It is a compelling drama about the success, deceit, and disintegration of a brave but flawed human being. ... In writing his play, Shakespeare altered and expanded Holinshed's history, reshaped the personalities, and invented some new characters. ... These prophecies, two of them being very new to him, introduced Macbeth to new ideas of greatness. ... Although he is not sure that he can follow through with this, he wants nothing more in the world than to have the amount of power and respect that he knows he will receive. ... The is the downside of the plot. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The world of fairy tales continued to move in leaps and bounds, and by 1937 America released Walt Disney's first feature length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ... Other ballet, opera and film versions of fairy tales were created throughout the world, and with the introduction of television in the 1950's, the scope simply got wider. ... This set the precedent for decades of fairy tales which challenged the expected ways that had been created by hundreds of texts that had all followed similar plots. ... With the launch of Madonna's new book, The English Roses,...

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Songs and rhymes are used in Tolkien's books to forward the plot. ... In essence, the songs and rhymes have a world all of there own. ... rth to a new civilization a new kingdom, a new race and a new world, and the truly shocking part is, YOU get envision the way the Orcs march, YOU get to hear how the elves sing, YOU get to live the magic. ... Pippin is the braver, or at least bolder, of Frodo's young nephews. ... Saruman's plots distract the men of Rohan and Gandalf from the rising power of Sauron. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They get asked to write all different types of movies which gets them sent all over the world for "inspiration". ... Now mom and dad had gotten an offer to come up with a new script for a scary murder mystery, so they simply rented the spookiest home they could find on the coast of Maine and packed up the family for the whole summer. ... "Did you guys think up the whole plot this morning?" ... "Well, we haven't exactly worked the whole plot out yet, but, yes, most of the idea just seemed to flow onto the computer." ... I even braved the chilly Atlantic to take a brisk swim, while Co...

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• Grade Level: High School

" (Home of the Brave 123) During the war on terror, the main goal was to capture and kill Osama bin Laden. ... One of the three attack sites of these terrorist attacks was The World Trade Center in New York City. According to Pamela Skillings, an About.com guide, the two identical 110-story towers of the World Trade Center opened in 1973 and went on to become New York City Icons and key elements of Manhattan's famous skyline. ... Brash, glitzy, and grand, they quickly became symbols of New York (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/wtc1.html) Before his death in 1986, Minoru Yamasaki, chie...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Businesses in labor-intensive industries charged that the Industrial Workers of the World and socialist organizations were undermining the economy. ... That this consensus view as generally correct is supported by the facts that first the most important demands of labor and social activists made during the strike have been recognized and passed into law by the government, and second the political successor, the New Democratic Party, to the forces behind the Winnipeg General Strike has emerged as a political force in Canada. In the aftermath of WWI, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Border (Tor...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The second part of the paper will deal with the images the early settlers developed of the inhabitants of the New World and how these images have evolved throughout the centuries. ... In spite of the doubts concerning the accuracy of this incident, Pocahontas most likely did play a crucial role in helping the settlers survive in their new surroundings. ... According to Smith's Generall Historie, Pocahontas then saved his life a second time, when she warned Smith and his men that her father was plotting to kill them. ...

