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    In the article “Do What You Love”, the author Tony Hawk claims that we should listen to our inner desires and has faith in it, even when it is not accepted bases on what is called normal by numerous people. To begin with, Tony says that he is an avid skateboarder for 24 years and people loath that job in personal levels followed by lots of unaccepted names which were set. He mentions that his job often conceives as a childish, time-consuming, critical and lawless job. He states that, by the time…

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    Skateboard Research Paper

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    Skateboard themed accessories for teens are the ideal way for your teen to exert their decorative creativity in his or her personal space. After all, teens have a way of claiming and decorating space like no one else can. For skateboard lovers there are a number of unique skateboard themed accessories for teens that can be used to decorate their bedrooms or other space. One of the favorites among the collection of skateboard themed accessories for teen is the Skateboard Speaker Shelf available…

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    and found that they barely even knew themselves. Claire and Tony were sinking fast arguing constantly and building walls to avoid one another. Claire thought each day that more years spent like this would only pile up and add more weight until they would reach the bottom. What was their breaking point? Who was at fault? These questions didn’t have answers. The only answer they did know was that they were a family. Claire and Tony decided to own their feelings, they listened to one…

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    My current journey I question the word life. I question my past journey ups and downs and if everything happens for a reason. I also look at judgement in the world today. People judge others for being evil or bad and treat these individuals as if they have always been this way. As I look at my 20-year-old son today, I think to myself where did I go wrong. It takes me back to the day he was born and what a beautiful baby he was. He was a happy baby and I exposed him to love that I never received…

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    In Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Characters suffer unnecessarily as a result of their fears. Kushner does this by exploring the implications of fear through the lives of different character. Joe suffers as a result of his fear and inability to admit he is homosexual, while Harper suffers from her fear of change and Joe’s fear of his own sexuality. Additionally, Louis abandons Prior in his time of need due to his fears of illness. In Millennium Approaches, Joe constantly struggles with who…

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    In his play Angels in America, Tony Kushner uses Louis’ refusal to face Prior’s illness directly as a platform to address Louis’ overall inability to confront his own feelings, instead choosing to make them more abstract in an attempt to sound philosophical, allowing Louis to remove himself from the central narration, while still making the decisions that will best benefit him in the end. When raising the subject of Prior’s illness, Louis chooses to speak in the third person as though the event…

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    Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.” ― Tony Kushner, Angels in America In Tony Kushner Angels in America, it speaks to a time in our nation's history, particularly in the early eighties to roughly the year 2000, where the AIDS virus plagued numerous people. Kushner…

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    Angels in America is a play that seeks to expose and confront American society and the prejudice that plagues the country’s community. Tony Kushner aims to get the audience connected and thinking by strategically presenting every character in a relatable form. He explores the meaning of community from an overall political standpoint as well as an individualized personal point of view. In this paper I will draw attention to Kushner’s idea of American society existing as one community that…

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    Louis Kushner Split Scene

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    A theatrical element that Kushner employed to increase the affiliation between the audience and his characters was the use of split scenes. By using a split scene, the audience was able to watch two scenes occur at the same time. These scenes would often portray two different couples having the same argument. This not only allowed the audience to understand the characters more, but to relate to the characters themselves. With two separate couples, an audience member is bound to relate to one of…

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    the characters of Tony Kushners’ Angels in America struggle with self-acceptance and cultural normativity, resulting in the mutual and tragic flaw of shame in oneself directly negatively affecting their relationships, communities and ____. Through the use of dramatic irony, Kushner emphasizes how shame, resulting in suppression of emotion inevitably tears apart relationships. Likewise, by developing characters in sets of foils, such as Louis and Joe, and Roy and Prior, Kushner highlights how…

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