Hugh Wheeler Essays

  • Hugh Wheeler: The Genius Behind Sweeney Todd

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    Hugh Wheeler was one of the most unique playwrights of all time. He was innovative in his storytelling skills and could challenge the most prolific writer. In his life, he wrote numerous plays and over 30 mystery novels under three different pseudonyms. However, his award winning works included the play Sweeney Todd, Candide, and A Little Night Music. Take a look at Wheeler’s life and also, look at each of these works. See inside the man and the brilliant playwright. Hugh Wheeler was born on

  • Finding Freedom in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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    Edna is sleeping that leads to awakening. In this way, the reader can only guess what occurs during sleep. I found I related to Harding Davis’ work more in that I can relate to Hugh and Deb’s oppression (politically, economically, class structurally). One thing the two works have in common is that both main characters (Hugh and Edna) actually hold the key to their own oppression, yet Edna’s social condition doesn’t require much sympathy from the reader. Also, if a reader cannot step into that world

  • Persuasive Articles on Gun Control

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    Persuasive Articles on Gun Control Persuading an audience can be done in several different fashions, one of which is Hugh Rank’s Model of Persuasion. Rank’s model states that two major strategies are used to achieve the particular goal of persuasion. These strategies are nicely set into two main schemas; the first method is to exaggerate an aspect of something, known as “intensify.” While the second is to discredit it, which is referred to as “downplay.” Al Franken, Jeffrey Snyder, Harlan Ellison

  • Feminists vs. Playboy Playmates

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    surrounding it. The Playboy rabbit is almost as universal as a stop sign. Playboy is one of the most popular magazines in America. While Playboy Enterprises owns many different companies such as the Playboy Channel, Spice T.V., and the Playboy CyberClub, Hugh Hefner will forever be entwined with the Playboy magazine in men's minds. He embodies everything that we see as being a "Playboy," from the A-list pajama parties to the huge house and limo and the seven beautiful blond girlfriends. There is no doubt

  • Standardized Testing

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    Talent”, written by Hugh Price, argues the fact that standardized tests fail to capture the qualities that are necessary to be successful in the business world. Another article labeled “Implementing NCLB Assessment and Accountability Requirements in an Imperfect World” composed by Stuart Kahl, is in agreement with both Price and Ayers. According to Bill Ayers, Hugh Price and Stuart Kahl, standardized tests are uncalled excuse for a traumatic and stressful time in a child’s life. Hugh Price and Stuart

  • Sir John A. Macdonald

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    Sir John A. Macdonald Sir John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on January 10, 1815. His fathers name was Hugh Macdonald and his mothers name was Helen Shaw. His father had migrated to Glasgow from the town of Dornach. His father was a very pleasant and easy going guy and he alwasys wanted to make everyhting better but he usually made things worst. He was a man that had lots of friends, he would talk a lot and drink too. His mother came from Spey Vally. His mother was a very smart

  • The Institution Of Slavery’s Corruption Of The White Slaveholder

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    very clear in his examples how exactly the transformation occurs and how kind and moral people can become those who beat their slaves and pervert Christianity in an attempt to justify it. When Douglass moves to Baltimore, he becomes the property of Hugh Auld. There he is cared for by Hugh’s wife, Sophia. The reader’s first impressions of Sophia are favorable; she is a warm, gentle woman who wishes to teach Douglass to read and write. Douglass himself is surprised at how kind she is at first, and he

  • With You Until The End

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    Linnet told the story, he told about Hans, a little man with a funny, round, good humored face. Hans had a very kind heart and was an extremely devoted friend. This was proven throughout the story in him neglecting his garden to help his dearest friend, Hugh the Miller. The Miller was a big man who was fairly well off, he had a hundred sacks of flour, six cows, and a flock of sheep. He took great advantage of Hans because Hans believed they were best friends and the Miller often reminded him of that. The

  • Hugh Willoughby’s Across the Everglades

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    Hugh Willoughby’s Across the Everglades Despite the overall opinion of our class, I enjoyed Hugh Willoughby’s Across the Everglades. The short history he provided and the description of his journey through mangroves and saw grass was both enlightening and entertaining. He offered insight into the historical part of Florida that we, in 2004, will never know of by first hand experience. Willoughby’s journal was also the perfect handbook for an Everglades class canoe trip. From the intricate metaphors

  • How Social Tensions Led To Wit

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    accused for making children sick, causing animal deaths, and inducing pain and suffering. Or they could have been accused due to evidence of strange events, or their mysterious character. Perfect models of this characteristic would be Hugh and Mary Parsons. Mary and Hugh Parsons lived in Springfield, Massachusetts. In chapter 2 of Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England, the introduction clearly conveys that relationships within the Pars...

