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The paper describes how Jackie Chan's "Drunken Master" (1978) was immediately successful in HK and later abroad, and explains that his combined martial arts with slapstick comedy as well as a likeable public peronality appeal to both youths and adults. The paper relates that Chan's reference to Bruce Lee films is plain, only he created his own form atop established patterns of Good versus Bad characters.

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"This film masterpiece was the first to show Jackie Chan's eventual trademark of extremely high level martial arts combined with slapstick comedy. When released in Hong Kong in late 1978, Drunken Master was an immediate hit that brought in HK$8 million on its first run. David Desser has written on the Kung Fu craze in North America commencing in 1996 with Chan's Rumble in the Bronx as drew the interest of audiences able to remember Bruce Lee films. (2000 19) Actually, Americans had earlier taken to Bruce Lee films and then Chan's early films, due to a complex time in..."

Tags:chan, drunken master, hk kung fu

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"This study will analyze Bob Dylan's speech of December 13, 1963, to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee on the occasion of Dylan's receiving the Tom Paine Award, given to "some public figure who epitomized the good fight for freedom and equality" (Shelton 200). The method of analysis will be Neo-Aristotelian Criticism.


The importance of the study from the viewpoint of rhetorical criticism is that it will analyze a speech which intends to have a most negative effect on its audience. From the point of view of Neo-Aristotelian Criticism, the analysis will be particularly meaningful because the speech flies in the face of most speeches which try to affect some positive change in the audience. As we shall see in Dylan's speech, however, the intended and achieved effect was to inflame the audience for no other discernible..."

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An examination of works from both authors which closely examine American realities through characters that pursue wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of meaning.

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""The Great Gatsby" and "The Sun Also Rises" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wealth, Drunkenness and Sex

Like other writers of the 1920's, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were fascinated by what had become of the American Dream. The impact of World War I on both Fitzgerald and Hemingway and on their generation was tremendous. Indeed, many writers in the postwar period took on the unpleasant task of exposing the degradation of the American Dream; of covering the grossest aspects of selfishness, hypocrisy and moral vacuum. Fitzgerald and Hemingway's characters are a careless, aimless, pleasure-seeking crowd which is clearly emblematic of a generation of lost souls. Before Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, opens, he quotes Gertrude Stein who names the generation that came of age during the First World War as the "lost generation." Indeed, the pre-war values of love, faith, manhood and womanhood, which previously gave meaning to life, fail to offer an adequate answer to Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's characters who try to produce meaning in a world seemingly lost to rampant, amoral consumerism and loveless-ness. Both authors closely examine American realities through characters that wander through endless experiences of wealth, drunkenness and sex with the hope that they will provide at least the possibility of some sort of dependable meaning. "

Tags:daisy, east, ernest, hemingway, jake, tom, west

Abstract
The paper briefly reviews the history of the Civil War battleground at Shiloh, when a drunken General Grant battled to preserve the Union, then moves into an analysis of the story. The paper makes a comparison of the history of the battle with the battle between the husband, Leroy, and wife, Norma Jean; the drunken General Grant is contrasted with the stoned Leroy. In conclusion the writer, noting the unresolved tension in the story's abrupt ending, hopes that Leroy will keep battling for his own continued union with Norma Jean.

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"In historical terms, the title setting of Bobbie Ann Mason's, Shiloh, was a Civil War Union camp under General Grant's command. Grant's aim as a military representative for President Lincoln was to keep the nation united. The camp turned bloody battleground in 1862 when the Confederates' made a daring attack in attempt to gain freedom from the Union. There "General Grant, drunk and furious, shoved the Southerners back to Corinth," successfully thwarting a stab at secession by the "boys in gray.""

Tags:General, Grant, drunk, stoned, Leroy

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The Irish National Theater, established by W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and others in 1897, sought to establish a theater that was distinctly Irish. This paper focuses on one of Lady Gregory's plays presented in the theater, "Spreading the News," which sought to debunk the drunken 'Irish Paddy' stereotype. A brief examination of "Spreading the News" shows how its author fulfills the Irish Theater's ambition of reinventing the way Irish people are perceived and treated on the stage.

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"Instead the Irish are characterized as backward, religiously superstitious, poor peasants with no education who speak an Irish-English dialect. Lady Gregory's play Spreading the News (1904) is a case in point. Gregory's characters are not noble, idealized figures. Rather, Gregory seems to perpetuate the stereotype of the comical, "blarney-speaking" country rube (Watt 23). But Gregory's characterization is not intended to make over or whitewash the Irish peasant. Her aim is to show the reality of the Irish people, deconstruct the way Irish characters are represented in the theatre, and celebrate their Irishness."

Tags:Jack, Bartley, Tarpey

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This paper explains that, by showing how the more socially acceptable minor characters in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are often less moral than Huck, son of a drunken father and Jim, a slave, Twain shows how conventional societal morals are completely awry from what is considered to be truthful and intrinsically good. The author points out that, for all of their faults and lack of conventional education, Jim and Huck at least strive to be loving and loyal to one another; thus, by contrasting them with people like the Widow Douglas and Buck Grangerford, Twain creates two great heroes of unexpectedly ethical behavior for 19th century American literature. The paper concludes that Huck's love of freedom, in contrast to the Widow and Miss Watson, instructs society and stands in direct contrast to his father's love of gentility, the semblance of morality of the warring Grangerfords and, most importantly, against the freedom-denying racism of American society.

