...own in the future. I would like to ask the young people reading this: Do you ever wonder what you will do to earn a living, what your career will consist of? Do you ever wonder how successful you are going to be, or what things you will be able to accomplish? Do you ever wonder if you will be able to enjoy the “good life” and afford the nicer than average things? Do you wonder if you will wind up having a job that you enjoy, or one that you must do out of necessity? Will you be able to support yourself and a family and own a nice home and automobile—all of those things we think of as the “American Dream”? Probably most young people have these thoughts and questions from time to time. You may not worry about such things at this time in your life, but you do think about them. We are all aware of the economic downturn in the United States, as our nation faces many problems at this time. Unemployment problems are continually in the news with many major corporations laying off employees as part of necessary cutbacks. Some of these may already be affecting your family. Many of you harbor legitimate concerns and are uncertain about your future. Even with conditions that now occur in our economy, a way exists for you to be successful and to land a good job in this country. This key concept or way for you to be successful starts right now no matter your age or grade in school. It can be described in a word: diligence. Diligence means “steady, earnest, energetic application and effort...
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...Stolpestad In his short story, “Stolpestad” from 2008, William Lychack writes about the life of a police man, and how easy you can get stuck in life. Through a second person narrator technique, he highlights uncomfortable situations, loss of identity and the feeling of being stuck in life, showing that one most do what one likes, otherwise, you’ll lose in life In the short story, “Stolpestad”, is it clear that Stolpestad is stuck in his life. “The coffee shops, the liqoue stores, laundromats, police, fire, gas stations to pass – this is your life, Stolpestad”. Furthermore, Stolpestad seems to be genuine depressed as he says to himself “this is your life, Stolpestad” which shows that Stolpestad’s not where he wants to be in life as he has to end the sentence white “Stolpestad” as if he was not listening to himself. “As if you have seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again” The fact that Stolpestad feels like he has experienced things that he haven’t even tried yet, shows how much he has given up on life. Stolpestad’s sad view on life probably is a mix of his life going in circles, and the fact that he is constantly experiencing unpleasant things that just repeats and repeats itself throughout his life: “Your whole life spent along the same sad streets (..) as you pull around the house, as if you’ve seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again, over and over”. Moreover, instead of going home to...
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...Research Essay Proposal Topic: Spice Girls and the normalizing spread of girl power Using Spice Girls as a point of study, I intend to research the spread in American popular culture of the ‘girl power’ phenomenon. It would discuss the nature of the idea (that female appearance and sensuality, and equality need not be mutually exclusive), how the concept relates to perceptions of gender roles and power through the lens of girl culture (for mainly the tween and teen groups) and the ways in which Spice Girls – as a major cultural phenomenon of the 1990s – promoted and normalized the idea. Depending on available information and depending on what the word count will allow, the essay will also look into the origins of the idea within pop (eg. Riot Grrrl, statements by Madonna, etc) and touch upon critiques of the supposed feminist aspects of the girl power movement, linking it to materialistic and consumerist norms of American and western culture. Sources: Primary Spiers, B., Fruchtmann, U., Thompson, B., Fuller, K., and Curtis, J. Spice World: The Spice Girls Movie. Culver City, Calif: Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1998. Lyrics from selected songs from the albums Spice (1996), Spiceworld (1997) and Forever (2000). Assorted interviews will also be identified, quoted and analysed. Secondary Whiteley, S. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity. London: Routledge, 2000. Print. Inness, S. A., Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World. Lanham, Md:...
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...Image that your brothers both died at the hands of one another. Imagine that your uncle has buried one of your brothers and has banned the burial of the other. In the Greek tragedy, Antigone, this is the harsh reality that the titular character has to face. Creon, Antigone’s uncle and the king, buried one of her brothers, Eteocles, and has banned the burial of the other brother, Polyneices, because he believes that Polyneices has betrayed the city of Thebes. Antigone believes that since Creon was the one who banned the burial and not the gods, then she should bury her brother. Antigone is determined to bury Polyneices, which will contravene Creon’s law in the process. Antigone has a myriad of character traits, but the three main ones are stubbornness, determination, and loyalty. In the...
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...conscience. Sometimes society is right, and sometimes their conscience is right. Either way, there still is going to be an effect on the character’s life. Antigone characters have difficult choices, and are in a tough situation. Most of the characters choose their conscience, which leads to a lot of deaths. Creon has a difficult choice to make, burying Polyneices, or not burying him. Creon doesn't bury Polyneices. He picks his conscience over society. The law is that you have to bury the dead, but Creon chooses not to bury Polyneices. You have to bury the dead, so that the person can go to heaven. Creon knows that he is supposed to bury the dead, but he goes with his conscience. He’s not going to bury Polyneices because, he fought against his own country, Thebes. Because Creon didn’t bury Polyneices, the effect is that Antigone buried him. That made him mad because Antigone went against what he had said. Because Creon didn’t bury Polyneices, and picked his conscience, the Gods punished him by corrupting his life. His son died and his wife died. Creon picked his conscience over society, and over the Gods, and he got punished. Antigone...
