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Taglioni's La Sylphide
898 wordsLa Sylphide La Sylphide brought more than just another ballet into the world. It marks the beginning of a remarkable period of time - the Romantics. Up until this time in history, ballets were relatively predictable and in no ways a challenge to the status quo. Often times they consisted of the pavanne, social dances, and the like (Anderson 38). Of course, ballet had evolved, but it had by no means, been a challenge to society. La Sylphide began to alter this concept. The setting is France in 18...
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James Ellroy L.A. Confidential
2,552 wordsL.A. Confidential 1997. Directed by Curtis Hanson. With Kevin Spacey as Jack Vincennes, Russell Crowe as Bud White, Guy Pearce as Ed Exley, Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken, James Cromwell as Dudley Smith, David Strathairn as Pierce Patchett, Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgeons, Graham B eckel as Dick Stensland, Simon Baker Denny as Matt Reynolds, Gene Wo lande as Ray Pinker, Matt McCoy as Brett Chase, John Mahon as Police Chief, Paul Guilfoyle as Mickey Cohen, Ron Rifkin as D.A. Ellis Loew, Paolo Seg anti...
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American Life Henry James
1,126 wordsPost-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society, and culture because of an influx in the number of immigrants into America. (Spiller 35) Whereas authors previously sought to 'idealize human beings, fall in love with a dream, and then, reject the real man or woman who had inspired the dream', they now worked to ...
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John's Grand Daughter
646 wordsIst't It Ironic: An imaginative response to the song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette " An old man turned 98, he won the lottery and died the next day " John woke up around eight in the morning, he looked out of his window as he lay there in his hospital bed. He had got used to the pain, the digging in his side, it was as if he was repeatedly being hit with a baseball bat. He would lye there staring out of the same window, looking at the same buildings, thinking the same things. His grand daughter ...
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Mines With The Rest Of The Clan
418 wordsAlexander, while walking in Toronto, reminisces the constant stream of people outside the Re nco mining boarding grounds. He tells how the security guard rejects the constant groups of people trying to gain entry to the grounds. All kinds of lame excuses (p 137) are used by the outsiders, though nothing renders the guard to let them in. One day he and his brother outside the camping ground relieving themselves of their work duties are drawn to a familiar Gaelic tune. They come upon a stranger na...
