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    The West Side Community Collaborative The west side of Buffalo‚ NY has had a bad reputation for a long time now‚ but it hasn’t always been that way. Many years ago the area known as the west side was a popular and extravagant place to live. Through years of economic hardships however‚ the west side took a wrong turn somewhere. It is now viewed by many people as “a lost cause.” The crime rates have skyrocketed and the standard of living has plummeted. Gangs are a huge issue in the west side of Buffalo

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    (1996) and West Side Story (1961) were so successful. Shakespeare’s play and the two movies modeled after it have many similarities and many differences‚ but one thing remains constant in all of them‚ They all use universal truths to relate to their audiences. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a timeless play that concentrates on many different human emotions and reactions. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are alike in many ways‚ they were both very successful in their day. West Side Story is essentially

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    The Other Side Theme

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    It might seem like “Wonder” and “The Other Side” are very different kinds of stories one is a story about a kid in the present and is different than all the other kids. The other one is about back in the day old times where people got separated because of their skin color. But if you look a little closer into the story you would see that they actually share a common theme in both stories. The authors show us just because you look different does not mean you can’t be friends. In wonder the author

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    The Walls Go Crashing Down When two people are meant to be together‚ no time is too long” (Anonymous). Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents show the pure evils of acting extremely hastily and how it can change the outlook on the future. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers who were taught to hate one another and who suffer deeply because of the consequences of fate. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were sure to be tragic as was hinted at early on throughout

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    Theme- the Lonesome West

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    The * For my comparative study I focused on the importance of decision making within texts. The text that I am going to focus on is the play The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh. This play was first staged in 1997 and is part of a trilogy which focuses on the lives of the people of Leenane a ficitonal rural village in Galway. The play focuses on the lives of two bacholar brother’s Valene and Coleman who are both bitter and grumpy about their lives have ended up. Leenane is a hell on earth a place

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    The Blind Side Themes

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    In the film The Blind Side‚ Leigh Anne introduces the plot by using a football analogy: “There’s a moment of orderly silence before a football play begins. Players are in position‚ linemen are frozen‚ and anything is possible. Then‚ like a traffic accident‚ stuff begins to randomly collide.” The Tuohy`s come from a prominent background‚ and their life is relatively straightforward. When Leigh Anne encounters Michael Oher on a rainy night‚ little do they know that their lives will change. Michael

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    Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story We have recently been studying two different stories in our class. We read the first act of Romeo and Juliet and watched the movie West Side Story. I was surprised that I actually enjoyed both. Our assignment is to write a compare/contrast paper on what we have read so far in Romeo and Juliet and what we saw in the move West Side Story. I found that there are many things alike and many things different between the two. There were two very noticeable

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    Logan Henry Mrs. Perry 9CP English 23 January 2014 Story Symbols and Their Meaning Each story contains symbols that have deeper meanings that the reader learns. “The scarlet Ibis” took place in 1918‚ and was written by James Hurst. Then in “The Golden Kite‚ the Silver Wind” the authors name is Ray Bradbury and was written during the Cold War time period. Over all “The Scarlet Ibis” was about a little boy named Doodle‚ who everyone thought would die very soon‚ but with the help of his brother

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    (Both from ‘West side story’) (Tonight also known as balcony scene – Tony and Maria sing together. Maria – sang by Tony.) The piece ‘Tonight’ begins in B maj; it opens with Tony stating “the most beautiful sound I ever heard” this is sang in a very recitative style; mainly monotone (D) – rubato. This makes his words seem the prominent element – stressing the drama. The gentile bassoon plays a descending line – while the horn plays a simplified version ~ this ‘decent’ becomes a theme in Tony and

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    In the 19th century‚ after a long period of isolationism‚ China and then Japan came under pressure from the West to open to foreign trade and relations. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States had created a wide gap between them and the West‚ leaving the two Asian nations behind technologically and military. In that period‚ neither of them had the power to stand up to the Western nations‚ and eventually both had to sign unequal treaties that forced them to open their ports and cities

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