West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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The West Crystal Camden HIS/125 September 23rd‚ 2012 Shane Oldenburg The West 1. How did the culture of the Plains Indians‚ specifically the Lakota Sioux‚ change in the late 19th century? Americans had been traveling westward in small numbers until the late 1840’s when gold was discovered throughout the region. Afterwards‚ Americans passed through the plains regions in heavy numbers seeking fortunes and gold presenting significant problems for the Sioux. They decimated the land and
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In what ways did the Commercial Revolution of the 16th centuary change the social structure of the west? During the Commercial Revolution of the 16th century the West’s social structure was altered by an increase in trade and price inflation‚ which subsequently led to the creation of a new working class. The increase in trade during the commercial Revolution created a symbiotic relationship with the increasing involvement of merchants and markets that made new goods available to the European people
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Chris Naylor U.S. Expansion and The Dodgers Move West Baseball in Brooklyn has been in existence since the 1800s with the Brooklyn Grays‚ but the name that most people remember when they talk about Brooklyn is the Dodgers. Most people remember the Dodgers for their great play and also for a man by the name of Walter O’Malley on moving the Dodgers to Los Angeles. This move was made possible by the political maneuverings of New York City and Los Angeles‚ families moving away from big cities to the
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The Classical and Medieval West The Medieval period ‚ this is a period beginning at about 5th century to the 15 century. The 5th century would put it in the era the last Emperor of the West Roman Empire abdicated in favor of the Emperor of the East Roman Emperor‚ but it is also referred to as the date of the "fall of Rome." From the 5th century East Roman Empire would lasted nearly another thousand years‚ and finally fell in 1453. bringing rise to the Byzantine Empire. But the important thing
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itself‚ comes with a price. Mike‚ a hardworking father of two‚ and the main character of Hanif Kureishi’s short story “The Decline of the West” from 2010‚ is an example of one who suddenly finds himself in a very precautious situation when he loses his job after both he and his family have been used to his rather substantial pay. In The Decline of the West‚ Hanif Kureishi employs a limited third-person narrator‚ which is bound to the main character‚ Mike. As a result of this choice‚ the reader
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Texts such as Journey to the West and Tales of the Marvelous all possess a majestic element and aspect to them. Thus‚ the Taoist representation of the human body’s alchemic potential can be derived through the supernatural portrayal of martial arts described these texts. In many stories
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The * For my comparative study I focused on the importance of decision making within texts. The text that I am going to focus on is the play The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh. This play was first staged in 1997 and is part of a trilogy which focuses on the lives of the people of Leenane a ficitonal rural village in Galway. The play focuses on the lives of two bacholar brother’s Valene and Coleman who are both bitter and grumpy about their lives have ended up. Leenane is a hell on earth a place
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power‚ this caliphate survived for a long period of time. The rise to power was taken place because of a great military leader named Sonni Ali. This person was known to have “magic powers” and expanded the Songhay territory across the Niger Valley‚ west to Senegal and east to
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Cricket has enjoyed a formal‚ popular presence on the Australian sporting landscape for far longer than any other sport. However why are so few Indigenous Australian players represented among the historic and contemporary figures that drive the key plotlines in the nation’s cricket story? These members changed how the world see cricket which was seen originally as a “white men’s sport” not so long ago . When colonising Australia‚ Britain used cricket as a colonising glue. Not only did they expect
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