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The Stanislavsky Method
Words: 1268 / Pages: 5 .... He felt that once an actor felt what the character was feeling, the emotion would then manifest itself physically, making the performance believable. This idea was
the basis for the method that Stanislavsky created, now the most common acting style in Western theatre.
Stanislavsky’s method begins with relaxation. He called in an “occupational disease.” One of Stanislavsky’s most famous students, Lee Strasberg, believed it to be the actor’s worst enemy. The exercise Stanislavsky developed for relaxation is meant to
help the actor find hidden tension in all muscles of the body, most importantly the face, where most mental tension .....
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Art Appreciation
Words: 291 / Pages: 2 .... things. By setting the dark rocks against the white background she magnifies the rocks. She establishes and portrays a special connection between organic forms of the natural world and the spirit.
In this special piece of art, Georgia O’Keeffe used somewhat a chromatic way of coloring by using all kind of brown tones, but she adds some gold color. She does an excellent use of the shading process. She darkens the contours of the shapes, but she also leaves diffused white spots. This combination of dark shades and light created by the white spots gives the vision of depth, especially where she diffused the shadows, like under or below the object .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Words: 343 / Pages: 2 .... every sin he committed, stains were added to the painting while it grew old, but his own face remained virtuous and appealing. Twenty years passed by, as a boyish faced devil, Dorian Gray murdered Basil. Then suffering from mental confusion, he attempted to reclaim his lost purity by demolishing the last and only piece of proof reflecting his wicked soul --- the picture. The result was that Dorian the man and his picture exchanged appearances, the man aged suddenly then died foul and wrinkled while the canvas regained its initial exquisite elegance.
To me the tale of Dorian Gray is about love, friendship and evil, it is a book written of fascinat .....
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To The People Of Texas And All Americans In The World: The Alamo
Words: 2089 / Pages: 8 .... government from suits to collect debts that they had contracted in the United States before their immigration to Texas. All over the South were signs on bankrupt homes homes saying "Gone to Texas" were they did not have to pay off their debts (Downey 42). Austin and his followers were very hot tempered and ready to start up with any government that they disliked. They soon found a chance to stir up trouble under the changeable Mexican rule.
Mexican authorities began to worry that too many Americans were coming into their country. About thirty thousand settlers came to Texas in a ten year span after Austin had established his settlement. The Mexic .....
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Julious Ceasar
Words: 1357 / Pages: 5 .... brings about their tragic downfalls.
Julius Caesar believed that people needed one strong ruler in
order to have maximum production and proper function of a society. He
believed that he possessed many, if not all, of the characteristics
required of a great leader. He spoke to others in a way which he believed
exhibited authority, told people why he should be the one to lead them,
and thought that his own advice was best. His unwillingness to listen to
others is received as arrogance. Though already warned by the soothsayer
to "beware the ides of March," Caesar refuses to heed advice to stay home
from Calpurnia, his wife, because he .....
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The Battle Of Antietam
Words: 1336 / Pages: 5 .... had split his army
to send troops under General Thomas J.“Stonewall” Jackson to capture
Harpers Ferry, Lee could only hope to delay the northerners. McClellan
forced his way through, and by the afternoon of September 15, both armies
had established new battlelines west and east of Antietam Creek, near the
town Sharpsburg. When Jackson’s troops reached Sharpsburg on the 16th,
Harpers Ferry having surrendered the day before, Lee consolidated his
position along the low ridge that runs north and south of the town. The
battle opened at dawn on the 17th when Union General Joseph Hooker’s
artillery began a murderous fire on Jackson’s men in the .....
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American History Immigration And Discrimination In The 1920's
Words: 536 / Pages: 2 .... to America. Palmer tied this fear to that of immigration. He denounced labor unions, the Socialist party, and the Communist party in America, as being infultrated with radicals who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied .....
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Medea And The Chorus
Words: 561 / Pages: 3 .... entrances and exits of characters or
foreshadowed events in the action. It also recounted or interpreted past
events for the purpose of clarifying the plot. These functions aided the
movement of the story.
First off, when the chorus was introduced into a play, one of its functions
was to announce the entrances and exits of characters. This happened in many
places of the story. The characters that the chorus took on were the first
woman, second and third woman. All of them introduced new characters in
order to move the play along smoothly. Such as in 1.29 when second woman
and third woman introduce Creon when he arrives on the scene to ta .....
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Pearl Harbor
Words: 571 / Pages: 3 .... the Pacific." All U.S. aircraft carriers were elsewhere. Observing radio
silence, it reached a launching point at 6 AM, December 7. At 7:50 AM, the
first wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields and
battleships moored at the concrete quays. The U.S. totally taken off guard had
to defend themselves in pajamas. They used anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 AM. The results were devastating; 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200
aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck; the
West Virginia and California were .....
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Andy Warhol 2
Words: 958 / Pages: 4 .... This became a standard procedure for Warhol during this period. He later began to make movies and photography. (Coplans pg 47-48)
At the beginning of his work, he started out with the making comic strip “reproductions.” They really shouldn’t be considered reproductions because they aren’t always an extremely accurate portrayal of the product. Some of his pieces such as the thirty-two painting collection of Campbell’s Soup Cans, are almost identical to the models he used. While others have a looser quality and are merely starting points on which to begin. (Coplans pg 47)
He accomplished the mass amounts of the same subject through many .....
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