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Repetition in Camus, 2002.
A discussion of Camus's view of the completion of tasks as seen in two of his works.
970 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The concept of a task to be completed as portrayed in literature is addressed through an examination of two of Camus's works, ?The Guest? and ?The Myth of Sisyphus?.
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"The concept of a task to be completed in literature is one that is revered highly. Hercules, for instance, is immortalized by virtue of his labors: he is presented with challenge after challenge, and though he struggles at first, somehow he prevails despite weaknesses, betrayals and even the gods? wrath. In Abraham Cahan?s ?The Rise of David Levinsky,? the protagonist rises from poverty and discrimination to running his own successful business by the end of the novel. Camus, however, takes a different tilt on tasks. His view is that tasks and challenges endure and victory comes in how one deals with the daily repetition and lack of respite: the mettle of his characters is measured in their ability to deal successfully with tasks that persist despite all efforts to escape them."
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Mass Media Repetition, 2007.
This paper looks at the classic "16 Jackies" (1964) of Andy Warhol.
1,099 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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The paper examines the "16 Jackies" by Andy Warhol, which was created after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. The paper explains that this series of pictures of Jackie Kennedy was manipulated by Warhol to demonstrate how the mass media acts as an agent that empties a person of emotion due to the constant barrage of images that deplete the ability to feel emptiness and apathy.
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"The aim of this art study will be to examine the classic 16 Jackies (1964) of Andy Warhol. This series of pictures taken from Life magazine have been manipulated to exhibit the emotional detachment of society through the mass media. In regards to Jackie's four different poses within Warhol's 16 image use of photographic repetition, Warhol believed that the emotional 'droning' influence of the mass media would make Kennedy's assassination far less impacting on the underpinning reality. In essence, mass media acts as an agent that empties a person of emotion due to the constant barrage of images that deplete the human experience to feel emptiness and apathy in the art of Andy Warhol."
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Text Repetitions in Beckett's Plays, 2007.
An analysis of Samuel Beckett's use of repeating text in his works.
3,657 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 101.95
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This paper examines the repeating texts in many of Samuel Beckett's works, with an emphasis on the use of this device in his short plays. The author analyzes two of Beckett's short plays, "What Where" and "Play" to further explore his thesis. The paper also discusses the concept of textuality as it relates to Beckett's literary style. The paper also describes Beckett's work as taking the reader to powerful depths that require multiple readings.
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"Textuality transpires from every part of Beckett's What Where and Play, thanks to the use of textual repetitions, which introduce each time a difference -and even a "differance". In this first section, we have try to highlight the act of repeating within the texts themselves -that is, inner-repetition-, laying emphasis on the first level of the repetition scale. Our second part will be dedicated to the re(-)presentation of the plays, that is to say, the repetition of the written texts through their performance."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude", 2006.
Examines violence, history and suppression of memory as metaphors in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
1,580 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's fantastical masterpiece of magic realism, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967), chronicles the long, colorful, violent, repetitive and ultimately tragic history of the Buendia family of the mythical town of Macondo, an imaginary locale apparently based on Garcia Marquez's own small home town of Aracataca, Colombia. This paper suggests ways in which violence and suppression of memory within the story serve to create future cycles of violence (and future loss of memory), thereby symbolically illustrating the maxim that those (like the Buendias) who forget history shall be doomed to repeat it. The paper also suggests that the novel in many ways parallels the history of the Latin American nation of Colombia itself, and, in a broader sense, of all Latin American nations, especially in the sense of the modern domination of them by outside forces.
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude is a tale of groups, communities, and nations: that is, a collective, rather than an individual, story and metaphor. Toward that end and in that respect, this novel is not written, as are most North American and European novels, from a perspective of just one narrator, or "hero", but rather, from the perspectives of multiple individuals having the same experience, a sort of amalgamated, chorus of generations, in which significances are determined not individually and personally, but collectively and through comparison and consensus."
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Antonia Salieri, 2001.
The following essay takes a look at Antonia Salieri's life, his style, achievements and role in musical history.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper suggests that Salieri's genius lay in his work for theater and not in instrumental pieces for according to the author of this paper he tended to become emotionally repetitive in the composing of concertos
Table of Contents
Early Years
Style and Period
Contemporaries
Musical Literature
Role in Music History
What I Listened To
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"He showed musical ability even as a young child, and was studying music by the age of ten. Only a few years later he was orphaned. His talent, however, won him the attentions of Florian Gassman, the court Kapellmeister in Vienna, who took it upon himself to nurture the boy's potential. Salieri became quite popular at court and developed a personal friendship with the emperor himself, which led to regular invitations to attend the many musical and social gatherings of the city."
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?The Negro Speaks of Rivers?, 2000.
Looks at the importance of plain diction, repetition, and free verse in Langston Hughess "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
811 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper argues that the image of the speaker in Langston Hughes? s?The Negro Speaks of Rivers? as a wise figure representing the black community throughout the ages is conveyed not only in the poem?s title, but also its concrete and plain diction, its repetition, and its free verse form.