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...This supports of the theme with hints of consequences that follow characters in the play after they make their decisions based on their beliefs. There are hints in the play that consequences come from decisions that people make. The first evidence of foreshadowing is when Antigone and other characters drop hints in the play that if Antigone buries Polyneices, that Antigone will end up losing her life due to King Creon’s decree. This hints are shown in lines 77-81, Antigone states in the play, “Go away, Ismene: I shall be hating you soon, and the dead will too, For your words are hateful. Leave me my foolish plan: I am not afraid of the danger; if it means death, It will not be the worst of deaths, death without honor.” (lines 77-81) Antigone used foreshadowing in the play to explain that Antigone will probably end up being put to death by Creon for burying Polyneices. Antigone is fine and not afraid to do what she thinks is right, even if it ends up costing her life. The next evidence of foreshadowing in the play is when Haimon, King Creon’s son and Antigone’s lover, drops a hint that if Antigone must die, that Haimon will die with her. This relates to the consequence of King Creon being too controlling and using his power to impact the lives of others. Haimon expresses his hatred and anger to his father in lines 606-612,...
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...burial based on Polynices actions. Creon says “whoever places a friend above the good of his own country, he is nothing.” Creon considers the duty to the state a priority than to another man. This is reinterated when he states “our country is our safety.” His order of not to bury Polynices could possibly be based on Polynices humiliating him by ousting him when he took the position of King as soon as Oedipus is laid to rest. Creon logically convinces his people that his order not to bury Polynices is justified. This justification has his people accepting the no bury order. A sentry discovers the grave of Polynices that been done by Antigone. The sentry tells Creon of his discovery which has Creon mad and accuses the sentry of burying Polyines himself. With no evidence to back up his accusation Creon feels the sentry did it for money. By wrongfully accusing the sentry this begins the fall of Creon. After being accused the sentry says to Creon, “Oh it’s terrible when the one who does the judging...
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...NAME: EMMANUEL ALICE LAMBAJO COURSE: STUDIES IN DRAMA QUESTION: ATTEMPT A DRAMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE PLAY ANTIGONE BY JEAN ANOUILH Dramatic analysis is the process of identifying the elements of the structure of a dramatic work such as a play, or film. There are six elements used when analyzing a drama which includes: exposition, inciting incidence, rising action, climax, falling action and the resolution. The exposition provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the problem in the beginning of the story. It introduces the characters and the basic conflict in a play. Inciting incidence is an incidence which comes after the introduction of the characters and the basic conflicts. The rising action is when the basic internal conflict is complicated being the introduction of related secondary conflicts including various obstacles that frustrate the protagonist attempt to reach his goal. Climax, also referred to as turning point marks a change for the better or the worse in the protagonist affairs. Falling action therefore, is a moment of reversal after the climax. The conflict between the protagonists unravels with the protagonist winning or losing against the antagonist. Denouement, resolution or catastrophe comprises the event between the falling action and the actual ending scene of the drama. It serves as a conclusion of the story where the conflicts are resolved. Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles’...
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...A popular belief in the Hellenistic Society was that a woman was only good for childbirth, and Jason even says “ life would have been better far for men to have for their children in some other way, and women not to have existed. Then life would have been good.” (Euripides 18). His tone is very condescending here, demonstrating his disdain for women by degrading them, by saying how they have no point in life besides childbirth. This greatly weakens Jason’s justifications for betraying Medea, and only further angers her. As said before, views like this were quite popular during this time, and made it hard for woman to hold positions in work, because they were believed to only be good for one thing, thus proving that they were seen as subordinate to men. This greatly weakens Jason’s justifications for betraying Medea, and only further angers her. Similarly, in Antigone, views that was similar to those of Medea are expressed. While talking about the dangers of getting with a women, Creon openly disregards women to Haemon: “Do not be fooled, my son, by lust and the wiles of a woman. You’ll have brought cold comfort if your wife’s a worthless one” (Sophocles 143). Creon illustrates his point by giving off a quite critical tone, saying that women are manipulative by lust and are only want to seduce. When left vulnerable, Creon believes they’ll act as cold shoulder...
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...Dakota Cole Schnitker Pre-AP Enlgish II 10/22/15 In Antigone, Antigone and her sister think differently about how they should deal with the conflict of burying Polyneices. Antigone and Ismene love each other and do not want to hurt each other, but Antigone is determined to get justice for her fallen brother. This conflict pulls the family members apart, but pulls them back together in the end. “And now you can prove what you are: A true sister, or a traitor to your family.” Antigone told Ismene that if she would not help bury Polyneices then Ismene would be a traitor to her family. Family means a lot to Antigone. Antigone is willing to risk being publicly stoned to death in the public square if she is is caught tampering with Polyneices'...