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In two of early America's greatest works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, readers are exposed to the vision of two great authors of the 18th and 19th centuries and while it is possible for one to simply read and enjoy the plot of these stories, it is impossible to overlook the similarities in their greater thematic issues. ... With this philosophy also came a new sense of livelihood and tradition. ... Huck introduces readers to a new vision of freedom which offers the idea of a good life, new and hard to resist b...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many believe that Madame Defarge is the epitome of evil; where as, America is the light of the new world. ... As the book gets deeper into its plot, Madame Defarge becomes more and more outraged at Lucy and her family. ... Americans have a new found love for their country. ... More than three hundred firefighters and paramedics, twenty-three New York police officers, and thirty-seven Port Authority police officers died at the World Trade Center bombing. ... The brave few that fight today will be honored as heroes in many years to come. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. There are no extra elements in Poe- no sub-plots, no minor characters, and no distractions (except those that show the madness of deranged first- person narrators). ... Whether sent to lure me, or whether to bring disruption, morose yet all brave, enchanted on this deserted property on which this home is plagued with horror- tell me truthfully, I ask- is there relief in Gilead? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the world we live in, vast impersonal forces are making for the centralization of power and a regimented society" (Huxley, Education for Freedom, para. 2). ... Unfortunately, many sources like these go unquestioned by the general public, which leads to a misinformed world. ... Therefore, society must take the responsibility in confirming the authenticity of everything that is distributed through the news in order to prevent the centralization of power and ultimately a misinformed world. ... This quote by Huxley is very similar to when Obama said ISIS is a "Jayvee team" (whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, Diaz fixed the elections and the Porfirian regime arrested Madero in Monterrey on false accusations of plotting armed uprisings. ... The issue of new money being pumped into the economy by rising foreign trade and investments resulted in the raise in awareness of the problem. ... The whole system was fuelled and lubricated with the new money being used in the economy by the rising foreign trade and investments. ... Without the chance for the numerous amounts of brave Mexican women to join and fight in Zapata's army, the revolution would have been a different battle. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Southerners said that slave owners provided shelter, food, care, and regulation for a race unable to compete in the modern world without proper training. ... All of these views eventually led to an attack on the slavery system in the South, and showed opposition to its spread into whatever new territories that were acquired. ... There were numerous causes of World War One; all with their own amount of contribution, some which had loomed around for many years others that were quick impulsive contributions. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Co...

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• Grade Level: High School

He has affirmed his Mexican heritage and now brings pride to the Mexican peasants, whom were previously deemed as cowards by their children, through his dying observation that they are defending themselves, and that they are brave. ... However, although the film makes a bold attempt to adopt a new identification for Mexicans within the North American Western film genre, it fails to completely eradicate the division of North and South and how they remain to be displayed. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Holder played the role of the larger-than-life marshal in the white hat, riding bravely into lawless Dodge City. ... He and his attorneys say someone stole his original research paper and forged a new one to make it look as though he had plagiarized. ... He picked the Allied bombing campaign of Europe during World War II. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But not all of the stories about Wild Bill were false; he was a true, strong, brave, cowboy. ... Miserable and poor, he accepted an offer to appear on stage with Colonel Sidney Barnett's Wild West show, giving two performances at Niagara Falls, New York, on August twenty-eighth and the thirtieth in 1872. ...

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Motifs of the poem are prophecies and predictions; founding a new city and vengeance. ... The Aeneid and Iliad stand at adjacent corners of the world's literature. In numerous ways of thought and plot, they are very similar stories. ... This hero was strong, brave, and renowned for his might as a soldier. ...

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Hamlet's "eloquent praise of the earth, sky, and man, followed immediately by intense world-weariness and disaffection from the human predicament of being reduced to dust."3 Essentially, all of life, and all that was good and beautiful in life (e.g. the garden), is tainted. ... He finds the world to be empty and lifeless, dirty and diseased, and his particular place in it to be desolate and lonely. ... What is greater than Hamlet's loss of belief of integrity in the world his is loss of love for the life he once had and the people he knew/knows. ... "As a malcontent, Hamlet [...] pa...

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• Grade Level: High School

Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. ... Due to women behaving against their standards in vampire stories like Bram Stoker's Dracula and due to the new sort of protagonist in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there will be an introduction to the Victorian Age, when Stoker's gothic novel was published, with a closer look on the period's stereotypes and standards, especially of women. ... He was born on 23rd June, 1963 in New York and is still al...

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Such an inner world of emotion is alien from the genius of the religious and soldier-like Aeschylus; Sophocles creates characters to act on one another, and endows them with qualities accordingly; Euripides opens a new world to art and gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion, both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed In Euripides' Medea, as we learn from the nurse in the opening scene, Medea and Jason have lived together as husband and wife in Corinth since fleeing, first Colchis, where Medea betrayed her father Ki...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... In other words, the play's title and plot recall English traditions in a way that suggests a combination of Halloween (Puck and the fairies) and a big rave (with love-juice instead of Ecstasy). ... Not only would Elizabeth avoid Cupid's arrow her entire life (she died proudly unmarried and without children), but she also managed to escape a plotted assassination in 1594. ... The c...

• Word Count: 10864
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• Grade Level: High School

About the Author Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin. He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. He has been recipient of almost all the prestigious awards in literature and the arts, including the National Artist Awar...

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• Grade Level: High School