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Mikhail Kuzmin's ' Wings', 2006.
A review of the novella 'Wings' by Russian author Mikhail Kuzmin.
1,597 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 0 sources, APA, £ 36.95
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This paper looks for the 'truths' in Mikhail Kuzmin's novella, 'Wings'. The paper encompasses, embodies and embraces comparative, as well as, contrasting characters, concepts, components and considerations reportedly related to the novela, ". . . the first overtly gay novel ever published." The paper explains that there is a need for research that examines and expounds on contemporary "truths," contributing to erotic and homoerotic literature, in order to delineate whether "Wings" qualifies as diabolical or divine.
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I. Introduction
Search after "Truths"
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin's Works
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"Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzminm, born October 6, 1872, a prominent Russian poet, playwright, and writer during the Silver Age period, prolific in multiple genres, was considered by his aficionados as one of the boldest, creative proponents of the reassessment process in Russia. Kuzmin, born into a family of the minor nobility in Saratov, near Yaroslavl, Russia, initially planned a career as a composer as he studied at St. Petersburg University. In 1891, Kuzmin became a member of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's music composition there. During his educational pursuits under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in1894, however, Kuzmin discontinued his musical education, after completing only three years of a seven-year course. During this time, however, he learned Italian and German.
The year following his withdrawal from St. Petersburg (1895), Kuzmin traveled to and throughout Egypt with his mother. After his mother returned to Russia, Kuzmin settled in Alexandria where his years in this city notably inspired his most acclaimed collection of poetry. In 1897, Kuzim visited Italy, later basing much of his 1906 novel Kryl'ia (translated in 1972 as Wings: Prose and Poetry ) on his experiences there. "
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Mikhail Kuzmin And Italian Commedia Dell'arte, 2007.
An analysis of the life and writings of Mikhail Kuzmin and Italian commedia dell'arte.
983 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper analyzes early twentieth-century Russian theater and cabaret. It focuses on the work of writer, poet and playwright Mikhail Kuzmin and Italian commedia dell'arte. It provides a background of Kusmin's life and focuses on the impact of his homosexuality in his writing. The paper then describes some of his works and critics' analyses of them.
Table of Contents:
Objective
Introduction
Kuzmin (writer, poet, playwright) Russia's First Openly Gay Writer
The Entire Life of the People Lived Out in the Theatre
Integration of Elements of Commedia and Reality
Summary and Conclusion
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"The unleashed sexuality, the brewing revolution, and the overall societal shift during this period of time resulted in vivid displays of contention of the present political system at this time in Russia. Masses flooded the theaters and the theaters took to the streets as a revolutionary spirit moved in and among all in the Russian society, inciting rebellion against the status quo and in the dramatic displays in the artistic events and movement of that time period that was the driver of and to a great extent of the progression of the revolution that took place in Russian in the early twentieth century."
"Artists were given prominence among scholars and politicians however, only for a moment of time as post-Revolution thought exhibited little appreciation of those who provided such fire and energy propelling the revolution forward. The post-Revolution period witnessed the work of Kuzmin "falling out of favor with the Communists, and Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), in the work entitled: "Literature and Revolution" (1924) labeled the work of Kuzmin as "disreputable and useless." (Clayton, nd )"
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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", 2007.
Examines the inhabitants' reaction to the supernatural in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".
1,064 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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Garcia Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," uses the archetypal pattern of the fantastical, or mystical, to convey a serious message about mankind. The theme of the supernatural, or magical, is no doubt an important element of the story, driving the plot of the story; however the plot becomes the primary focus because of how the townspeople behave in this story. The paper shows that while we find the fantastical in the winged creature, we also find that Marquez allows the plot to focus not so much on the creature, but the attitudes of the townspeople that he encounters. As the story progresses, we see a negative aspect of humanity depicted in this tale. The paper explains that the townspeople are close-minded and cannot seem to get beyond their preconceived notions of what an angel should be. This paper concludes that through this inability to accept the fact that they are in the midst of something phenomenal, they only view the creature as something of a freak or fraud and, as a result, miss the miracle before them.
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"Interestingly, the angel, as miraculous as he is, makes no positive impact on the people. They are never willing to accept him for what he is and would rather ignore him than try to figure out what he is and what he means to do for them. It is easier to ignore him and go on with their little lives with an angel locked up in the chicken coop. We are told that Elisenda shouts "that it was awful living in that hell full of angels" (419). Here we see that she may believe that he is indeed an angel but completely unaware of what to do about it. In short, the miracle becomes a nuisance. "
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"Only Angels Have Wings" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", 2002.
