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Brian Friel's "Translations" 'Translations', by Brian Friel, presents us with an idyllic rural community turned on its head as the result of the recording and translation of place names into English; an action which is at first sight purely administrative. In Act 1 of the play, Friel brings together the inhabitants of this quaint Irish village in what can only be described as a gathering of minds - minds which study the classics, yet minds which study dead languages. In the same way, while

The play ‘Translations’ is set in a Gaelic-speaking, Hedge school in Northern Ireland, 1833. Brian Friel explores the modernization affect individuals and communities that occurred as a result of the conquering English language. He examines how language shapes reality, whilst questioning the assumption that any two people can share the same reality; ideas can be translated between cultures without necessarily being altered. The play offers a parable about the fate of a parochial attitude for those

I remember my parents calling me up an hour before midnight telling me that they would be coming home late from work. That was how I grew up my entire life until I entered high school. As an immigrant family, my parents had to run the extra mile to provide for our family. I was the oldest of my family. Therefore, I had to step up as the mother figure and to take care of my younger brother. Sometimes, my friends would ask me to hang out with them or to come over my house. My answer was no most of

The ’Bohemian Rhapsody’ from QUEEN was written in 1975, and re-released in 1991. The author was Freddie Mercury. This literary work is very interesting for me examined by psychological approach. The entire text has a male centred structure, the dominant persona is male. There are several names and characterizations such as ’poor boy’, ‘killed a man’, ’Galileo’. All of these references show the dominant gender in the text. Although there is a less strong female presence as well such as ’mama’ and

poetry and performing. By the start of the decade, he realized that he could combine his charged messages with poetry to funk beats to create a new sound. From this revelation, many of his poems transformed into lyrics for songs that he composed with Brian. But thanks in large part to the success of his first book of poetry, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, Scott-Heron was introduced to producer Bob Thiele, who had worked with legendary jazz artists from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane. Thiele encouraged

sovereignty-association and the referendum became lost. To try and fix what was broken, the government came up with the Meech Lake Accord. In 1985, there were many political changes that occurred in Quebec and federally. Federally, Trudeau was replaced by Brian Mulroney. In Quebec, Moderate Liberal Robert Bourassa was replaced by Rene Levesque. Mulroney promised when he got elected, that he would bring Quebec into the Constitution (the supreme law in Canada). He held many meetings to talk about the constitutional

Written by Cindy Wockner, the Bali 9 Clock Ticks newspaper article appearing in the Herald Sun serves as a neat, professional update on the predicament of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. Written in typical newspaper fashion, the article underlies themes of desperation, hopelessness and fear in a detached string of paragraphs. The article catches our attention with a suspenseful, desperate title – Bali 9 Clock Ticks. The phrase ‘Clock Ticks’ paints a picture in our minds of time running out, and

Growing up in Theresa was an experience that will live with me until the day I die. Theresa is a town with a population of roughly 2,000 people and it is very rural. Theresa is a blue collar community where everyone works hard and everyone plays hard. I saw this 24/7 at home. It was a small town. Everyone knew what was going on with everything in the town. The town of Theresa was basically one giant family. I went to school their from Kindergarten through 4th grade. The school was three blocks from

We barely managed to escape in time if it hadn’t been for Sophie I wouldn’t have made it. She pulled me through that leygate thing and we went from Ojai, California to the church of Sacré-Coeur in Paris, France. We ended up in a supply closet I figured there would be alarms but Flamel didn’t listen. As we frantically tried to find a way out he managed to set off two more alarms. As if things couldn’t get any worse this big creature made out of wax appeared. I believe Flamel called it a--a tulpa

The song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen debuted in 1975. When the song arrived, it produced a new innovation of music blending the incredible guitar riffs of hard rock and elegance of soft piano ballads. Clifford Geertz discusses, "a religion is a set of symbols which acts to establish long-lasting moods and motivations in men" Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Culture System," in The Interpretation of Cultures, (New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1973): 90.In this essay, I will argue that Queen's