...The play, The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman, uses long, uninterrupted monologues to show a character's full views about the murder of Matthew Shepard, and homosexuality in general. Juxtaposition is often used within a monologue to show the discrepancies that some people in the town feel about the Matthew Shepard incident. An example would be, “Moment: One of Ours.” In the previous moment, Harry Woods, and Matt Galloway give emotional interviews about all the support people had shown for Matt at the homecoming parade. However, this is all juxtaposed by Sherry Johnson’s monologue in the next moment, where she goes on to say, “A lot of it is my feeling that the media is portraying Matthew Shepard as a saint, and making kim a martyr. And I don’t think he was.” She then misinterprets facts about Matthew to justify her feelings about him. “It’s scary. You know about his character and spreading AIDS and a few other things, you know, being the kind of person that he was. He was, he was just...
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...getting good grades. I on the other hand I need to have a hard copy of the material and look over it many times just to thouroughly know the material. David Foster also talks about “Blind Certainty” as I mentioned before. The so call “self centeredness” is how the world may seem like it revolves around you because you’re looking at it out of your own perspective. I know I feel like that sometimes. It’s not that I think about myself all the time or anything but I just feel like things get in MY way. Like Foster’s example of how people on the highway might be in YOUR way, yet you might be in theirs. I’ve been in that same position many times, not thinking of the other person. Maybe they have a baby or a handicap individual in the car and their driving safe. Perhaps there’s a sign on a car that says “baby on board”. The person in that car may think it may make the other driver...
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...Co-Curricular Event: The Vagina Monologues Audition On the November 19th, I audition for the play The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler, being presented by Feminist Majority. I knew about the play from the Feminist Majority meetings and from Sierra Stein. After Take Back the Night on Wednesday, Adina Leshinsky talked to me about the play. We talked about the different roles and how that there are ones within my comfort level, and how easy the auditions are, you did not have to prepare anything for the audition. So to make a long story short, she basically persuaded me to try-out. So the next day at about 6:30 pm, I headed over to HMSU room 314 to audition. I did theater in High School, but I still get nervous at auditions. I personally think that it...
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...A BLACK WOMAN’S JOURNEY: FOR COLORED GIRLS Created in 1975, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, focuses on the struggles of black women not only from that era, but issues still pertaining to black women 35 years later. Shange’s powerful choreopoem is comprised of seven women trying to "sing a black girl's song…. Sing a song of life, she's been dead so long"(Shange 18), creating a voice for every woman. None of these women possess a name, only a color, to show that they represent all women of color. Shange includes themes of love, abandonment, sexuality, abortion, and domestic violence to emphasize what women in her community were and still are subjugated to. Through dance, poetry, and music these women slowly but surely find their true identity. Ntozake uses her work as a tool to empower all “colored girls” by creating these seven strong women that form a bond when they are able to find their identity as black women, and essentially in their journey make it to the end of their rainbows without committing suicide. When looking into Shange’s life there’s no question that situations, which she had observed day-to-day or experienced herself, were imposed on her writings. Born as Paulette Williams she was raised in a middle class family, which was not a childhood common for blacks. Her family moved to St. Louis and she attended a non-segregated school where she had to endure blatant racism at the mere age of eight years old. She rebelled...
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...“Knowing what a person has done, and knowing who a person is, are two different things”. How does Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites provide insight into the experience of Agnes? * * * * * * * * In Burial Rites, Hannah Kent explores the idea that behind even the most heinous of actions, there can be ambiguity; that stories are shaped by self interest, biases and ideologies of the day, which can challenge preconceived beliefs of guilt. Using excerpts from archival material, juxtaposed with a story told through multiple narrators, including first person monologues of the protagonist, Kent allows us to appreciate Agnes not just as an evil scheming murderess, but as someone with a complex history and vulnerabilities, offering a deeper understanding of her experience. The use of material from historical archives to preface the chapters of Burial Rites, creates a powerful authenticity to the story that provides a factual skeleton of Agnes, as well as insights into the way she was treated by the authorities. Kent is able to use ‘truths’, such as her literacy, intelligence and poverty, established by the Ministerial Records and inventory of her possessions, to flesh out the persona of Agnes and explore their implications in terms of her experience. They also reveal the deep love and attachment that Agnes had for Natan and her continuing grief over his loss, through her poetry in response to Poet Rosa, with lines like “do not scratch my bleeding wounds” and “my soul is filled...
