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    Twelfth Night, a story written in the early 16th hundreds about a crazy unbelievable story with lots of hidden identities and love craziness. In 2006 a modern adaptation called She’s The Man was created with a bit of a different plot with the same basic idea. This has a lot of similarities to the original, these are some. A very big similarity is Viola dressing up as a boy in order to accomplish something. In Twelfth Night Viola dresses up as a boy in order to sneak into Duke Orsino’s home…

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    had aroused from the eastern sky and now descending into the western hemisphere, yet he is still not home and I begin walking the city streets all alone. Looking like a Weeble wobble toy I aimlessly wander the streets, reminiscing over that perfect night eight months ago. His whispers of endless love were feather light as evening descended quite eerily parallel to this day and time. Then he was devoted to me. Continuously, serenading me with velvety promises of a lifelong odyssey, overflowing…

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    Twelfth Night

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    In the Shakespeare play The Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, a girl named Viola is shipwrecked on an island called Illyria where she hides in plain sight dressed as her brother Sebastian but going under the name of Cesario. While acting as Cesario she goes to work for the Count Orsino who is in love with the wealthy Olivia. During Viola’s time working for Orsino as Cesario, she eventually fell in love with him, but as she is known as a boy to Orsino, she cannot profess her love to him. Instead…

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    Malvolio Manages Messing up Marriage William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night includes instances of love and loathe. Almost every character is trying to earn another’s love. The understanding of love is necessary to achieve it, and some people, in this play, know more than others do. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, approaches love wrongly in The Twelfth Night. Malvolio knows the least about love because he is arrogant, and as a result he pursues love for the wrong reason. Malvolio desperately…

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    Perusal of the themes concerning the various duplicities and deceptions exemplified In William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Although most people see deception as a destructive force, in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night it is used as a unifier as well as a divider. This fact is exemplified strongly in the characters Viola, Maria, and Orsino. In William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night a duke named Orsino longs for the love of Nobel Woman named Olivia, she, her servant Maria and Malvolio live…

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    In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

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    play Twelfth Night and film Some Like it Hot both include the idea of deception to help make the structure of their story. Twelfth Night is about a woman who plays the role of a man in order to work for the Duke in Illyria, but eventually has Countess Olivia fall in love with her while being a messenger of the Duke’s love letters. Some Like it hot is about two men who join an all woman jazz band to run away to Florida after witnessing a mob murder. The characters in both Twelfth Night and Some…

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    the past wars. The evolution of games is greatly directed by the needs of society. For example, the real first game was “Tennis for Two” made In October 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham. (Physicist Invents First Video Game 1) Over time the games greatly evolved to fit what people wanted. What people wanted was fast paced combat but, just having combat wasn’t enough. It had to be inspired by the past. The most popular medium of gaming is war or combat games.…

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    Get Your Head(phones) in the Game It’s a Friday night. You’re in the living room with your friends, sitting on the couch, watching TV. On the screen are two teams competing against each other. They all have on bright, unique uniforms, and are in the middle of a filled, loud, brightly lit stadium. But they’re on a stage. And they’re sitting down, each in front of their own monitors. This is the world of competitive video gaming. This profession is commonly known as ‘eSports’, but I would argue…

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    There may be 10 games on the board tonight, but there’s really only two contests that DFSers should really study in order to find some value. We found a ton of value in Memphis and Sacramento. So much value in fact, that we had euros not dollars left over in our FantasyDraft budget. We’re still trying to figure out how best to spend that money, so if you have any suggestions, ship them our way. Nothing high tech though. Euros can only get us electronics with those weird Euro outlet sockets.…

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