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"The speaker?s use of repetition relays the serious tone of the poem and the communal wisdom of the Black community. The poem?s repetition is very formulaic, much like the oral traditions and histories passed down by African griots. The repetition drives home the point to the audience as well as tying the story together and making it easier for the griot to remember. The speaker begins by asserting, ?I?ve known rivers?, a phrase that is repeated at the beginning of lines two and eight."
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Impact of Wife Abuse on Children, 1997.
Negative effects of witnessing spousal abuse. Discusses the effects such as poor partner selection, repetition of abusive patterns, psycho-emotional problems and treatment.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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"Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to examine the current research investigating for the effects, if any, of children witnessing (but not physically experiencing) wife abuse in their homes. A very brief review of interventions aimed at remediating effects is also offered. The review concludes with a summary and a formulation of implications of research findings and recommendations for future research. The presented research will also be examined in relation to a particular thesis: not only will effects of witnessing be found, they will be negative and serious with both short-term and long-term consequences.
Effects on Children of Witnessing Maternal Abuse
As early as 1985, Wolfe, Jaffe, Wilson and Zak reported that diverse types of research (e.g., qualitative studies.."
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"Othello", 1995.
Examines the uses of repetition and mirror images to address issues of honesty and duplicity.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 63.95
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"Repetition and Mirror Images in Othello Among the techniques Shakespeare uses in his plays to achieve dramatic and thematic effects is the leitmotif. He chooses an image, or an idea and uses it throughout a play to emphasize his insights. In King Lear, Shakespeare makes repeated reference to eyes and blindness. In Macbeth, he makes repeated reference to blood. In Othello, a play in which Shakespeare is addressing the question of honesty and duplicity, he uses repetition and mirror image as a leitmotif.
Although it is tempting to frame Shakespeare's Othello as a play about jealousy, much as one might characterize Hamlet as a play about indecision and Macbeth as a play about ambition, such ..."
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Robotics, 2002.
An insight into the subject of robotics and robots.
4,231 words (approx. 16.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 112.95
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This paper discusses robotics, a technology that deals with the design, construction and operation of robots that are used in numerous applications. It looks at how these applications range from industries that require accurate and repetitive tasks (such as the car and computer manufacturing industries), dangerous tasks such as diffusing of bombs and other chores that cannot be performed by humans, e.g., carrying out research on far-away planets, or walking inside live volcanoes. It provides a description of what robots are and how they work, the history of robotics, the present applications of robots, the impact of robots in our lives and their limitations as well as the future of robots. It also discusses how close we are in the development of a ?bionic? man.
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Robotics and Robots Defined
Origins of the Word ?Robot? and ?Robotics?
History of Robotics
How Robots Work?
Applications of Robots
The Future of Robotics
Conclusion
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"Although robots as we know them today are a relatively recent invention, the idea of automated machine or a mechanical man has fascinated the human mind since the ancient times. For example, the ancient Greek poet Homer in his writings described maidens of gold, who are supposed to be mechanical helpers built by Hephaistos, the Greek god of metalsmiths. Similarly, in ancient Jewish legend, robot-like servants made of clay are brought to life by a spoken charm. (Tesler) In more recent times, Leonardo da Vinci, the ?Renaissance man? drew plans for a mechanical man. Eighteenth century watchmakers were also famous for making mechanical, robot-like creatures. (Bekey)"
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Elements of Poetry in Three Works, 2006.
This paper discusses elements of poetry in three different poems: Alberto Rios' "Seniors", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Haunted Palace" and Tato LaViera's "American".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper examines a few outstanding poetic elements which three prominent American poets have used to convey the messages they wish to impart to readers. Along the way the paper notes how each poem, while undeniably great nonetheless, uses different tools to become so. The paper is also quick to note how the best poetry, using the work of Tato LaViera as one example, is able to use common place literary devices like repetition in ways that make predictability agreeable.
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"Great poetry uses certain techniques in much the same way great fiction uses literary techniques to craft a story or draw a character. This paper will briefly examine three poems - Alberto Rios' "Seniors", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Haunted Palace", and Tato LaViera's "American" - and discuss the dominant poetic elements which animate each. In the end, what should become clear is that there are many different ways of producing memorable poetry in the modern age, and each of these authors does an expert job of finding what is needed to convey the message they wish convey. In Alberto Rios' "Seniors", the reader is confronted with the clever use of both middle and informal diction."
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Similarities in Ballads, 2005.
Discusses the similarities between traditional and modern ballads.
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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By analyzing and comparing traditional and modern ballads, some characteristics of traditional ballads imitated by modern ballad writers can be found. The examples of the former are "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Lord Rendal," and those of the latter are "The Murder of Maria Marten" and "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall. The discussion of the similarities between these four ballads in this paper focuses on the structure of a ballad stanza, the use of repetition and the manner of story-telling.
