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Movie Review: Dangerous Minds
<view this essay>.... employs offbeat methods and sacrifices personally to get the
most out of her students. This movie shows an accurate description of this
country's flunking educational system and students who know to trust no one
and count on nothing.
Dangerous Minds portrays a true depiction of this country's
flunking educational system. The movie is mostly about life when you have
nowhere to turn. In the movie, the students are expected to fail and if it
were not for the determination of LouAnne Johnson these students probably
would have failed. At the beginning of the movie it shows how two teachers
have already quit their job at this school and had given up on .....
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Hamlet Criticism
<view this essay>.... the royal castle at Elsinore. Horatio, friend of Hamlet, joins the watch on the third night. The Ghost appears, but will not speak, and Horatio fears that the apparition means a bad future for Denmark.
The kingdom is already on the brink of war. Fortinbras, rash young Prince of Norway, is raising an army with which, it is expected, he will try to recover lands forfeited to Denmark after his father had been killed in battle by the elder Hamlet. He wants to reclaim his lands as well as his honor.
Claudius, the new king and Hamlet’s Uncle, thanks the assembled courtiers for their helping him take the throne of his brother. He then quickly marries Gertrud .....
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The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies
<view this essay>.... the U.S. hero, represents a medic that takes care of a Vietnamese child. This symbolizes that Americans are kind to the Vietnamese but the Vietcong are mean and heartless. They don’t care who they kill, while the Americans are the "good" guys and care for other people. After ten years, The Deer Hunter was produced in 1978. Once again the same theme, Vietcong are cold-hearted and lower people than the Americans. In a violent game of Russian Roulette with the prisons of war (Americans), the Vietnamese mentally torture the "good" guys. The satanic enemy is presented in the most evil way. Then when the Americans shoot them there is a rush of happiness that the op .....
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Sir John Falstaff's Influence On Prince Hal In I Henry IV
<view this essay>.... as the most complex and paradoxical
character in drama.
Frequently, in literature, the sun represents royalty, or in this case
the king, who strives to uphold law and order. Rhetorically, the moon,
symbolizes instability, not only because it does not remain the same size to
one's eyes as time passes, but because it reigns the ebb and flow of the tides.
Therefore, as a knight guided by moonlight, Falstaff is a dissenter against law
and order. This conclusion finds support in his witty tautologies and epithets.
Falstaff is invariably aware that Hal will one day become king, and when that
happens, robbers will be honored in England by “Let[ting] us be in .....
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The Generation Gap In King Lear
<view this essay>.... gap in the play. There are many comparisons that can be
made and confrontations that occur between the generations. These events
contribute to the themes of authority, power and loyalty, judgment and
wisdom. Overall, it emphasizes the general themes of the generation gap.
Symbolism contributes to the themes authority and power in King
Lear. These symbols are represented by material things. For example, in
[Act 1 scene 1] when Lear is dividing up his land, power and authority to
his three daughters, depending on how much they can verbally express their
love for him. [Lines 52-53] "Which of you shall say doth love us most?
That we our lar .....
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Antigone: Creon A Tragic Hero
<view this essay>.... man and believes that every man who is loyal will fight for his country. If so, “…[such a man] shall have [Creon’s] respect while he is living, and … reverence when he is dead” (s. I, ll. 46-47). After Creon expresses his and all men’s call to patriotism, Choragus agrees by saying: “If that is your will, … You have the right to enforce it: we are yours” (s. I, ll. 48-49). Clearly, Creon’s people obey his every word and show him all possible respect. Creon serves in the highest position in Thebes and, at first, seems ennobled by his title.
Of course, conflict, both internal and external, are not strangers to men of high rank. Creon is embroiled in a di .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
<view this essay>.... is given Cawdor by King Duncan, he takes the
witches words for truth and conspires against Duncan with his wife. When
Duncan comes to Macbeth's castle that night, Macbeth kills him and takes the
crown for himself after Duncan's sons flee from Scotland. Then Macbeth reigns
for a while, has several people killed, and is eventually slain by Macduff when
he and Malcolm return leading the armies of England. Often people read the
play and automatically conclude that Macbeth's tragic flaw is his ambition;
that he is compelled to commit so many acts of violence by his lust for power.
However, by carefully examining the first act, one can determine the defect in
M .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth A Moral Coward
<view this essay>.... shown in the quote "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir". His ambition to be king dissolved his good nature and morality. When Duncan arrives at Inverness, Macbeth controlled his ambition for the time being and thought very firmly on the plotting of Duncan’s murder. A quote by Lady Macbeth stated "My hands are of your color; but I shame to wear a heart so white". When Lady Macbeth called him a coward, before you knew it, the murder was taking place. After the successful murder of Duncan, Macbeth entered a life of evil. Ambition was also clearly stated when he thought of killing his friend Banquo to protect the kingship. The w .....
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