Madison Cantrell 3rd Hr Pre-Ap English 1B Romeo and Juliet Scene 1 Act 1‚ Scene 1: Sampson and Gregory‚ the servants for the house of Capulet‚ are walking through the streets of Verona. They both are venting to each other about how they despise the house of Monague‚ they both wish to have a brawl with the other house. They then see other see two servants from the other house and decide to “bite there thumb” at them in order to start a fight. The two houses have a fight‚ and the prince decides
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Primary Source Review- Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley When was this document written? Who was the author and who was the intended audience? Behind the Scenes was published in 1868‚ written by Elizabeth Keckley. Elizabeth would go from being a general slave to the modiste and confidant of Mrs. Lincoln. Elizabeth 7would be between 40-50 years of age at the time of writing the document. I believe that Elizabeth’s audience was anyone who thought ill of Mrs. Lincoln. Elizabeth initially wrote
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unorthodox culture and way of living. He ends up falling in love with their culture and fights for them in their war against the much larger and technologically advanced Japanese Empire. The scene I choose is the "sparing in the rain" scene‚ in which Capt. Nathan Algren spars with wooden swords. This scene shows the true strength and will to live that the Capt has as he gets beaten time and time again but continues to get up and keep fighting. The director Edward Zwick does an amazing job with
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At the start of scene fourteen in the movie Barry Lyndon‚ we witness the British army walking unto the battlefield. They walk with poise and confidence‚ showing no fear and readiness to fight. On the other side‚ we see the French‚ positioned and prepared for the oncoming attack. As the British army comes ever closer‚ the French launch their first round of shots. Many men from the British infantry fall‚ but the army continues forward‚ almost unfazed by the events that have occurred. The French fire
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There are three important scenes that take place on the scaffold. The first scene like the other scenes takes place in the center of town. Hester a young women who is holding her newborn daughter pearl makes her way to a scaffold‚ where she is to be publicly condemned for her sin of adultery. While she is up on the scaffold she sees her husband Chillingworth in the crowd and in disbelief she squeezes pearl tight to her making the baby cry. Also Dimmesdale‚ the priest of the town‚ who is Hester’s
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uses figurative language to more fully explain the thoughts and actions of his characters. This helps the reader‚ who is now able to obtain a much greater understanding of Shakespeare’s characters because of the use of figurative language. In Act II‚ scene two‚ lines 33 – 60 of Macbeth‚ he uses a great amount of figurative language. Although Macbeth has just purposefully murdered Duncan‚ he feels incredible guilt over his actions because he believed Duncan was a good king. Macbeth only murdered Duncan
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but Erik punches him in the face. In that scene‚ Paul is in his backyard. Almost all of the backyard scenes have been negative. There haven’t been any good memories there that Erik hasn’t tainted. All the time Paul listens to Erik and Arthur “kicking a football into a net in the backyard.” Paul describes it as a “short violent sound” which shows how violent he knows Erik is‚ just like he saw when Erik punched Tino. Another negative backyard scene was when Paul had Joey come over in the beginning
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majority of the story’s scenes happen at night‚ leaving only a few scenes in daylight. During the night‚ the weather is never pleasant and often unsettling‚ but during the day the weather is decent. The author purposely sets the suspenseful scenes during the nighttime leaving the reader to expect something horrible to happen. The scenes that take place during the day are not as scary and do not have the same affect as those at night. The author’s main reason for setting this scenes at night is to target
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11/14/13 Scene Breakdown The scene I chose to write about is from one of my favorite movies‚ Blue Valentine. Directed by Derek Cianfrance‚ this movie is an examination of a marriage on the rocks‚ as well as the beginnings of a new one‚ by the same people. Ryan Gosling plays Dean‚ a high school dropout trying to make ends meet without any support from his family‚ and Michelle Williams plays Cindy‚ a pre-med student living with her unhappy parents. On an off chance‚ Dean and Cindy meet one another
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Study Questions ACT I‚ SCENE I - Due Date ____________________ 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? 4. What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? 5. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s
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