SPECIAL ESSAY FOR RANK STUDENTS (PROSE) BON VOYAGE INTRODUCTION: “Is there beyond the silent night an endless day? Is death a door that leads to light? We cannot say” -R.G.INGERSOLL Kalpana Chawla
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Doug Aitken was a Multimedia artist who born in 1968 in Redondo Beach‚ California. He graduated from Pasadena Design Art Center at 1991. Doug Aitken moved to New York at 1994 and held his first exhibition at the 303 gallery there. Aitken’s work forms are widely from photography‚ sculpture‚ architectural and all the way to narrative films and sound works. Among them‚ most of his image works are related to several places and the local culture in those places‚ such as Guyana’s Jones Town‚ Africa’s diamond
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The Lord of The Flies Comparative Essay The book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding and the the movie” Mean Girls” produced by Tina Fey‚ you can see the similarities easily. In the bother of them‚ no one gets along‚ there are real evils sharp from the "villains" in each story‚ and both tell what really would happen if you gave people. of each gender and age groups‚ power and/or freedom and no rules. Evil is evil however it is presented in "Mean girls"‚ evil attacks people physically/emotionally/verbally
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The way in which discrimination plays a part in the ’the merchant of Venice’ is very evident throughout the entire play. The view over the ’ Jews’ throughout the play is generally negative‚ this bias nature found throughout the play may influence the villainous and immoral actions performed by Shylock and his decisions which lead to him lawfully having the right to take one pound of Antonio’s flesh‚ which Shylock immorally accepted. The situation arose when Antonio’s great friend bassiano fell in
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Is Shylock a Villain or a Victim? In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice‚ Shylock‚ a Jewish money-lender‚ is portrayed as the cold-blooded‚ greedy antagonist of the story. Some people may see him as the villain of the story – and in some ways he is – but‚ really‚ this is a result of the stereotypes associated with Jews. He is quite a peculiar character and his role in the story is indefinite because he has traits of both a villain and a victim. A villain is ‘a wicked person or criminal’
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Salarino and Solanio Salarino and Solanio‚ in The Merchant of Venice‚ play the important role of bringing news to the stage to advance the plot to the audience‚ and the role of defining the characters in the play to the audience. While still playing the roles of minor characters‚ Salarino and Solanio are important aspects in creating less confusion‚ keeping the plot interesting‚ and drawing the audience into the play. As stated before‚ Salarino and Solanio help to bring news on stage to advance
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another. In order for two individuals to successfully remain in a loving relationship‚ they must be worthy of each other. The worthiness of an individual is expressed as an important theme in one of Shakespeare ’s famous plays‚ The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio is presented as a character who is the right match for an astonishingly fair lady‚ Portia. However‚ a new opinion regarding Bassanio ’s worth - contradicting with other theories - is revealed. Bassanio is not worthy of Portia‚ as his
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University‚ John Hennessy‚ rejected Device to Root out Evil‚ an outdoor piece Oppenheim had made‚ Oppenheim suffered such censorship. The piece Stanford had intended to acquire was Oppenheim’s second reproduction of a piece he created for the 1997 Venice Biennale. Stanford’s director of the Cantor Arts Center‚ Tom Seligman agreed to purchase the piece from Oppenheim in 2002. In 2004‚ Stanford terminated this agreement‚ as the Dean for Religious Life informed the University of "potentially inflammatory
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The Merchant of Venice: Plot Summary Act I The first act opens in a street in Venice‚ where Antonio‚ a wealthy middle-aged merchant‚ talking to two acquaintances‚ wonders why he feels vaguely sad and apprehensive. When his friends suggest that‚ having many vessels at sea exposed to all the winds that blow‚ he necessarily is anxious‚ he denies it‚ as he does also being in love. Before the cause of this strange melancholy is discovered‚ Bassanio joins this group with two companions‚ who talk and
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English 10 -1 “The Merchant of Venice” Act 1 – Scene 3 Questions 1. Bassanio contact Shylock regarding the loan. What are the terms of the loan? What does it mean for Antonio to be “bound” to a loan? The terms of the loan was Interest free The guarantor was to be Antonio If Bassanio did not repay the loan in three months‚ then Shylock would take a pound of flesh from Antonio. 2. What does it mean when Shylock says‚ “Antonio is a good man” (Line 12)? How does Bassanio take his meaning? What
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