Romance languages

“Casablanca” is one of the most well­known romantic drama films from the 1940’s, with it’s deeply obvious profound impact upon the film industry in Hollywood. The movie starts out in the town Casablanca, where war refugees go to try to stow away to the United States. That night in a Cafe, Ugarte a crook arrives and boasts to the owner (and ex­supplier of weapons to an african country during a war with Italy), Rick Blaine that he valuable possesses passes which let him travel around the war…

There are a range of film techniques seen within that help portray the theme of discovery. The colour and lighting of the film reflects the individual's emotions and the concept of finding something that is lost. Throughout the whole film, the colours are neutral, black and white, suggesting that it is an old film, which can usually be associated with romantic films, suggesting the timelessness of love. The black and white shows the dull and boring life people in the city live. When Meg arrives…

For Willy Loman, true happiness depends on external validation. This meaning that above all things, he values the acceptance, praise, and general approval of his family and peers that success entails, and without these things he cannot ever be truly satisfied with his life. Within the text, Willy shows how much this affects him and matters to him through. During his affair, he says to his mistress, The Woman, “You picked me?” with an air of surprised pride, and relishing in the idea that he is…

In "Sonnet 91" by William Shakespeare the poem raises the question of the value of love, which is answered through Shakespeare's play on words and the narrator's own preferences of his kind of love. This poem captivates the reader's interest and causes them to understand how love is different from wealth or possessions. William Shakespeare in "Sonnet 91" uses metaphors and tone variety to exemplify the vulnerability of love when it is placed first above all else in life. Shakespeare uses…

Moreover, each of these characters, like every hero and heroine, confronts some sort of temptation off of their path. In The House of the Spirits, Blanca has to go through an unwilling marriage with Count Jean de Satigny before anyone realizes that she is pregnant with Pedro Tercero’s child in order to not taint her father’s political reputation and family name. Her moment of weakness causes her to temporarily give into the temptation of an easier, open life. However, she soon realizes that she…

Roles in The Inheritance Cycle compared to in-class literature Throughout time, the roles of men and women have been in question, from before Christ to modern times. These roles are often portrayed in the literature of that time, from ancient pieces of text such as The Iliad, to modern times, such as The Inheritance Cycle. There are some similarities, but also many differences. The role of women in all of the literature that has been read in-class seems to be whatever the men want. The women…

Destruction in Relationships “I think it is time for us to end our relationship.” Remarks like these are notorious when going through the process of a breakup. Individuals tend to turn to music to his/her broken heart. The lyrics and rhythm patterns that various artist use, often aid people on getting over the relationship, acknowledging if they did the right thing, remembering the past relationships, or simply moving on. One topic that many artists tend to touch are toxic relationships. Two…

My creative piece is two mirrors placed back to back. In the mirrors are the two worlds that Othello see throughout the play; innocent and guilty. The blue mirror is innocent, displaying a white dress, medal, handkerchief, and sword and shield. The white dress represents Othello’s wife, Desdemona and her purity. He views her as an angel that can do nothing wrong, a loving and trusting girl who, against her father’s beliefs, fell in love with the man. This picture is placed in the middle of all…

Walt Whitman song of myself is Whitman is going through a physical or mental change because he’s talking about how he “ I celebrate myself, and sing myself” and he’s not depressed or sad about something because once we get out a sadness we go out and we party to show were not that person anymore. He start being more observant to and aware of his senses when he says “The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves” and the touching of “A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms” and…

Poetry is a beautiful form of expression. In the pages you are about to read, in the simple stanzas and rhymed words, we see two people that share a deep and abiding love for one another. The poems that follow will show this couple as they express their hopes and dreams of not only their yesterdays, but the future they both so desperately desire. Jacob Tanner has been writing poetry since he was very young. After being drafted into the Korean War, he uses his poetry as a way of escaping what…