In the beginning of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is counting down the seconds until he is to wed his new "trophy" Hippolyta, the Amazonian Queen. ... Hermia is in love with Lysander, but Egeus is behaving like Bottom, who is an ass, and wishes his daughter to wed a man named Demetrius, for no clear logical reason. ... In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare included another play within a play by creating the Rude Mechanicals, a group of simpletons who decide to provide the entertainment for Theseus and Hippolyta's wed...

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• Grade Level: High School

My sisters wedding is a bit like that. ... After a while, I feel there are only so many times you can discuss whether the invitations should be horizontal or vertical; whether the little things that call themselves my cousins would wear jackets, or if they would take them off halfway down the aisle; or which room my grandparents would stay in after the night of the wedding. ... When I was one, I was bridesmaid for the first time. ... When I was seven, it was my oldest cousin's wedding. ... The next wedding down the line was another cousin. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In order to understand what immorality is, first one must understand what morality is. ... He didn't know how to speak the language, did not know the lifestyle and thought process of humans. ... From this point on the creature vows revenge on Frankenstein and tells him that he will be with him on his wedding night. ... First the cause and origin of immorality should be discussed. ... So, when someone behaves immorally, they do not see the ethics of the situation. ...

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John By 1847, when Jane Eyre was first published, slavery had been abolished for nearly 14 years, and yet themes of racism, colonialism and slavery are prevalent throughout the novel. ... In fact, slavery is often used as a metaphor for marginality and I will explore how this overlap of colonial imagery with apparently 'civil' 19th century Britain helps to characterise Jane and helps to exclude Bertha. ... The scene in which we see her tearing Jane's wedding veil is in keeping with previous descriptions. ... It is the scene before, in which the wedding party are taken to see B...

• Word Count: 2218
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this time Wolfgang continued to compose, completing his first symphony at age nine and publishing his first sonatas in the same year. In 1769 before returning home Wolfgang completed his first opera La finta semplice. ... The wedding day of Aloysia and Wolfgang came along, and many people attended the ceremony, including Aloysia's sister Constanze, and Leopold Mozart (who came against his wishes). The wedding looked as if it would be perfect. ... At his death Mozart left an unfinished Requiem, his first large scale works for the church. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How does the reader see this? ... How did Romeo and Juliet meet? ... "If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed."" ... Here Romeo is saying how really alive Juliet looks. ... Then why did the friar behave out of character and leave the tomb when he heard the call of the watch. ...

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Her greatest recognition came with her first feature film Salaam Bombay! ... Then many of the children were enlisted for weeks in a daily workshop, not to teach them "acting" (for that they already knew from hundreds of overacted Indian film melodramas), but to teach them how to behave naturally in front of the camera. ... It is remarkable how well Nair creates this street world and tells us its rules without seeming to force her story. ... When Tara is betrothed to the king, Raj Singh (Naveen Andrews), Maya slips into his chamber on the night before the wedding and seduces him. ... But ther...

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The first victim is William, who the monster strangles. ... Victor's creation itself represents Shelley's premature children because it behaves just like a human child in a somewhat mature body. The creature learns how to talk, walk, and read by observing a family. ... The creature murders her out of revenge on her and Victor's wedding night. ... Darwin investigated the aspects of the problem as how organisms pass through transitional stages, how sexual competition impacts the development of species, and how one species can give rise to another. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first of the contradictions Manley addresses appears in relation to the economics of an 18th-century woman. ... Forced to keep her marriage to the Count a secret because of his aversion to her "low degree", and unable to otherwise explain Roderigo's presence in her home every night, Violenta becomes, in the eyes of her neighbors, a rich man's whore, "a prey to shame and dishonesty". ... Despite having done everything according to the stipulations of how proper virtuous women should behave, Violenta is left destitute by her husband, for although he gives her 2...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate