Romeo and Juliet are referred to as “star-cross’d lovers.” What is most responsible for the outcome of the play: destiny or the characters’ actions? As punishment, Romeo is banished from Verona. Is this punishment fair? Do their parents have the right to keep Romeo and Juliet apart?

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Romeo and juliet

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Romeo and Juliet are referred to as “star-cross’d lovers.” What is most responsible for the outcome of the play: destiny or the characters’ actions?

As punishment, Romeo is banished from Verona. Is this punishment fair?

Do their parents have the right to keep Romeo and Juliet apart?

If the work is prose fiction (a short story or novella), one key thing to discuss is its way of proceeding as narrative, i.e., as a piece of writing that tells a story. What strikes you about it: is it the story itself? The narrator? The characters? What is distinctive, that is, about this particular piece of story-telling fiction by this author?

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A Doll’s house

For each literary analysis assigned, choose a work found in our class textbook and, focusing on issues you find relevant and manageable, write a 4–5-page, double-spaced, literary analysis specific in its initial thesis, easy to follow in structure, and clear and consistent in style that adequately and appropriately references the text of the work(s) selected. Be sure to expand beyond what we may have discussed in class in any discussion board forums. Mere regurgitation of ideas presented in various discussion threads is not the purpose of this assignment.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to select a different genre for the second literary analysis. For example, if you selected a poem for Literary Analysis 1, you need to select a work of prose fiction or a drama for Literary Analysis 2. Also, the Works Cited/References/Title Pages do NOT count towards page length.

1. If the work is prose fiction (a short story or novella), one key thing to discuss is its way of proceeding as narrative, i.e., as a piece of writing that tells a story. What strikes you about it: is it the story itself? The narrator? The characters? What is distinctive, that is, about this particular piece of story-telling fiction by this author?

2. If the work is a poem, one key thing to discuss is its quality as language: in poetry, it’s often not so much “story” or “action” that matters most, it’s the medium itself: the refined, thought-provoking, emotion-inducing, clarity-enhancing arrangement of words on a page. Words are playing in a very intense spotlight in poetry. How is that quality on display in the particular poem(s) you’re now reading?

3. If the work is a drama, one key thing to discuss is the play’s manner of representing an action: a play’s script is meant to bring carefully delineated or imagined events to life on a stage and thereby to evoke an intellectual/emotional response in an audience. What specific resources (language, structure, settings, realism, symbolic content, character development or revelation, etc.) does the playwright most fully bring to bear in order to further the play’s aims as a representation of some “action”?

Identify gaps between effective directional strategies and an organization’s existing directional strategies. Identify key industry structural features determining the forces governing competition.

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Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces.

-Identify gaps between effective directional strategies and an organization’s existing directional strategies.

-Identify key industry structural features determining the forces governing competition.

-Analyze a health care organization’s external and internal environment.

Incorporate methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach appropriate for the

Identify gaps between effective directional strategies and an organization’s existing directional strategies. Identify key industry structural features determining the forces governing competition.

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Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces.

-Identify gaps between effective directional strategies and an organization’s existing directional strategies.

-Identify key industry structural features determining the forces governing competition.

-Analyze a health care organization’s external and internal environment.

Incorporate methodologies from the knowledge-economy management approach appropriate for the

Discuss what the element is, summarizing it and what it means in relation to Drama, then you will explore examples of this element and how they exemplify the element.

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Dramatic element

Considering Poetics, Tropes, and Action, choose one dramatic element, be it a way Aristotle discusses Drama, a Trope, a stage of Action such as the Rising Action, and explore what that element is about.

You will discuss what the element is, summarizing it and what it means in relation to Drama, then you will explore examples of this element and how they exemplify the element. If discussing a Trope, you would find examples of that trope in Drama (Plays, Shows, Movies, Etc.) and explore how its use affects the Drama as a whole. It does not need to be one of the Tropes we discussed in class.

Finally, you will connect the examples together to show how they, despite their differences, are all related.

