...story by Dorothy Parker, tells the story of an unnamed woman’s complaint with a dance partner. The pair meets at a party, when all the other dance partners are unavailable. The woman complains about the way the Man dances. Everything the man does, from the way he looks, to the steps he takes, to his cockiness makes her upset. However, the woman does not say anything to her partner. She struggles silently and it is only the reader who knows why the woman is upset. The story ends and after the dance, and the woman never reveals her thoughts or feelings. The story is an allegory because it tells a story through the story. Parker writes about a dance, but the dance represents more then the dance between the two characters. The dance expresses the relationship that women and men have. The woman, never wanted to talk to the man, but she is forced to. The woman didn’t want to dance with the man but she is forced to. The woman didn’t make mistakes while dancing, but after dancing with him she is forced to lie and say she did. The main character is never able to tell her partner her thoughts about the man’s character and behavior. The waltz is a dance complete by two partners. The male and female dancers both have parts to this dance and they both need to work together and work separately in order to make the dance a beautiful one. However, in the woman’s perspective, the man is unable to be a good partner because of the way he acts. He is very forward in his manner and dancing. He controls...
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...Everyone experiences adversity at some point in their lives. Some people do not believe that adversity is needed in life, and they can travel through life without any conflict. That simply is not true. Everyone will experience it. Golda Meir once said that, "You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." Adversity is the best sparring partner because it strengthens character, helps develop humility, and teaches life lessons that cannot be learned in any other way. Through trials of adversity, character can be learned. Many parents enroll their children into karate lessons that include the event of sparring. They do this so their children can learn how to work hard, be tough, never give up and keep fighting. Those are all essential characteristics that a child needs to learn. In the quote from Golda Meir, he says that adversity is the best sparring partner. Just like sparring can teach children and adults many things, adversity will teach the most. It is inevitable and is the best way to learn. Often there is no escape from adversity and...
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...family of four living out on a secluded farm were slaughtered with a shotgun by the collaboration of two individuals for a seemingly few dollars. In this novel, Capote gives a thorough character description of the two murderers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, as he recreates their experience (much as he sees it as it would be from their eyes). He gives accounts preceding the event, through it, and eventually into their trial and execution. From the descriptions Capote provides, a psychological analysis of the mental states of Hickock and Smith can be asserted. Richard Hickock can be seen as possessing significant traits of psychopathy, while his partner Perry Smith is seen with traits similar to that of a life-course persistent offender. Through the described personality characteristics and brief histories of Hickock and Smith, this essay will address this assertion with the two in question as individuals themselves, within their relationship to each other, and also as other characters see and analyze their psychological well being. The reader gets to “know” Perry Smith very well throughout the novel and acquires the sense that Capote feels sympathetic to his situation as compared to that of Hickock. Smith, introduced as much the loner type, is described by the narrator and the character Smith himself (in a letter to a psychiatrist) as growing up in a low socio-economic bracket with a broken family accompanied by a lack of love and stability characterizing his childhood...
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...change in emotions and attitudes regarding the offender.” This definition of forgiveness points out that forgiveness is a personal choice and is not dependent on the person who is receiving this forgiveness. You can forgive and move on with your life to be happy but not forget. In the short story “Forgiveness” by Rebecca Brown, the protagonist does not forgive her mate for taking advantage of her to an extent where she is completely broken. I personally believe in all circumstances, in order for one to be truly happy in life, it is critical to forgive but never forget. In the short story “Forgiveness” the lead character says “when I said I’d give my right arm for you, I didn’t think you would ask me for it, but you did. You said, give it to me. And I said okay” (brown 1). With the use of metaphors and symbolization, Brown illustrates to the reader of a visual picture of how the protagonist gives all her effort and her life into their relationship and after all the sacrifices, she does not get anything in return. For example, the use of the word “arm” demonstrates how the protagonist gave a huge part of herself up for her significant other; in other words, it can also be visualized as the pure love she gave to her partner. “But then, when you got it, you...
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...Rehearsal Form: Your Name: Scene Partner: Character Name: Week of: 4/10 – 4/16 (Use the table to document the exact time and day of) Keep memorization fresh – work on lines every day * You need to memorize your lines and your partner’s lines. Action – what you do to get what you want use the Action Verb At this point, your scene is memorized, and blocked. The next step is to focus on developing a truthful relationship with your scene partner. You must work on pursuing action and adaptation to keep the scene viable and interesting. Keep in mind: Adaptation – a modification of behavior in response to a reaction you see in your scene partner in order to fulfill an appointed task. * Obstacle - anything that gets in the way of what you want * Objectives/Tactics - the moment-to-moment “actions” taken to implement your strategy Experiencing – the process by which an actor experiences the character’s emotions afresh in each performance. * At this point you should try to think from the character’s perspective. That will engage your physical representation of the character. If you do not know your lines cold you cannot experience the character’s thought-process. Rehearsal: * Warm-up and run lines * Work the scene * Try to identify trigger words * What words or phrases solicit a response from you? * At what point do react to what your scene partner is saying * It usually isn’t...