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...In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet, is used to drive the plot in many different ways. He makes Hamlet think, or thinks he knows, a key aspect in the plot. Hamlet’s character traits mixed in with the story creates a plot that has transcended through generations. Shakespeare has many different techniques that express Hamlet’s character traits. Shakespeare is able to express Hamlet’s traits in his actions, his words, his thought, which are expressed in monologues and soliloquies, and what other people say about him. The Lion King, a movie based off of Hamlet, also uses these techniques to express the character traits of Simba, a character based off of Hamlet. Shakespeare uses these techniques to express Hamlet’s Character...
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...The Death of the Ball Turret gunner In the poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Jerrell uses time, irony and symbolism to depict the life and death of the ball turret gunner. In the drab and desolate background of world war II the gunner is hunched upside down in the belly of a bomber aircraft flying bombing missions over Germany. He is fighting off bullets and flak, constantly staring death in the face. The life expectancy of the turret gunner is short. The stench of the previous occupant still Lingers. Jerrell scribes from the first person a monologue of this ill fated gunner. We hear the gunner speak to us from the grave. The brevity of the poem is short. The life of the gunner is short. Most strikingly, the poem whisks us in time from birth to death. Perhaps the gunner is experiencing the death flash. His whole life flashes before him in an instant and we are reading his thoughts. The irony, symbols and choice of words Jerrell uses set the tone of the poem and leaves the reader with mixed emotions. In horrific times of armed conflict everything is turned inside out. What we think of as normal is abnormal. Our values are inverted. Life becomes cheap. Jerrell’s choice of metaphors and words has a traumatic impact on the reader. In a clever twist, Jerrell uses time to shorten time from decades to seconds. First, he advances time as if he knew nothing in life matters but ...
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...Jimmy Kimmel a comedian and a celebrity host delivered his emotional pleadge to the Government with regards to health care issue. President Trump wanted to cut the funds to the National Institute of Health, however the Congress opposed the decision and increased funds by millions. A good decision to considered because millions of people will be affected specifically the children. The point of Jimmy Kimmel story in his monologue are to ensure health care for all Americans, what ever the standard of living you have, people deserve to have the same quality of healthcare or equal medical care that they deserve including those unable to afford it. Kimmel lead up to his point by starting his tearfully personal monoloque to the audience that his...
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...Discuss the extent to which Macbeth and Shylock are victims and villains The protagonists of each play, Macbeth and Shylock, both fall victim and succumb to villainous natures, however a difference is apparent between the two in representing these traits. Macbeth more so displays villainous behaviours, whereas Shylock is subjected to ordeals which victimise him. That is not to say that Macbeth does not become victimised, and that Shylock does not contain the capability to carry out acts of a villainous essence, such as going against his faith for power, and losing sense of morality and rationality. Different factors such as race and prejudice are integral to the contextual themes of The Merchant of Venice as anti-Semitic views towards Jews are upheld by the Christians in Venice, placing Shylock in a position of submission and awakening his inner villain, which is the ultimate point of differentiation between the two in terms of being either a villain or a victim. Early in Macbeth it becomes apparent that the witches have corrupted Macbeth, thus falling victim to the supernatural. This causes him to conjure questions, "Why do I yield to that suggestion?", which catalyses a rising action. The word 'suggestion' connotes the idea is being fed to him via a supernatural force, and that it is uncontrollable as he 'yields' to it. "My thought, whose murder is fantastical, shakes my state", emphasises how much Macbeth is against the idea of murder, shining light on how these thoughts...
