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In Shrek there are familiar television programs and film ideas are used throughout the film to bring it upbeat and original. Television programs such as Blind Date are included into the story; the mirror on the wall shows the lord 3 princesses and he can choose any of them to marry. A stereotypical host voice…

The Gothic style of architecture marks the European architecture from the beginning of the 12th century until the middle of the 14th century. In France, the development of the gothic style strated a bit earlier; about the middle of the 11th century. “Gothic” stands in contrast to the renaissance, as exaggerated and babarian. The origin…

At the beginning of the third section it begins by saying PF fell and lost consciousness. Not many people would survive a fall like that, which makes us think “Oh that’s strange he’s still alive.” It says, “and was as one already dead.” This is very unlikely because in any normal situation the rope would…

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two poems ‘Slough’ and ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’. I shall be focusing on the structure, language, cultural contexts and the historical and social influences on the poems. William Wordsworth wrote ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ on September 3rd 1802. Wordsworth expresses his inspiration about London…

Explain how Miller builds-up and develops the character of Eddies Carbone in the three key scenes from A View from a Bridge ‘A View from the Bridge’ centres predominantly around a poor Sicilian patriarchal community. The first publication of the play was 1950 in United States. The play was set around 1940-1960 and the setting…

William Blake was born in 1757 into a middle class family. His father was working as a hosier but his mother was keen and the one in charge to educate his son well. Religion had a strong influence on Blake. He started reading the bible from an early age and this gave him inspiration in…

Why are great Italian Renaissance architects more famous than their great gothic predecessors? Discuss how the role and image of the architect changed during the Italian Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy around the end of…

Willy Russell, the writer of many plays, such as, “Blind Scouse”, “King of the Castle”, “Lies”, “Educating Rita” and the very famous, “Blood Brothers”, was born in Whiston in 1947. The opening of “Blood Brothers” was performed at a London theatre in 1983. “Blood Brothers” was written as a play, but in 1988, Bill Kenwright…

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) exemplified the shift from the artisan to the learned artist creator. So writes the eminent Alberti scholar Cecil Grayson, and there are perhaps few who would disagree. But Grayson’s seemingly unremarkable assertion implies the acceptance of a single standard and content of learning, evidently in contrast to the knowledge accumulated by…

The academic architects of the Burlington circle felt themselves to be the custodians of the tradition formed by Palladio and Inigo Jones, in whose works they believed that they had discovered the eternal rules of architecture. In theory and practice they attempted to restore this great art to its former glory, and it is well…