Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. ... Slights points out an inconsistency in this explanation: "Extending the indeterminacy of Titania's account of the grief caused by the struggle for...

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Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or national epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy. ... Their paths would be guided not by normal order, and not by the consequences of their actions, but by the directi...

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I usually opt to walk the rock path that winds down and around to the back entrance leading directly into the yoga studio. ... The breezes blow the sweet sound of wind chimes that hang just outside from the branch of a tree. ... She guides us to focus on our breath in preparation for the first asana. ... In its 2012 "Yoga in America" study, the Yoga Journal reports "practitioners spend $10.3 billion a year on yoga classes and products" (Yoga Journal 2012). ...

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It is comprised of the teachings of the Written Torah, the Oral Torah, and the teachings of the Rabbis that have guided Judaism through the ages and customs that have arisen through their long and storied history. ... These are varied, and can consist of particular details that are specific to a certain sect and group, and are retained by the Jew no matter the contrast with local minhags. A study of the Jewish faith reveals that it is one of many rituals and traditions. ... Instead of focusing on this life, as is the practice in Judaism, Islam centers its faith on the promise of the hereaf...

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The government had committed itself to the promise that development depends upon adequate communication processes and a two way flow of information. ... The study attempts to give a general overview of the mass media and communication through a literature review. ... The development of other media – television and newspapers, has only been referred to in passing and could be the subject of another study. ... Communication scholars were being attracted to study development problems in education, agriculture, politics and family planning. ... He sees the necessity for planned and guided ...

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He observed that all incarnations of Enlightenment utopia failed to live up to their promised perfection. ... Together, these Frenchmen helped guide the institution of attempted utopias like Sweden. ... However, democracies must have friendship "for without friends no one would choose to live."" ...

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based on the scientific study of taking two therapies, cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy, and combining the two. ... However, Rogers also believed that in order for a client to get the most out of person-centred counselling that they needed to meet six "necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality changes" and that if these conditions continued over a period of time then no other conditions are necessary. ...

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