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    In The Night Kitchen “And he fell through the dark, out of his clothes past the moon and his mama and papa sleeping tight,” (Sendak 3). This book should be banned because the little kid in the book Mickey was naked for most of the book showing this genitals and butt but also the cooks in the book were trying to cook Mickey, they even had a oven ready for him that had his name on it. This is a reason it should be banned because little kids should not be seeing children naked and they also…

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    Some Like It Hot Analysis

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    Some Like It Hot (1959) is an all-time classic Hollywood comedy directed by Billy Wilder. The story follows a smooth saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his intuitive bass-player best friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) after they witness a Mafia massacre. The two buddies create a spontaneous plan to get away from the Chicago native mobsters. Joe and Jerry disguise themselves as cross-dressed women and join an all-female jazz band who are boarding a train from Chicago to Florida. The story heats up…

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    The Epic of Gilgamesh portrays the life events of a young ruler named Gilgamesh. Throughout the story there are various points of foreshadowing that help the reader to predict what will happen later on within the story. It is interesting to note the way the story uses foreshadowing, it is bluntly shown in several portions. In general, literary works use foreshadowing as a subtle tool to peak the reader’s interest, this is not the case within the Epic of Gilgamesh. While there are several…

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    Lust In Romeo And Juliet

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    urged to one that is so ill.In sadness,cousin,I do love a woman.”(Romeo and Juliet 1.1.211) As you see here Romeo is expressing his undying love for Rosaline and how he urnies to be with her.Benvolio's way of cheering up Romeo is to make sexual innuendos and then tell him that if they go to the Capulet party he will forget how in love he is with this Rosaline girl.Romeo is fixated on the idea of being…

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    Tudor Longbows Analysis

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    Tudor longbows were most prevalently featured as the primary projectile weapon of war during the reigns of King Henry VIII because of their success against similarly equipped enemies and their regulatory aspect. Before archery transformed into a source of luxury entertainment for the upper classes, it was a necessary skill demanded by the monarchy to preserve national defenses through a trained civilian army. King Henry VIII even instituted ordinances and parliamentary statutes that required men…

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    The whole speech is based on pagan Celtic mythology. Mercutio’s speech has tons sexual innuendo. The words “queen” and “Mab” refer to whores in Elizabethan England. As his speech goes on we notice the speech get increasingly sexual with Mab teaching Maidens how to have sex. Romeo has just said that it might not be wise to go to the Capulet party because he had a dream that things would go badly for him if he did. Mercutio gives the speech to persuade Romeo that dreams are nothing but Queen Mab…

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    question, is also ambiguous. At first glance, they can be taken literally at Obadiah’s tale with the query about the bull’s potency, hence the bull and cock. But also with the story as a whole, a rambling story with no apparent plot, with many sexual innuendos and focuses on male genitalia. By having this scene the final in the book, it has the entire cast of characters together on stage once again, perfectly summing up the novel in its own way that only Sterne could…

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    “The Story of the Grandmother” is a fascinating fairy tale that many people are not exposed to while growing up. This tale predates, and is likely the basis of, Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”. There are multitudes of versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”, each with slight variations. “The Story of the Grandmother” is unique in the fact that it is the possibly the oldest written version, allowing the reader a glimpse at this famous tale’s origin. Fairy tales originally were used…

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    Eyewitness Identification The California Innocence Project website states that eyewitness misidentification is a primary cause of wrongful convictions. Up to a quarter of eyewitness identifications in cases of strangers are incorrect. Despite the high rate of error in eyewitness identification, eyewitnesses can provide the most damning evidence against a suspect. Several reasons explain the high error rate in eyewitness identification. One reason is the stress and anxiety that individuals feel…

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    Mercutio Foils

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    Mercutio is known for being the jokester of the play. He doesn’t take love too seriously, in fact, much of his humor regarding love is based in sexual innuendos. "Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down" (1.4) Mercutio openly criticizes the idea of love, often skeptically. Since the entire play is based upon the experience of young love, this kind of character can seem refreshing to the audience…

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