...Choose a play we have not read, and write a paper in which you interpret the play and its lasting significance. Begin by carefully reading the play itself and deciding for yourself how you interpret it. Then, do background research on topics such as the author’s life, the times in which the play was written, the production history of the play, critical essays on the play, etc. Write a paper that demonstrates how this information illuminates your interpretive understanding and appreciation of that work. Be sure to clearly state your interpretive thesis clearly in your first paragraph, and substantiate that thesis throughout the paper by citing your research sources along with appropriate passages from the text of the play itself. 50% of your research must be from actual books and print sources that you find in the stacks of our library, or from interlibrary loan. Include footnotes and bibliography in MLA format. Class Presentations: Each of you will be in charge of one class presentation in which you decide how best to historically illuminate a play on the syllabus for the class. I am open to your creative approaches to this assignment, so long as your work is grounded in solid script analysis and careful historical research. Regardless of the kind of presentation of you choose to do, your goal is to convince the class (and me) that the historical perspective you have provided has deepened our understanding and appreciation of the play as an artistic achievement. ...
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...the following people, who, in many ways, have contributed and inspired me to complete my research paper. First person in order is to Dr. AQB for providing his guidance and support in the preparation of the research paper. I am very much grateful to the NSU students, who have cooperated and taken their time to participate in answering my research questions. To my family and friends who have extended their efforts and understanding by helping me find respondents for the questionnaires, albeit some of them were prodded into doing so. A special mention goes to my dear friend, SK, who lent me her laptop when my own laptop sadly stopped functioning in my time of need. Lastly, to Almighty Allah for giving the strength to compile information needed to input into completing the research paper in due time. It has been a difficult topic to research on. ABSTRACT Writing has been playing an essential role in our lives since we learnt how to read and write. This research paper, hence, emphasizes on how writing has influenced a person and how it has managed to change his or her life. The research highlights the points on the origins of writing and how an author’s style of writing affects our personality. My hypothesis consists of how inspiration derived from other writers has given them the courage to face or help them in certain situations of life and whether written works such as research papers or journals or articles has contributed in changing their priorities such as giving more time...
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...19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. Ibsen is often ranked as one of the truly great playwrights in the European tradition. He has been widely regarded as the most important playwright since Shakespeare. His plays are the most frequently performed in the world after Shakespeare. Although most of his plays are set in Norway—often in places reminiscent of Skien, the port town where he grew up—Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy and Germany, and rarely visited Norway during his most productive years. The translated title of Ghosts is actually misleading compared to the Danish and Norwegian titles. The correct translation would have been Revenants. When Ibsen finished Ghosts in October 1881 he created a “scandal greater than that created by any other book in the history of Norwegian literature” (Beyer). Thirteen years later Ghosts was produced as a play in the United States. Henrik Ibsen is well known for his scandalous plays but what many people do not see are his deep, woven, hidden messages. Ibsen used many different rhetorical devices to his advantage while he wrote Ghosts but it is clearly evident he uses symbols to convey all his messages. The round table in the living room becomes a field of slaughter littered with evidence of all the battles in the play. It holds the books that symbolize Mrs. Alving’s new ideas, the orphanage papers that represent...
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...Strategy and non-technological innovation Assignment for part-time MBA Competitive Strategies, week 6 October 4, 2012 This paper describes the consequences of a non-technical innovation for the strategy of a firm that operates in cultural industry. The example chosen is that of the company Stage Entertainment. In the first part of this paper we will provide a brief history of Stage Entertainment, single out two non-technological innovations and discuss how these innovations have affected the strategic behavious of Stage Entertainment. In the second part we will discuss both the horizontal and vertical processes Stage Entertainment is involved in and argue why one of these should be considered more important to Stage Entertainment’s overall sustainable competitive advantage. Stage Entertainment is the brainchild of the Dutch creative entrepreneur Joop van den Ende (born 1942). Stage Entertainment is the result of a merger of several other entertainment companies owned and run by Van den Ende and was incorporated in 1999. It has seen rapid international expansion and is now active in 9 countries, employing 4000 people. The turnover is €600 million (Nispen, M. van, Jaekele S. and Charrington, J, 2009). Van den Ende describes the strategy of Stage Entertainment as a strategy consisting of three elements (Nispen et al 2009): 1. Venues: programming and managing a network of venues across Europe (i.e. theatres) 2. Productions: presenting a wide range of existing...
