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    easily compared with Beatrice being of a similar class and very close relatives. Then you have the characters of Margaret and Ursula, the servants, who are also very comparable and show a portrayal of women in lower classes. This scene is cementing the idea that the play is a Shakespearean comedy and we can see this because the Party is used to create dramatic irony between Beatrice and Benedick in their amusing banter. A modern

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    the oppressed from identity crisis. In Neilson’s play Realism, Identity plays a huge role. Stuart is a man who lives in a flat, who works, has thoughts and dreams that normally if we were to revert to pre judgemental social statuses of working class people, a person of his social class would not have. However, realism breaks down this barrier, Stuart is an individual, he works, lives and home in a flat and has wacky and insane thoughts and dreams. That is his identity. Neilson provides his characters

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    his striking murals, including his provocative wall painting located in the Missouri State Capital building’s House Lounge room entitled A Social History of the State of Missouri. Benton finished this mural in the year of 1936, many people, including citizens and legislators alike What I see when I look at this large piece of work is the different painted scenes telling the accounts of Missouri’s history and along with a few images depicting popular folklore of the state above each door leading into

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    Despite such strong convictions and great disparity between to ends of the spectrum, William’s motives for Blanche are still unknown. Throughout the play, Williams sympathizes with Blanche, proving he is not misogynistic and instead condemns the social construct that brought about Blanche’s tragic circumstance. Sympathy for Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire is gained mainly from the many tragic experiences that have plagued her adulthood, beginning with the death of her husband Allan Grey. Ironically

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    annihilate his misunderstood “bad boy” image, he reveals that every teenage is fears the idea of being honest, uses his so called “image” to break down the barricade for a potential relationship and sparks a friendship deemed impossible. All this is broken down by Bender admitting the misconception of his image. “And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They are quite aware of what they’re going through…” (Bowie 68). How far are teenagers

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    Usually a jock and a princess befriending a geek, the social outcast and the bad boy, would not only be socially unacceptable, but would also be highly unlikely. Yet again, Bender manages to crush this barricade down. Although the friendship may have been forced at first, but what brought them together? He

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    The essence of a memoir is to look back at one's experience, and see how they have developed and matured. The essence of a memoir is to look back at one's experience, and see how they have developed and matured. This is no different in Dave Eggers fictitious memoir, A Heartbreaking Story of Staggering Genius. To explore what has changed a person it is important to look at what most of the person's time was spent doing. In Dave's situation, there is no shadow of a doubt, at the age of 22

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    Law enforcement agencies have policies regarding use of force that need reform. There is concern for the balance of ethical decision making by police officers. There is also an equal concern for the rights and value of life of civilians along with those of officers. Maintaining stress-free standards for employed law enforcement is detrimental to police use of force directives. Police organizations can prevent and correct their citizen interaction without the use of excessive force. It is imperative

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    Everything within this world is manufactured and lacks the sensory experience of things in the natural world. The use of onomatopoeia “She'd reached out and touched this, her artificial nails clicking against the Lexan sandwich protecting the broken glass”, emphasises the absence of sensory experience towards natural elements due to the reliability towards artificiality. The absence of nature and artificiality suggests that society has ruined, damaged and completely destroyed natural resources

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    a stereotypic character in that he is represented as a criminal and a bad boy “too cool for school,” Bender is shown to truly be a vulnerable character suffering from tensions in his home life. Apparent in the scene in which Bender reenacts an incident from home, Bender comes from a broken home in which physical and emotional abuse occurs. Bender, incredibly rebellious with insecure attachments, objectives women as well as resents anybody who has a more stable home life than him. These qualities

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