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This paper explains that the pas de deux section in Balanchine's ballet "Agon" is a sculptural representation of a relationship, expressing only aspects of reality in the dance. The author believes through absurdity and grandeur the pas de deux of Balanchine's "Agon" creates the virtual emotions of a conflicted relationship.The author describes and interprets each part of the pas de deux.

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"The pas de deux begins with a series of relatively quick steps performed by both dancers, with the female being one full count ahead of the male. This creates the strong impression that the female is leading the male, and establishes her dominance in the dance from the opening. This is unusual in ballet, where the classical pas de deux is performed with the male leading and the female following. The slightly frenetic opening ends in a pose that is repeated later, with the man above the woman, her leg up in an extreme, attitude arabesque that wraps about his head. This pose is remarkable for the extremity of the movement, and its visual illusion of the woman trapping the man with her bent leg. This pose is one exemplification of the comments of Lincoln Kirstein about the pas de deux, with its "naked strength, bare authority, and self-discipline in constructs of stressed extreme movement" "

Tags:sculpture, relationship, absurdity, grandeur, illusion

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In this paper, the sequential structure of speeches and themes of love is best described by Socrates' Diotima within The Symposium by Plato. By understanding the three agons in the dialogues, one can realize how the various precepts of love through varying opinions in society are related to a cohesive whole, but more so, through Socrates' godly form of love in the Diotima. In effect, all societal views of love are not right or wrong, since both mortal man and god are unified through love, which Socrates imparts through the wisdom of Diotima.

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Tags:love, plato, wisdom

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The writer of this paper examines the plots and main characters in both works while detailing the various similarities. Both stories revolve around the struggle to survive, both within and against nature, which becomes a dominant character in both respective tales. The writer contends that Crane's novel is naturalistic, as it describes circumstances where man learns the true power of nature. The same holds true for "Cast Away," which focuses on one man's survival against the elements of nature. This paper explores how both the main characters in each story are at first angry and defiant towards nature, yet within time, both become respectful and resigned to its forces. This paper discusses the powerful magnitude of the ocean in both works, while also detailing the fact that nature pays no attention to time, which seems to go by with agonizing slowness.

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"In both works, time, of which nature pays no heed, goes by with agonizing slowness. Nature, after all, is indifferent to any of humanity's temporal, spatial, or physical needs, and reminds characters in these works of this often. The ordeal of "The Open Boat" is shorter than that of Cast Away, only one night as opposed to four years, but to the trapped men on the open sea, it feels interminable. They spend the night merely enduring their fate, guessing if someone has seen them from shore. In Cast Away, Chuck, in his pre-island life at FedEx, often told fellow employees, "Time is our enemy." Once alone on the island, however, it becomes Chuck's enemy (but eventually, his friend) in whole new ways. In both works, nature takes command of time, indifferent to human needs. Chuck initially spends his days just learning to survive."

Tags:film, review, literature, american, comparative, analysis

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The paper discusses how "Hamlet" shows the causes and results of agonizing indecisiveness on Hamlet's part. The paper presents the position that despite the harm by Hamlet waiting to kill Claudius, it also allowed him to at least die with the clarity that he had uncovered the mystery of his father's death and discovered the root causes of Denmark's rottenness.

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"A truism about Shakespeare's title character in perhaps his greatest play Hamlet is Prince Hamlet's perceived "tragic flaw" of waiting much too long to avenge his father's death by not killing Claudius; the main architect of the King's premeditated murder, sooner than he does. Despite the fact that Hamlet comes to a bad end his waiting to kill Claudius allows him to at least die with the clarity that he has not just uncovered the mystery of his father's death but discovered, also, the root causes of Denmark's "rottenness" (Reed; McCullen). Hamlet dies trying to put things right, finally destroying what he knows is the main source of that rottenness, Claudius, and with the certainty that Fortinbras will now take the place of his treacherous uncle."

Tags:Denmark, revenge, procrastination, ghost, Ophelia

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Revenge is probably one of the ugliest actions known to man and nothing compares the kind of revenge we find in the heart of Montresor, the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." The paper shows that in this short story, Poe focuses on characterization, language, and technique, to express this grisly tale of revenge that leaves us just as cold as the stones in Montresor's catacombs. Revenge for Montresor is more than death; it is a long, agonizing death. The paper shows that Poe crafts Montresor in such a way that he is as evil as he is brilliant, a fact we do not like to face because he represents the worst of humanity.

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"Poe uses language in this story with precision and brevity. He also utilizes verbal irony with Montresor's narration. At one point when he delightfully lures Fortunato to his death, Montresor says, "I cannot be responsible" (Poe 92), but he knows full well that he is completely responsible for Fortunato's fate. We also find irony when Montresor agrees with Fortunato that he will not die of a cough. Here see how Poe uses the language of the story to shape Montresor's character and frame of mind. The narrator is crazy but he is not stupid. While Fortunato slowly loses his grip on what's going on around him, Montresor gains more control."

Tags:Luchesi, sinister, destruction, Fortunato

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The paper examines the causes and results of the agonizing indecisiveness of Hamlet in Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The paper shows how Hamlet's failure to act sooner and more decisively in avenging his father's death leads to an unfortunate series of ill-timed, poorly executed events that ultimately result in many deaths, most importantly that of Hamlet himself.

