...A Comparison of Ten Things I Hate About You and Taming of the Shrew Summary: Examines the effect of social and cultural constraints on characters in Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and Ten Things I Hate About You, a film based on the bard's play. ________________________________________ The story of The Taming of the Shrew is one that raises important issues both in the Shakespearean text and in the modern appropriation 10 Things I Hate About You. How does each composer's use of this story reflect the time in which each was composed" The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. The patriarchal society of this time is reflected to a large extent in the text and various implications of traditional values can be noted. The modern appropriation, Ten Things I Hate About You, goes along the same story line however it is quite evident that the different context has a significant impact upon the content. The most obvious indicator of the type of society is given through the medium that each text is presented in. The Taming of the Shrew is a play and was staged for audiences during the early 17th century. The fact that Shakespeare chose to write a play rather than, say, a comic strip or screenplay, indicated that it was the most popular form of entertainment at the time. The best way for Shakespeare to have his work known was through the most popular form of entertainment. The language...
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...schoolers dread and professors squeal upon, allows us a glimpse of what life would be like in his time through his numerous plays. In a specific comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, he paints out a portrait of what love, marriage and the treatment of women were like in the Elizabethan period. There have been thousands of readings of this play, reproductions, analyzations and even controversy...
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...Name Class Date Guided Inquiry • Skills Lab Chapter 16 Lab Amino Acid Sequences: Indicators of Evolution Problem How can you use proteins to determine how closely organisms are related? Introduction Biologists have many ways to study evolution. They can use fossils to learn about ancient species. They can compare the anatomy of modern species. They can observe the order in which cells develop in embryos. All these clues reflect what took place over time at the molecular level. DNA and proteins, the genes and the products of genes, provide powerful evidence for descent with modification. As DNA changes over time, the proteins that are produced by the DNA change too. The result is that many organisms have similar, but not identical, versions of a given protein. Differences among these homologous proteins provide clues to evolution. In Part A of this lab, you will compare amino acid sequences of hemoglobin from eight mammals. In Part B, you will analyze data about sequences in a second protein—cytochrome c. In Part B, the organisms will be more diverse. Skills Focus Analyze Data, Graph, Draw Conclusions Materials • highlighter pen, light-colored • graph paper 95 Name Class Date ] Pre-Lab Questions 1. Predict Based only on their anatomy, rank gorillas, bears, chimpanzees, and mice from most recent common ancestor with humans to least recent common ancestor. 2. Use Analogies You tell a story to a second person...
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...The Tamer versus the Trainer Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Henry Higgins in Pygmalion are similar characters but with very different methods. The periods in time in which these plays take place are determining factors in the behaviors of the characters involved. The Taming of the Shrew takes place in the Elizabethan Era at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. Pygmalion takes place in the Victorian Era where social roles were viewed natural and status was acquired among most of London’s society. These two characters in their periods of time can be perceived as humanitarians or professionals; but really they are both perfect examples of how pride and self centeredness can make a man take on the complicated task of taming or transforming a woman. A comparison of their differences will reveal their successes but with very dissimilar results. Petruchio is a quick witted wealthy bachelor with a disregard for social decorum in search for a rich wife to increase his fortune. He doesn’t care if a woman is ugly, old, or shrewish as long as she has money. He sets off to Padua to visit a friend and hears about Katherine Minola. Katherine has a reputation of having a temper and an acid tongue, in short she’s a shrew; but her father is rich. Petruchio despite Katherine’s reputation agrees to marry her because money is what makes him happy. Let the taming begin! In his taming efforts, he acts like a jerk on his wedding day and throughout...
