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    Themes of Medea

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    Jessica Barr February 21, 2011 Medea Video Project Analysis The “Medean” Hillbillies Euripides’ Medea is classified an ancient Greek tragedy. However, this story is much more than a tragedy. The story of Medea is one that definitely grabs the reader’s attention through both its text and its themes. The themes that the story of Medea presents are very practical and still continue to exist in humanity today. The three largest and most obvious themes that a reader is most likely to find and relate

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    The progression of passion leitmotif is marked by the increasing intensity through words such as “suggestion,” “eager,” “drawn by,” “bright,” “poem,” and “hot.” A relationship cycle is created through the increasing passion, indicating that the poem describes different stages of the speaker and the man’s relationship, from strangers to a couple. This passion drives the cause of their relationship, suggesting increasing interest by both the speaker and the man, which leads them to the “stalking” habit

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    Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg took a stand against the government by releasing a copy of the Pentagon Papers to press in an effort to inform the public about the Pentagon Papers and their contents about U.S. policy in Vietnam (Indochina). (Reason.com) His friend and former colleague at RAND Corporation, Anthony Russo was his partner in revealing the Pentagon Papers. Daniel took copies of the Pentagon Papers to many different senators before going to the press. As a result of “threatening national

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    In the poem, ‘A Mother in A Refugee Camp’ Chinua Achebe conveys the close relationship between a mother and a son. Achebe starts with the imagery of the famous painting of “Madonna and Child” by Duccio di Buoninsegna. The painting symbolizes Madonna as Mary, who is seen as the mother of Jesus here because in the bible her character is seen to be lovely and every parent-child relationship is just like that of Mary and Jesus, tender and caring. This is emphasized in the second line of this stanza,

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    University of Chicago. Heralded as the American Hogwarts. Acclaimed in the news for its Nobel Prize Laureates. Being a leading school in Math, Science, Business, Law, and among other fields. As a personal dream school of my own, the list of acclaimed innovators harking from UChicago seemed endless while I was doing research about the school. Yet, one name in the expansive list caught my eye, for obvious reasons. Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Junior. Recently deceased in May of 2011, Dr. Wilkins has possibly

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    Negative self-image among women has been a struggle in society for a long period of time. Social media, magazines, and the pressures of society has caused many young girls to feel bad about themselves because they do not look like the clothing model on the runway or the bathing suit model on the front of a magazine. Females grow up with the pressures of having to be in shape, wearing the best clothes, and putting on a full face of makeup for a male to find them attractive. Society has deemed that

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    A study was done on aIntellectual disable person to enhance his intelligence. The experiment had a positive feedback, but after months, it resulted for the individual to go back to his original state. In the novel, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, this brilliant operation was done on Charlie Gordon. Slowly after the operation, Charlie became extremely bright, but experienced more loneliness, and physiological sadness. In the past, Charlie thought intelligence would mean that he would be normal

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    The book “Devil in the White City”, informs us about a man that goes by the name H.H. Holmes, a manipulative man who will do anything to obtain whatever he desires, loves the challenge of getting woman, but he had a passion...no a craving for killing woman, giving him “sexual release” which he seemed to enjoy dearly.. There was another story of a man who goes by Burnham who was given the opportunity to build the World’s Fair that would show that nobody can top America and they will not feel humiliated

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    “Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today” (Malcom X). In 1965, Charlie Gordon of New York, a 37 year old with an IQ of 68, who is continuously humiliated and judged by people due to his disability, becomes a candidate for an experimental operation performed by Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss after his teacher, Mrs. Kinnian, recommends him. While Charlie’s intelligence increases at

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    but sometimes they are evident from the beginning. Sometimes the characters’ bond can be so powerful that they will risk their lives for each other. Also, some people may have discovered that sometimes actors in movies who grow up together such as Daniel Radcliffe, Emma

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