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    soothing mood of the town. I felt a mood of soothing when the text stated, “You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of banana and coffee. This illustrates how the atmosphere of Elysian fields is pleasant and peaceful due to the river and the scents around town. The effect that is created with the “blue piano” is that it is a part of New Orleans culture. The blue piano is welcoming to the people because they “are practically…

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    History of baseball This popular sport was given the name “America’s past time” through the years even though there has been debate for centuries of which land invented this game. The game of baseball has been seen back through history all the way back to 1600s. Abner Doubleday has been said to be the inventor of America’s pastime, but has never been credited with it. He never knew he created this game either because he was killed in the civil war before recongnition. Back then they called…

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    power over the earthly world. This was achieved through the help of all the spells in the book of the dead. This is why Egyptians had large collections of earthly possessions buried with them so that they could live a comfortable life in the Egyptian Elysian…

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    Blanche Dubois enters the lives of Stanley and Stella Kowalski when she arrives at their apartment at Elysian Fields. The beautiful and cultured Blanche clashes with the primitive Stanley. However, unlike the cultured Blanche first seen, the real Blanche is penniless and has a history with many men. When Stanley reveals Blanche’s impure past to everybody, Blanche struggles to continue and ends up in a mental facility. The deterioration of Blanche’s character is a result of her attempts to…

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    The worshipping of Gods and the reverence of religion in Ancient Greek culture forged the moral and ethical codes of this rich society. The impact of Greek Gods can be felt in numerous aspects of the lives of many ordinary Greeks. It supplied them with means to celebrate festivals, build magnificent temples and transform their everyday lives. These forms of reverence given to spiritual beings gave hope to many and provided light to their suffering. To understand the deep impact of Gods and…

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    friend,” Her heart ceases. She shudders, and picks up her alcohol in attempt to make the discomfort subside. She fails. “I’ve found myself faced with benevolent possibilities.” He lifts his hand and paints towards the sky. “Think, heaven on earth. Elysian fields of magnified beauty. Happiness doused in gasoline and heated yet… never truly lit. Just the possibilities. The temptation.” Co smiles. His words remind her of a time when The Sun was his favorite sight. When the boy basked in the light…

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    Shadow is the part that people want to hide and deny. It is also the dark side that we cannot accept and face. It is often hidden in the subconscious so that sometimes they forgot the shadow or unable it detects its existence. However, it brings a significant impact by surrounding in people thought every day and dominated one's life. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts Blanche DuBois as someone who relies on a phony world of dreaming and imagination in order to find a good…

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    they destroy the city of Troy. Proteus stated, in Menelaos's tale, '"But for you, Menelaos, O fostered of Zeus, it is not the gods' will that you shall die and go to your end in horse-pasturing Argos, but the immortals will convey you to the Elysian Field, and the limits of the earth, where fair-haired Rhadamanthys is, and where there is made…

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    How does Williams present the female characters’ dependence on men throughout “A Streetcar Named Desire”? In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Tennessee Williams utilises a range of characters to expose and critique the way that institutions and attitudes of post-war America placed restrictions on women’s lives. The female characters, Stella Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, play a prominent role in this portrayal of the treatment of women, as while both females demonstrate two different types…

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    Origins and Development The origins of religion in both Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt are astonishingly alike. Even though they were founded hundreds of miles apart, these people still came up with incredibly similar ideologies. It is not uncommon for religions to have comparable aspect, such as the remarkable similarities in the religious texts Enuma Elish and Genesis 1. The religions of the Romans and Egyptians during ancient times were extraordinarily elaborate consisting of multiple Gods,…

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