Tracy Hoang Per 3 May 31‚ 2012 Westside Story and Romeo and Juliet Essay There are some plays that remind the audience about the past movie they have seen that related in the same general ideas. After learning about “Romeo and Juliet” and watch “Westside Story” play. Both plays show the audience their point of view of how the plays create in their own unique way but share the same themes and moral lessons. So‚ they bring up a lot of differences and similarities that can compare together throughout
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Shakespeare’s is one of the most read writers ever and his writing was so successful that not just one group of people liked it. He did this by relating to his audience using universal truths. . Human emotions are not something that change over time and they are also known as universal truths; love‚ hate‚ revenge‚ and envy are all examples of universal truths. This play was so successful that many other movies have copied the plot but changed the scenery. Over the past 400 years since this play was
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to as “The Scarborough Rapist” (Sellers). The rapist was‚ in fact‚ Paul Bernardo‚ then 23 years old. He would eventually admit to fourteen rapes; he was associated in as many as 50 (Sellers). Five months later Bernardo met Karla Homolka‚ then 17‚ in a hotel restaurant in Scarborough. Prior to meeting Bernardo‚ Homolka had shown no signs of criminal or irregular behavior (Sellers). She quickly fell in love with Bernardo and the two became a couple. There is no suggestion that Homolka was aware
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SYPNOSIS: A bitter tension between the jets‚ a self-styled “American” street gang‚ and the Sharks‚ a group of young Puerto Ricans opens the scene. The leader of the jets‚ Riff swears to drive the Sharks‚ led by Bernardo‚ from the streets. Riff determines to challenge Bernardo that night at a dance in the gym‚ and prevails upon his old friend and the co-founder of the Jets‚ Tony‚ to help him. Tony has been growing away from the gang‚ and feels the stirrings of other emotions but reluctantly agrees
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I believe that the (1961)‘West Side Story’ film version of Romeo and Juliet is superior to the later version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ directed in 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli. Jerome Robbins‚ the director of ‘West Side Story’‚ having a different aim/ representation of Romeo and Juliet has used various effective techniques to produce his film – which I consider to be more successful. Robbins chose it to be a transformation of Romeo and Juliet & not the original play from Shakespeare‚ but that’s not the
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TITTLE: A Well-Spent Day Writter:Raquelle A. Valle Setting:At the house Main Character:Tita Secondary character:baby.maid.Mrs.Legaspi‚mother Moral lesson:Be helpful PLOT : Tita Solis had at last arrived from school.``The twenty minutes walk under the sun was tiring indeed.Now I’m home for a good lunch‚”She thought as she pushed the small wooden gate.Suddenly‚ she heard a``Ps-s-s-t!”It came from the house across the street ``Come‚please‚”Mimay‚the maid called
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Paul Bernardo‚ a diagnosed psychopathic and sexual sadist‚ murdered three women and sexually assaulted at least eighteen. During that period‚ the authorities did not have any admissible evidence that would identify Bernardo as the perpetrator of these crimes. On the first of February 1993‚ the first clue was discovered. Forensics then advised the police that there
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themes that most reassembles West Side Story is‚ the importance of putting your differences aside is because both the Sharks and the Jets had there differences‚ but if they were to just put them aside then no one would of gotten hurt. For example‚ if Bernardo and Riff just put there differences aside then most likely they would of both lived instead of fighting causing both of them to get stabbed and die. Also when Tony and Maria put there
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1 Non-Native English Students Learning in English: Reviewing and Reflecting on the Research ■ Allan B.I. Bernardo and Marianne Jennifer M. Gaerlan De La Salle University‚ Philippines ABSTRACT: As more countries adopt English as the language of learning in schools‚ more non-native speakers of English are learning English so that they can learn in English. In this paper‚ we review studies (mostly involving Filipino-English bilinguals) that look into the experiences of bilingual learners as
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Wittenberg University; he is well-educated. Horatio is trusted by Hamlet‚ and he is used by Bernardo and Marcellus because of Hamlet’s trust in him. One of aspect in Act one is Horatio’s role as a witness. The Act starts with Bernardo and Marcellus bringing Horatio to stand watch with them to show him the “ghost” that they had seen. Horatio refused to believe them about the ghost‚ he was skeptical. Bernardo and Marcellus knew that Hamlet would believe that there was a ghost if Horatio told him. Another
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