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    is being portrayed by actors on stage because you have the ability to view who is speaking with visual cues. Comparing the written second scene in Act One of The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and the movie from 2010 which was directed by Julie Taymor there are some differences like lines being removed, lines being shifted, and overall easiness to follow. During Act One, Scene Two of the play we start out by noticing that one of the main characters, Prospero, has had a gender swap, which

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    In the stories, “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Liberty”, and “Harrison Bergeron” all compare among their similarities. Each story uses the setting and their conflicts to show the theme and the characteristics of each character. In these stories, they all have different conflicts and settings, but they use the conflicts and settings to relate to each other in their characters and the themes. There are similarities among the stories “The Most Dangerous Game”, “Liberty”, and “Harrison Bergeron” in the

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    Brendan O’Keefe Mrs. Vermillion AP Language and Composition 29 March 2017 Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously Summary Julie Powell, the author of her own memoir, was a distraught secretary working at a bureaucratic organization led primarily by Republicans in order to build a memorial to the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. To further this misery, she was told that she may be unable to have children in the future. After hearing this news, she and her husband Eric went to her

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    Harrison Bergeron is about the future and how equality takes a role today and how it might affect the future. The story was written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story starts of where everyone is equal in the year 2081. The story is about the Bergeron family who live in the 21st century but it is in the year 2081. This is a story about the differences vs. equality and how it plays a role in the world today. It contrasts how equality plays a role today. In the story there is the Bergeron family

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    Kurt Vonnegut crafts the dystopian message of equality within Harrison Bergeron through the use of ironic and absurd language. Beginning in the first lines of the story, it jumps right in with, “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal,” (Vonnegut,34). He seems to emphasize on the irony of equality by drawing attention to the word “finally”. It’s quite peculiar or absurd how things would be if everyone was equal and that’s what Vonnegut proves in multiple points in the story such as, “Every

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    death has been remade into a Broadway musical acclaimed all over the world. Seen by over twenty five million people in over 15 thousand performances this intricately designed wonder has taken over 37 thousand hours just to build the puppets and masks. Julie Taymor the director and costume designer was faced with a problem of whether to create humans or animals playing the part and she decided to make masks that show the animal face, as well as, show the human face giving the character his or her personality

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    Introduction The Lion King musical is a well-known musical that has taken the stages of Broadway, West End and the rest of the world by storm (The Lion King, 1997). Regarding the process of the musical, Artistic Director Julie Taymor’s first thoughts for choosing the Lion King as the next big thing on stage, was classed as ‘impossible’ due to the film’s lack of theatrical material (The Lion King, 1997). Therefore, staging this particular work contained a great deal of uncertainty and the need

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    Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, winner of the Newbery Medal brings a story of a young Eskimo girl, Miyax who has been married off into a bad situation but finds solace in the San Francisco pen pal who calls her Julie. The author tells the tale in three parts. Part I, Amaroq, the wolf; this tells when she first meets the wolves and how she came to understand their family dynamic. The devotion to understanding them is her lifeline for food. Intuitiveness along with teachings of her father

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    Harrison Bergeron In 2081 everyone was treated equally due to laws 211th, 212th, and 213th. Can you imagine a world where nobody could be smarter or stronger than anyone else? In “Harrison Bergeron” the law said that everyone was supposed to be equal in every way but everyone was not truly equal. Everyone in “ Harrison Bergeron” were being treated equally because they are being treated differently, they have leaders that are treating them poorly, and all of these problems could be because of laws

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    Fourteen year old Harrison Bergeron is a passionate character that symbolizes equality in society during the year of 2081. Harrison rebels against the government in a way that shows how everyone in “Harrison Bergeron” was not absolutely equal. This community and its citizens has lost its rights after the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution. Everyone was not actually equal in the story since people could not use their own intelligence, express their true beauty, and display their

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