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...films have been popular since motion pictures first entered the media world. Scholars have speculated why these movies remain appealing to viewers and have argued for several reasons. These movies might foster hope about real-life romance (Galician, 2004), or demonstrate that that there are no limits to how love may manifest itself (Harvey, 1998). Despite this speculation, few studies have systematically investigated the content of these movies or the effects they may have on viewers. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate that potential. In particular, I conducted two studies that explored the nature of romantic ideals in romantic comedy films and their influence on viewer endorsement of romantic beliefs. The first study was a content analysis of the themes or romantic ideals embedded in romantic comedies. The second study was a survey designed to explore whether exposure to such films encourages the learning of romantic ideals among young people. The theories of uses and gratifications, social cognitive, and cultivation served to inform this project. I first analyzed the content of over 50 top-grossing films from the romantic comedy genre. This process involved identifying the type, nature, and context of romantic ideal expressions that characters in these films make...
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...people and illegal immigrants. CRASH is well-acted and well-directed, but also betrayed by its scripts. Haggis has built the plot on the series of often implausible coincidences that look more suitable to misanthropic black comedies than dramas that aspire to tell important truths about real life. In just over 24 hours, Crash brings together people from all walks of life. Two philosophizing black men steal the expensive SUV belonging to the white, L.A. District Attorney and his wife. A similar vehicle belonging to a wealthy black television director and his wife is later pulled over by a racist cop and his partner. Soon many of these people get mixed up with a Latino locksmith a Persian storekeeper and two ethnically diverse, dating police detectives. The multiple plot lines intersect in all sorts of interesting ways. Everyone is linked together, not by a single linear chain but by an intricate web. In the process, we get to see more of who these people really are underneath our assumptions based on their color. Some of these characters redeem themselves while others may suffer terrible fates. Crash is not a movie that focuses on one particular set of characters or plot line. Each character and story is told equally throughout the film. Rather, the focus of Crash is the single societal issue of race. Racism and racial prejudice comes in many forms and situations, and the film attempts to capture a good sample of what people may have to deal with....
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...The movie has the same concept where the heirs get clues that lead them to Erica Berthe Crow. The storylines in the book and in the movie are very interesting, although there are some interesting similarities. The Westing Game book and movie have many similarities. In the book and the movie Turtle is the main character who kicks and who finds the fourth...
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...came to the conclusion that they really could happen. I found myself trying to predict the main characters’, Doyle Gipson (played by Samuel L. Jackson) and Gavin Banek (played by Ben Affleck), next moves based on the information I knew about them, and the scary thing was that I got most of the predictions correct. My opinion of both main characters changed several times throughout the movie. In writing this paper I hope to discuss the ethical mistakes of the main characters, and what my final opinions were of them both. When the movie begins, it seems as if both characters are possible protagonists due to the brief background the movie gives of both men, but it suddenly changes and seems to show Gipson as the protagonist as Banek becomes the antagonist. It almost makes me sick to think that this entire catastrophe of a day could have been avoided if Banek would have exchanged information with Gipson and given him a ride to the same courthouse he was going to. However, Banek leaves the scene of an accident with Gipson, starting this cruel chain of events in motion. We next see Banek, who is a lawyer, in court and he quickly realizes that he accidentally left an important document at the accident scene and Gipson has picked it up, not knowing what it is. The rest of the movie is Banek’s frantic search for the document, which will keep him and his law partners out of jail, and Gipson’s vendetta to get back at Banek for many different things Banek does to him...
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...Loyalty In Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man the theme of high and low loyalty in different characters plays an influential role throughout the novel. By high loyalty I mean a person who stays loyal to someone whom he or she loves, no matter what. By low loyalty I mean a person who does not stay loyal to people they are with and try to not reveal their disloyalty. We see characters of both types in Russo’s novel. We see characters who are loyal and we also the characters who are not loyal. Some characters in Straight Man show extremely high loyalty to people they love while other characters show extremely low loyalty. The main character Hank and his mother, Mrs. Devereaux, are very good examples of loyal people. Hank stays loyal to his wife Lily but he always has fear that his wife is not loyal to him and that she is having an affair. The reason why Hank thinks this way is caused by his father’s disloyalty when he left Hank and his mother when he was a little boy. He has a fear that Lily might leave him too one day. These thoughts that Hank has about his wife are wrong and shows his childhood trauma. That trauma caused him to lose his faith in other people, even to his wife. Even though that Hank tries to flirt with another woman he never thought of having an affair with her, which makes him a loyal person. Hank’s mother, on the other hand, even stays loyal to her betrayer husband who left her and her son and never came back for years. She thinks that he will come back and...
