Introduction One of the most daunting questions posed to graduate students (or any student for that matter) is the one inquiring about their focus. When asked about this project‚ I have told friends and family that I study the use of Americanness in British comedy as a means to reassert a sense of British identity. This is the easiest and most concise way I have found to answer the question. It is also a sentence constructed in such a way as to impress those unfamiliar with television studies. For some reason
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The Divine Comedy‚ written by Dante Alighieri‚ analyzes life after death in aspects that many beings do not consciously admire. Dante takes the reader along on an adventure through Hell‚ Purgatory‚ and Paradise. Though Dante is the author‚ he is also the main character of this journey through the afterlife. Dante uses both first person point of view and impeccable imagery in his developing of the themes of The Divine Comedy. There are three main themes throughout the poem: the perfection of God
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Question 1.The Merchant of Venice: A Romantic Comedy From Insights‚ 1992 The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ probably written in 1596 and 1597‚ and forms one of a group of such comedies‚ along with The Two Gentlemen of Verona‚ As You Like It‚ andTwelfth Night. Romantic comedy was a popular and much-preferred type in Elizabethan theatre‚ and all the trappings of such are present in The Merchant of Venice. First‚ the romantic involvement is represented not by one couple
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The film Waiting For Superman is a film directed by Davis Guggenheim that talks about the public school system in the United States.This film uncovers the many ways in which education in America has declined. Rather than following largely on statistics and expert opinions‚ Guggenheim focuses on five students whose names are Anthony‚ Bianca‚ Daisy‚ Emily and Francisco.Viewing the students struggles and triumphs in the school settings where there are no easy solutions to the issues that affect them
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The Future of Education The public school system in America is not meeting American officials’ standard or the levels they want. They are not providing proficient knowledge to the students to get them to the next grade. Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary‚ directed by Davis Guggenheim‚ which looks into the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public education system throughout the years. Through the eyes of five children who go
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Othello as a Tragic Hero William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Othello‚ the Moor of Venice (c.1604‚ as reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp‚ Literature: Structure Sound and Sense‚ 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 1993]1060-1148) is arguably one of the finest‚ if not the finest‚ tragedies in the literary history of Western civilization. This paper discusses Othello as a tragic hero and compares him to the great Aristotle’s concept of what a tragic hero actually is. First‚ we need to understand
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LYSISTRATA‚ a comedy of stereotypes The playwright Aristophanes wrote about an ancient Greece‚ Athens in particular‚ during a time of constant warfare. His play "Lysistrata" is an attempt to amuse while putting across an anti-war message. In fact even the naming of the play is an anti-war message of sorts. The word "lysistrata" means‚ "disband the army" (Jacobus 162). Aristophanes was a crafty writer; he creates a work of art that causes his audience to think about the current state of affairs
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Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” is a poem written in first person that tells of Dante’s altered-ego pilgrimage through the three realms of death‚ Hell‚ Purgatory‚ and Paradise while trying to reach spiritual maturity and an understanding of God’s love while attaining salvation. Dante creates an imaginative correspondence between a soul’s sin on Earth and the punishment one receives in Hell. "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straightway
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Analysis of The Divine Comedy The selected text comes from The Divine Comedy‚ written by Dante Alighieri‚ an Italian poet. It is a part of Canto XXIV‚ where Dante goes down to the seventh chasm of the eighth cycle in Hell with Virgil’s help. The seventh chasm is the Thieves’ place which is filled with “a terrible confusion of serpents‚ and Thieves madly running.” This short selected text links the previous passages with later passages by developing of the scenario of The Divine Comedy. In this short
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Racial Stereotypes in Comedy Hollywood films‚ for centuries‚ have been using American comedies to humorously naturalize the beliefs of racial differences that construct the ideological basis of racial hierarchy. In American history racial hierarchy refers to the ranking of different races or ethnic groups. Professionals have found a ways for these films to provide the public with a positive source of pleasure in the negative portrayals of their own race and no reactions to produce oppositional discourse
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