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...In Ivy Compton-Burnett’s novel A House and its Head we are given an unwelcoming glimpse into a household in 1885. As Compton-Burnett was interested in family dynamics she set the book in a year of relative peace, a safe period in history, so the actions of the family could not be excused or blamed on anything in anyway, therefore when the spotlight is focused on the role of women and how they were treated the novel becomes all the more worrying; in comparison, Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew around 1592, during the Elizabethan era, which was a patriarchal one where women were subjected to male authority and were treated like objects. Although there is a near 200 year gap between the creative works, they seem to complement each other in a worrying portrayal of the role of women in society through the years. If we look into the opening of A House and its Head, the first image we are presented with is a women being brutally ignored by her husband: the opening line of the book is, ‘so the children are not down yet.’ Straight away we are thrown into the depths of a dark atmosphere due to the subjugation associated with the word down, which connotes that there is a hierarchy present; and that she is below it. This point is further reinforced when we see that Duncan ignores her several times, and puts ‘his finger down his collar’ which implies that she is strangling him from simply speaking. Duncan is the head of the house and ultimately the main protagonist as one can...
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...bama used logos to appeal to our logic by comparing America's time today to the Sputnik. The Sputnik was a moment in history where we had been outshined by another country in space travel and knowledge. He is saying that we need to >>> Black Cat: After reading your post, I'd say that you paid better attention to the speech then I did. I didn't note that the comparison made was logos. I also completely missed the immigrant children. Nice catches. Strawberry Shrew: I was unsure about the Sputnik when he mentioned it in his address, but after researching it I believe he made a very good connection between the two. And I certainly agree on the idea for more money invested in biomedical research, it will >>> Orange Ostrich: It's still hard to think that our nation is and has been declining or even just staying at the same levels of intelligence, when we used to not even think there was any other nation in the world that could beat us. Education is important and >>> Meadow Fawn: I feel that while some attention to higher education has decreased in this recession economy, on the whole the attention to a higher education has increased overtime. In the late 1800s the nation experienced a drive for education that has only >>> Pine Okapi: I think that your second point hits home but that your first point has some flaws. If you think about Obama's point with the Sputnik logically, you are not inspired. Logically, why would anybody want to get up and work, just to beat another >>> Tumbleweed...
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...dreamy ideas of love and beauty and speaks more of the darker side of love; the ugliness and filth of love. From the very beginning of the sonnet, the reader can tell this is not the average Shakespearean play. He uses comparisons that would lead us to believe that the woman he is describing as ugly, the woman, however is a metaphore for love as a general, however. “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”; the dark lady mentioned in the first line is ironic because Shakespeare’s ladies in the stories are rarely thought of as anything less than the most beautiful creatures of the time. He continues on in the next few lines also comparing her to other elements of nature, yet in a negative manner. She has no red in her lips, her skin lacks luster, and generally her physical elements are not pretty to behold. In line four: “I have seen roses damask'd, red and white”, the poem starts to have deeper meaning; though uncertain this line could be an allusion to the rose known as the York and Lancaster variety, which the House of Tudor adopted as its symbol after the War of the Roses. The York and Lancaster rose is red and white streaked, symbolic of the union of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. For example: compare The Taming of the Shrew: "Such war of white and red within her cheeks!" (4.5.32). Shakespeare mentions the damask rose often in his plays. It also appears in Twelfth Night: She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud...
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...Shakespeare’s Characters: Self-Gratification Over Human Kindness William Shakespeare wrote in his tragedy, Julius Caesar, “The evil, that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” It is shown that Shakespeare’s lead characters are concerned with their need for self-satisfaction, gratitude, and dignity. They lack the solicitude for human kindness and the thought of others. The more the audience analyzes the characters, the more they see the true ambition and reasoning for their evil deeds. During Shakespeare’s time, it wasn’t unusual for men to seek such power. For instance, Taming of the Shrew is a play that focuses on the desire for marriage; but the emotions of young couples were not the main consideration in courtship (McDonald 267). Katherina actions portray her as the shrew, but the audience knows her ultimate desire was to receive genuine love from a man. Richard III makes it abundantly clear that he desires to take over the English thrown and do whatever it takes to grasp it. Additionally, Hamlet seeks revenge and is motivated to do so by his supernatural spirit of his father (Sobran 45). The need for wealth, power, ambition, and greed lead many of Shakespeare’s characters to satisfy their own self gratitude over the basic ideas of human kindness. London, during the sixteenth century, was a time of extreme corruption. Gender roles were unequal, marriage was spurious, and seeking wealth or power of some sort became every man’s objective. The...