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...Megan Jones English III AP DC Cy Woods Mr. Barckholtz December 2, 2012 Arthur Miller Research Essay Arthur Miller was an American playwright who wrote plays such as “The Crucible” and “Death of a Salesman” because he thought theatre could change the world. He wrote his works based on friends, his own life, and family. People believed he was a man of integrity and a hero because of the ways he portrayed himself. He was born in 1915 in Harlem, New York and raised in a very wealthy household by his parents, Isidore and Augusta Miller. After high school Miller worked lots of jobs to save up enough money to attend the University of Michigan, where he wrote his first paper that turned into his first play, called “No Villain”. Once he realized what he was good at, he moved east to start his new career. There he met his first wife Mary Slattery, but their relationship did not last long, and three weeks after the divorce he married actress Marilyn Monroe. This relationship was very good look for him because of what Marilyn Monroe’s career was at the time. He “divorced Monroe after five years”, and several months later “got married to Inge Morath”, whom he had two children with, Rebecca and Daniel Miller. There was one flaw about this family though, that “Miller excluded his son Daniel out of their lives” for the longest time. Miller did not want Daniel around because Daniel was diagnosed with Down syndrome, but Miller’s daughter, Rebecca, was married to a wise man...
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...Critical Reading 1. Preview. Look “around” the text before you start reading. ... 2. Annotate. Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a "dialogue” with an author and the issues and ideas you encounter in a written text. ... 3. Outline, Summarize, and Analyze. ... 4. Look for repetitions and patterns. ... 5. Contextualize. ... 6. Compare and Contrast. When you write about literature . . . Some Tips for Academic Writers Sentence Style 1. Use simple sentences as rubrics (pointers). 2. Use compound sentences to suggest balance and to present pairs of ideas of equal value. 3. Use complex sentence to emphasize the most important ideas and to subordinate less important ideas. 4. Avoid "empty" sentence frames that say little or restate the obvious. 5. Use present tense when referencing details in a literary work except for passages written in the past tense. 6. Incorporate short, key quoted phrases into analytical sentences. 7. Avoid the use of such words and phrases as "you" and "the reader" that often lead to wordiness. 8. Avoid the phrase, "In conclusion," when opening the concluding paragraph. 9. Avoid gratuitous complements and superlatives. Paragraph Development 1. Use Pattern 1 paragraph frames for most paragraphs in the body of academic essays. 2. Begin body paragraphs with claims as topic sentences that repeat key concepts from the thesis sentence. 3. Always introduce the speaker, context, and/or significance of block quotations. 4. Always...
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...Debbie Quintero ENG 102 QJ 15Apr2014 Research Paper – Prelim Thesis/Outline Preliminary Thesis: Though written in 1993, Christopher Durang’s play Wanda’s Visit is easily relevant to a timeless audience, as spectators to this production are able to relate to the same values that society places on the therapy, marriage and happiness more than two decades later. OR “Wanda’s Visit” addresses such adult relationship themes as marriage and happiness in a sometimes ironic, often comic ways, which are easily relatable, even to an audience today. 1. Introduction “History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.” Frank Rich *Expand to formal introductory paragraph 2. Topic Sentence #1 From the earliest days of Dr. Sigmund Freud introducing us to individualized psychotherapy analysis session in the early 1900s, society has embraced the science of psychology and in 1993, Jim, Marsha and, yes, even Wanda, are all apparently benefiting from this mental health fad which in fact, continues on seemingly unchanged even today in America. * First moments Wanda mentions “woman’s group” * Unfilled prescription falls out of Wanda’s suitcase; correlate amount of antidepressants available and pharmaceutical pandering to consumers today. * Liken Wanda herself, the outside force, is the ‘therapy’ that Jim and Wanda needed; Even without having been married for 13 years, like the characters, any audience member...