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"The minor characters of the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are more often than not are motivated by greed, a lack of civility, a lack of true morals and values and a lack of respect for fundamental human dignity-as well as common, ordinary racism. Instead, Huck and Jim are propelled forward by a drive and desire for freedom, loyalty, and mutual respect. The first and most benign example of a minor character with a lack of true moral understanding is the well intentioned but misguided Widow Douglas. Although she is well meaning in her attempts to civilize Huck, the Widow Douglas does not understand the true needs of a young boy."

Tags:racism, greed, morals, freedom, loyalty

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This paper explains the origins of Mardi Gras. It looks at the original customs and how the traditions have evolved over time. It also discusses how the media have recently portrayed this festival in a bad light because of the drunken crowds, but that the real traditions of the festival do not support this behavior.

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"Mardi Gras or "Fat Tuesday" had roots in the Middle Ages and was later reformed when the Catholic Church adopted the event. The Europeans of the Middle Ages celebrates Mardi Gras as a festivity before the commemoration of Jesus' death. A "carnival" is traditionally related to a Mardi Gras celebration. "Carnival" which means "without flesh or meat" is being celebrated in relation to the religious event of the Lent. After years of Mardi Gras celebration, the Catholic Church decided to adopt the event as it relates to religious beliefs. The celebration was eventually passed down to other countries especially during those times when the Europeans were able to conquer some lands. One example of a country that was influenced by the Mardi Gras celebration was America. Because of the French conquerors, whose countries traditionally celebrate the Mardi Gras, the tradition of the event was handed down to the Americans."

Tags:american, european, new, orleans, fat, tuesday

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The paper shows how mystery novels have a habit of portraying murder as a discrete affair for the middle class and nowhere is this more apparent than in English mystery novels, as novel writers in England, being a literate caste, usually manage to present the world through tweed-colored spectacles. The paper discusses how English author, Peter Lovesey exemplifies this, as his characters always seem to evoke images of tea-sipping old women sharing a well-loved table at their favorite local haunt and recounting stories of life during the blitz. This is a far cry from the real world of murder, which is often one of drunken and drug-crazed rage, teenage street rivalries, or quiet, festering sexual perversion. This paper contrasts the differences between one of Lovesey's most recent works, "The Vault", and one of his readers' favorites "On the Edge".

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"In On the Edge, Lovesey pays careful attention to developing the way in which the two main characters play into the national consciousness of the time, which can almost be described as a sense of angst. This is played out in the sense of divergence one feels when following the lives of Rose and Antonia. Lovesey was a child in London during the war, when one of his most poignant memories was that of his house being hit by a V-1 rocket. Lovesey's heroines spent the war plotting the courses of Royal Air Force attacks on Germany, and part of the post-war angst they felt had to do with returning to traditional female roles. By comparison, The Vault is set in the sleepy seaside city of Bath that provides the context for his other Diamond novels."

Tags:Victorian, Rose, Antonia, RAF

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This paper discusses the Miller who appears in English author Geoffrey Chaucers "Canterbury Tales". The paper covers the Miller's flaws, his strengths and the character elements revealed through his story, as well as Chaucer's descriptions in the general prologue. It demonstrates how the Miller is a drunken, lavious man, but he is honest in his opinions and avoids affecting a religious or noble pretense like his companions.

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"The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, begins by describing twenty-nine people, each of whom is making a pilgrimage to Canterbury, England. By chance they meet in Southwark and decide to make the journey together. These twenty-nine characters encompass all areas of medieval life. There are religious figures, a pardoner, a prioress, and a monk. Then there are military figures, a knight and his squire. But the most numerous, and perhaps the most eccentric characters are the commoners, the Wife, the Merchant, and especially the Miller. Chaucer includes the Miller in order to contrast him with characters like the Knight and the Parson, who are noble and religious. Chaucer's descriptions of the Miller in the general prologue, when combined with the content of the Miller's tale, portray a character whose perspective is a sharp contrast to nobility. The Miller makes no apologies for his disposition. He is lecherous, outspoken, ostentatious, and a drunk."

Tags:renaissance, bagpipe, Nicholas, Absalom, Alison

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A look at how, in Shelley's novel "Frankenstein", the creature has an extremely unsuccessful father-son relationship with the creature he creates. The father is appalled with what he has made and the son takes revenge on the father for having made him in the first place. It shows how in some ways this is similar to the relationship between Huckleberry Finn and his real father, the terrible drunken Pap.

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"Frankenstein describes his relationship with his own father as perfect--up until the point where his younger brother has been born and his mother has died. Then there is a growing sense of antagonism toward his father in Frankenstein's account. He does not really wish to leave Elizabeth and the family. But his father insists that he leave for the university and when his mother died Frankenstein could only "obtain from my father a respite of some weeks" (Shelley 47). In his disappoint over leaving Frankenstein turns to the studies that interested him and begins his creation of the creature. He blames his entire later course on his father--but subtly limits the blame to his father's quick dismissal of the ancient science that was to mislead him: "If . . . my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had . . . much greater powers . . . I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and . . . it is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin" (Shelley 40)."

Tags:family, pap