  • Militant Monks

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    the Muslims in 1099, the Church encouraged all faithful Christians to visit that holy city in order to affirm their faith. The area, however, was still subject to sporadic attacks from various non-Christian factions. A small group of knights, led by Hugh de Payens, vowed to protect the pilgrims. The group was granted quasi-official status by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who allowed them quarters in a wing of the royal palace near the Temple of Solomon. It is from this initial posting that the order

  • Wystan Hugh Auden

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    Wystan Hugh Auden Wystan Hugh Auden was born on February 21, 1907, in provincial York, England. Over the next sixty-six years, he became one of the most prolific poets of the twentieth century. He was a versatile poet who felt that poetry was "a game of knowledge." He boarded at Gresham’s School in Norfolk and in 1925 went to Christ Church at Oxford. Although he initially studied biology, he quickly switched to English. From there he embarked on a literary career that covered almost fifty years

  • Frederick Douglass

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    if he had remained ignorant. He saw all the horrors and sadness of his life as a slave. He wasn't quite ready for the harsh realities that he was then exposed to. He felt that his master, Master Hugh, was right. Douglass learning to read brought him the discontentment, torment and anguish that Master Hugh said would follow if a slave learned how to read.* (279) The visions that Douglass saw was really affecting him. He saw things he never saw before. Dou... ... middle of paper ... ...ical enslavement:

  • Suicide in Bartleby and Life in the Iron Mills

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    Suicide in Bartleby and Life in the Iron Mills Life in the Iron Mills and Bartleby are centered on characters who are alienated laborers, looking for means through which they cannot be deprived of their humanity. Hugh Wolfe and Bartleby are both workers who have been victimized by the capitalistic system. As Karl Marx explains, the capitalistic system exploits the laborer and thus robs the laborer of his humanity through alienating the laborer. Both Wolfe and Bartleby become victims of the system

  • Carmen by John Benton

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    Carmen has a crush on Bud in the beginning of the story. Nancy- Introduced to Carmen through Lulu, Nancy is a prostitute and also becomes addicted to heroin. Gene- Nancy's boyfriend and pimp. Minor Hugh- Carmen's pimp, until he is caught and arrested. Bernie- Carmen's alternate pimp after Hugh is arrested. Floyd- friend that takes Carmen to the Bronx to find more work. John Benton- Reverend that talks to Carmen about Teen Challenge, a program where women devote their lives to Christ and put

  • Making History By Stephen Fry

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    man infertile. The meeting in Leo Zuckermann's room is a discussion about Michael's interest in Adolf Hitler and leads to Leo's wish to read a copy of Michael's doctoral thesis. The other copy of the Meisterwerk Michael had given to Angus Alexander Hugh Fraser-Stuart (his professor) to read it. It turns out that Mr. Fraser-Stuart calls his thesis "garbage" and "insupportable" because it is partly written like a novel (in fact excerpts from the thesis are printed in the book Making History). After

  • Langston Hughes and Religion

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    reading these poems, the reader canes that Hughes was expressing his feelings of betrayal and abandonment, against his race, by religion and the church. Hughes had a talent for writing poems that would start a discussion. From these discussions, Hugh es could only hope for realization from the public, of how religion and the church treated the Black race. Hughes wrote two poems that generated a lot of discussion about religion and African-Americans. One was “Drama for Winter Night (Fifth Avenue)

  • Persuasive Techniques In The Great Dictator

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    The Great Dictator was written, directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin and released on October 15, 1940. The film was released as a satire of Hitler and the Nazi regime with the intent to persuade the target audience to fight against human inequality and injustices that were being committed against victims of Nazi persecution. The Great Dictator was released during a historical period when the United States and the United Kingdom were still placating and appeasing Hitler to avoid the outbreak of

  • Fail-Safe

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    science. His interest in political science led him to investigate the Cuban missile crisis and publish Fail-Safe with Harvey Wheeler. His interest in the possibility of accidental global nuclear war echoed the fears of the pop... ... middle of paper ... ... so without losing its label as an interesting action fiction novel. Works Cited Burdick, Eugene, and Harvey Wheeler. Fail-safe. Dell Pub Co, 1962. Print. Davison, Dorothy P. "Burdick, Eugene." The Book Review Digest. 58th Annual Cumulation

  • English Views of the Native Americans

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    upon the lifestyles of the Native Americans. Four key people that have led to this understanding are Hugh Jones, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Penn, and John Heckewelder. In their essay's they give accurate accounts of how the Native Americans lived, through their eyes. I also see how European beliefs reflected their views and how this set the stage for conflict among these groups. In Hugh Jones' essay titled, "Characteristics of the Indians," he basically gives a factual account of how the