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...GUIDELINES FOR STAGE PLAY ANALYSIS FORMAT OF PAPER 1. Use 8 ½ x 11 white paper. 2. Use Times New Roman font, Font size 12, no Boldface, and use of All Caps 3. Put page numbers. 4. Double spaced. 5. 1 inch margin in all sides 6. Put your STUDENT NUMBER (NO NAMES, SURNAMES OR NICKNAMES) on the upper right hand of the paper. And your section across it. 7. Include your own title of your essay. GUIDE QUESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS 1. Word Count SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN 3,000 WORDS. 2. As you ponder these elements, answer the following questions about the play, in paragraph format. Use complete sentences and good grammar to develop a good paragraph response to each question. Your style need not be formal, but it should be polished and thoughtful. WRITE YOUR OWN THOUGHTS, and DO NOT use outside internet sources or any other resources, other than for context. Steps to follow in writing a play analysis: CONTEXT: Consider the period setting of the play, and then research the events of the world during that time period. For example, if you are analyzing a play that takes place during the great depression, you will need to research and understand the current events and everyday human concerns of that period in order to write a dramaturgical analysis. The time setting is the most important part of dissecting the inner workings of a play. Characters are defined by their environments, just as we human beings are. So understanding the world events of a play's...
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...Stupid is as stupid does. “My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (Carr, Nicholas “Is Google making us stupid?”) I have asked myself the question “Is Google making us stupid?” (Carr) a dozen times while trying to write this paper. For me, we are only as stupid as we give ourselves credit for, Google or no Google. When I think of all the things that I would love to know, I don’t blame the Internet, Google or the amazing strides that technology has taken over the decades for my inherent stupidity on certain matters. I blame myself, for not taking the time or using the resources that are amazing displayed to me through libraries, computers or the people who hold the knowledge within them. Google is not making us stupid, it’s just another thing that we can blame for our stupidity. Scientifically there may be valid points to Carr’s essay in regards to how people process information today compared to ages ago. Carr begins his essay...
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...ENGL 1101/ F October 7, 2014 Google May Just Be Making Us Stupid The ability to perform research in just about every aspect of society. Thanks to modern technology a great deal of this research is readily available and right at our fingertips. In the world today many people have begun to rely on google as a primary means of finding this information. Because of this, it is thought that google may be “Making Us Stupid”. The article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr provides a quite reasonable argument to support this idea. “My mind isn’t going-so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think.” (24), is a statement made by car concerning the effects of the internet on his own brain. This is to imply that due to abundant use of the internet for research purposes, it had started to have subtle effects on his thought process. The area he most noticed this change was in his ability to focus when reading. This was attributed the fact that as a writer, he used the internet quite frequently and abundantly for research. Before the internet came to be his saving grace, he would have had to rely on the archaic relics known as books and other forms of media to perform his research. Just due to the nature of this beast, it sometimes required hours of grueling page turning, which in addition to expanding one’s mind can also cause paper cuts. According to Carr, He is not the only one suffering with this dilemma. There...
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...while promoting an understanding of the theatrical process and the integral role of theatre in society. Goals: 1. To gain an appreciation for theatre as a fine art. 2. To become familiar with the components of theatre. 3. To become familiar with the various types of theatre artists who collaborate to create the art form. 4. To develop a critical and informed appreciation for theatre in performance. 5. To understand the importance of working collaboratively. Texts: Wainscott, Ronald and Kathy Fletcher. Theatre Collaborative Acts. 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2009. Evaluation: Participation at my discretion Syllabus approval 5 points Play Attendance and Responses 45 points (15 points each) Play Reaction Papers 40 points (20 points each) Group Presentation 50...