Why might Shakespeare have created characters like this? Are they there for comic relief, or do they serve a more serious purpose? Why does the news of their deaths come only after the deaths of the royal family in Act V, as if this news were not anticlimactic? Is it acceptable for Hamlet to treat them as he does? Why or why not?

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s role in the play.

Why might Shakespeare have created characters like this? Are they there for comic relief, or do they serve a more serious purpose? Why does the news of their deaths come only after the deaths of the royal family in Act V, as if this news were not anticlimactic? Is it acceptable for Hamlet to treat them as he does? Why or why not?

Think of reading this play as “a visit to a small planet.” What questions does this play make you ask about the world inside it?

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Play Response #1: Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play

Think of reading this play as “a visit to a small planet.” What questions does this play make you ask about the world inside it?

Generate 15-20 dramaturgical questions specifically for the world of this play, using direct quotations from the play text (include page number).

Your questions should be as specific as possible, rooted in the play text, and most of all, potentially helpful for someone producing this play (a director, designer, actor, etc.)

Once you’ve done that, infer how you would go about answering these questions from the perspective of your theatre practice.

Women in different times and places have lived under the constraints of a patriarchal society. How did they deal with these constraints and how were they affected by them?

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Patriarchal

Write a 3-4 pages essay including direct quote from both articles.

Women in different times and places have lived under the constraints of a patriarchal society. How did they deal with these constraints and how were they affected by them? Read and interpret “A Rose for Emily” and “The Daughters of the Dead Colonel” in your discussion of this question.

Does the reader know if she stopped loving him? Since there is no concrete verification of love, and it only exists as a mutual agreement, how can we tell if Desdemona stopped loving him or even loved him in the first place?

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Desdemona’s Love

The reason for this essay will be asking the question if Desdemona actually fell out of love with Othello or was it all in his head. Does the reader know if she stopped loving him? Since there is no concrete verification of love, and it only exists as a mutual agreement, how can we tell if Desdemona stopped loving him or even loved him in the first place? Does the audience see Othello losing Desdemona’s love? We see Othello believe he has lost her love, but does the audience believe it? What does Shakespeare show us? Does she lose her love for Othello or does she still love him? Does our doubt parallel his?

Identify the elements of the mise-en-scène that seem to be contributing the most to your emotional response. Does the use of light in the movie or clip call attention to itself? If so, describe the effect that it has on the composition in any shot you analyze.

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Django Unchained

Answer at least 4 of the questions below.

1. How do the setting and the scope of the narrative complement the other elements?

2. Are the plot events presented in chronological order? What is the significance of the order of plot events in the movie?

3. Keep track of the major and minor events in the movie's plot. Are any of the minor events unnecessary to the movie overall? If these events were not included, would the movie be better? Why

4. As you watch the film or clip, be alert to the overall design plan and mise-en-scène and to your emotional response to them. Are you comforted or made anxious by them? Are your senses overwhelmed or calmed by what you see on-screen?

5. Identify the elements of the mise-en-scène that seem to be contributing the most to your emotional response.

6. Does the use of light in the movie or clip call attention to itself? If so, describe the effect that it has on the composition in any shot you analyze.

7. Note the type of movement (movement of figures within the frame or movement of the frame itself) in important shots. Describe as accurately as possible the effect of that movement on the relationships among the figures in the frame.

8. Does the movie's design have a unified feel? Do the various elements of the design (the sets, props, costumes, makeup, hairstyles, etc.) work together, or do some elements work against others? What is the effect either way?

9. Was achieving verisimilitude important to the design of this film or clip? If so, have the filmmakers succeeded in making the overall mise-en- scène feel real, or verisimilar? If verisimilitude doesn't seem to be important in this film or clip, what do you suspect the filmmakers were attempting to accomplish with their design?

Does the sound in the movie as a whole help develop characterization? If so, how does it do so?
In the movie overall, how is music used? In a complementary way? Ironically?

Does the use of music in this movie seem appropriate to the story?

Do image and sound complement one another in this movie, or does one dominate the other?

Does this film use silence expressively?

In this movie, do you hear evidence of a comprehensive approach to sound—one, specifically, in which the film's sound is as expressive as its images? If so, explain why you think so