The use of The Defeat of Lucius and Arthur and the Devil Cat comes into play again in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when King Arthur encounters the black knight. King Arthur attempts to recruit the Black Knight to join him as a member of the Round Table and search for the Holy Grail. ... The dismemberment of the Black Knight, and his unwillingness to admit defeat even when all of his limbs are hacked off are a direct parody of The Defeat of Lucius and Arthur and the Devil Cat. When King Arthur is battling the Devil Cat, the cat's two front paws get stuck in Arthur's shield after he...

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The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... The concept that changing of perspective happens with maturity is also shown in the text Cats in the cradle by Harry Chaplin, where once again we see the falling apart of a father-son relationship, as we did in Fleiks Skrzynecki. Cats in the cradle is a story abo...

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The narrator of the story, "The Black Cat," would not gouge out the cat's eye and then hang it from a tree as well as he would not kill his wife if he were sane. ... For instance, in the short story, "The Black Cat," addiction to alcohol is portrayed in the relation with insanity of the narrator: "Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. [] But my disease grew upon me - ...

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In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... In the intriguing Interior: Woman plucking a Duck, Maes uses the simple colour scheme of black, white and red, set off with deep shadows, that dominates the Eavesdropper series. ... There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down at her work and the tense, watchful cat. ... The two pitchers, the prowling cat, and the overturned basket...

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Once, his celebrants called him the baddest black man in America - the street-corner brother who created the Black Panther Party in the slums of Oakland, Calif., and sent it shooting its way into the consciousness of a nation. ... "I actually learned to read--really read more than just 'dog' and 'cat,' which was about all I could do when I left high school--by listening to records of Vincent Price reading great poetry, and then looking up the poems to see how the words looked." ... Members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense began patrolling the Oakland police. ......

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In another, he is the cat killed by curiosity, being plagued by vigorous migraine attacks caused by looking into the sun as a child. ... Immediately following the actual pain, Max enters a brief moment of hallucination, preceded by a nosebleed, and then a black out followed by a state of euphoria caused by heightened levels of dopamine. ... Pi is entirely featured in an extremely high-contrast black and white picture, at many times with little or no middle gray colors relevant. Although it is entirely black and white, the clarity and sharpness of the picture dives down to the lowest and highe...

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When Desdemona defends her friend and fellow woman, Iago responds, "Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,/Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,/Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,/Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds" (2.1.109). ... If she be black, and thereto have a wit,/She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit She never yet was foolish that was fair;/For even her folly help'd her to an heir There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,/But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. (2.1.127-140) ...

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She is taken away to a mental institution as the play fades to black. ... Following the success of Streetcar, Williams and Mielziner continued their partnership and worked together on six more productions: Summer and Smoke, Cat on the Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and The Kingdom of Earth. ... Then, the tension reached a boiling point when, during the production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams stated publically that Kazan had "usurp...

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The words are also written in black paint that appears to have dripped before it could completely dry. ... Similar to dogs and cats, cows will be treated more like human. ... Cows will be seen in a very similar light as dogs or cats, in how we treat them like humans. ...

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Thus, in the race of life, all Americans are handicapped so that no one must ever feel ugly, stupid, or "like something the cat dragged in."" ... Vonnegut's outstanding stylistic trait is his use of black humor "humor that relies on the use of darker, more pessimistic, even depressing views of the absurdities of life. ...

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Again, this is apparent in Goodfellas when Henry appears at home one day dressed in a beige double-breasted suit, silk shirt and tie, and black lizard shoes. ... In his underlit office, seemingly the Don is a gentle, restrained old man, sitting behind his desk lovingly stroking his cat. ...

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Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

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Nations using this method of attempting to destroy the source are playing a never-ending cat and mouse game, for as long as there is a demand, there will always be new players taking the place of those that are caught. ...

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Cacao trees need a unique environment to grow. They grow at latitudes between fifteen to twenty degrees above and below the equator, where the temperature ranges between eighteen and thirty two degrees Celsius. The annual rainfall ideally should range between one thousand five hundred to two thousa...

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Count Dionys, obviously representing the Dionysian is depicted as a bohemian, small, dark, with black beard and eyes and "fired with a keen male energy" (The Ladybird, p.159). ... It is also in the night that Henry goes out with his shotgun (a phallic symbol in itself) and prowls, "peering through the darkness with dilated eyes that seemed to be able to grow black and full of sight in the dark, like a cat's" (The Fox, p. 38). ...

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Motorola, Inc. Motorola is a long time established company that provides personal communications equipment such as cell phones, pagers, and two-way radios (Motorola). According to the Motorola web page, the company started out in 1923 as a small business by entrepreneur Paul Galvin,...

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In the nearly sixty years since World War II, sports have become arguably the single most important institution in our nation. They have overcome issues of race, color, and class; however, one area that faces continual struggling is that of gender equality. More specifically, areas of concern incl...

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A group of science divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Project de Espeleologia de Tulum found the skeleton along with remains of a giant ground sloth, gomphotheres, saber-toothed cats and many other extinct animals deep inside a submerged chamber in the Sac Actun cave system in eastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in 2007. The remains belong to a girl named Naia (Figure 5) and the location where she was found is called "Hojo Negro" (Black Hole). ...

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Zero to Hero: Disney and The Muppets As children there are a few companies that impact us for the rest of our lives and you would be hard pressed to find a person who didn't grow up with Disney or the Muppets (The Jim Henson Company) having that sort of life-altering impact. What do they have in co...

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