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    path. Both of these plays act on the premise that life has many forks in the road but it is the how people react to those hardships that control one’s route. These two plays, however, have opposite theme’s regarding the daily struggles people face. Although both the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun and Mrs. Wright in Trifles endure great hardship, the Youngers illustrate how family sustains a person, while Mrs. Wright illustrates how isolation destroys a person. In the play A Raisin in the…

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    Would I let my son play football? Why would I not let my son benefit from playing football? Football is known as a dangerous sport. Football is also beneficial for kids and it keeps them in school. I would let my son play football because I want my son to be active and involved in school. It will also show him toughness, responsibility, and teamwork. When I have a some I would not want him sitting on the coach on his phone or watching T.V. I would want him to be active playing sports. When I…

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    In the book “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare. Claudio and Hero are similar but also different in different ways. At the beginning Claudio announced his love for Hero and it was love at first sight.Hero serves as the foil character of Claudio by which Claudio credulous, strengths are illuminated through Heros Humble weaknesses; thus, interminably influences the conflict in the plot. Claudio and Hero are contrasted , for ,Claudio consistently being gullible and Hero as the Humble…

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    The benefits/negatives of play in the kindergarten classroom Over the decades, the kindergartens/pre-schools have radically changed and today they master the art of teaching and real learning as opposed to the know criteria of the old that prescribed the children to spend most of the time in playing. Today, the children in the kindergartens/preschool are taught like the pupils in the primary school, the teaching includes testing on the mathematical skills and even the literacy. The standardized…

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    Demolishing Everything

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    In the opening of one of the plays, a couple was fighting. To introduce this couple and their history, however, the light source focused in on the couple on a small table set and played harsh sounds. Before the couple began to brawl—quite literally pulling each other’s eyes out—that sound cue gave us the history of these characters and foreshadowed their outcome. The focus on scale, light, and sound are particularly important to…

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    David Auburn Analysis

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    screenwriter, husband and father. Born in Chicago, Auburn then grew up in Ohio and Arkansas, where he developed his deep love for the arts. Attending the University of Chicago, he joined “Off Off Campus Theater Group”, where he began acting and writing plays and monologues. Auburn also became a critic in his university’s newspaper. Shortly after majoring in English Literature(1991), Auburn accepted a Stephen Spielberg Fellowship and studied in Los Angeles. In 1992, he moved to New York, met his…

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    “Peace! I will stop your mouth[with a kiss].” In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Benedick and Beatrice serve as the comedic relief characters, which the plot is steeped in, through their actions of reasonableness, moonstruck ness, and tsundere like actions. Benedick and Beatrice are contradictory in many ways, one way is that Beatrice is reasonable while Benedick is moonstruck, which sucks the plot through a series of humorous paradoxes. In the first quote, Leonato, Claudio, and…

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    deep down the field. “They fight and fight Ernest Davis, and Lohan Wicker, and they jump it’s an interception it’s going the other way. Running full speed back he dodges two defenders and now he’s hit out of bounce. Ernest Davis with the big defensive play”. The announcer makes it sound so spectacular, and I was receiving it all. Talking trash bragging and really just putting the pressure on the other team when I should be showing good sportsmanship. Careless and I was a ticking bomb I expressed…

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    Play is a major part of a child’s development. Whether this play is solitary or with other children, there are areas that are being developed. When children play it is not simply a waste of time, but a time where the child’s cognitive, social, and dramatic stages of play are expanding. Although one may not be able to see the growth that is happening within a child when they play, there are levels that the child is growing into and becoming more advanced. While there may be activities that seem…

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    INTRO GHE BOOK In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare suggests that it is difficult to express feelings for somebody when they don’t know how the other person feels. Beatrice, one of the main characters in the Shakespearean play, was incredibly quick to deny her love for Benedick and start mocking him. In various scenes, she is heard teasing and criticizing him for traits such as his failed wittiness. She even tells him, ¨A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.¨ (Act 1, Scene 1,…

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