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    The Character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie   Tom Wingfield has a dual role in The Glass Menagerie. The first Tom is the narrator, who introduces his second self, the character. In his fifth soliloquy, Tom the narrator indicates that time has detached him from the drama, "for time is the longest distance between two places" (Williams 1568). In the closing soliloquy Tom recounts how he lives and re-lives the story in his memory, though he is detached from the participants in the original affair

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    “It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked,” believes Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Various propaganda from the totalitarian government of Among the Hidden will affect citizens, baron or farmer. Either way, there will be attempts to voice other sides of the story. The government is spreading lies about the population police; their deceptive ways will change citizen’s lives. Luke is the third child of a farmer’s family

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    Introduction Harold Godwinson was born in the 1022s to a powerful Anglo-Saxon family in Wessex, United Kingdom. Throughout his life, he achieved many great things, including being the last Anglo-Saxon to be crowned King of England and being the Earl of Wessex. He was at the top of the social structure from the 6th of January 1066 until his death fighting the Norman Invaders on the 14th of October at the Battle of Hastings. The Battle of the Hastings was a major event during

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    In Franz Kafka’s short novella, The Metamorphosis, he presents the transformation of a man into an insect and the family’s adaptations to this change. Once the proud man of the house who brought in the revenue, Gregor is now an insect that cannot do anything but survive.  At the beginning of the novel, the family tries to accommodate for the insect by feeding him and making him feel as comfortable as possible. However, as time goes on, they grow more and more tiresome of the nuisance living in their

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    Nightburn closed the journal and replaced it in the secret compartment in his desk. He would read more later, but for now he was weary from all the apportation he had performed that day. He pushed his chair back, stood up and walked out onto the balcony. It was late evening and he hadn’t eaten all day and decided he should make an appearance to avoid undue suspicion even if it was late. Washing up, he changed into his usual attire and left his room for the dining hall. Voices drifted down the

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    Here Ben makes a serious situation look light and absurd. Majority of the audiences would side with Ben and laugh at the old man’s stupidity and the resultant death whereas a few like Gus would be shocked and consider it to be the fault of someone else (Who advised him to do a thing like that?) instead of the old man and sympathize with the old man. In addition to all these, Pinter has made use of the music hall monologue to capture the audience’s attention and create a ludicrous ambience. An apt

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    English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson. Taking place approximately 7 miles northwest of Hastings, East Sussex, England, it was a Norman victory. This significant battle was fought due to the death of childless King Edward the Confessor which caused Harold to be crowned king shortly after King Edward’s death. However, Harold faced invasion of Duke William as Duke William “claimed he had been promised the throne by King Edward and that Harold had sworn to this agreement” (Battle of

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    “Don’t judge so you shall not be judged” (Luke 6:37), is a famous proverb quote that many people go by. But why is it that people judge? Or assume that someone is already guilty of a crime based on their race, skin color, economic status or family background? If someone has to make a judgment, he has to be certain of the facts surrounding the situation. Sentencing a person to die is a very crucial decision and the same reason goes into setting a guilty person free. Everybody deserves a fair and thorough

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    (persuasion and alike). Other attributes of Mamet’s work include intricate dialogue and characters with individualized mannerisms; for example: Mamet believes that people speak what they are influenced by. Mamet was influence most by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Lanford Wilson, and Bertolt Brecht, beginning his unique use of dramatic language (Whatley 12). As for his play American Buffalo, the following themes are present: business, loyalty, friendship, and ethics. In 1972, the infamous Watergate

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    “The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur” (A.N Whitehead). Marshall Mcluhan, the author of The Medium is the Massage, would agree to this and add that electronic technology is “reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life” (McLuhan, 8). He would argue that society has always been shaped by the medium of the media affecting everything from government to family, leaving no part of

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