A discussion of the theme of convergence in Howard Hawks' films "Only Angels Have Wings" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 36.95
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This essay shall approach this challenge with reference to two of Hawks' films: Only Angels Have Wings and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Both films will be interpreted according to the critical schematics of Peter Wollen and Jacques Rivette. It will be argued that while Rivette's thematic analysis of the dichotomy of Hawks' films implies a bi-polar opposition between order and chaos, Wollen's focus on the characters as exemplifying the dramatic and the comic allows us to more closely perceive the workings of gender that underlies the comic/dramatic dichotomy in Hawks' work. In this analysis, it will be shown how Hawks' dramas are definitively male, with the masculine gender representing the dominant order, and the feminine a threat to that order. Conversely, it will be seen that in Hawks' comedies order has given way to chaos, and the landscape is dominated by women with males being - in general - figures of impotence and powerlessness.
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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", 2005.
Summary and critical analysis of the story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", by well-known Colombian novelist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,155 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper discusses how the author develops the following prevalent themes in the story: (1) the theme of religious dogmatism; (2) conservatism shown by being intolerant to differences of other people/individuals; and (3) the existence of magic in the midst of reality, i.e., the use of magical realism. Through illustrative examples and passages from the story, this paper posits that the short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", depicts the realities of life in human society as the author (Marquez) perceives it: a life motivated by strict adherence to and belief in religion, resulting in dogmatism, intolerance to the differences of other people, and a life of poverty, resulting from the blurring of the distinction between illusion (magic) and reality.
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"The theme of dogmatism is evident from the start of the short story. The use of the angel as the main character of the story illustrates the prevalence of religion in Elisenda and Pelayo?s town. Indeed, religion became manifest when the ?neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death? identified the old man with enormous wings as an angel. However, despite this information, the angel became a mere spectacle and subject of ridicule, rather than respect and reverence, in the small village. This is because he is portrayed as physically unappealing, shown in the following description in the story: ?He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away and sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked were forever entangled in the mud? he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor's voice? he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm.?"
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?A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings?, 2004.
This paper discusses Gabriel Garcia Marquez's poem "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings", an archetype of a fairy tale.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper explains that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's poem "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" has strong associative undercurrents linking it with ideas of Carl Jung; the embodiment of Jung's archetype of the shadow is presented in the character of the angel. The author points out that the influence of Jung can be witnessed in the opening of the poem, which is taken from Jung's writings that, only by difficult inner work, painstaking analysis and effort can humanity transcend the deep unconscious impulses of the shadow thereby avoiding neurosis and uniting the psyche in wholeness. The paper relates that Marquez's frequent referral to shipwrecks denotes that, the actual turbulence and destruction of the sea (strongly associated with the emotions) can wreak havoc on the ships (designating the ego) and the shore soon becomes the province of treasure.
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"Jung and his adherents theorized that the shadow was an inevitable result of the light shed by the consciousness of one's ego, and though unpleasant to acknowledge, all people have unpleasant, unacceptable, inferior impulses that comprise the shadow. Though mostly enacted unconsciously or deeply repressed, these qualities are abundantly evident in every daily newscast, and help one to understand cruelty, war, injustices of all labels and rationalizations. Our shadow side is balanced by the self, a concept that goes beyond our own innate ego consciousness, but according to Jung encompasses our collective unconscious, and the opposite sex reflection of ourselves, which he termed anima and animus (the subconscious balancing of the ego by traits and aspects characteristic of the opposite sex). In "A Very Old Man...", Pelayo is the embodiment of the male archetype, Elisenda, the female, both have aspects of the anima and animus, and the newborn child serves as the Divine Child archetype.The fortuitous arrival of the angel reflects the transformation that can be undergone if the shadow side is not only recognized, but embraced."
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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", 2005.
A look Gabriel Garcia Marquez's use of magical realism to examine faith in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".
807 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, £ 19.95
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This paper examines the nature and meaning of faith as a theme as well as the literary technique of magical realism Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". It concludes that Marquez seems to value innocent faith more than the authority that organized religion emphasizes and that his angel and his flawed miracles reflect the primacy of faith over organized religion.
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"The villagers' reaction to their celestial visitor incorporates a second layer of unreality on the angel's magical appearance. Confronted for the first time by a heavenly apparition, the villagers decide, "against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, [that] they did not have the heart to club him to death." Instead, "Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff's club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop." The villagers' initial reaction to the Old Man, like that of Pelayo, shows a definite lack of faith in his provenance and intentions."