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"Another interesting similarity between the ages of ballads is in the objectivity in which the stories are told. The composer has little emotional reactions and the focus is on the events of the story rather than the effects on the storyteller. In a ballad, therefore, the personality of the narrator is not important. The dialogue in "Ballad of Birmingham," which takes place between a mother and her young daughter, gives an example of a rhyme using a question and answer pattern (Laws 59-60). The little girl asks if she may "go downtown" to join "a Freedom March today?" and the mother answers, "No, baby, no, you may not go" ("Ballad of Birmingham" 1, 4-5)."
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Communicative Language Learning, 2004.
A discussion of several studies into the role of classroom correction and English language teaching methods.
2,921 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper discusses that it is possible as well as beneficial to combine focus on form with focus on meaning in English language teaching. The writer examines two studies from an output enhancement point of view. The first, by Kowal and Swain (1997) experimented, in a French immersion classroom, with two tasks that were intended to assist learners in moving from semantic processing to syntactic processing. The second, Doughty and Varela (1998) experimented with corrective recast (i.e., repetition and recast) in an ESL content-based classroom.
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"The history of second language teaching has witnessed changing perceptions of corrective feedback (Celce-Murcia, 1991). Views on the role of corrective feedback can be highly diverse, even polarized. The Audiolingual Approach, for example, advocates minimal or no tolerance of learner errors and suggests that every effort be made to prevent them. On the other hand, the Natural Approach considers error correction unnecessary and counterproductive. The latter view is also shared notably by the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach that has come to dominate second language classrooms since the early 1970s."
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Children's Television Advertising, 2005.
This paper examines the techniques of television advertising directed to children.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 115.95
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The paper reports on research into the content and meaning of children's television advertising before Christmas. The paper notes information on the variety of products that are geared for children in some way and discusses the selling methods used and the frequency with which advertising messages are bolstered by repetition. The paper explains that this creates a desire on the part of children for these products.
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"Television advertising directed at children is examined for content, frequency and products featured for a period in the Fall of 2004, the Christmas season for advertisers. The results show the variety of products that are geared for children in some way, the selling methods used and the frequency with which advertising messages are bolstered by repetition, creating a desire on the part of children for these products. The intent is clearly to develop a habit of buying in the young and parents suffer by being asked over and over to buy the latest product, many reflecting entertainment aspects of the consumer culture."
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President Kennedy?s Speech on Civil Rights, 2005.
This paper analyzes the rhetoric of persuasion used in President John F. Kennedy's speech on civil rights from June 11, 1963.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 32.95
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This paper explains that Kennedy's speech of June 11, 1963 implements effectively various rhetorical techniques portraying not the acceptance of racial integration to create tension against peace and order but rather a dynamic, complete commitment towards the accomplishment of a new social order in which racial segregation becomes socially intolerable. The author illustrates several linguistic features of the speech which generate particular reactions that can lead to applause and approval: (1) the three-part list, (2) the repetition of a key idea or phrase, (3) the use of contrastive pairs and (4) the use of pronouns. The paper concludes that the speech is particularly impressive because of the strong personal engagement of the President who presents himself as a figure of moral leadership working for a just foundation, with regard to the basic values of the American society.
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"The Civil Rights Movement's began when the Supreme Court, as a result of a court case initiated by the NAACP (the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; insistent in opposition to racial segregation) confirmed racial segregation in schools, universities and other public institutions unconstitutional, therefore bringing to an end the era from 1896, during which the functioning standard was "separate but equal". Separate but equal meant that African-Americans had separate schools, railroad cars, buses, restaurants, bars and recreational facilities, but that they hardly ever were equal."
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The Classic Film "Singin' in the Rain", 2005.
This paper discusses the role of three genre that contribute to the success of the classic film "Singin' in the Rain".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper explains that the classic film "Singin' in the Rain" appeals to a broad audience because not only is it a good song and dance movie but also it contains the genre of romance and comedy. The author points out that the musical aspect of the film combines backstage and integrated styles; the fifteen song and dance routines are based on different themes throughout the film, which provides built-in unity through its structure of repetition and variation. The paper relates that the romantic aspect of the film helps to create drama in the plot, carry the plot along and create empathy for Kathy's character; the comedic aspect of the film helps bring it together productively.
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"Another ideology of the film was dignity. Don repeats his famous line, "Dignity, always dignity" as he tells the story of how he maintained his esteem when working his way to the top. Kathy strives to maintain her dignity when she does the singing for Lina because she isn't getting credit for her vocal talent as she should be. The studio heads keep Lina from speaking in public without Kathy backing her up because they fear that if the audience hears Lina's real voice she will lose the dignity in her career. Even though Cosmo never became a huge star like Don he still maintains his cheerfulness and dignity and continues to fully support his friend."
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