what happens in the opera?
So, what happens in the opera? Tosca stabs Scarpia and Scarpia uses real bullets, so that both Cavaradossi and Scarpia die. When she learns that Cavaradossi is dead, Tosca jumps to her death from the castle’s ramparts. In spite of the carnage, love wins out over lechery. Or, if this was a tennis match, the score would be love: 15, lechery: love.
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� SITUATION: WHITE FLIGHT AND RACIAL SEGREGATION IN HOUSING
What do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren’t wanted and where some elements—well—people can get awful worked up when they feel that their whole way of life and everything they’ve ever worked for is threatened. —THE (WHITE) KARL LINDER SPEAKING TO THE (BLACK) YOUNGER FAMILY IN RESPONSE TO LENA YOUNGER’S PURCHASE OF A HOME IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, IN A RAISIN IN THE SUN, BY LORAINE HANSBERRY
The renting or sale of homes and apartments in an all-white neighborhood to African-Americans was a contentious racial issue in the 1960s. The term “white flight” refers to the exodus of white families upon the arrival of a few black families, making the neighborhood “tip” from being all white to all black.