As You Like It 1. "As You Like It" was written by William Shakespeare. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. ... To be sure, As You Like It contains good and bad rulers - Duke Frederick and Oliver are tyrannous siblings, who usurp the rights of their nobler kin, Duke Senior and Orlando - but their wickedness comes straight out of fairy tales, and, the nature of their badness left unexplored, it is easy to create a happy ending by simply letting them reform. ... And the "...

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The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... "My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" ... "Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." ... They talked and in the end Rosalind decided to test Orlando and said that "he" would like to meet the young man who "haunts the forest abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" ...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... Thus , Rosalind , Touchstone and Orlando quest for love throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It . ... She says to him " I would cure you, if you would but call me / Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me , " (3.3416-417). ... She proclaims " If you do love Rosalind so near the heart/ as your gesture cries out , when your brother / marries Aliena shall you marry her, " (5.2.61-63). .....

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"As You like It" was written by William Shakespeare, and published by the Penguin Group in 1963.The play is 138 pages. "As You Like It" is a happy, romantic Shakespearean comedy. ... Except for occasional clouds that threaten the sky temporarily, As You Like It is full of sunshine, love, laughter, and song. ...

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The forest of Arden is the setting where the majority of As You Like It takes place. ... The inhabitants of the court see the forest of Arden as an Eden-like place, a reference that is continued in regard to some of the forest's inhabitants. ... With Celia's remark that "I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" (35), it is clear that the forest is a viable option and can be favored over the court. ... Despite his subservient role to Rosalind, Orlando has several Christ-like qualities and roles. ... Hence Oliver bestows Orlando with, "my father's house, and all ...

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The use of language in the play As You Like It, helps to convey the idea of identity and also to create humour. ... The dramatic technique of elements of plot is used in the play As You Like It, to convey the idea of identity and the importance of love. The changeability of identity is a typical idea of comedy conveyed in As You Like It through the dramatic technique of plot. ... This is conveyed in the play As You Like It by the characters Rosalind and Celia, who dress up and become the characters Ganymede, who is a shepherd, and Aliena, who is a shepherdess. ... The ideas of a typical Shakes...

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You decide; Do you want to pray or faint? ... Jesus did not say that God's people are like this woman; in fact, He said just the opposite. Because we are not like her, we should be encouraged in our praying. ... The point is clear: if we fail to pray, our condition spiritually will be just like that of the poor widow. ... Now I know that there's no believer like this in New Beginnings, you know pretending to have church. ...

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Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. ... We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe"er we went, like Juno's swans Still we went coupled and inseparable." ... Rosalind seems to confirm this in the line (Greenblatt, ed., p 1654,...

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Do you like to drive fast? Every Saturday night my brothers and I like to go street racing. It is a hobby for us; some people like to collect things; we like to build up our cars and race them. ... When I say races you might think I am talking about a track you go and run your car. ... You pay twenty dollars to race but in a day you can only get two or three races. ...

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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. ... I actually think that As You Like It is definitely a more interesting play in terms of its treatment of gender and how Rosalind "teaches" Orlando how to woo her. ... In As You Like It, disguise was used to explore the idea of gender and how it is perceived by society, as well as how people express themselves through gender expectations.  ... As You Like It reflects ...

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For Romeo and Juliet, there is Friar Lawrence, Julius Caesar there is Casca, and for As You Like It there is Touchstone. ... In the play As You Like It, Shakespeare creates the character Touchstone and uses his quick wit and playful attitude to add an additional amount of comedy. ... Once William says no, Touchstone replies wittingly, "For all you writers do consent/that ipse is "he." Now you are not ipse for I am he. ... Jaques looks up to Touchstone and wants to be like him saying, "O, that I were a fool! ...

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The setting for this part of the book is quiet and peaceful- just like the characters in the novel. ... I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this. ... Who was I to question a love that rode on shooting stars and roared like crashing waves? ... They tell me how special you are to them, and every time they do, it makes me feel like the luckiest woman alive. ... I know it wasn"t easy, it takes a real man to live with something like that Noah, and you have. ...

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She feels that by high school this is why she was a very well liked person. ... You must also marry someone who has the same last name as you. ... Mary not only had to get adjusted to a new culture, but she didn't get to do all the other things that kids her age did; like going out with friends, going out on dates, and having her first boyfriend. ... Although you may not want to, go to church and give God a chance because He is why you are here. ... Everyone's childhood is universal whether you live in Maine or Florida. ...

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Both Shakespeare's comedic play As You Like It and Ken Kesey's post-modernist novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," portrays the transformation of its characters throughout the texts, via a close examination of the gradual evolution of character that occurs within the protagonists of each text. ... This can be seen in Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," which explores the growth of characters throughout their journeys through an examination of personal adversity. ... Conversely, Shakespeare's, "As You Like It," explores the notion of the transformation of identity as ...

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Ward's quotation that "Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them". In my view we should treat opportunities like sunrises, which are very beautiful but last only for a while. ... To sum up, people shouldn't miss their opportunities, because they will be very sorry one day like I've been many times. ...

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The faces you pass and the personalities you experience are all different. ... The separation between students is obvious when you first step foot on to the quad. ... Much like cruising down the street walking past Crenshaw you will hear loud voice either of joy or anger, people not getting along or everyone joining together to listen to beats and lyrics. ... There is always someone you don't like but if an outsider tries to start some mess the better be ready to deal with just about everyone. ... If I didn't get anything else out of Hami I received an understanding of those who d...

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What do you think of the logger's way of making a living? ... In My Money, students learn that the financial planning process is made up of three steps: What do you want? What do you have? How do you get what you want? ... MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU... ...

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Duke Frederick, Rosalind, Duke Senior, and Ganymede in As You Like It convey multiple themes such as: transformations (mentally & physically) and reversed gender roles. These themes are evident through their endeavors and challenges in the Court and the Forest of Arden set in the original Elizabetha...

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Lennie is a huge bear-like man with a mind of a small child. ... He even said " You got no right to come in my room". ... I think she does this so as not to frighten her off, because is she gets onto him, Lennie's child-like mind might not no what to do, and he might panic. ...

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Money would write this off as Brenda being a tomboy and trying to act like her brother, which would happen a lot when you had twins. ... David best sums up what he felt when he said " you know generally what a guy is like, and you know generally what a girl is like. And everyone is telling you that you are a girl. But you say to yourself, I don't feel like a girl. ... He thought his experiment worked; it wasn't the way you were born but the way you were brought up. ...

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George is by necessity a rational realist who must care for the simplistic and child-like Lennie. ... George tells him the story which he has told Lennie many times: men like George and Lennie that work on ranches are the loneliest individuals in the world, with no family and no home, but they have each other. ... I think that this novel, Of Mice and Men, depicts migrant workers very well and shows readers that even having dreams will not protect you from the realities of life. ...

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A girl like me can't have an eating disorder. ... It didn't matter how much I tried to talk myself out of it I knew that if you starve yourself you will lose weight, it as fact that everyone knows. I became very isolated because of this and didn't felt like going to school. ... In the end you will always be too much of something for someone, too fat, too quiet, too edgy. If you round out your corners you'll lose your edge. ...

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I really hate it when some teachers, like my Chemistry teacher, gives out homework that would take about an hour to do and doesn't even go over it or collect it." ... According to the "National Sleep Foundation", young adults face sleeping problems because of stress (30%), health problems/discomfort (22%), noise/temperature (20%), and partners" sleeping habits, which can also apply if you share a room (12%). ... An example of a day with an inadequate amount of sleeping, may also cause you to be sent to discipline instead of the nurses" office. ...

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"If you are ugly-repulsive you can not be completely happy" I do agree that good birth and beauty are important components to happiness. ... I would have a much more free time and I would be able to meet more people than the regular person because I wouldn't have to worry about things like a job and future. ... I also thing that people like that always had to live with that question deep down inside of them, which in my opinion prevent them in some way of having a happy relationship. ... Having the money you can find a true friend; however, there are much greater chances th...

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