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77How can literature help society?
Literature can help us examine the past and predict the future by analyzing characters and evaluating their actions. In Emily Dickinson's I Felt a Funeral in my Brain, for example, the speaker's attitude is at...
2 comments57Who are your favorite authors?
Emily Dickinson is probably the most prolific author of the 19th century, buit it would be hard to classify her as a "Favorite". Her poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" is a classic. Most likely, there isn't...
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65Knights of Bloodsteel
"Knights of Bloodsteel", originally released by the Sci-Fi Channel April 2009, is a two-part television mini-series that is about good versus evil in a fantasy quest format. This mini-series is true to its...
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75Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Arthur Miller entered into this world at the beginning of the great depression. He was a poor student, and decided to quit school when his father lost his business in 1929. He never graduated. He worked...
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66Fellow Travelers - Hunting Homosexuality and Communism
Politics and Witch-Hunts and Fruit - Oh my! This is a haunting tale of the early 1950s - 1990s, recounting the strange period of McCarthyism, and early Cold War, nd the fall of the Berlin Wall. Who knew bananas would play a part? Who knew that the Communists were not to be the only prey hunted by McCarthy?
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65Abigail Williams
Below is a video with a picture depecting a scene during the Salem Witch trials, and a song I made in high school to go with an english project, and some background relating to the Crucible and witch trials in...
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62The Crucible -- a Movie Review
During the 17th century, a rash of practicing witchcraft broke out in the small town of Salem...or did it? In The Crucible, Arthur Miller dramatizes the events of the Salem witch hunts and their tragic...
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52Book and theatre reviews: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Directed by Darren Hall. Performed by the Belper Players Amateur Dramatic Society. The Guildhall Theatre, Derby 23rd to 26th May 2007. Most will at least know something...
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64Casting Tools
Metal casting takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge not to mention the appropriate tools of the trade. Luckily, anyone can learn metal casting and the tools are widely available and some can even be...
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70Crucibles
From the earliest attempts to make lead into gold and to the more modern use of making those empty soda cans into a replacement part for that model plane, crucibles have been an absolute necessity in metal...
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