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    All My Sons is an American play written by Arthur Miller. It’s about an American family where the family was divided and conflicted just after the second world war as their sons were sent to war to fight and sacrificed greatly for the safety of their own nation while their father had sacrificed other pilots’ safety, directed the guilt towards his own partner and made money. This was a metaphor of the divide between the new American society that were in fury of the wealthy people that made money…

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    Arthur Miller was an American playwright who produced the play "A View from the Bridge", first staged on September 29, 1955. It was made into two acts after being unsuccessful as a one Act verse drama. The play is set in the 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighbourhood called Red Hook, a slum area, in New York at the Brooklyn Bridge . Miller heard the story from a lawyer who worked with longshoremen and soon he developed it into a drama first staged on September 29, 1955. It was related…

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    “He’s liked, but not well liked”, a line was used by Biff to the Loman’s neighbour’s son Bernard, who, in Willy’s flashbacks, was a geek who tutored Biff in math. Biff, on the other hand, was very well liked and popular in high school, was a big football player and was seen as someone who would get a football scholarship and continue playing…

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    Saturn Devouring His Son is a very interesting Romanticism mural that was created during the 19th Century. The subject matter, as well as the circumstances of the artist behind the work, contain the feeling of tragedy and darkness that draws the viewer in. The canvas transfer of the mural is displayed at the Museo del Parado, in Madrid, Spain. Saturn Devouring His Son was an oil mural painted on the wall of his house during the 19th century. The large work features Saturn with the bloodied arm…

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    Vehicle Observation

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    Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 06:18 Hrs. I observed a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of Brock Services LLC building and Riverside Auto Dealership located at 341 US-90. The vehicle pulled up to the exit of the parking lot and remained stationary for a few seconds and then traveled east on the service road to Oak St. The vehicle turned south onto Oak St. at a high rate of speed as I was turning onto the service road from US-90. I lost sight of the vehicle until I arrived at Oak and Da…

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    Goya is well known for his thought provoking and perhaps disturbing paintings, especially “Los Caprichios”. While the primary purpose of these 80 something etchings was to depict the abuses of the Catholic Church, societal ills, and superstition, however they also demonstrate a very interesting perspective on the psychology of sleep and dreams, particularly in relation to monsters. This collection presented the condemnation of follies and foolishness is a rather informal, almost free form way, a…

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    Brandon is sitting at his crowded office desk with stacks of papers in the corner, and his lunch out in front of him in Wichita, Kansa, staring out the window watching the wheat as it delicately flows in with the slight breeze. Breaking news just came on tv, a hurricane is about to hit Texas and devastate thousands of people. Brandon automatically starts racking his brain on what to do. Brandon thoughts are all over the place. Should he take that long drive and go down to help, or should he…

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    Sirens In The Odyssey

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    The Siren’s In life we face many temptations. Often times Sirens are seen as a symbol of temptation. Both the poem The Odyssey by Homer and the song “The Cave” by Mumford and Sons depict this, but in different ways. The song portrays temptation as almost a past temptation where as in the poem they are more of an instant threat. The sirens in the poem The Odyssey are portrayed as half-bird monsters that are used to lure sailors into the sea, but in the song “The Cave” temptation is seen as an…

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    “Half of the athletes surveyed by Time magazine in 2000 said they would be willing to take a deadly drug if it would allow them to win every event they entered for five years” (Mumford). The mindset of the athletes who said this is just wrong, using these dangerous substances to win is just wrong and it is not a true win. If you have to use a supplement like steroids to make yourself stronger should never be allowed. Performance enhancing substances should not be permitted in sports. Using a…

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    Conceived in the 60's, Born in the 2000s The US and the UK have spent the last six decades swapping sound and cross pollinating music to give their worldwide contemporary audiences more than we could ever ask for. Until the early 1960s, the stream was mostly a one way flow with the music of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and James Brown, to name a few, watering the creative talents such as McCartney and Lennon and The Rolling Stones. But it was the sounds of the Fab Four reaching the…

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