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...Analysis of Team Charter Rolanda Collins MGT 521 March 10, 2010 Joe McGirt 1 The purpose of this paper is to explain how, given the individual differences amongst my team members, we used the team charter to set standards for improving our teams’ performance. Nashai’s assessment of her personality type results were ENFP meaning she is people oriented, creative, and highly optimistic. Her suggested possible career’s are a publicist, research assistant, playwright, restaurateur, columnist, or a conflict mediator. Her trust assessment was graded a three, and her listening skills forty three. I found from what little I know of Nashai, that her assessments seemed to be fairly accurate. Between the two of us there were few differences, and our perspective on processes was mutual. Jamaal’s assessment of his personality type results were ISTJ meaning he is organized, compulsive, private, trustworthy, and practical. His suggested possible careers are an office manager, accountant, tax agent, and physics manager. His trust assessment was also graded a three, and his listening skills a forty two. I found his assessment results to be true to his nature, and character as well. He seemed a bit reserved but he happened to be the one who kept me and Nashai on task, and focused. He spoke calmly, and handled each task with ease. My assessment results for my personality type were ENTJ meaning I am outgoing, visionary, argumentative, have a low tolerance for incompetence and...
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...Over the past few decades, computers have gone from being a rare luxury to an everyday necessity. Most businesses revolve around the constant use of computers, and now, so do our everyday lives. Currently, our daily routines require the use of computers, and in the near future, are expected to be reliant on them. Even something as simple as reading the morning paper will be accessed via the Internet. Newspapers will be assessable online and, through search engines, you can quickly find what you are looking for. As well, papers from out-of-town will now be available, without the additional charge for delivery. Though the physical ‘paper’ will not be completely eliminated, many people will make the switch to “e-Paper”, as it is more efficient and more conservative of our resources. Not only will newspapers be available online, but so will many great works of art. Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and JRR Tolkien are only some of the authors or playwrights that students will be able to access without a trip to the school or public library. Any great work of literature ever written will be available for use with the click of a mouse. This increased reliance on the computer in everyday life not only is more efficient than multiple trips to the library, but it also helps the environment by reducing the number of trees that are cut down every day, simply for the production of books. As of late, many technological advancements have been made in the medical field as well. Surgeries are...
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...Bestiality Katrina Hapner APU Bestiality The article I chose is called, “A case study of preferential bestiality”. The authors are Christopher Earle and Martin Lalumiere. It was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2009. The focus of their research is on the subject of people who actually prefer to have sex with animals, in this case horses, instead of other people. As far as the hypothesis, apparently these same authors had previously published an article describing people who are into bestiality as being very rare. In this article they are doing a case study on a male who is different than widely held stereotype of the not very bright country bumpkin having sex with barnyard animals. They are also presenting a lot of information on the subject from a large group of people on the internet who are into bestiality. They recant their previous opinion in the prior article stating it was rare. They now say that it is a lot more prevalent than it was earlier thought. After their initial article they had a lot o anonymous people from the internet chiming in about this subject. They could not verify any of the information except for one guy who called himself possum. They also include in their article the info from some other case studies involving people from the internet. One included 82 men and 11 women who admitted to sex with animals. The average age was 38 and about half of them had graduated from college. There were...
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...Question: 1 Abstract This paper examines the polemical issues in the application of literary theories to the field of literature and literary criticism. Out of the several modern approaches to literary criticism as employed by the critics, four literary theories are strategically chosen for analysis in this paper; Formalism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism/Deconstruction and Marxism. This work is objectively carried out by consulting articles, journals and books written on the literary theories. The opportunity of information technology via the internet is also utilized. It is established in the course of writing this paper that literary theories are indispensable tools for literature to achieve its goal of sensitizing its audience towards literary awareness. The application of literary theories to literature, that enhance better and detail insight into text or literary works, would continue to be relevant and make literature more enjoyable and meaningful to its readers and users. Further research and enquiry into the relationship between the two (literature and literary theory) is open and should further be exploited. Keywords: literary theory, literary criticism, Marxism, Formalism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism Introduction Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely...
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