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- 12151: Diego Maradona
- ... Italian team before, but he still worked his magic. In the end Maradona ran out of magic and was defeated by West Germany, losing the World Cup. Maradona has become a star because of his great all-around game. Only 5 foot 5 he is able to avoid defenders with quick bursts of speed. He is often compared to Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Throughout his career he has made many ...
- 12152: Merchant Of Venice: Shylock the Antagonist?
- ... Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. (Stirling 2:1) These were the stereotypes which Shakespeare's audience held in regard to Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes to great lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype. In Act 1:3, before Shylock ever says a word to Antonio, he lets the audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates ...
- 12153: Donald Barthelme
- ... stories and novels (Anderson et al, 919). He is the author of a number of collections of short stories including Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); City Life (1971); Sadness (1972); Great Days (1978); Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); and Paradise (1986). He also wrote Snow White, a parody of the popular children s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children ...
- 12154: King Lear: Comedy or Tragedy?
- ... time went from king to just a regular peasant and from strong and prideful to weak and unconfident. This shows that men do not hold their own destiny and that even though things may be great now you can be struck down just as fast as was to Lear. The fall of Lear is not just the suffering of one man but the suffering of everyone down the chain. Gloucester loses ...
- 12155: Julius Ceasar: Overview
- Julius Ceasar: Overview SUMMARY: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is the story of the resulting conflicts from the assassination of perpetual dictator and Roman emperor, Julius Caesar. A great friend of Caesar, Mark Antony, comes to the senate to see the dead body of their dictator. He pretends to not be angry at those who took part in the assassination, and asks to speak ...
- 12156: Donatello
- ... a century later and the present arrangement, dating from 1895 is wrong historically. The Madonna and St. Francis are outstanding and the finest of the reliefs are the four miracles of St. Anthony. Donatello was great in handling large numbers of figures (one relief has more than one hundred), which predicts the construction standards of the High Renaissance. Donatello was not doing much work the last three years at Padua, the ...
- 12157: Duke Ellington 2
- ... that two of Ellington's most important albums of the '60s were collaborations that found the maestro fitting in equally well with major musicians who had each incorporated some of Ellington's principles to a great degree in their own music. They were John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra, who would normally never even get into a sentence together, yet had in common their Ellington influence and experience.
- 12158: Romeo and Juliet: The Capulet Family
- ... way. Perhaps the reason why this happens is because the inferior person is somewhat intimidated by the superior. This intimidation that some of the characters produce on each other shows that there is not a great deal of communication in the family. Throughout Act I, there were several more examples of characters yielding to others and not standing up for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the ...
- 12159: Compare and Contrast the Language of Romeo and Juliet in the Balcony Scene
- ... full of light that the surrounding stars would feel ashamed, and the brightness of her eyes would make the birds on earth think that its day time. Romeo here exaggerates Juliet's beauty to a great extent. Later, he speaks of her as a "bright angel" who, as a "winged messenger of heaven", is far above ordinary mortals on earth. Unlike Rosaline, Juliet is not compared to a pagan goddess. Romeo ...
- 12160: Macbeth: Lying
- ... my seated heart knock at my ribs." In Elizabethan times, witches were known as creatures of the devils; satanic creatures who roam the world to cause destruction and chaos. But how can devils speak of great truths? Macbeth's new intelligence was then reported to his wife. He writes about how he will become king. But how was he going to do this? One of Macbeth's rash decisions was to ...
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