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Tobacco Advertising And Its Effects On Young People

... Joe Camel. Joe Camel who is shown as a camel with complete style has been attacked by many Tobacco-Free Kids organizations as a major influence on the children of America. Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia report that almost as many 6-year olds recognize Joe Camel as they do Mickey Mouse. That is very shocking information for any parent to hear. Children are attracted by these advertisements because they like cartoons, and they think that a cartoon is harmless and what the cartoon does is harmless too. There ...

Number of words: 550 | Number of pages: 2

Last Of The Mohicans: Contrast And Comparison Of The Book And Movie

... his faith through song into the wilderness. Gamut wants to join Major Duncan Heyward, Maugua, and Alice and Cora Munro, and while arguing with Alice over this matter, he pulls out the 26th edition of The Bay Psalm Book, and begins to sing "in full sweet melodious tones". Gamut is a tall ungainly singing master described as ridiculously dressed and carrying a pitch pipe while riding a horse, and pulling along a pony. At a muttered comment from Magua, Major Duncan orders Gamut to be quiet for safety. This scene was not only no ...

Number of words: 434 | Number of pages: 2

Shakespeare's Hamlet: Investigating Hamlet's Insanity

... in the reasons for his insanity. He is constantly betrayed throughout the play by everyone he loves and holds dear except for one person who sticks by him throughout his ordeal, Horatio. Hamlet first shows his passion and how upset he is by his father's death when his mother and the king enter the room and question him on his grief for his father. His mother mentions that his grief seems common. Hamlet replies: “Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customar ...

Number of words: 1471 | Number of pages: 6

Is There Any Justification For Regarding Euripedes' Electra As An Inferior Tragedy?

... excommunicated brother, Orestes. Yet, although they do commit the terrible crime of Matricide they do not really suffer any hugely adverse consequences. The play by no means has a happy ending, but nevertheless, though divine intervention Orestes and Electra escape from the scene of the crime relatively unscathed, not counting for the emotional suffering and guilt they feel over their actions. In my opinion this does not, however, make Electra an inferior tragedy as for the criminals to die would, in a sense, provide an escape from what the ...

Number of words: 2009 | Number of pages: 8

King Lear: Sequences Which Display The Varying Perceptions Of Different Characters

... the characters is Lear's death at the end of the play. As the play opens up, Gloucester and Kent are speaking of Lear's intention to divide his kingdom according to a test of love. It is this test of love which causes Lear to banish his most beloved daughter Cordelia. When asked how much she loves her father, Cordelia replies that she loves him according to her bond, no more nor less . This response angers Lear and causes him to ban her for her refusal to comply. Lear is held to the belief that she does not love him. He beli ...

Number of words: 1844 | Number of pages: 7

The Glass Menagerie: Play Review

... left them at a young age. He has a comic relief to his sad life, his dream is to get away and see the world but , he can’t do that because of the obligations that landed in his hands from his fathers leaving. He is very aggravated at his mother do to her constant nagging, telling him what to do and when to do it but, what she doesn’t realize is that he is staying for her benefit not his. The next character in the play is the mother, Amanda Wingfield she is extremely overwhelming and pushy, as you know to her son. She is also constantly ...

Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4

King Lear: Justice

... It strictly adheres to the rewarding of good deeds and the punishment of evil. King Lear, a play by William Shakespeare, is a grave tragedy that is a prime example of the Elizabethan conception of justice. Lear's kingdom turns to chaos because of a break in the "Great Chain of Being" and restores to order when justice prevails. Its tragic labelling stems from the prevalence of death the just punishment for many of its characters. The deaths of Lear, Goneril, and Edmund are prime examples of justice prevailing for evil, and in Lear's ca ...

Number of words: 2230 | Number of pages: 9

An Analysis Of Much Ado About Nothing

... small province facing the Straits of Messina, in northeastern Sicily, at the estate of the governor of Messina, Leonato. Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, Don John, his brother, Borachio his servant, Benedick, a young lord, and Claudio his best friend are all returning from war, and have been invited to stay with Leonato for a month. Shakespeare's antagonist Don John, bears much resemblance to Don John of Austria, the illegitimate son of Charles V, half-brother to the King of Aragon who defeated the Turks at Lepanto and returned to Messina ...

Number of words: 2142 | Number of pages: 8

The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar: Brutus

... very close to Caesar. In Roman times, the only way for someone to get close to a person of high rank is if he/she is close to him/her. In many points of the play, Brutus was talking and next to Caesar. Brutus also loves Caesar but fears his power. In the early acts of the play, Brutus says to Cassius, "What means this shouting? I do fear the people do choose Caesar for their king...yet I love him well."(act 1, scene 2, ll.85-89), as he is speaking to Cassius. Brutus loves Caesar, but would not allow him to "climber-upward...He then unto the ...

Number of words: 841 | Number of pages: 4

Use Of Contrasts In Act I Of The Tempest

... flames seen on the ship (Shakespeare 31), and who had quickness, lightness, grace, and total control over his actions. On the other hand, Caliban who represented the body, couldn't control his actions and thus made him the opposite of Ariel. He even tried to rape Miranda once, but was stopped by Prospero in the process. In fact, it might even be safe to say that Caliban was anti-Ariel, being slow, stupid, and lazy. Gonzalo and Ferdinand were also contrasted in this act. In Act I, scene I lines 28-33, Gonzalo made fun of the b ...

Number of words: 676 | Number of pages: 3

A Clockwork Orange: Review Of Book And Firm Version

... he endures. The new "good" Alex that is released unto the world is depressed, frustrated, and lonely, although no longer violent. A radical political group then exploits him as an example of the cruelty of "the Government." This faction tries to force Alex to suicide in order to gain a martyr, but Alex's attempt fails and he is nursed back to health and his natural mental state by the Government, who in the end comes out on top. Alex, whose last name is not mentioned in the book, is a violent, aggressive teenager of fifteen, who is t ...

Number of words: 1121 | Number of pages: 5

National Geographic: Mysteries Underground

... cave there lied water so clean and clear that the cave explorers were forced to take all there clothes off before they swam acrossed it because the littlest dirt from any clothing would contaminate the pureness of the water. All the cave explorers are very cautious as to what they touch or where they step because some of the crystal formations are so fragile that the slightest vibration from a voice or a footstep could ruin millions of years of forming. In some parts of caves there are giant and very smooth ice formations that m ...

Number of words: 555 | Number of pages: 3

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