Billy Dee Williams

Journeys are a catalyst for individual transfiguration and offer experiences that can lead to new perceptions. The emotional consequence of one’s actions is heightened in Shakespeare’s tragedy, King Lear and American History X written by David McKenna and directed by Tony Kaye, both exploring the corruption of political power, who become a victim of their external influences. Both illustrate how Journeys extend and help shape ones understanding of the world, enable individuals to alter their…

If there is anything Golddiggers wants to remind their audience it is that there are no happy endings in the depression. Hollywood musicals help create this nice form of escapism for their viewers going through hard times, but at the end of the day everything's not okay and people do not get rich just because they fall in love. Golddiggers shows the harsh realities of the Great Depression in it’s final number “Remember My Forgotten Man”. The Great Depression was something that was happening;…

Comedy and Farce Part One- Plot In the beginning of the play The School For Lies by David Ives, the inciting event is explained right away when Philinte mentions his friend Frank has arrived back in Paris. The reason the play starts is because Philinte wants to introduce Clitander to his friend Frank. The departure point of the play is right after Philinte’s opening monologue because Philiente was explaining to the audience about the origin of the play’s adaptation, not the actual storyline.…

So how was the performance? AfterEffect, Nutcracker pas de deux, and Souvenir d'un lieu cher were rather weak appetizers. AfterEffect is Marcelo Gomes' first big choreographic effort and he made a couple rookie mistakes: 1) slapping on a theme (the three main characters are called The Man, His Loss, and His Hope) that had little to do with what was happening onstage; 2) choosing a grand, ambitious piece of music (Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence) without really knowing what to do with it and…

There exists a continuous cycle of manipulation and domination within the relationship between the people and their representative governments, as one continuously changes the other to suit their needs and desires. Composers also contribute to the cycle of suppression through manipulation of language and linguistic devices to exemplify their views. Such ideas are closely explored in WH Auden’s poems, “In Memory of WB Yeats’ (1939) and ‘September 1st 1939’ (1939), as well as the short, animated…

The Importance of Image The word play of earnest and Ernest is extremely comedic because all characters in “The Importance of Being Earnest” are self-interested, social climbing, conformists to the repressed Victorian era. Although Jack and Algernon would love to be Ernest, and Cecily and Gwendolen would love to be with an Ernest, it is symbolic of their status seeking. The idea of being genuine and honest is appealing to all the characters, but above all being respected in their upper-class…

Proctor would not have done this if Abigail williams wasn’t a liar about seeing the devil in the courtroom or everything else that she did to make all the people in town believe that the devil was real and trying to posses her. "Because it is my name I want to keep true from lies and Because I can’t have another one in my life! Because I…

Copenhagen’s Nyhavn boasts one of the most picturesque places on Earth; colorful buildings line the canal, offering restaurants, bars, and cafes. But in crafting Nyhavn, we lost the beauty of the natural surroundings, for the buildings obstruct the canal from afar, and their tall facades curtain any form of nature except the sky directly above. Gary Snyder’s 1996 poem “Covers the Ground” focuses on similar environmental issues, juxtaposing man-made structures with nature. In the poem, imagery…

Imagine a society where the only purpose of women is to be wives and bear progenies. That’s primeval Athens, where females are seen as the property of men. However, the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, projects the opposite notion, which is uncommon because the play was written in the 16th century. In the play, a young Athenian woman, Hermia, disagrees to marry Demetrius, the man of her father’s choice. Hermia is depicted as having dominance through her bold actions that…

Dorian is quickly won over by Lord Henry's argument that everyone must face the horrible fact of aging, and he takes the implications of the inevitability of aging grimly. Following this realization, Dorian comments on his self-portrait “Why should it keep what [he] must [lose]” (26)? This is particularly poignant because it illustrates the transition that comes with age, one whereby the individual loses their purity. Youth, for Wilde and for Dorian, is where we maintain the sense of purity.…