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"William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet focuses on causes and results of agonizing indecisiveness by Hamlet, teenage heir to the throne of Denmark who returns from England, his father having died suddenly and mysteriously. Here Hamlet immediately faces two unpleasant, closely related facts: first his mother Queen Gertrude has quickly married his uncle Claudius; and second, as a result Hamlet is denied his birthright. As Marcellus states early on (even before the ghost of Hamlet's father appears and asks his son to avenge his death): "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Act 1.4.91)."

Tags:Claudius, Laertes, Horatio, Ophelia, ghost, revenge, death

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This paper examines the argument that the legalization of marijuana will both medically and recreationally help society decrease violent crime in our communities and improve quality of life for those who must cope with agonizing pain from diseases. It also puts forward the argument that marijuana is safer alternative to alcohol and other dangerous and addictive drugs.

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"On November 1, 2005 the city of Denver passed a measure that made the possession of marijuana legal for citizens over the age of 21 with a 54% to 46% margin. However, the substance is still illegal under state and federal law, meaning users are still subject to arrest and prosecution.(Marijuana legalization in Denver has proponents
planning, by Keri Fulton.www.gwhatchet.com) "The change in Denver's city ordinance does not change Colorado State law," says Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey. "It is still illegal to possess less than an ounce of marijuana anywhere in the state, and that
includes Denver." The "Mile High city" became the second major U.S. city in less than a year to pass such a law."

Tags:crime, disease, pain, drugs

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The paper analyzes the title character of Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych", making clear the author's intention that each of us must discover how to lead a meaningful life. Tolstoy attempts to persuade us to his point of view by presenting two distinct sets of supporting characters and by demonstrating why Ivan Ilych is afraid to die and what causes his suffering. In addition, Tolstoy warns of the social conditions that prevent most people from accomplishing in life what Ivan Ilych could only achieve in death.

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"Two hours before his death Ivan Ilych finally asks the right question. After three days of screaming through agonizing pain, he laments that his life "was all not the right thing," and passes into death wondering "what is the right thing?" (151). With this final realization and questioning, the title character of Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych" makes clear the author's intention that each of us must find the right thing and discover how to lead a meaningful life. Tolstoy explains that even at this final moment, Ivan Ilych is capable of redeeming himself and making this discovery, that though his life had not been what it should have been, this could still be rectified (151). If Ivan Ilych can do it at the last minute, the rest of us still can."

Tags:leo, literature, meaning, russian, gerasim, vasya, praskovya

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This paper discusses that the similarity between Shakespeare's Sonnets 57 and 58 is significant enough that one might wonder on first reading if one does not render the other redundant, but close reading of the poems shows that they not only function as a pair but also the order in which they occur in the Quarto of 1609 is essential to their meaning. The paper explains that the Sonnet sequences do "allow for the construction both of a narrative and of an inward-looking 'I' figure", but it is not at all possible to read the sequence as one might read a novel or narrative poem. The author believes that there is a strong hint of the speaker's agonizing discomfort with the young man's heterosexual involvements buried in Sonnet 58's puns that is a harbinger of the agony to come. Annotated Bibliography.

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"The sense of the poem resides, however, in the anaphoric use of negatives which can be read, at least initially, as a simple litany of the prerogatives that a slave surrenders. As the negatives mount in intensity, the description of what the speaker gives up expands. In the first quatrain, the statement of self-abnegation is plainest, and there is a hint of some sort of reciprocity in the commercial terminology of "precious" "spend" and "services," an indication that the speaker may be or should be compensated for what he gives up. This vanishes in the second quatrain as the metaphor of "sovereign" is joined to that of "slave" and the feelings of the speaker begin to surface. In the third quatrain he identifies the key to his concern, which is his "jealous thought," and the consequence of this feeling, which is the "sad" state in which he "think[s] of nought" but the young man."

Tags:similarity, order, sequence, heterosexual, ideal

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This paper explains that, unlike arthritis, which affects the skeleton joints, fibromyalgia affects the muscles and other fibrous tissues, creating sensations, which range from nagging to burning to agonizing pain throughout the body and a syndrome of accompanying related symptoms, such as severe fatigue, disturbed sleep, morning stiffness, headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. The author points out that fibromyalgia is a puzzling disorder; its cause remains unknown and its pain responds poorly to aspirin, acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and even narcotics such as morphine. The paper stresses that, in the United States, too many health provide only "tough love" for this condition; therefore, fibromyalgia patients must be their own advocates and seek a practitioner who knows what fibromyalgia is, believes that it exists and wants to help people with this disorder.

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"Fibromyalgia is characterized by abnormalities in the central nervous system's processing of sensory input of pain signals. Patients with fibromyalgia hurt when and where they should not. Pain amplification could be the result of the release of neurotransmitters where the sustained release of certain chemicals results in more pain. Some of the possible disruptions in pain circuitry have been reviewed, but we still know relatively little about what really goes on. Since most fibromyalgia patients complain of aching and spasm in their muscles, common sense suggests that there must be something wrong with the muscle. This is easier said than agreed upon. For the last 80 years, researchers have been looking for the key to muscle pathology in fibromyalgia. As of this writing, there are highly respected investigators who feel that there is little if anything wrong with fibromyalgia muscles. However, other equally regarded researchers have presented evidence that abnormal muscle metabolism is the linchpin for what goes awry in the disorder. Our body has 640 different muscles, which constitute as much as 40 percent of our weight. When physicians look at muscles of fibromyalgia patients under a simple microscope, they generally appear normal."

Tags:decondition, abnormalities, pain, muscle, neurotransmitters