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    the rivals ......as an anti-sentimental comedy Undoubtedly Sheridan’s purpose in writing “The Rivals” was to entertain the audience by making them laugh and not by making them shed tears. “The Rivals” was written as a comedy pure and simple. Though there are certainly a few sentimental scenes in this play yet they are regarded as a parody of sentimentality. The scenes between Faulkland and Julia are satire on the sentimental comedy which was in fashion in those days and against which Sheridan

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    School for Scandal – Sheridan School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1777. This play can be considered as a Comedy of Manners. I will comment upon the hypocritical side of the Comedy of Manners. Indeed‚ one of the characteristics of the Comedy of Manners is the hypocrisy of the characters. To illustrate this‚ I will focus on Act IV‚ Scene iii; and so on the characters of Joseph Surface and Lady Teazle. During this scene‚ Joseph meets Lady Teazle and flirts with

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    included various types of drawings or paintings done on a piece of paper‚ skin‚ or cloth. Various scholars already conducted studies of the ledger art and pointed the categories of ledger art which were drawn (University of California‚ San Diego). Sheridan MacKnight is one of the prominent contributors to the topic of ledger art. In her works‚ she devoted much attention to the women and the children (Gussie Fauntleroy). She explained the position of this weak groups within the society in her work titled

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    Therefore‚ my personal interest is singing which led me to find the book Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer. When I read Rival‚ I compared it to how my interest of singing was approached in this book. There were similarities and differences‚ which can be good or bad for the novel because the way the novel had presented this interest may not have been the most realistic approach. I will be comparing Rival to my interest in singing in this essay‚ to show how books can over-dramatize a subject that need not be exaggerated

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    "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" is a book whose main story centrals on the lives of President Abraham Lincoln and the three men who would be apart of his cabinet: William H. Seward‚ Salmon P. Chase‚ and Edward Bates. In 1860‚ all four men would be leading candidates to gain the Republican nomination. However‚ at the time Lincoln seemed like the most unlikely person to win the nomination and the other three men held a grudge at first because they thought to be better than

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    Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns ˇ Lubos Pa ˇ ´stor University of Chicago‚ National Bureau of Economic Research‚ and Centre for Economic Policy Research Robert F Stambaugh . University of Pennsylvania and National Bureau of Economic Research This study investigates whether marketwide liquidity is a state variable important for asset pricing. We find that expected stock returns are related cross-sectionally to the sensitivities of returns to fluctuations in aggregate liquidity

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    The Victorian era’s patriarchal ideals rooted on fear of female empowerment influenced Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s lesbian vampire novella‚ Carmilla. The social ambience created by patriarchy at the time limited women to be objects of desire to be owned and controlled by men. In hopes of defying this social construct Le Fanu creates Carmilla‚ a vampire who feeds on and loves other women. Her independence from and disregard for the patriarchy challenges male kinship. The novella Carmilla is an attempt

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    Summary of the Case: On March 26‚ 2015 Jasmine Smith began her counseling sessions at Sheridan Counseling Services. During this first session we completed both a face sheet and intake form in order to get a better understanding of why she began going to a counselor. Through this initial intake Mrs. Smith explained that she recently had a child‚ and had just been given the news that her daughter was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. This news came as a surprise to Jasmine Smith and her husband because

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    tearfulness the order of the day. Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan were two playwrights who saw that if comedy were allowed free reign along this path of sentimentalism‚ it would signal the end of mirth. Both appreciated the power of pure comedy and the spirit of joyous laughter and wrote plays with situations that had no call for showing the redeeming features of vice and folly at the end‚ but just good healthy fun. The Rivals too denounces the hollow morality and hypocrisy associated with

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