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All the King's Men, a Literary Essay
Yukio Mishimia's Patriotism and Wole Soyinka in Death and the King's Horseman inquire into the true depths of allegiance to death, one of a cause, the other of a king, and both more a reverently illuminated concept in the minds than the cool reality perceived by “civilized” Westerners.
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Close Reading: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales “Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
One fine spring day, thirty pilgrims set off from Harry Bailey's inn in Southwark for the shrine of Thomas A Becket in Canterbury. - Amazon
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Close Reading: John Milton Paradise Lost, Book 1, Lines 1-83
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence. -- Amazon
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'The Road Home' (1999) Movie Review
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback - IMDB.
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'Together' (2002) Movie Review
A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him -- IMDB.
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'Farewell My Concubine' (1993) Movie Review
The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years-IMDB. 5/5.
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'Hero' (2002) Movie Review
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors. - IMDB
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'Infernal Affairs' (2002) Movie Review
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop—IMDB. 4/5.
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An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth"
As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. - Wikipedia
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'The Wedding Banquet' (1993) Movie Review
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand—IMDB. 3/5.
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'A World Without Thieves' (2004) Movie Review
A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his life savings challenges their fate—IMDB. 2.5/5.