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A Review of Mary Lovell's "The Sound of Wings", 2008.
This review of Mary S. Lovell's "The Sound of Wings" discusses Lovell's views of Amelia Earhart's achievements and her significance as an aviator as well as her husband's influence as to how she is perceived today.
992 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 24.95
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In this review of Mary S. Lovell's book, "The Sound of Wings", the writer suggests that Lovell is not so much interested in Amelia Earhart's aviation career and accomplishments, but rather in the developing cult of personality in America of the 1920s. The reviewer describes Lovell's treatment of Earhart's relationship with her husband, George Palmer Putman, and his impact on her career. Furthermore, the writer suggests that by concentrating on Earhart's relationship with her husband and his attempts to promote her for commercial reasons, and by not examining her contributions to the development of aviation, Lovell denigrates Earhart's legacy.
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"Lovell's work chronicles the evolving implications of Amelia Earhart's husband George Palmer Putnam on her career. Putnam emerges in the text as a pure showman, eventually divorcing his first wife, heir to the Crayola empire, to pursue a more lucrative career exploiting Earhart's supposed technical prowess at an aircraft's controls. In fact, Lovell suggests that even before Earhart became an aviatrix, Lovell had already begun to pen the supposed autobiography of Amelia's first flight, which would propel her to world fame. After gaining fame as a pioneer of women's liberation, Earhart was called to speak to countless audiences, and became a tireless endorser of everything from cigarettes to clothes."
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?A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?, 2002.
A presentation of five critical analyses of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s
short story, ?A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.?
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper introduces five different reviews of the short story ?A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings? by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which is set in a poor South American village and which discusses various themes and purposes for the readers. Three of the analyses examine the theme of magical realism in the story and one discusses the political allegory that Marques utilizes to express his political thoughts about Colombia. The last analysis is a discussion of how the existence of poverty in the story, reinforces the fact that the people depended heavily on religion and ?folklore? in order to understand the sudden descent of an angel to their village.
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"After formally defining the term Magic Realism, Gioia provides further historical background about the nature of this new genre in fiction, and finally starts analyzing the short story (A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings) by providing a brief summary of it. Gioia?s analysis of the story focuses on how the magic and the real are blended or fused together in order to come up with an interesting and good story. The author criticizes that Marquez?s realistic characters are ?positively drab,? and that his style of narration is ?impersonal,? similar to that of ?a newspaper article, and as a episodic as a legend.? Gioia states that the story?s impersonal style of narration gives Marquez an air of detachment with the story."
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?A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings?, 2002.
A discussion of the imagery in ?A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings? by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
2,144 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 46.95
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This paper reviews the short story ?A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings? by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a poor couple who live with their son in a poor South American village, who come upon an angel lying on the ground. It shows how the plot is unique because it is grounded in reality yet Marquez also introduces magical realism as a form of sublimity. It examines how Marquez?s imagery comes into play because it is key to how he wishes the plot of unfolded. It considers how he deliberately makes the angel ungainly and ugly so that he can justify behavior of the villagers towards the angel and how Marquez presents to the reader a magical journey with overtones based in realism that everyone can identify with. Parallels are made between the novel and magical nature reminiscent of Franz Kafka?s short story, ?The Metamorphosis."
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"The angel also does nothing angelic. He behaves almost like an old man?crotchety, senile and ill. But in the grand scheme his fortuitous discovery by Pelayo and Elisanda near their home brings them fortunes. The angel takes nothing. He however, gives them riches beyond their earning capacities. At the end, the family reaches a level of comfort with the angel. After initial misgivings, they trust their child with him. When the angel finally leaves, one does not know if they miss him. The story ends as it begins. The angel enters a slice of life of the village and the family of Pelayo and leaves it a little richer but without any other significant change."
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"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings", 2002.
Discusses this novel by Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,418 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian writer noted for his mixture of realism and fantasy in stories with great power and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" is such a tale. The paper shows how Marquez draws on his own knowledge and experience of village and city life and of the political currents of Latin America in shaping his stories, but he also infuses these tales with his particular moral sense and with his conception of meaning evoked by combining the real and the fabulous in a near-allegorical fashion. The paper discusses how issues of human identity are developed through such allegories, which examine the identities first of individual characters and then of human begins in similar situations. Marquez uses the image of the village as a microcosm for all of society, and just as each individual in the village finds his or her identity in relation to the rest of the village, so does every man and woman in a larger society find an identity in how they relate to their culture.
