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The Breakfest Club
Words: 696 / Pages: 3 .... unsatisfying home life. This rings true to the theme of missing or uncaring parents mentioned by Theresa Puchta. Although all of the characters are clothed to suit their particular part in the movie, they have been done so based on the latest fashions that certain clique adopted at that time. For example, it was “in style” for jocks to wear their school’s sport jackets, for geeks to wear the cardigans and khakis, bullies to wear leather jackets, weirdos to wear an assortment of clothing, and the popular girls to wear the fashion magazine trends. All of the characters are dressed in one of these ways. The soundtrack accompanying the movie wa .....
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Pygmalion My Fair Lady
Words: 642 / Pages: 3 .... notes of her speech. Eliza assumes that she is in trouble and causes a commotion, professing that she did nothing wrong. The professor explains himself. In the musical he sings a song, “Why Can’t The English Learn To Speak?” Mr. Higgins is a professor of phonetics. He has an almost mean attitude towards everyone. He is only interested in his works, he’s pretty self-centered.
Colonel Pickering came from England to meet Mr. Higgins and observed
whole ordeal with Eliza. Colonel and Higgins begin talking, when Higgins says that he could take Eliza and turn her into a duchess. Eliza takes this seriously and goes to Higgins house the .....
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The Trail Of Tears
Words: 1181 / Pages: 5 .... for Cherokee support for aid in war against Tukumsa and another Indian known as Red Sticks. The Cherokee Nation replied with six to eight hundred of their best warriors. It was in this war that the Cherokee fought side by side with Jackson. After a treaty in 1814 was forced upon the Creek Indians, the Cherokees filed claims for their losses. There was no promise that their claims would be acknowledged. In the end, this alliance would bring about one of the most devastating betrayals the Cherokee Nation would know – coming in the guise of Andrew Jackson.
Andrew Jackson demanded the concession of twenty-three million acres of land to the United Sta .....
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Why Does Theatre Survive
Words: 1290 / Pages: 5 .... can identify with the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience in real time. When this miracle occurs, when the audience and those on stage breathe a exactly the same time, there is a unique feeling of a fulfilled desire, which transforms the theatre into an immortal place: a combination of ecstasy and empathy for the human experience -- an inspiring event!
Another fact which provides the survival of the art form of theatre lies in the very nature of mankind: its inner voyeuristic drive. The desire to watch other people dealing with their conflicts and fates challenges as well as reinforces values and the morality of society. As .....
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The Immortal Artist
Words: 434 / Pages: 2 .... Carolina School of the Arts have utilized this knowledge in such a way so that their class has remained immortal. As a class, the class of 1986, the students composed a mural. Dr. Chaplin created the mural and gave each student a representation. He managed to re-create an image of each student through regenerating his or her image from a photograph. The canvas is divided into eighteen individual and distinct sections. Each section is devoted to one student picture or figure, and their mood or feelings in which they wanted to portray.
The designer, Chaplin, gave the work a sense of unity by using all pure hue colors and geometric construction wit .....
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The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
Words: 1560 / Pages: 6 .... music critic f described these events: "The hostess hunched next to a four-gallon tin of beer in the corner. She sold jam tins at sixpence a gulp. Gashe was bent over his organ in one
corner, thumping the rhythm from the pedal with his feet, which were also feeding the organ with air, choking the organ with persistent chords in the right hand and improvising an effective melody with the left. He would call for the aid of a matchstick to hold down a harmonic note. You get a delirious effect of perpetual motion -- perpetual motion in a musty hole where men made friends without restraint." (BEBEY-64)
This was marabi music, a foundation element of Sou .....
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The Chicago Fire Of 1871
Words: 545 / Pages: 2 .... started in Mrs. O' leary's
barn. Daniel sullivan sat on the wooden sidewalk when he saw a flame in Mrs.
O'leary's barn. He managed to save a half grown calf. By now everyone in the
neighborhood woke up, including the sleeping O'learys. The "America" hose cart
was the first to reach the scene. They were soon joined by the "Little Giant"
engine company. A neighbor ran to a drug store to turn on an alarm but the
alarm failed to work. The court house watchman had given wrong directions but
later tried to correct his mistake, but the alarm operator was eating dinner
so she refused to correct the mistake. The fire engines went about 1 mile .....
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The Battle At Chancellorsville
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... from the west. The Federal cavalry would open the campaign
with a raid on Lee's line of communications with the Confederate capital at
Richmond. Convinced that Lee would have to retreat, Hooker trusted that his
troops could defeat the Confederates as they tried to escape his trap.
On April 29, Hooker's cavalry and three army corps crossed Kelly's
Ford. His columns split, with the cavalry pushing to the west while the
army corps secured Getmanna and Ely's fords. The next day these columns
reunited at Chancellorsville. Lee reacted to the news of the Federals in
the Wilderness by sending General Richard H. Anderson's division to
investigate. .....
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The Issue Of Slavery In The Westward Expansion
Words: 851 / Pages: 4 .... = cotton or slaves = tobacco. Slavery was thought to be undesirable
in areas where it was not applicable, thus slavery would contain itself by
economics. Although this theory was popular it proves to be fantasy. This
method of thinking and the Northwest Ordinance started our young country
down the dark road that would end in the War of the Rebellion.
Extension of slavery next became an argument and hot topic at the
Philadelphia Convention in the fall of 1787. The northern delegates “
detested the slave trade and wanted it to end” (pg. 187). The slave states
came out ahead in this battle as they got congress to agree that they would
not int .....
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The Effectiveness Of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956
Words: 4856 / Pages: 18 .... States he was immediately confronted with
several major events left to him by the previous administration. First, the
Cold War with the Soviet Union was escalating, and second, the war in Korea was
quickly becoming an unpopular war of attrition in which thousands of lives had
already been lost. During the Eisenhower administration, the president would be
confronted with a plethora of events both domestic and international. Shortly
after Eisenhower's inauguration, Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Première) died of a
stroke on March 5, 1953, leaving the United States questioning who would rise to
power in Russia and continue the Cold War against the US. Mean .....
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