... movie. It has everything, from the slumber party and malt shop to the dance contest and drag race. Better yet, it has a sense of humor about those days, to the point of including ultimate icon Frankie Avalon in the "Beauty School Dropout" dream sequence. That brings up the main draw of GREASE -- the music. As I type this, at least one Top 40 station across the country is playing the "Grease Megamix," a medley of the three most popular songs from the movie ("You're the One That I Want," "Greased Lightning" and "Summer Nights"). Travolta and Newton-John's songs in the film have become karaoke favorites, and the movie soundtrack is actually back in the upper r ...
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... and movie. In the book, Bromden has flashbacks to his childhood, lighting on significant points in his childhood. His background is never even brushed upon in the movie. Of course it would have been nearly impossible to tell of Bromdens life in a movie, much less show the world from his point of view as in the book. Bromden is still a very interesting character but the real puzzle to his problems is lost. McMurphy is a very sly, cunning man. He knows how to play his game and does it well. In the book as McMurphy progresses, he goes through many stages where he is rebellious, then docile, then rebellious again. This is due to the fact that he learns exact ...
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... of the “oh so important” cast of role models for the year 2000. Or maybe they might grab a few bulbs from the bottom of the Christmas tree and put them o top for a day. Both Jay and Dave will play host to some folks in the regular sectors of the world to display their talent, like sucking milk up their nose with a straw or the dog who can play basketball. The wide variety of guests and skits they use, try and hit their opponent with an “ I had them first uppercut”, still has no effect on the format of either show. Tonight’s guests include blah, blah, blah, and musical guest blah, blah, blah, along with blah, blah, blah,blah. I must make my decision. Who ...
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... loves him according to her bond, no more nor less . This response angers Lear and causes him to ban her for her refusal to comply. Lear is held to the belief that she does not love him. He believes that the daughter which had loved him the most (and who he loved the most) has broken his heart. He is suspicious and bans her because he thinks that she is the only daughter who doesn't love him. It is Lear's rashness which prevents him from seeing that she is speaking the truth. It is the same rashness which leads him to believe that Goneril and Regan are being truthful. Kent believes that Lear is wrong and openly tells him so. He says in a straightforward ma ...
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... and newspaper. You would have to ban all violence to stop people from thinking about it. TV is not the only problem. Is there too much TV violence, or is it just what people want to see? In a recent survey, violent scenes in nonfictional shows went up 150% and in fictional shows they went up 39%. The overall violence went up 41%. What about the V-chip? The chip that would block out violence and sex on TV. But is that offending people's freedom of speech? Who would choose to use the V-chip? The government can't force people to use it, so how could they re-enforce its use? In conclusion, I think it is almost impossible to erase violence by ridding ...
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... 2 line 94). Her father immediately believes that he is "Mad for thy love?" (Act 2 Scene 2 line 95). Opelia answers a question posed by Polonius by which she replied that she had told Hamlet that she could not see or communicate with him any more. Her father makes reference to Hamlet's madness once again by proclaiming that what his daughter said, "... hath made him (Hamlet) mad." (Act 2 Scene 2 line 123). The argument of whether Hamlet is insane because of his love for Ophelia is often debated, but a more confusing and complex situation is the struggle within Hamlet's mind. His personal struggle is revealed to the audience in scene one of the third act. ...
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... are riding in will be safely returned and Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the audience. All of what Prospero has said is very nice cute, but the most interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the performance of the play, he was being release from his career ...
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... the play and information is that by gathering all the facts and evidence and understanding them, Oedipus can begin to solve the puzzle to saving the city from the plague. Knowledge is the knowing and the understanding of the facts and information you have gathered. This knowledge will amount to something useful. Organized facts can be applied to the solution to the puzzle of truth. Oedipus’ second purpose to finding the truth is to find the killer of King Liaus. His motivations to finding the assassin is to prove his own innocence to the people of Thebes. While having these motivations in him, he makes a proclamation that if anyone knows who the killer is, ...
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... completely different and special for them. Adults find the show redundant in the actions and words of the characters but children after hearing or seeing something done repeatedly will learn that word or action, and do to the repetitiveness of the things said it encourages the children to pay attention to what people say. As far as the characters go they’re strange to but promote self-esteem and individuality. Showing that people are different and will be different and can live amongst each other peacefully. I also think that the rumor of the one who caries a bag as being an attempt to show that homosexuals are ok is so absolutely absurd that its stranger then ...
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... will respected woman, when she was really a tramp. Her illusions are so intense that its to the point that it affects real life. An example is her decorations to Stella's apartment which creates a dim surrounding to help hide her true appearance. Unlike Stella, Blanche is afraid of her reality. She is afraid of getting old which is which she puts covers on the lamps to dim the lights. She's afraid of being alone, which was why she tried so hard to keep Mitch from finding out about her past. In conclusion, although Stella and Blanche were brought up in the same environment, they matured differently. Stella deals with her reality and doesn't try to ...
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