A little boy looks to his mother and says "Mom, I got a joke to tell.... Let's keep it going for Eddie," Eddie says as a joke. ... If you get up there and you crack jokes about him, you're just hurting people. ... I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' ... According to the article, Eddie's struggle is not about whether he still can write jokes, he struggles if his jokes fit his identity. ...

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Helena and Hermia argue because Helena thinks that Hermia is in on the men's "joke." ... Hermia and Helena were once intimate friends, but Helena is suspicious of Hermia's involvement in the men's "joke." ... Also, when the men fall in love with her, she feels like the "butt of a joke." ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's early "festive comedies,"" written around 1595-6. Despite the many thematic references to "dreams- and the fantastic setting of the Athenian forest, the play also contains a fair amount of commentary on Shakespeare's contemporary English world. The play's title, for instance, refers to an English holiday custom: on "Midsummer Eve,"" or the night of the summer solstice on June 23, English men and women would spend the night outdoors around bonfires, telling supernatural tales of fairies and witchcraft. The play not only ...

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When we first encounter the clowns they are discussing the circumstances of Ophelia's death, but they soon begin to joke with each other in a merry fashion, and the First Clown tells the Second Clown a joke. ...

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Bill Gates was showing off his new baby. It was March 2000, and thousands of people packed the room at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Jose, California, and the event was broadcast on TV worldwide. Standing on a dark, cavernous stage, Mr. Gates talked about the future of video games. He ...

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In this modern age of cell phones and palm pilots we often find ourselves relying on technology to make it though the day. How many people can say that they could do without a car or a phone? Indeed we all take a lot of technology for granted. Some of the technology is so pervasive that we tend to f...

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Look at our life today; look how it has changed. Just one hundred years ago we could see O"Henry's little secretaries typing for ten hours a day. Weak and deprived of rights, they could be easily dismissed, experience sexual harassment or encounter health problems. They had nobody to be protected by, nobody to turn to. Dark rooms, bad air, and sitting for whole day. ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

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He later acts uneasily when Gerald and his father are joking with him about the possibility of him having 'been up to something' and he says that he does not 'think it's very funny.' The audience knows that the joke was harmless and might wonder what Eric has to worry about. ...

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The Nazi party were very persuasive; they would use whatever means they could to get what they wanted. These posters are propaganda for Hitler they both have the aim of enticing the German public to vote for them but they are both different types of propaganda. Source A is Black propaganda, saying that the Jews and the Social Democrats would both bring communism, this is what the Germans feared the most. The short, fat looking man, a stereotypical Jew, is holding a huge bag of money, is well dressed, and is obviously well fed because of his size this is to give the impression that Jews a...

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My So Called Life My life is like a monet. It looks good from far away, but when u look at it closely it's a whole bunch of swipes here and there to form my so called life. It's like a color scheme that doesnt exactly fit in to place causing the over all picture to look even worse then when you look your fist glance. Metaphorically speaking, this is the way i look at my life. To me, my life doesnt seem that bad until those nights where you just cant fall asleep and you sit up thinking and breaking down what has made you who you are and how you got there......... ...

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Intro One morning in late February 1998, Carly Hudson, Erika Allison and Daniel Booher were contacted by Special Agent John Ciccone of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) of the Los Angeles division Group II. With us was Special Agent William Queen. Ciccone knew that Queen had been hanging around the Hell's Angels gathering intelligence for another case agent so our team was the closest and obvious choice for this very important mission. The mission was to go undercover and infiltrate the most dangerous outlaw motorcycle gang around. They are so violent and cr...

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Act I, scene i Summary The course of true love never did run smooth... At his palace, Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, his fiancée, discuss their wedding, to be held in four days, under the new moon. Impatient for the event and in a celebratory mood, Theseus orders Philostrate, his Master of the Revels, to "stir up the Athenian youth to merriments" and devise entertainments with which the couple might pass the time until their wedding (I.i.12). Philostrate takes his leave, and Theseus promises Hippolyta that though he wooed her with his sword (Hippolyta, Queen o...

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Barbers and their practices are found throughout the novel: Don Quixote steals a basin from a barber who had been wearing it on his head and mistakes it for the coveted prize of the golden helmet of Mambrino; as the guest of a duke, Don Quixote has his beard washed (the job of a barber in those days) by servants, who do so as a joke; and Sancho Panza is always stating his desire to have a shave. ...

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Look at our life today; look how it has changed. Just one hundred years ago we could see O"Henry's little secretaries typing for ten hours a day. Weak and deprived of rights, they could be easily dismissed, experience sexual harassment or encounter health problems. They had nobody to be protected by, nobody to turn to. Dark rooms, bad air, and sitting for whole day. ...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlie...

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SCENE SUMMARIES AND NOTES Act I, Scene 1 The play opens late at night on a street in Venice. Roderigo, a wealthy Venetian gentleman, is discussing the marriage of Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio. Earlier in the evening, she had eloped with Othello, a Moor who is a respected General in the Venetian army. Roderigo is angry with Iago, for he has paid him a handsome sum to win the love of Desdemona for himself and to keep him informed of her love life. Iago, like Roderigo, is a frustrated man. ...

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There are many words that can describe Joseph Stalin. Most people, especially those who lived under his reign, would have explained him in negative terms. People close to him were either loyal to him, or pretended to be for their own good. The only ones that truly loved him were his family members, but even they had to face the consequences of his regime. Some of which had to pay with their lives. ...

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It's hard to think about that day. Who knew it would be the last day I would spend with her. It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. But it didn't. It happened over two years ago and I was still struggling with this new reality. I didn't like it. I hated it. How could th...

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My mom looked around happily, "it's a perfect house!" she exclaimed. "Can't you just imagine a murder taking place here Molly?" I nodded in agreement and pushed aside the wispy white drapes at the large bay window in the living room. Outside a wide expanse of closely clipped green lawn swept to the top of a low cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. ...

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Kung effectively employ talking and joking to avert the escalation of a fight, but perhaps the most important mechanism for maintaining goodwill is the hxaro exchange, a system of gift giving; which not only fosters friendly relations, but also serves to circulate goods and even maintain environmental balance. ...

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My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a "woman's- novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a "chick flick-. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 1920's and 30's, and makes one think about what people have struggled through. The novel addresses the issue of racism before the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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The Kindertransport was a rescue operation that saved about 10,000 Jewish children in Germany from December 1, 1938 to September 1, 1939 (Gallant, 199, 203). There were however restrictions to the selection process. For example to prevent re-immigration there needed to be someone who would be willing to pay 50 pounds and the incoming children would need to have families willing to take them in (Into the arms of strangers; Gallant, 214). Although the Kindertransport was used to save many Jewish children, there were many different pressures put onto the Kindertransport children. Mary J. ...

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Vampires: Folklore Throughout the Ages What, exactly, is a vampire? (Thompson: Motif E 251. Vampire- Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood). Does a vampire require a long black cape, fangs, and a mansion in Transylvania? Or can a vampire be any undead person roaming around somewhere between the grave and the netherworld? ...

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Sophism Sophism teaches people the art of speech making and cross-examination. It is a clever way of arguing by using reason. The subjects that were taught by sophist were science, music, poetry, speech and cross-examinations. Scientific explanations are used to prove that oracles do not tel...

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