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... What did I know? I stopped getting excited at the sight of Santa Claus walking through our trailer door when I was five and Santa pulled off his beard and asked me to get him a stiff drink. So I’ve pretty much been pickpocketing all my life; even after my old man skipped town without so much as a damn note or phone call for his only son. I don’t keep the wallets anymore, but I do keep the cash. Literally. I have this huge cardboard box full of money that I have hidden in the room I rent. I don’t know how much is in there, but it’s a helluva lot. One day Pop will show up again. I’ll hand him the boxful of money, he will throw me some bills, and then I’ll just stow them away without counting them. That’s what I think. Like I said, it was a Sunday when I saw this man and his son walking around an outdoor fish market. I’d just had a meal across the street at a Chinese restaurant. The food there sucks but they’re pretty generous with their fortune cookies. It’s like they have to make up for the lousy food by burying their customers in cookies and all the packets of 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 100020.indd 21 12/11/10 12.42 Side 8 af 11 sider soy sauce you can carry. That’s fine by me. I love those stupid fortune cookies. Today mine read, “A change in your daily routine will lead you to treasure.” I memorized it and...
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...“Kreon, honoring one and casting the other out. They say he has buried Eteokles with full and just and lawful honors due the dead; but Polyneices, who died pitiably – Kreon has proclaimed that his body will stay unburied; no mourners, no tomb, no tears, a tasty meal for vultures” (22). Antigone recognizes that Kreon is leaving Polyneices unburied and she is infuriated about his decision. “I will bury him myself. If I die for doing that, good: I will stay with him, my brother; and my crime will be devotion” (23). Antigone realizes that if Kreon is leaving him unburied, she will do it proudly as his sister. She realizes that by burying him, she is going against Kreon. Antigone does not care and is insistent on burying him. T Antigone decides to go against Kreon and bury Polyneices, but Ismene wants to obey Kreon and follow the law. “He’s my brother and yours too; and whether you will or not, I’ll stand by him” (22). Antigone wants to bury Polyneices despite Kreon’s ruling, but Ismene wants to obey Kreon. Ismene realizes that if Antigone buried him, she would be executed by Kreon, and Ismene does not want to experience that with her. Antigone’s strong family principles push her to disobey Kreon, go against Ismene, and bury Polyneices. Because Antigone chose her family over the law, it shows her firm belief that her relationship with her family is more important to her than obeying the law. Kreon’s fundamental principle, loyalty to state, motivates him to leave Polyneices unburied...
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...Give You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the over prudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city? And what is fear of need but need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable? There are those who give little of the much which they have and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Though the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving And is there aught you would withhold...
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...Antigone buried the body of Polyneices, he is angered that someone dared disobey his decree. He disregards Antigone when she tells him that some believes her action of burying Polyneices is honorable. Similarly, he obstinately disregarded his son Haemon when he suggested the same: “But I hear whispers spoken in the dark; on every side I hear voices of pity for this poor girl, doomed to the cruelest death, and most unjust, that ever women suffered for an honorable action-burying a brother who was killed in battle” (Sc. 3.590-596). King Creon’s prideful response was that as a king, he was only responsible for himself: “Indeed! Am I to take lessons at my time of life from a fellow of his age?”(Sc. 3.624-625). A good statesman takes into consideration what the people around them have to say, not push advice away because they feel too proud to take it from someone younger. Furthermore, King Creon later gets a visit from Teiresias, a blind prophet who foretells the future. The prophecy says that he will have to pay for his disrespect for the gods’ commandments. The chorus suggests he free Antigone and also to bury the body in hope to get mercy from the gods. King Creon knows that Teiresias has never been wrong, so he comes to a conclusion that it is in his best interest to listen to the chorus. They tell him, “Go. Let your hand do it, and no other.” King Creon then responds, calling...
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...“ To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “Antigone” by Sophocles are both dramas having to do with justice, the main characters in both dramas are struggling to bring justice to a society or situation that was lacking. In Sophocles’ drama, Antigone was trying to bring justice by burying her brother Polyneices against the kings, Creon’s, orders. While in “To kill a mocking bird” Atticus is an attorney in a case where race is a major issue and he is trying to save Tom Robinson from being convicted of a crime where there’s overwhelming evidence of his innocence. Both “Antigone” and “To kill a mockingbird’s” themes seem to revolve around justice which is proven when Antigone buries her brother and Atticus agrees to take on Tom Robinsons case. Another large theme in both dramas is the idea that women are somehow ‘lesser’ because of their femininity, a cause of this might be because of the era that the dramas are set in. Throughout “To kill a mockingbird” Scout does her best to avoid ‘girly’ things so that she can keep playing with her brother Jem, its only later in the novel that Scout begins to realize that being a girl is more about having positive traits than lacking them. This theme continues in “Antigone”, most pointedly when Ismene states “Bethink thee, sister, we are left alone; Shall we not perish wretchedness of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will?--weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember this too that the stronger...
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