In response to essay question 1 involving narrative construction and style‚ The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch‚ 1934) is constructed using both the classic Hollywood film and the American film musical structure. Due to its familiarity‚ the style of such films goes relatively unnoticed‚ although within the veranda scene depicting Count Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) and Madam Sonya’s (Jeanette McDonald) first encounter‚ stylistic features and narrative construction are quite overt. The musical genre of
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Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas‚ Unfortunately Is it just me or are the holidays in America becoming more and more commercialized? The original purposes for holidays are swept under the rug and it is all about what we can get. It was November 9th and I was driving home from school‚ flipping through radio stations when I heard the Christmas carols. I yelled‚ “NO!” and completely shut the radio off. It was not even Thanksgiving yet and they were playing Christmas music! Since Thanksgiving
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Brooke Boyd English/Comp Mrs. Goslin 31 March 2014 Childhood Christmas to Adulthood Christmas Christmas as a child for me was very fun. I got many presents from Santa as well as many from relatives. Christmas was probably my favorite holiday of the year‚ to me it meant that if I was good enough Santa would bring me presents. Most of the time I was very good and never got into trouble. In my family when you go from childhood to adulthood it becomes a big deal. For starters you open presents
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Christmas-A Christian holiday honoring the birth of Jesus Christ‚ Christmas evolved over two millennia into a worldwide religious and secular celebration‚ incorporating many pre-Christian‚ pagan traditions into the festivities along the way. Today‚ Christmas is a time for family and friends to get together and exchange gifts. Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse‚ meaning "Christ’s Mass") is an annual festival commemoratingthe birth of Jesus Christ‚[6][7] observed generally on December
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Laugh and be Merry‚ by John Masefield Laugh and be merry‚ remember‚ better the world with a song‚ Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. Laugh‚ for the time is brief‚ a thread the length of a span. Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. Laugh and be merry: remember‚ in olden time. God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme‚ Made them‚ and filled them full with the strong red wine of His mirth The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth. So
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Celebration Christmas in My Country Almost all the countries in the world celebrate Christmas on December 24th but in my country we cebrate it on January 7th. Christmas is the biggest celebration of Christians. Each countrys has its onw traditions to celebrate Christmas‚ although some of them are similar. In my country Ukraine we celebrate Christmas in special way‚ preparing to it very carefully and keeping old traditions. The Christmas Eve is considered as the most interesting part of Christmas as it
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Ngwudike English 104 03-05-2013 Commercializing Christmas The season of love and giving hit the shopping malls on Black Friday; the stores fill with the latest gifts and the bargain shoppers begin the hunt for the perfect Christmas gift. Americans across the country mark this season‚ senselessly “buying” love for one another‚ while simultaneously degrading the very spirit of the holiday season: love. Thus‚ as the bells toll for the Christmas cheer‚ the deepening greed of our culture begins
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spanish christmas they don’t belive in santa claus .They belive that the 3 wiseman.Kids leave there shoes out side and believe that the 3 wiseman will come and fill there shoes up with presents.Most people in Spain go to Midnight Mass or ’La Misa Del Gallo’ (The Mass of the Rooster). It is called this because a rooster is supposed to have crowed the night that Jesus was born. Most families eat their main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve before the service. The traditional Spanish Christmas dinner
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Christmas Carol The Ghost of Christmas Present Ghost : Come in‚ Scrooge! Come in! Come in and know me better‚ man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the likes of me before? Scrooge : Never. Ghost : Have never walked forth with my elder brothers? Scrooge : I don’t think that I have. You have many brothers? Ghost : More than 1‚800. 1‚842‚ to be exact. Scrooge : I see you wear a scabbard‚ but no sword. Ghost : Indeed. Peace on Earth. Good
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The Merry Wives of Windsor: Domestic Setting as Enabling and Restricting for Female Gender Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor‚ written sometime between 1597 and 1598‚ takes place in predominately domestic settings‚ namely Page’s house‚ the Garter Inn‚ and Ford’s house. These domestic settings allow for an intimate look into the lives and gender relations of the English middle-class characters. This paper will pay particular attention to Act 4 Scene 2‚ which takes place in Ford’s household
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