and chaos. Feste has the ability to break down the barrier between the cast on stage and the audience members‚ while also embodying the festivities of the feast of the Epiphany and the beginning of Carnival. Even though Feste is called a fool in name

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    The Hidden Passion of Orsino In the play Twelfth Night‚ the character Orsino is a man of deep passion who attempts‚ but is mostly unsuccessful‚ at hiding his passion. This is seen in many of his speeches‚ including his first speech of the play (1.1.1-15)‚ his interaction with his court in the second act (2.4.1-6)‚ and his impassioned speech when he thinks Cesario has married Olivia (5.1.110-124). In these speeches‚ his thinly veiled passion is seen in several formal elements of his speech‚ including

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    both long-term night shifts and work schedules in which employees change or rotate shifts. A night shift is determined by the number of hours an employee works‚ and the time of night an employee works. For instance‚ a typical night shift begins during the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. In some states‚ the night shift hours differ. Working at least three hours between these hours is considered working a night shift. Many shift workers have less tension and a more relaxed pace on the night shift than

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    A Night at the Opera Analysis Paper A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx brothers. Groucho Marx‚ Chico Marx and Harpo Marx. The Marx brothers influence on comedy can still be seen in todays films. There is very few comedians that have ever had as long a lasting influence or been as well-known as they are. It is absolutely astonishing that after over seventy years‚ it still portrays the same amount of enjoyment and laughter in "modern" viewers as it did when the

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    “The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war‚ when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere…” Francois Truffaut Francois Truffaut continued on to say that Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog‚ made in 1955‚ was the “greatest film ever made”. The 30-minute film based on the horrors of the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps after World War II combines Resnais’ own cinematography with original images and footage of the captives in their unfathomable

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    The enthralling novel‚ Tender Is The Night by Francis Scott Fitzgerald‚ engulfs his reader in the tragic story of Dick and Nicole Diver through their toxic marriage‚ numerous affairs and mental illness; all the while contemplating one’s ultimate mortality and loss of youth and hope through a series of unfortunate events. Fitzgerald‚ a 20th century novelist‚ conveys a message of Dick’s irrevocable broken life; through symbolism‚ parallelism‚ and metaphors. I NEED HELP I SUCK ASS A THESIS STATEMENTS

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