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    The Flying Dutchman seemed to favor epic drama over the emotional transparency, which is rather ironic considering its central theme of love as redemption. The music certainly didn’t lack in excitement, though, and it seemed almost reminiscent of a film score with its grand, sweeping themes. I think the distinct characteristic of The Flying Dutchman was its recurring use of certain motifs to describe or refer to characters. The Dutchman’s theme, with its majestic french horn melody, featured in the

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    The title, Dutchman, which is motivated from the legend of the Flying Dutchman, emphasizes the play’s overall theme of the stage scene location and implies the main character - Clay’s - end. The legend is that a group of Dutch ship sailors could not anchor the ship, and had to sail forever because

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    Black Cinema

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    the above criteria (shared themes, etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights, camera, and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry, but to directors, actors, and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones and barriers in the United States for freedom and equality, “The Dutchman” and “Superfly” facilitated more than just a wakeup call

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    Within Gloria Naylor’s “The Women of Brewster Place” and Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman”, there is a heavy emphasis on society. Particularly how society influences interaction not just among African Americans, but interactions among whites and African Americans as seen is Baraka’s “Dutchman.” However, both novels also continue to portray a reoccurring theme that has been prevalent within this course, which is the struggle of African American’s in society. Throughout both works, society plays a large

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    As he spends more time with the lions, the more he comes to respect the alpha. But, his friend and fellow tribe’s men, En-gerr, is still considered a boy, for he has not claimed the life of a lion. But En-gerr still has hope. One day, the dutchman, decides to take En-gerr along to observe the lions. En-gerr sees the alpha of the pack, and decides that it will be this lion to help usher En-gerr into manhood. But, just as En-gerr is ready to slay the great beast,

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    Their fame and honor, despite being rooted in the business-like mentality characteristic of the Plaid Prohibition, was a rather anomalous one. The RGA and the Underground, as well as their rivals, have not yet set their sights in the state of Nebraska. But everything changed near the end of that same month, when forward elements from one of the RGA’s rivals, the Fellowship of Young Christians (FYC), decided to move into the region from neighboring Kansas. The FYC, led by an ambitious group of Protestant

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    Rgan Case Study

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    B ack in Nebraska, supplies of Ryanite goods sent to the region was starting to dwindle, forcing the Dutchman and his fellow Volksryanischen associates to contact their other associates, the RGA, for a resupply. In response, the Plaid Orchestra faction of the RGA sent in a detachment of their elite Nightingales to Nebraska, as part of a Sunday Morning Special that the Nightingales were conducting in the region. These Nightingales and their auxiliaries from nearby Iowa were known best by the Trouble

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    are offering. We’ll buy the dagger at $91, while the uniforms priced at $36.” “Sorry friend, but I’d recommend $100 for the dagger, $48 for each of the uniforms, and not a penny more,” the Dutchman haggled with the terms forwarded by the Underground buyer. After being offered this proposition by the Dutchman, the leader of the Trouble Trio, the buyer deliberated for a moment or two. He was trying to decide whether buying the items at the prices the Jackbooters had for

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    optimistic and always finds something to feel satisfied and happy no matter what the circumstances are. The Flying Dutchman It is believed that Flying Dutchman is a spectral schooner seen under full sail even in the absence of wind. Some believe the Flying Dutchman is the captain of the ship who is cursed to sail the seas for ever and ever make it to the land .The legend of the Flying Dutchman has been around for more than two centuries. the ship is known for it’s many ghostly appearances in dark or fog

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    Manhattan there he attended columbia university becoming a prominent artist.¨(biography.com) In nineteen-sixty-four Baraka published his first major collection of poetry. Preface to a Twenty , Volume Suicide Notes; Soon after followed his play The dutchman¨(essayforum.com), which showed racial tensions and american blacks.Later Baraka became identified with Black Nationalist poetry and literature scenes , he later died on january 9, 2014 at the age of seventy-nine.

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