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    The Whipping Man

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    Acting 1 The Whipping Man The first play I saw for our acting class was the Whipping Man at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. I’m not very familiar with the acting common in theatrical performances‚ so I may be judging it a bit harshly‚ but I felt that the acting was actually pretty underwhelming. I’ve become accustomed to more recent actors acting as naturally as they possibly can‚ so I felt a bit out of place watching these mediocre actors reciting their lines and occasionally raising their voice

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    Becoming a Man

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    supplementing the family income. The role fate plays in this story is Robert’s future‚ and how he will make a living. He is destined to become a farmer just like his father‚ on the same land he grew up on. He knows that when his father dies‚ he will become the man of the house‚ and he will be in charge of his mother and his aunt. Robert would like very much to become famous‚ but he is restricted in that it is against his religion. Robert grows up feeling this constant sense of predestination‚ with his whole

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    The Illustrated Man

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    In the 1950’s science fiction collection of stories The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury‚ there are two stories that express the main idea of revenge and they are The Other Foot and The Veldt. In The Other Foot‚ revenge is seen when Willie takes revenge on the white people because of how they treated his parents and the other black people on Earth. In The Veldt the children‚ Wendy and Peter‚ take revenge on their parents when they don’t let them take their rocket to New York‚ this revenge builds up

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    Cinderella Man

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    hope for the people that a better life was coming and would be there soon. James J. Braddock was a courageous and inspiring man who put his whole heart and effort into things. He loved his family and always fought hard to support them and give them the life they deserved. He always kept going and never gave up. When the time came to fight Max Bear‚ a terrible man that had killed two people in the ring already‚ Braddock did not back down‚ showing true bravery; risking his life for his family

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    Bicentennial Man

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    BiCentennial Man In BiCentennial Man‚ Andrew changes his appearance so drastically that he looks exactly like a human being. I believe that even though Andrew isn’t technically a human on the inside‚ he could still be considered a human being because of his ability to sense emotions and have feelings. For example‚ one of the human vocations are that humans are blessed with a conscience‚ and Andrew displays that he does possesses a conscience when he realized that Little Miss was upset with him for

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    A Humble Man

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    January 16‚ 2014 A Humble Man Over many years a number of people have influenced the world through their peaceful and humble movements. Each one has inspired another to spread their word in a similar way. Saint Francis is known for his humbleness and the way he was able to expand the church. Saint Francis was able to take a church that was collapsing and bring it back to life. He showed that wealth didn’t mean anything‚ and there were more important things in life. Things like beliefs‚ and

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    Invisible Man

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    Invisible Man & The History of Love To be compelled to become invisible‚ is asking for a life that would attribute blindness & loneliness‚ two features that both Ellison & Krauss grant their characters. With the exception of their acceptance of invisibility‚ both Leo Gursky & the Narrator don’t strike as a common pair. Both men have arrived to invisibility from different backgrounds & situations. In Invisible Man‚ Ellison is able to continue extended metaphors that fit the wide

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    Invisible Man

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    sible Questions to consider while reading chapters from Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel‚ Invisible Man: Prologue: How does the narrator perceive himself within the context of society? What does his perception of himself as an invisible man infer? What is the cause of his invisibility? What does Louis Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue” refer to? Chapter 6: Describe Bledsoe’s character. What is his ideology? What does the narrator learn from this encounter? What is Bledsoe’s

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    Man on the Moon

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    On July 20‚ 1969‚ at 20:17:40 UTC‚ US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to step onto the surface of the moon. Millions watch as Apollo 11 basted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:37 am on July 16. It entered orbit 12 minutes later. After one and a half orbits‚ the third-stage engine pushed the spacecraft onto its trajectory toward the Moon. Aboard were mission commander Neil Armstrong‚ lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins. On

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    Perfect Man

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    December 6‚ 2011 Position Paper 3 There lies a man with no motor or sensory function‚ who can no longer breathe‚ eat‚ drink‚ or move on his own. He lies there as his life is slowly draining away and you know as a medical professional that the only thing keeping him alive are the “machines” such as: the ventilator‚ feeding tubes‚ intravenous fluids‚ defibrillation equipment etc. You stand there deciphering the end results if he were to be taken off the machine and a conflict comes to mind.

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