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A monologue from the novel by Gaston Leroux NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. CHRISTINE: I had heard him for three months without seeing him. The first time I heard it, I thought, as you did, that that adorable voice was singing in another room….

MICHAEL EISNER – “Common Sense & Conflict”Michael Eisner is an American entertainment executive, whose leadership in the 1980s and 1990s revitalized the Walt Disney Company. Born in New York City, Eisner was educated at Denison University, where he studied literature and theater. After graduating in 1964, he worked for six weeks as a clerk at…

Amy Heckerling’s post-modern film, “Clueless,” appropriates the timeless ideas and values presented in Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’, appealing to contemporary audiences. Through the appropriation, Heckerling juxtaposes the societies, drawing attention to the differences and at the same time, criticising her own society. Heckerling successfully transforms the universal values of marriage, social hierarchy and gender roles, modifying…

Aristotle refutes Plato’s Theory of Ideas on three basic grounds: that the existence of Ideas contradicts itself by denying the possibility of negations; that his illustrations of Ideas are merely empty metaphors; and that they theory uses impermanent abstractions to create examples of perception. Though the theory is meant to establish concrete standards for the…

  The relationship between the speaker and to whom he or she is speaking to, should definitely be taken into account when evaluating if this usage is hateful or offensive. Randall Kennedy addresses the idea of race and the intention of the speaker, in his book, Nigger, when he says, “There is nothing necessarily wrong…

When the hero of “V for Vendetta” blows up a London landmark — the Old Bailey at the beginning of the movie and the Houses of Parliament at the end — Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” surges from the speakers. Back home in his subterranean hideaway, this self-consciously cultured revolutionary delights in precious artifacts that the government…

osed to be an easy position to ascertain. The Founding Fathers went to great lengths when they met in Philadelphia to establish a system that would ensure no man would have the ability to be elected who was not in the best interests of the United States. The electoral college system – a check on…

Both of these poems are about losing a loved one and the pain and suffering felt after the loss. Both poems talk about the things which were taken for granted that now seem so significant; in ‘Four years’, “there never will be a hair of his in a comb” and in ‘Funeral Blues’, “my working…

We are analysing a number of different sonnets. We will be analysing sonnet 18, 130, 55 by William Shakespeare and ‘Strugnells sonnet’ by Wendy Cope. Imagery is the ‘picture’ that is created in a readers mind when reading a piece of writing. In both of the sonnets 18/130 the imagery deployed is Nature. The writer…

I. Setting: The setting for the story Prometheus Steals Fire From Heaven is In heaven, Earth, Olympus, and Mt. Caucasus. The time period is that of when there were only the (Greek) gods, and no men on earth, and none of the animals seemed worthy to rule the rest. II. Point of View: Omniscient point…