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    William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet is filled with serious decisions. The two title “star-crossed lovers,” Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, not only decide to get married mere days after their first meeting, but also choose to carry out a ridiculous plan to avoid an unwanted marriage and eventually kill themselves (prologue). Although such subject matter is not often found in young adult novels, the impulsivity of this behavior is a mark of Romeo and Juliet’s teenage inexperience

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    would function and interact with one another to lead to up to an opposing conclusion. Individual plays like Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet demonstrate the connections between the similar actions, characters , and events that take place within different playwrights. However; even though writings like Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet share many plot , events and characters , they’ve gained opposing genres ; one which has been classified as a comedy, while the other a tragedy

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    commotion between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, finally bring peace to their feuding families, with their own death. Like with many suicide cases, there are challenges and decisions being made that lead up to this decision. Often times, we question who contributed to the suicide. Regardless, others argue that Romeo and Juliet should be held accountable for their ultimate decision. Then again, there is no definite reason to assign fault to Romeo and Juliet. Not only are their brains not fully developed

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    Summer vacations over, and your sisters back at school. Katie has a rehearsal for William Shakespeare 's, Romeo and Juliet. You 're sitting comfortably on the auditorium chair, admiring your sister 's play. "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy." "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I 'll

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    of fifty-two, his work became some of the most reputable works of all time. They have been enjoyed as timeless classics to this day. The works I have chosen to compare are Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, both of

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    as Katherine Minola and Juliet Capulet, to show the society he inhabits just how important women are. Through his writing he shows that he views women as strong and independent. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet becomes independent from her family and stands up for the enemy, who is also her true love, putting herself in complete danger and becoming a traitor to her family and their beliefs, " 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy," (Shakespeare 2.2). By Shakespeare, including Juliet 's freedom in the way she

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    Sam Ebersole Mrs. Ruiz English 9A Period 1 19 November 2015 Shakespeare 's Influence on Modern Culture William Shakespeare is one of the world 's most influential people to ever live. “BBC audience survey names Shakespeare as Britain 's Man of the Millennium.” (Andrews 2) Shakespeare’s works continue to be evident globally in modern society. Hundreds of years after William Shakespeare’s death, his influence continues to make an effect in the modern day English language, modern movies and

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    Once upon a time there was a boy named Romeo and a girl named Juliet, who lived separately but loved each other dearly. This story is about a boy and a girl whom their families hated each other deeply and they were enemies because they always fight with each other. The end of this beautiful love ended in tragedy with the death of the two star- crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Many people had different opinions about who to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. Some of them said that the environmental

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    Romeo and Juliet is a play that focuses on a tragic love story of two teenagers. Romeo comes from the Montague family and Juliet from Capulet family. As the play begins, Romeo the main character is depicted as a boy who is immature and who believes that he is in love with Juliet. There is a conflict between the Montague family and Capulet family and the character Juliet becomes an obstacle between the two families. The play ends with a tragic death of the two love birds. Romeo’s changes throughout

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    Is It Real Or Is?

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    Is It Real or is it Fake? That is the Question (Favorite Sonnet) What is love? Is love a feeling that you get when you see someone? Is love a pitter-patter that you get in your chest when the person you are head over heels for walks into the room? Is love the breath being sucked out of your lungs and your heart skipping a beat or five hundred when your significant other walks into the room and looks you dead in the eye? But, love could not even be a feeling, and it could actually be a choice. Maybe

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