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...Choice, Sports, Stem Cell Research, Steroids, Terrorism, Violence, War on Drugs, more... Business - Advertising, Business, Buy Web Sites, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sell Websites Education - ADHD, Learning, Philosophy of Education, Privatization, Public Schools, School Violence, School Vouchers, Teaching, Technology and Education, Test and Testing, Writing English Composition Essays - Analitical, Autobiographical, Argument, Cause/Effect, Classification, Compare/Contrast, Comparison, Conversation, Creative+Writing, Critical, Deductive, Definition, Descriptive, Description, Dialog, Division, Exploratory, Expository, Informative, Interview, Inquiry, Journalistic, Narration, Observation. Personal Narrative, Place, Profile, Process, Proposal English Literature and Literary Analysis - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A & P, Antigone, Apocalypse Now, Araby, The Awakening, Barn Burning, Beowulf, Beloved, Bible, Birthmark, Blade Runner, The Bluest Eye, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, Cathedral, Chrysanthemums, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Comparing Literary Works, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Death in Venice, Desiree's Baby, A Doll's House, Dr. Faustus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Everyday Use, A Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Glass Menagerie, Gulliver's Travels, The Handmaid's Tale, Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Lottery, ...
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...disturbance by the rooting behavior of wild boars. Habitat characteristics Fenced plot Unfenced plot Sampling growth rate Increased - Soil nitrogen levels - Increased Large seeded species abundance 2X greater than unfenced plots - Table 1. Results from Siemann et al. (2009) study conducted in the Big Thicket National Preserve. Comparison between fenced and unfenced plots shows the response of habitat characteristics to feral hog behavior The wild boar adversely affects animal species by predation, nest and habitat destruction, and resource competition with other animals. In Australia, the predation of wild boars has a substantial effect on lambs, affecting 32% of all newborn lambs (Massie and Genov 2004). In Europe, wild boars are negatively affecting ground-nesting birds such as red-legged partridge by eating their eggs (Massie and Genov 2004). The wild boar can also indirectly affect animal species. Repeated rooting decreases the food available to small insectivores and destroys the habitat of surface-tunnelling rodents (Singer et all 1984). According to a study by Singer et all(1984), two vertebrates red-backed vole and short-tailed shrew that mostly depended on habitat such as leaf litter were nearly eliminated from severely rooted areas. In contrast, in the same area, the population of semiarboreal small rodents whose habitat was not affected by rooting remained the same. The wild boar has multiple negative impacts on plant and animal species. Its...
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...A villain is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot of a play, novel or film. The obvious villains of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and Marlowe’s ‘The Jew of Malta’ would be Shylock and Barabas respectively as these two characters are both depicted as evil and greedy Jews, perhaps due to the racial hatred of the Elizabethan era and the ongoing stigma of Judaism in English society. However, it could be argued that the women of the two plays, including the daughters of the two aforementioned antagonists, Jessica and Abigail, wealthy wife of Bassanio – Portia in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and the cunning courtesan of ‘The Jew of Malta’, Bellamira, are more villainous than the traditional figure of vices of Shylock and Barabas due to the way that the female characters interact with and often disregard the norms of the Elizabethan era and the expected behaviours of women even in modern society. Women in fiction, especially young women, very rarely tend to be portrayed as villainous due to the cultural expectations of femininity. Womanly and feminine traits are those of ones of love, care and innocence, thus women and girls will not be traditionally assumed to be deviant or cruel due to the preconceived idea and judgement that society has on women. In the 21st Century, there is still this assumption in place as women are often able to manipulate the patriarchy and criminal justice system to their own advantage by adopting the traditional female...
