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    The American Musical has often been used as a medium in which uncomfortable issues were boldly addressed. This has been the case for the issue of race and ethnicity in America‚ in particular the following musicals: Show Boat‚ Memphis‚ and West Side Story. The first two musicals addressed the issue of the integration of African Americans into American culture‚ with Show Boat‚ set in the early 1900s‚ focusing on the difficulty of true racial blending in America‚ and with Memphis‚ set in the 1950s

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    Selling one’s soul to the devil is an archetypal theme as old as time itself. In the story The Devil and Tom Walker as well as in the movie Snow White and the Huntsman‚ Tom Walker and Queen Raveena are motivated by greed. In the story The Devil and Tom walker by Washington Irving Tom Walker is motivated by greed. During the story Tom and his wife are always hiding eggs and other things from each other in their forlorn looking house. Tom was also never a man to stick at trifles when large sums of

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    Juliet’ and ‘The West Side Story’ are both movies based on William Shakespeare’s play. They are very similar in many ways‚ but different in others. It is about two teens that fall in love and see each other without their families knowing‚ because their families have a feud against each other. I will be discussing the differences and similarities between‚ Romeo and Tony‚ Juliet and Maria and finally‚ the families and the Gangs‚ which are in the movies‚ ‘Romeo & Juliet’ and ‘West Side Story’. Event thought

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    reality of its meaning. An illusion is said to be something that deceives‚ by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. This sense of false reality can be accepted by many people who don not have the true understanding of the image. This concept of generalizing tendencies is show by Sally Stein in her essay‚ Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother and the Paradox of Iconicity. In this essay Stein examines the photograph Migrant Mother‚ taken by Dorothea Lange‚ and how its illusion

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    to believe‚ but this archetypal theme of ill-fated love predates Shakespeare by more than a thousand years. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "archetype" as: the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies. One of the first pieces of written work to include this common archetype of ill-fated love was Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe." Written around A.D eight‚ and published in Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ this poem recounts the story of two forbidden lovers

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    20 September 2012 Crooks’s Side of the Story His crooked back aches as he lies down on his tiny bed. Crooks takes one look out the the little window and hears cries of joy and laughter as the evening games commence. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men Crooks comes off as a mean old man‚ bus considering his conditions‚ it is not surprising. Crooks is forced to sleep in a tiny room that smells of fresh manure. He lies on a narrow‚ straw filled bed. This man is forced to sleep in the barn because

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    In “A Story” by Li-young Lee the poet used literary terms to represent the theme and relationship of the poem and the characters. Some of the literary terms that the author used to represent theme were rhetorical question‚allusion‚ and imagery . In “A story” by Li-young Lee the poet used allusion to represent the theme of the poem. The quote he used to identify theme using rhetorical question was “Am I a god that should never dissapoint”. This question shows the father and son relationship. It shows

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    María Fernanda Kuntzy 10A English Class Motif Theme Symbol What is it? Repetition of person‚ object or image. The context or message of the story. Object‚ person or image that What is its function? Helps us to understand the theme. Gives purpose to the story Represents an idea. Iciar Aldonza Cristina Prats Fernanda Kuntzy Our song: A goodbye to remember Turn around Say it loud. Face the rhythm of the night to say goodbye. Take your time to think about all the things we shared while

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    TA 300 23 September 2012 From West Side Story to Spring Awakening: The Evolution of the American Musical Broadway‚ also known as The Great White Way‚ no matter how you chose to describe it‚ they describe a place that for over one hundred years has put on the most spectacular musicals in the world. From Ancient Greece to the Globe Theatre and finally to Broadway‚ these places have all been known for being “the” place for plays and musicals. “Broadway is the street in New York that has come

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    Nicole Banley ENG 125 David Schonfeld 04.07.2013 I believe the theme of the story is that Sophia feels it is her right to explore her sexuality however she pleases and to have an independent life‚ no matter what her father thinks. The writer uses setting to narrow the underlying idea‚ the theme. In this story‚ there are two different settings. The first one is in Sophia’s father’s home where she gets scolded for having love letters. Her father finds them and asks if she has been deflowered

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