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    Possible complications with the hidden gender of Viola is it creates a love triangle between Orsino, Viola and Olivia another complication is people will mistake Sebastian for Viola/ Cesario. The most complications comes from the love triangle. In Viola’s Soliloquy, She starts to realize that Olivia loves her and that Olivia is manipulating the situation to get her to see her again. Once Viola learns that Olivia loves her she says “ I am the man” We the audience can infer that she is saying that

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    In Viola Davis’s 2015 Emmy acceptance speech, Davis conveys her message of the lack of opportunity for women of color in Hollywood and her appreciation for those who have helped in combatting it in order for her to be in the position to receive the award through a vivid style that draws upon achievements of the past and present. She begins the speech with a quote from Harriet Tubman: “In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with

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    The Viola Davis feature on Variety was efficient in expressing the impact winning an Emmy has had on her life and the lives of other black actresses. The piece was elaborate, including facts that supported opinion statements. The conclusion properly referenced back to the unique introduction, resulting in an easy-to-read story. It is apparent that the journalist planned and asked the appropriate questions to produce the story from this angle. This feature repeatedly explains why Viola winning an

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    a) First Topic Viola Hastings, is the protagonist in the film She’s The Man. She is a female soccer player at Cornwall University, until the school cuts her soccer team off from the after school extracurricular activities program. After the sexist coach refuses her suggestion of joining the male soccer team, she impersonates her brother and tryouts for the soccer team at Illyria. She believes the only way to attest her capability is if she is unable to join the male soccer team at Cornwall is to

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    Viola and Orsino in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare In William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" there are several relationships that develop throughout the play. Among the many characters whose interaction and misunderstanding become the core of the plot, Viola and Orsino have the most significant relationship. The way they interact with one another causes the complex conflict of the play, and as the conflict comes to be more complex the two characters turn from strangers

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    Viola and Beatrice both take on men's roles, Viola that of a manservant and Beatrice that of the perpetual bachelor and the clown: "I was born to speak all mirth and no matter," she says to Don Pedro [II.i.343-4]. They appear to be actors and manipulators, much more so than their female predecessors, who are mostly reactive and manipulated, such as Hermia, Helena, Titania, and Gertrude. None of these women seemed in charge of her own destiny, but tricked by the schemes of men and later scorned or

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    Resistance, Viola Desmond’s Challenge to Racial Segregation” is a powerful story of black women stood up to discrimination and racial equality. The exhibit is housed in the Canadian Journey on the main floor on the Canadian museum, for Human Rights. It is placed beside the Residential School and Uncertain Harvest exhibits. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 6, 1914 Viola Desmond was a successful black hair salon owner, On November 8, 1946 while travelling for to Sydney for a business meeting, Viola experienced

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    Viola Desmond was a wealthy and well-educated black woman. Despite her efforts of achieving social mobility in her race, she still fall victim to discrimination. Desmond was violently removed from the Rosedale theatre in Nova Scotia for allergy infracting

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    Vincent Van der Merwe Research Topic: Would coffee effect the growth of a Violas plant over 10 days in a positive or negative way? Grade: 12.3 School: Maragon Private Schools, Ruimsig Table of Contents 1. Vincent van der Merwe Research Name Page 2. Table of Contents 3. Introduction, Research Question, Aim, Hypothesis 4. Critical Literature Review, Source 1 5. Critical Literature Review, Source 2 6. Critical Literature Review, Source 3 7. Critical Literature Review, Source

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    In his Quintet for Clarinet, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello Op. 115, Brahms creates an important and influential work in the chamber music repertoire. By writing his Quintet for the specific clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld’s artistic brilliance, and by taking musical liberties with conventional forms and expectations, Brahms crafts the intimacy and seriousness one has come to expect from chamber music. Towards the end of his life, Brahms had intended on retiring from composing. Around 1891, the Meiningen

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