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...Shakespeare uses the scene (as well as the various other scenes with the “actors”), in a similar way that he uses the introduction set-up/play in Taming of the Shrew, the play acts as a comparison to the actual play itself, providing a bit more of a straightforward theme. Of course, in A Midsummer Night's Dream the play is built into the play itself, which Shakespeare has done many times. This time however, the difference with the play and the actors is that they are completely incapable of putting on a good show. They blend in their own reality of what a show should contain, simplifying it down for the audience in an assumption that the audience; essentially the women in the audience; would need it that way. The players assume the viewers are not clever enough; and too fearful; to understand a man dressed as a lion is not a lion. The men themselves worry that the lion will cause mass...
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...problem II. Analyze and interpret the data III. Share the results with other scientists IV. Develop a hypothesis V. Design and perform an experiment to test the hypothesis A) I → II → III → IV → V B) III → I → V → II → IV C) V →IV → III → II → I D) I → IV → V → II → III E) V → II → I → III → IV 4. To test a hypothesis about a given variable, experimental and control groups are tested in parallel. Which of the following best explains the dual experiments? J) In the experimental group, a chosen variable is altered in a known way. In the control group, that chosen variable is not altered so a comparison can be made. K) In the control group, a chosen variable is altered in a known way. In the experimental group, that chosen variable is not altered so a comparison can be made. L) In the experimental group, a chosen...
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...The Concept of the Outsider Literature often persecutes the most vulnerable, a person who lacks support and therefore power within society. Described by Terry Eagleton for The Guardian as the “literary mainstream”; these characters are often referred to as the Outsider due to their exclusion from the community in which the text is set. The characters who are referred to as Outsiders can be portrayed in different ways; their initial exclusion from society can ultimately lead to a narrative of their acquisition of power throughout the text but similarly, can portray a story of their maintenance of the minimal power they have over the course of the text’s plot. However, this is not to argue that some Outsiders presented within literature do not have power over the course of the development of the text so, as a consequence, remain excluded from the society. In this case, the text would then be considered an exposition of the character’s experience from their position in society rather than the author’s attempt of trying to integrate their character into society through their work. Furthermore, the author themselves may be considered an Outsider through their own status in society; they command their readers to be Outsiders themselves within the novel. As well as to read and observe the narrative in order to emulate the same feeling within themselves, within the reader or to have a specific impact on the issues surrounding humanity at the time. The contrast in the ways in which...
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...1. Portray Trisomy 21st, Turner’s, Klinefelters’s, Patau’s, Edward’s, Jacob’s, and XXX syndromes (Pp. 49, 57, class notes) Trysomy 21st aka Down Syndrome. Genetic condition in the 21st pair of chromosomes in which the female has an extra X chromosome for a total of 47. Turner's occurs in the 23rd pair of chromosomess in which the male is missing the Y chromosome. The male will now have 45 chromosomes instead of 46 and may not have fully developed sex organs . Klinefelter's occurs in the 23rd pair also affects the male. This condition the male has an extra X chromosome taking from 46 to 47. Also a Trysomy. Develops female characteristcs. Can not be diagnosed until puberty. I I I X X Y XYY and XXX also know as Super Male or Jacobs syndrome 2. Describe how humans adapt under cold stress (Pp. 124-25). Vaso-Constriction restricts blood flow retain heat. Shivering causes body temperature to increase. Wear more warm clothing or heat living space. The body attempts to increase and conserve body heat by rerouting circulation and shivering Vasoconstriction causes the blood to pool internally to conserve organ heat Shivering causes the temperature to increase due to muscular activity Individuals respond to cold stress by increasing muscular activity, wearing more clothes, or heating their living space 3. Explain what a population is, and describe the agents or factors those are responsible for generating and distribution variation (Pp. 25, 67-71, 78...
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