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Hamlet the Play versus Hamlet the Movie The movie Hamlet and the play have many noticeable differences. The Hamlet starring Mel Gibson added and cut scenes and lines from the play. The director most likely did this so that viewers could understand Hamlet better. Overall, the movie kept main themes and the plot however multiple noticeable changes were made. The differences start immediately, the play begins with Horatio and the guards waiting outside of the castle for the ghost to arrive.…

Ernesto Garcia March 29,2018 6th Period Conservative Resurgence Fact Sheet President Nixon during his presidential term during (1964-1974) he was involved in a lot of conflict and some good decision. He started his term against a group call OPEC that denied oil exchange with the U.S. Also made a detente with the Soviet Union and European countries. He made the Vietnamization policy to end the involvement of U.S.in Vietnam and give the chart back to South Vietnam. He visited China it was a…

In her eulogy honoring former president Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher used various rhetorical strategies, including an appeal to Ethos and parallelism, to convey what an influential figure Reagan was as both a president and a man, following his retirement. Through her intricate use of these rhetorical strategies, Thatcher expresses that Reagan was a great president for the United States and an excellent diplomat for the international community. Thatcher begins with a concise and abrupt…

when the destruction happens but over time the wall starts to fall apart. In the spring, which is usually a time that lingers with the sense of refreshment, it is a time for renewal and also so happens to be the time that they mend the wall. When looking at the whole picture can be seen as a time to mend and nurture the friendship between the two neighbors kind of like how spring is a time to mend and nurture nature. So the introduction to the poem provides the reader with the image of…

In “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, the speaker and the audience witness the gravity-defying performance of the Juggler. When juggling, the Juggler changes the dull atmosphere to a lively one through his momentary triumph against gravity. The speaker observes that although the performance showed temporary victory against gravity, the Juggler made ordinary objects seem special and entertained the audience by inspiring them. The speaker describes the Juggler’s abilities using images of divine power…

the idea of survival of the fittest has thrived in human culture. Countless works of literature have stemmed from the theory that the strongest are meant to inherit the Earth while the weak are meant to be left behind. The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connel, is a short story that focuses on a man named Rainsford who, at the start of the work, comes across as a flat character who believes that hunting is simply survival of the fittest and feels no remorse for the animal being hunted. As…

QUESTIONS for The Hot Zone by Richard Preston PART ONE: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON” 1. Charles monet was a loner who lived by himself in a little wooden cabin on the private lands of Nzoia sugar factory. He was fifty-six years old and his job was to take care of the sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. 2.Mount Elgon is a volcano located on the border Uganda and Kenya, Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano. 3.Monet gave the virus many opportunities to accumulate a new host, For…

This book, Up Close: Ronald Reagan, mostly focused on the fact that Ronald Reagan was awesome. Ronald grew up with an alcoholic father, this one time he came home to his father passed out in the yard, so he brought him inside and took care of him. He had a girlfriend who left him when things were getting distant, she got engaged to another man. Then Ronald hit the big time, Hollywood actor. Then his father passed away after his second heart attack, but Ronald kept moving forward, living his…

In Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Think Like a Freak many key aspects of challenging unconventional thinking and “thinking like a freak”. One piece of advice the book offers is to incentivize people, but don’t manipulate them. This is valuable advice, which many people will find to be a beneficial resource to getting what they want. Incentives can be useful in achieving goals that would be otherwise unattainable without the help of others. Humans are inherently selfish beings, not…

Survival is key in The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon. Although our two protagonists, Rainsford and Will Kane, run for the beginning of the fight they quickly change that and become the predators. Both Kane and Rainsford end up winning this fight. In the movie High Noon, Frank Miller is coming back to seek revenge on Will Kane. At the end they finally have a shoot off and last man standing, which would be Kane, wins. In the book The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is out at sea then falls off…