Essays Tagged: "clowns"

The Minstrel

were primarily singers and musicians. These wandering performers were alsostory tellers, jugglers, clowns, and tumblers. Often minstrels were an important part ofprominent house holds providing enter ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Person Behind The Mask

ar a circus had come to town. In the morning a big parade was held in main street. He could see the clowns walking around making people laugh. He would watch the clowns` faces as they walked by. The b ... e it was the only time he would feel better than his friends.For a whole year he would dream of the clowns in the circus ring. Imagine their grimace, funny walks and pranks on each other. The tight- r ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

How to aply make-up.

uld know how to wear it. Unlike all the other girls who were restricted before, who now looked like clowns. This went pretty much the same way with me, all my friends were unable to wear make-up until ...

(3 pages) 61 1 3.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Alone

to Ocean Park with two of my friends. The Park was fully decorated with pumpkins and spiders. Some clowns and 'witches' were also wandering around to let people take photos of them. After I went to t ...

(2 pages) 45 0 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Mystery

the typhoons.My life has been all about ups and downs,Meeting old and new, bloody damn those clowns!This poem has meaning, way deeper than just the rhyme,Although, my efforts have turned ...

(1 pages) 27 1 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Television Destroys Communication

e believe that it destroys communication among friends and family.It's a fact that television, like clowns, can entertain us. It can make us laugh, cry, or scared. You laugh when you watch a comedy. Y ...

(1 pages) 36 0 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead-the mood

e, and what is really happening at the castle.For all their angst, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are clowns in the end. Their attempts to understand their situation read like comic routines rather than ...

(1 pages) 22 0 3.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Touchstone in "As You Like It"

him is often a key indicator of their sensibilities.Touchstone is one of the gentlest and happiest clowns in all of Shakespeare. He comments on the action, makes jokes at other people's expense, and ...

(2 pages) 39 1 4.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Hemp in Japanese Culture

t just makes too much $cents$ for the average farmer" " It would displace pulp towns and the Cotton clowns" " It would create a paradigm shift" I know Jeff hates that term, but the big boys don't like ...

(15 pages) 74 0 4.6 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Waiting for Godot": Is it useful to consider this play a comedy?

multiple scenes revolving around the characters, particularly Estragon and Vladimir, acting out as clowns and being nonsensical, that appear to be fabricated with the sole purpose of invoking laughte ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Destructive Pride VS Beneficial Pride (comparisons between "The Scarlet Ibis", "The Lesson", "The Cask of Amontillado")

bor. She realizes that the only people who can afford to pay the outrageous prices on toy boats and clowns are successful people, and she resolves to be a part of that success. In "The Cask of Amontil ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Fear Of Clowns

I have developed an irrational fear of being killed by clowns due to the way movies and music often portray them for the teen and adult audience. I establi ... rics of the rap group Insane Clown Posse send chills up my spine. They wear face paints to resemble clowns. The group uses their lyrics to convey hatred and fear to the listeners. They sing of mass sl ... ****!" are just some of the less raunchy words they sing. After hearing that these "so-called clowns" want to split my face in two with an axe, I begin to stereotype all clowns as evil kil ...

(1 pages) 3285 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

nsequently and according to Serreau's point of view, Vladimir and Estragon-in Waiting for Godot-are clowns since they are representing the man's absurd existence, they are critics towards their societ ... ea that Pozzo and Lucky is a godsend presents relation to the idea that the two main characters are clowns entertaining an audience only by the use of words. Hence, when these words are starting to fa ...

(7 pages) 25 1 4.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Pablo Picasso

colors such as bright green?s purple?s, yellow?s red?s ect? Picasso was mainly amused with painting clowns, trapeze artist, freaks along with everything else that goes along with the circus theme. Thi ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.7 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Fat and Happy Hillel Schwartz Critique

cal shape are the cause of unhappiness among obese people. He says that by labeling obese people as clowns, cannibals, and clodhoppers, they are causing more shame and humiliation than an obese indivi ...

(3 pages) 4805 0 3.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The role of the Fool in King Lear

g Lear the “fool” is one of the more interesting characters. He is the akin to the king's clowns however he has the right to speak freely, insulting the king whenever he feels like. Apparent ...

(2 pages) 8 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Outsiders unite

come together some way and either help each other or hurt each other, as we see with failed actors, clowns, farmers away from the farm; they all have affect on each other lives whether big or small.To ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Dec/2012

Subjects: Literature Research Papers