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...Elements, such as the story’s title, the order of events, and the development of the characters, are very unique. "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot pattern, where the character is confronted with a problem and is then led into a climax, which late leads to the resolution of the story. The plot in The Killings also includes usage of flashback as a tool for the audience to fully understand the backgrounds of the characters. The story discusses the ramifications of the original murder, the subsequent actions of “justice,” and finally what is left when it is all said and done. “On the august morning when Matt Fowler buried his youngest son, Frank” (Dubus 112), there is where the story of a crime of passion begins, frank was only twenty-one years old and fell in love with an older women with two children "Mary Ann", who after a month of separation from her ex-partner begins a new relationship with Frank. One day “Richard Strout (Mary Ann ex-partner) shot Frank in front of the boys. They were sitting on the living room floor watching television, Frank sitting on the couch, and Mary Ann just returning from the kitchen with a tray of sandwiches. Strout came in the front door and shot Frank twice in the chest and once in the face with a 9 mm. automatic. Then he looked at the boys and Mary Ann, and went home to wait for the police” (Dubus 115). This crime of passion changed Matt and Ruth’s life. “I should kill him” Steve says (Dubus 110) there is where the revenge start...
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...The Great Gatsby, which is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story that portrays the day-to-day life occurrences that encircles the society in a deeper sense. The novel displays the problems that curb everyday life, such as issues affecting various marriages, the upcoming of a society or change of social class of individuals. The novel has enlightened irresponsibility as one of the critical topics that Fitzgerald wants his audience to consider and look at deeply. This paper is aimed at discussing the critical topic of irresponsibility, which is prevalent throughout the novel, making it the most appropriate topic to discuss by developing an argument on it, from a personal interpretation of the novel and thereafter raising a complex argument that is defendable. Consideration should also be given to the examination of the deeper layers in the critical themes, symbols, characterization, or conflicts taking into consideration irresponsibility as the critical topic to base the argument on. Lastly, this paper clearly shows the main point to substantiate, which include irresponsibility in marriages, moral decadence, as well as social class. Personal interpretation and defendable argument Fitzgerald has extensively outlined the level of irresponsibility that existed in the early times that followed World War I. Irresponsibility has been depicted mostly in the relationship and marriages, which constituted the infidelity that the married couples in the novel were subjected...
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...the story explore the couple's dynamic it also delved into the feelings each partner had about the pregnancy. In “On Reading Fiction”, the author explains that readers enjoy fiction for three reasons, because it is an escape from reality, a possible answer to problems in their lives, and allows the reader the comfort of knowing that others are facing the same problems and feeling the same emotions as them. The author states, “we like it because fiction, as an image of life, stimulates and gratifies our interest in life.” This is without a doubt true, knowledge is power and reading about people’s lives and their experiences gives a leg up to the reader in his or her own life. While there are numerous short stories to choose from, “Hills Like White Elephants” should be part of the curriculum for college students because it digs deep into the conflicts everyone may face at one point in their lives about decision making, relationships, and changing your destiny. Being an ongoing issue in society, the topic of abortion is important to read about. Regardless of gender, reading about abortion is important because both parties should have a say in whether to keep the baby. Although not pointed out in black and white, in “Hills Like White Elephants” the reader understands the couple is arguing over the woman's pregnancy and the decision of having an abortion. While reading it is noticeable that each partner has a different opinion and it is difficult to see where the other is coming...
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...writers and 20 percent producers . In 2012 out of 67 top films of 2012 only twelve leading characters were female . This essay will be taking a look at various films from different time periods and analyze the way that women are portrayed. The research will focus on how feminine characteristics are considered inferior, women being portrayed as sexual objects, the importance of looking at issues that women face in, also taking a look at stereotypes that don’t seem to be going away regardless of when the films are made. This essay will focus on the evolution of film and how it represents modern day society. It will explore both the negative and positive aspects of the evolution of how women are...
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...Standard 5.Rl.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the texts. ELA Compare and contrast two or more characters, setting, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g. How characters interact). Content Objective(s) Students will be able to determine the theme, characters, events, and be able to respond to challenge in a fairy tale. Students will be able to compare and contrast the elements of a fairy tale in detail. Language Objective(s) Students will be able to verbally and write the theme of the fairy tale. Also be able to challenge the viewpoints of...
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