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- 10661: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... years before, when All My Sons opened at the Coronet Theater, people were starting to notice that they were in the mist of one of the greatest playwrights in history. The play also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Donaldson Award (voted upon by Billboard subscribers). Since the debut of All My Sons he noted that he felt as though there was a opening for him to ... him become so famous. He did, however, push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High ... written a number of plays, winning a $500 Avery Hopwood Award in 1936 and a $1,200 Theater Guild National Award in 1938 for an effort entitled The Grass Still Grows. Then, having returned to New York in 1938, he joined the Federal Theater Project. But, before his first play had been produced, the Project ended. Dismayed and setback, he went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here he ...
- 10662: Diversity Within English
- ... on the selection of vocabulary. Dialect surveys have concluded that women are more apt to use prestigious forms of speech, while males tend to use more stigmatized variants. Females are often the first to adopt new prestige variants and introduce them into a speech community, also (Ferguson 158). Age factors in language variation in two ways. First, there is the generational differences. As the younger members of a speech community adopt new variants, the older members may not be affected, opting instead to use their traditional dialects. To compare the differences between the old and the new variations is to compare changes from one time period to another. The second way that age produces change is over time, to correspond with various stages of an individual's life. This is particularly ...
- 10663: Education 2
- ... whereby adults become committed by a one-way flow of concern and affection for which they have cared during the first months and years of life. BIBILIOGRAPHY Berman, Claire. Adult Children of Divorce Speak Out. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Brazelton, Bob. The Early Mother-Infant Adjustment. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Co. 1973. Kennell, John and Marshall Klaus. Parent-Infant Bonding. Missouri: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1976. Macfarlene, Rolland. The Relationship between Mother & Neonate. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Mercer, Joe. Mother's Response to Their Infants with Defects. New York: Charles B. Slack Inc., 1974. Meyers, Susan. Who Will Take the Children? Indianapolis/New - York: Bobbe-Mervil, 1983. Oaklander, Violet. Windows to our Children. Utah: Real People- Press, 1978. Robertson, J. A Baby ...
- 10664: Black and White
- ... unfavorable preconceptions of blacks. This can be attributed to his own upbringing in the slave holding south. The main character of the Chesnutt stories is an old Negro man, previously a slave, who engages his new white employers in many tales about life on the plantation. Uncle Julius relays these stories with much detail. Though, at the conclusion of each, the reader is left wondering whether the tale was true or ... his employment, Uncle Julius gets to stay on the land and receives a wage to compensate for any money he may have lost in the sale of the vineyard. As the family settles into their new home the wife sees a need for a new kitchen. There is an abandoned schoolhouse on the corner of the property that could serve for some of the wood to build with. Uncle Julius hears of the idea and is immediately reminded of ...
- 10665: Using Electronic Mail to Communicate with the Staff
- ... a recent problem, a change of an enrollment process took place. The process became effective July 1st. The memo was typed and distributed to the mailboxes on June 13th. The memo read: Due to the new immigration law, it is crucial that all programs financially assisted by state and local taxpayers must comply by their laws within a two- (2) year frame. This law affected CareLink. Part of this law is to assist only those who are United States citizens or reside legally in the United States, given permission by the Immigration Naturalization Service (INS). This new law will affect about thirty percent of our CareLink membership population. In order to become compliant with the new law and continue the program, effective July 1st we will begin to ask for citizenship or legal resident documentation before enrolling in the CareLink program. If documentation is not available the patient will be ...
- 10666: Two Powers
- ... this book , Ralph and jack struggle to carry these two different methods of ruling in their respective roles.Ralph and jack portrait the difference between authoritarian and democratic power with situations that compare in our world today. One of the most influential means of government is means, unforcing unquestioning obedience to authority, as that of a dictator, rather than individual freedom of judgment and action (COMPTOM S ENCYCLOPEDIA). relatively few people ... was well expressed through his rude way of saying, "Shut up, Fatty." at Piggy. (p. 23) .As show, jack is well characterized by the authoritarian ruling. Jack illustrates some types of government seen in the world ,where terror has been use to manipulate society. Democracy , as opposed to which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives; rule by the ruled. Democracy was defined by united states president Abraham Lincoln as Government of the people, by the people , for the people (World book Encyclopedia). In a democratic system , people take action in all political activities, either directly or indirectly. Since most of the countries that practice democracy are very big countries , then most of them use ...
- 10667: Insights on De Tocqueville's Democracy In America
- ... and interpretations, was written as a sort of warning for European readers; "Is this what you want?" he asks. This book was famous for two accurate predictions, one, the U.S. would someday be a world power as would Russia, second, race would prove to be the most intractable problem for the U.S. One of Tocqueville's observations about the United States is that he thought there is no country in the civilized world that is less attention paid philosophy than the United States. This is applicable to American life in 1997 because the whole world is practically joined to the United States. Just about every country in the world trades with, tours in, and watches for the United States. What I mean by watches is that they practically always ...
- 10668: People and Machines
- ... When the time comes for a more advanced machine to be installed, such as a computer, the worker may not be able to cope with the massive change. The computer is an example of a new machine that has created new jobs while driving out workers who were either unwilling or unable to deal with the new technology. Computers have drastically changed many of the jobs on the market. Twenty years ago you could leave high school and become a car mechanic without any knowledge of computers, but now you must ...
- 10669: The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- ... ruling the throne. Every tragic play must have a tragic hero. The tragic hero must possess many good traits, as well as one flaw, which eventually leads to his downfall. A tragic hero must be brave and noble. In Othello, Othello had one fatal flaw, he was too great. Othello was too brave, too noble, and especially too proud to allow himself to be led back to Venice in chains. A tragic hero must not back down from his position. He also has to have free will, in ... commits many murders, one almost feels sorry for him and his fate. Hamlet is the perfect example of the tragic hero. Hamlet has all the good traits needed to be a tragic hero. He is brave and daring. One example of this is that when he went to England, he was taking a big risk. If his plan didn't work, he would have been executed He also is also ...
- 10670: Glass Menagerie 2
- ... The fire escape is a way out for Tom, but the others view it as a way in to their established reality. Another one of Toms` escapes is the movies. The movies show Tom a world where there is no nagging mothers or crippled sisters. The greatest symbol of his escape is when he pays for the merchant marines rather then the light bill. Laura escapes by using her glass collection. The glass collection is Laura`s private world, set aside from reality where she is safe. When Amanda is heard coming up the fire escape Laura quickly hides the glass menagerie, as to keep her world a secret and to have something of her own. Like the glass menagerie Laura is also very fragile and easily hurt. Amanda`s one true escape is remembering the old days, with all of ...
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