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    Importance Of Homework

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    play games on my iPad until I become sleepy and I realize I didn’t finish my homework. I’m Tal. I’m a 13 year old boy and I live with my brother Kai. He's 9. We all live in Saratoga. I have lots of homework but I don’t do it in time. I do it at night. “Hey Tal!” Kai! What does he want now? “I’m going to play with my friends.” He blurted. Now I’m finishing my homework. I want to play my friends too. A few days later my mom asks me if I want to play with my friends. I said yes. Of

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    Themes In Twelfth Night

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    Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is one of his most beloved plays. There are several notable themes that construct the play that makes twelfth night a great play. Many elements within the play take on what it was like during Shakespeare’s time, while others talk about political commentary. The play talks about the main character Viola and her disguise as a man, while looking for her brother Sebastian. Her disguise creates a lot of misperception; many would say Twelfth Night shines

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    Why is Viola (as Cesario) Misogynistic? Viola’s first words that lay out her gender defying scheme are “Conceal me what I am and be my aid for sure a disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent” (Shakespeare 1.2.53-56). Throughout Twelfth Night Shakespeare plays with the idea of gender and its role in society. The audience sees Orsino, the duke, trip over his words in his misogynistic contradictions of his opinions on women and their ability to love. Surprisingly, Viola also shares in such

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    William Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night” is one of many different themes. Two of the most recurring themes are sexuality and gender identity. It is these themes that make twelfth night a wonderful and revolutionary tale for that time period. It is hinted throughout the play that some of the characters may indeed be a tad bit gay. This helps support the claim that being attracted to members of the same sex is not just a modern thing. The character of Antonio can be seen flirting with and doing this

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    Love in Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night explores the various representations of love that are universal to the human experience. In the play Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, covers three types of love, Lust, true love and superficial. Love is one of the most confusing and most misunderstood emotions that we as humans possess. Love is an extremely diverse emotion and allows for multiple opinions on what it truly is which is why it was used as the main topic in twelfth night. True love

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    Twelfth Night is one of the greatest plays to date because of its hilarious characters and plot. It gives the readers a fun and festive theme and it is no secret that Sir Andrew Aguecheek is one of the most comedic characters in the play. Andrew is described as a “foolish night” who is a wimp and coward. He is good friends with Sir Toby Belch, a drunken knight who takes up residence at the Countess’s house who’s described as a heavy drinker. Andrew adds to the fun in Twelfth Night due to recurring

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    The Theme of Appearance vs Reality in Twelfth Night On social media services like tinder, facebook, and instagram, a vast majority of us has a somewhat fake persona. Maybe, you photoshopped your profile picture picture to cover up your pimples, double-chin, imperfect eyebrows. This example represents the theme of appearances vs. reality because things aren’t what they seem to be. This theme is commonly displayed in the play, Twelfth Night. For example, all the characters are concealing their true

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    The Twelfth Night William Shakespeare is a name that is well-known all throughout the world. He is most widely acclaimed for the tragedies that take place in his plays, poems, and various other pieces of work. Most of his plays and poems take an exciting, unexpected turn, much like his play, The Twelfth Night. Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. Shakespeare attended King Edward VI Grammar School from the time he was seven until he quit at

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    Opera Buffa and Hope in The Shawshank Redemption What does one imagine when viewing a comic opera? Servants outwitting their masters? A happy ending? However, would one imagine a comic opera in a maximum-security prison? In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne plays an duet from Mozart’s comic opera, The Marriage to Fiagaro, as its Enlightened ideals represent Andy’s prison experience and its Classical characteristics evoke a sense of hope in the repressed prison. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s

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    seeing different people from our school perform in front of an audience. It was nice to see the wide variety of talent that is found at our school. A nice touch to the production was having a student, teacher, and former student be the judges for the night. The final student act in the production of the DHS Factor was a performance by seniors, Will Wyman and Iain Smith. Unlike the rest of the contestants, they had a more satirical approach to their performance. They chose to sing the song, “One Less

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