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    The Glass Menagerie Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was born and raised in Columbus Mississippi, on March 26, 1911. “Williams is famous for his many plays he has written throughout the years. Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” (Biography.com) As a child Williams was carefree, along with his other two siblings, until his family moved to Missouri. "The carefree nature of his…

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    to think a certain way and believe certain things. I want to take a step back. I want to take this moment with you all to detach and reflect on my experience at Stern, and how it has shaped myself and my view of happiness. I then want to take my view and challenge it; challenge it to a point where I understand how my experience at Stern has both positively and negatively changed this view. With a (hopefully) clearer head, I want to talk about our futures as excel monkeys, entrepreneurs, and…

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    witnessed during Hitler’s reign. When the book first starts, you 're introduced to the Dodds, a small family from Chicago. The book follows William Dodd, the father, and Martha Dodd, his daughter, and their life throughout Hitler’s regime. Beginning in Chicago, FDR was looking for someone to be the American Ambassador in Berlin, but no one was willing to go, except William Dodd. The book spends a minimal amount of time in America and spends the rest of the book in Berlin. Since this book takes…

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    Thrones of Blood known to be a element of one of the greatest Shakespeare plays, Macbeth. It was not a simple adaptation of the play. It was a creation that was full of symbolic representations. One of the key differences between William Shakespeare’s MacBeth and Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood was the style used in the depiction of the characters, because the protagonists of the movie and the play was different. We can easily see the differences through the comparison of Macbeth and Washizu…

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    highest court in the land are some of the most intelligent legal minds our nation can offer. Even more so, those few men who have been given the task of guiding the court are some of history’s prominent figures. Two men in particular, Earl Warren and William Rehnquist ruled the American legal and political scene for nearly 35 years. Warren, serving from 1953-1969, presided over landmark cases of segregation (Brown v. Board of Education) and criminal rights (Miranda v. Arizona); Rehnquist, who is…

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    referring to the largest of four bowls of bird seeds. The children must identify which item does not belong, and why. This task proves very easy, demonstrating that humans can easily single out an anomaly from a pattern. This theme corresponds with William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy with an outcast. The main characters, Orsino, Olivia, and Viola, entangle themselves in a hopeless love triangle and act without reason. Even many of the minor characters fall under love’s…

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    An Eye for an Eye (A critique of the title of Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure) “The title ‘Measure for Measure’ suggests balance. It is all about duality and the theory that there are two sides to everything, to every story” (Scola). Shakespeare’s play, Measure for Measure, is often labelled as one of his comedies, but anyone who has exposure to this text may question why that is. There is a lot of tragic things that are incorporated into this play, but the difference between this comedy…

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    Katie McMane Professor Mark Williams English 380 14 December 2015 A Canonical Critique on the Literary Canon William Shakespeare’s The Tempest presents the theme of freedom vs confinement by testing the boundaries of a power-hungry protagonist. The play revolves around the events of an isolated group of individuals being led, held captive, and manipulated by the magic-wielding Prospero. This theme is taken a step further in the final scene of the play when Prospero implies that the characters…

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    Iago is a very interesting character in William Shakespeare’s play, Othello. The most compelling view of Iago is through the Historical Critical lens. Othello was written between 1601 and 1604 in England, however it was not published until 1622. This was just after the time of the renaissance, 1500-1688 (British Literature Survey) depending on what country you are in. The time period that Shakespeare wrote this play in, has a great impact on who Iago is and how other characters see him. Within…

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    Macbeth, yet it was not a straightforward adjustment of the play. It was a tasteful creation that was wonderfully created to depict the complexities of the play while still maintaining creative ownership of the film. One of the key contrasts between William Shakespeare's MacBeth and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood was the style utilized as a part of the portrayal of the characters, because the tendencies of each main character were different in the play and in the film. Without much of a…

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