David Belasco
.... and with John Luther Long's approval, Belasco put together one of his most enduring plays, Madame Butterfly. Belasco worked fast, and though he scrambled together a laughably bad script, he had an unerring instinct for strong theatrical effects. Giacomo Puccini, who worked on developing the opera Madame Butterfly, and having the advantage of not understanding a word of English, was swept away by the. emotionalism of the production.
David Belasco was an undisputed master of stage sensationalism, .....
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David Hume
.... impressions and ideas. (Stumpf) Impressions and ideas make up the total content of the mind. Ideas are memories of sensations claimed Hume, but impressions are the cause of the sensation. In other words, an impression is part of a temporary feeling, but an idea is the permanent impact of this feeling. Hume believed that ideas were just dull imitations of impressions. Besides merely distinguishing between impressions there can be no ideas. For if an idea is simply a copy of an impression, it follows tha .....
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David Hume 2
.... constrictive upon our imagination and it left me with a feeling of confinement to our perceptions. If this is all we are capable of than all we really are is as Hume says "A Bundle of perceptions." But the more I tried to disprove this theory the more I found myself believing it. At first I tried to think of something totally original, but how is anyone to know for sure that this new thought isn't simply an obscure combination of images retrieved from former impressions originating from the sens .....
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Death Of A Salesmen
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Descartes
.... as long as I think, and if I cease to think, then I shall also cease to exist. Therefor, I am nothing but a thinking thing – that is, a thing that “doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.” Although saying he is all of these things is indeed a bold statement, Descartes feels that in his attempt to prove that he exists he has done all of those things, therefor they must be a part of what he is.
Descartes wants to show that “noth .....
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Descartes 2
.... Descartes had been taught according to this outlook
during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_ and it had an
important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic
outlook. This scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of
the Pyrrhonians as handed down from antiquity by Sextus
Empiricus, which claimed that, as there is never a reason to
believe p that is .....
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Dickinson
.... this.
"I taste a liquor never brewed-
From Tankards scooped in Pearl-
Not all the Frankfort Berries
Yield such and Alcohol!"
"Inebriate of Air-am I-
And Debauchee of Dew-
Reeling-thro endless summer days-
From inns of Molten Blue-"
"When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove's door-
When Butterflies-renounce their "drams"-
I shall but drink the more!" -214
This Poem by Dickinson demonstrates her universal spirit and beleif that nature is not only a .....
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Don Pepe Figueres
.... Figueres would seize control of Costa Rica as the head of the revolutionary junta for eighteen months. Control was then turned over to the rightful winner of the 1948 election, and Figueres would return for three terms as president, the
first in 1953 and the final beginning in 1970. (Longley, 3)
During his interim term following the revolution and his subsequent terms as president, Figueres would institute a number of changes that would steamroll Costa Rican democracy. Don Pepe began by extendin .....
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Dorothy Parker
.... verse.
The techniques and topics that many of her verses tackle are as follows: "bitterness, humor, wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the author herself (Bloom 2537 .....
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Douglas M. Mcgregor
.... Therefore, McGregor says that management should try to develop a relationship based on two-way trust between management and employees. This should enable self-direction, increased productivity, and possibly the creation of better methods to complete tasks more efficiently. Furthermore, McGregor points out that management should not expect to see significant changes when first initiating his theory. Change is slow to come, but in the long-run companies will see improvements in employee motivation towards .....
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Duke Ellington
.... like. The brass instruments in the background are playing in ostinato form. This piece was written by Puerto Rican Juan Tizol who played the trombone solo. Cootie Williams would later improvise on the piece, coming up with his own version of “Caravan.”
Over the course of his career, some of Ellington’s instrumental pieces he composed were set into lyrics and became hits as songs, including "Sophisticated Lady" (1933) and "In My Solitude" (1942). Many of his songs were about wom .....
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
.... our country's history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning by a landslide (Hargrove 76). Dwight Eisenhower solved many problems of his era. He helped to stop the Korea war withpeacetalks (Hargrove 67). Eisenhower also enforced the desegregation ofpublic schools making way for the start of equal schooling (Hargrove 79).Dwight Eisenhower sub .....
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Dylan Thomas
.... 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 3 .....
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Charles Dickens 5
.... Westminster Abbey reads: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.
The storys, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever.
Dickens 1842
On January 3, 1842 Charles Dickens sailed from Liverpool on the steamship Britannia bound for America. Dickens was at the height of his popularity on both sides of the Atlantic and, securing a year off from writing, determined to visit the young na .....
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D.h. Lawrence
.... she felt as if she were going dazed. The whole world was deranged. She sat unavailing. For his hands, her symbols of passionate love, filled her with a horror as they rested now on his strong thighs.” Also an example of this heightened sensation would be in one of his most notorious novels, Lady Chatterly’s Lover. This book was filled with the sensations between a member of nobility and her husband’s gamekeeper. It was also tabooed for it’s sex words and sexual liberation. Ano .....
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