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...Communication Communication in Business The Merriam Webster's dictionary defines communication as the following: “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior .” Communication is verbal and non-verbal. It is an essential skill which humans and animals do to coexist with one another. For most people communication is necessary for survival. A mother of a newborn child needs to know how to communicate with her baby so that the baby can live. The mother will encode the different cries of her baby to determine the infant's needs. This is one of the most primal needs for human beings. As a child gets older and are now in their teen years, they need to know how to communicate with their parents, teachers, and peers. Parents tend to have one way of communicating with their children and that involves yelling, screaming, and ruling by force. Teenagers tend to communicate better with their own friends because their friends are the most important people in their lives at this point. While a parent will scream and yell at their teen to do something, the teenager is deaf to the sound of their parents. The parent can communicate with the teen by understanding what's important to the teen, and then address what's important the parent themselves. People's need for communication varies. As a Customer Service Representative, I speak on the phone all day to customers...
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...What did lady macbeth accomplish by verbally abusing macbeth?was catherine so involved with heathcliff?was jealousy really the reason that the duke decided to killed is wife.is it possible that shakespeare would have made lady macbeth less evil? Must the writers of these dramas have bad relationships? Why was the reason for so much death. What these three stories have in common with the relationships of today's time is that women want power over men. Like when lady macbeth used the death of her baby to shun macbeth into killing duncan the king when macbeth said no she got angry and did it herself, and in that sense women are just like that way now with their partners thats why love sometimes goes sideways in most relationships which turn out for the worst when...
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...Author Erich Maria Remarque poses throughout the entirety of the novel, The Road Back, the question of what the effects of World War I are on German youth caught in the line of fire. Often, we are left wondering what is to come for these soldiers and how they will assimilate back into ordinary civilian life. Before entering the war they were but mere children; now they have matured and witnessed hardships far greater than many will ever experience. As Remarque’s second novel, The Road Back can be seen further establishing his social concerns within the roles of the surviving characters. Was the war a necessary evil or was it purely an effort to isolate and ruin Germany’s youth and civilization as a whole? World War I has taken its toll on...
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...The Turning Point of Love Barbara Lawson AUNENG125 Instructor Sarah Lahue January 20, 2014 Turning Point of Love Even though in a short story and poems there different components that that make up the short story and poems, in the poem of “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and the short story “A Father’s Short Story” by Andre Dubus, these two are about the love that one have for the other. “Do Not Go into That Good Night” this poem is about a son’s love for his father not to go, stay and fight, a man who didn’t have much but 30 horses and stables, who worked so hard to have a name for himself, but he hasn’t accomplished them yet. Dylan who was having trouble with his sight at the age of 44 he was blind. “A Father’s Story” This short story is about a father who wanted to protect his daughter from a crime that she committed that he covered up and keep a secret. Even though there are twists in these two scenes there is ethics that plays a part in them; in the time of need and despair when it comes down to family some are not concern about what the consequences of their decisions are; some of their choices may not be the right ones; some will go to different lengths to protect those they love. First, in the time of need and despair because, when it comes to family some aren’t concern about the consequences of their actions all they know is that they are protecting the one that they love. In “Do Not...
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...7 AGES’ OF MAN All the world’s a stage, And all the man and women merely players ; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shinning morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then, the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he play his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloons, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world to wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything INTRODUCTION As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio, 1623. The play's...
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...mother is the narrator in the story and she is telling us about the events that have taken place in Emily’s life as she is ironing her daughter’s dress. The monologue started because someone (possibly a teacher at Emily’s school) called and wants to discuss her daughter and this has caused the mother to recall Emily’s life and why she has become the person she is. The mother is imaging what the conversation would look like if she were to go talk to this person about Emily. The conflict in the story is the mother questioning herself on how Emily was raised and the difficult decisions she had to make concerning care. She had to decide to work or stay home with Emily, and then when she did work she had to find someone to take care of her daughter which proved just as difficult and these child care providers had a definite impact on Emily’s personality and who she has become today. These decisions that the mother had to make were not the normal decisions for a new mother in these times. The story takes place during the time of the great depression era and that is generally a time that mothers stayed home and took care of their children, but due to the unforeseen circumstance that Emily’s father left because he “could no longer endure sharing want with us” the mother was on her own having to juggle work and child care for her new baby daughter. Who’s fault is it that Emily’s life was so difficult was the mother making the wrong choices as a new mom all alone after only eight months...
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