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"In the story, the issue of whether or not this man is an angel is treated in a way that is counter to what we might intuitively expect. We might expect that an angel would be hailed and that the people would gain some spiritual sustenance from the visit of an angel, but this is not what happens at all. The old woman next door believes he is an angel, and yet she urges that he be clubbed to death because she believes angels are "the fugitive survivors of a celestial conspiracy." Pelayo and his wife are not sure if this old man is an angel, but as long as people question whether he is or not, those people will pay to see him. They make the old man into an attraction and thus turn a burden and an uncertainty into an opportunity to make money. In doing this, they are only continuing their task of eking out a living by using whatever opportunity presents itself."
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?The Old Man with Enormous Wings?, 2005.
Examines the casual acceptance of the absurd in this story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
919 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 22.95
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story, "The Old Man with Enormous Wings," might, from a plot summary, appear to be a light fantasy story. However, through closer examination, this paper shows that it is actually a very realistic piece of culturally accurate, albeit speculative, fiction. This story is very realistic because it shows the casual and reasonable way in which people are capable of accepting and integrating the absurd into their daily lives, acknowledges the lack of faith or curiosity which has perverted much of modern religion and does all this without stepping outside the lines of realistic occurrence.
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"The casual naturalization of the miraculous may be a modern phenomena; at least it is certain that its effects on religion are relatively new -- for this naturalization has made it so that most religions no longer expect the supernatural and that much of science treats the occurrence of the supposedly supernatural with quiet disregard and the assurance that it has "natural causes" such as fraud. In Marquez's story, the local priest Father Gonzago writes to the Vatican for their opinion on the winged man. They respond with questions, but appear to dismiss his questions generally. This might seem odd. However, if one looks at worldwide reports of miracles (such as weeping Mary statues, stigmata sufferers, the existence of a girl in a coma who can heal people, or sightings of the Virgin or Christ), then one will notice that the Catholic Church has consistently sent inquiries into the subjects with a skeptical eye, and does not generally accept the truth of these miracles."
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Chicken Wing Microbiology, 2006.
A report on how to remove bacteria from chicken wings and the efficacy of antibiotics on the bacteria.
2,547 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 53.95
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This paper presents a formal biology laboratory report. It presents a procedure that was devised to remove all bacteria from a chicken wing. It begins by discussing the bacteria that can be present on chicken wings and the possible solutions to the problem. The paper then reports on a test for the efficacy of certain antibiotics on the bacteria of the untreated wing.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Study Organisms
Treatment Of Choice For Elimination Of Bacteria From A Chicken Wing
Serial Dilutions Of Washes From Both Wings
Gathering Of Bacterial Cultures From Both Wings
Effects Of Various Antibiotics On Three Types Of Bacteria
Results
Control Agar Petri Plate
Treatment Agar Petri Plate
Antibiotic Disk Results
Chicken Wing Bacteria
Discussion
Appendix
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"It is important to remove all bacteria, such as salmonella, from raw foods to avoid any foodborne diseases. Four serial dilutions were created in microfuge test tubes for a control chicken wing and a treatment chicken wing. The treatment chicken wing was treated using vinegar, salt, and heat. Cultures from each microfuge test tube were streaked on two different agar plates and left to reproduce, incubated at 30o Celsius for 22 hours. The proposed treatment of the chicken wing proved to be 100% effective producing no visible colonies on the agar plate. Four antibiotics - penicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol - were used to treat E. coli, M. luteus, and chicken wing bacteria. The bacteria cultures were smeared on three different Petri dishes, and divided into four quadrants where antibiotic disks were placed. After 22 hours of incubation at 30o Celsius, diameters of the rings of clear agar around each antibiotic disk were recorded. Chloramphenicol produced the largest diameter on all three Petri dishes, while penicillin proved to work best on gram-positive bacteria. The bacteria on the chicken wing were gram-negative and most resistant to tetracycline."
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Swept Wing, 2005.
A discussion about the function of the aviation tool - the swept wing.
1,487 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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There have been a number of innovations in the field of aviation over the years. This paper examines the swept wing and determines why it was developed, and if the wing performs the function it was designed for.
Outline
Introduction
The Swept Wing
A Swept Wing's Function
Developing the Swept Wing
Early Problems
A Lasting Design
Evolving Use
Conclusion
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"The swept wing was developed by the Germans in the mid-1930s and since its inception, has revolutionized the aeronautics field. While the concept originally had design flaws, the problems were corrected over the years, and the swept wing is now used on almost all jets, including airliners."
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