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- 2951: Method Acting
- ... acting. By following them, an actor can portray truthful and meaningful physical actions, and thus convey to the audience a true stage experience. The world of the Elizabethans was vastly different than that of modern day. Thus, because the "system" is a product of modern time it is much more tangible to us, and can therefore be explained and understood relatively easily. However, when attempting to describe Elizabethan culture and the ... remembering the way of thinking of the Elizabethans. Shakespeare not only reflects the above aspects of Elizabethan society, but also the people's way of speaking which, again, was fundamentally different than that of modern day speech. When my mentor explained Elizabethan speech to me, I found it to be rather abstract; however, I will attempt to explain it as clearly as possible. Elizabethan language was much more organic and physical ... modern audience. We must understand their reactions and views-their world, before attempting to convey it to ours. This is the vein that we, as actors, must be in in order to apply our modern day acting skills to Shakespeare. The use of method acting allows a modern day audience to identify with a certain piece; the understanding of the Elizabethan world enables us, as actors, to continue doing justice ...
- 2952: Hills Like White Elephants, Ye
- ... by her whole surroundings. First of all the room she has to stay is very confined having bars, and has little funiture and ugly wallpaper. She is left in the room by herself during the day, while her husband is at work. Her husband and her brother are physicians who are highly educated, and whatever they say seem right. The housekeeper also, who is her sister-in-law is a perfect ... by making her stay in the old room with stained wallpaper, not letting her write, and not letting her go out so much. John does not have much conversation with her and leaves her all day by herself. John is away all day, and even some night when his cases are serious. I personally think that his serious case should be his wife, so he should not leave her alone making her lonely, and give more care ...
- 2953: The Quicksilver
- The Quicksilver Chemistry I One day an ancient alchemist was sitting at his and noticed a strange silvery liquid-like metal. He called several of his colleagues over to admire it. It was passed down through the years, this chemical reaction, that formed this "Quicksilver" as the alchemists called it. One day a French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier tested and proclaimed it a metal. And he named it Mercury (Hg). With strong controversy from scientists around the world, Lavoisier was never given credit until after his death ... common metal is extracted mercury is then separated through distillation. Without mercury our world would be much different. We would have different, if any, ways of determining temperature. Mercury is also used in cleaning modern day swimming pools as "Mercury Vapor lamps" for sterilization. Mercury can be used in both reconstructing and destroying life in water ways depending upon the attention people give it. We would have no fast, economical ...
- 2954: Manet Painting
- ... of social and personal relevance, must be raised, as, for such a emotive piece to have been conceived it would surely have to have been the work of a great master painter, which to this day it is considered that Manet was not, therefore one must then question the credibility of the application of modern day anyalsis to this piece. However, the clarity with which one can identify the deliberate questions concerning gender which Manet raises within the painting compels one to defend the artist and to thus consider that his genius has failed, to this day, to be recognised. One possible reason or such a dismissal by society may be attributed to the negative repercussions of the viewers psychological Œset¹. A viewers set is determined by his preconceived opinions concerning ...
- 2955: Cloning
- ... The human embryo still does not want to develops into a clone. And so far it has been taking years of painstaking research. Some peoples opinion about are good or bad. Like Marie Diberardino, Ph.D. who researches animal cloning at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says, "The cloning of animals is certainly useful, but I'm morally against manipulation genetic material that would develop into a whole human being. We just don't have the right to manipulate the gene pool of human individuals."(Lawren). As you can see, Marie is against the cloning of human beings, but John C. Fletcher, Ph.D., of the University of Virginia's Center for Biomedical Ethics believes in cloning for human parts, but not for human manipulation. He says, "I don't think any [ethics] committee would approve research that would mutilate an embryo by destroying the brain. I know if I were looking at such a proposal, I'd say no. But If you could grow me a liver from one of my cells, I wouldn't opposed-- ass long as you weren't growing me. It's certainly better than taking a ...
- 2956: Interior Monologue
- ... me the dirtiest look. Does he think it was my choice to be in this damned wheelchair? Everyday I wish I could walk so I wouldn’t be treated inferior by every person I see. Day after day I am stared at, gawked at, snickered at, and why? Because I can’t move my legs. Oh, look at that guy, he’s in a wheelchair, he can’t move his legs, he can ... middle finger and tell them where to go. I just wish I was like everyone else; wish I didn’t have to be in this god-awful wheelchair where people just stare at me all day long. I just wish people would quit their “I’m superior” attitude. They don’t understand, they are just ignorant pigs. They don’t know what it’s like for people like me growing ...
- 2957: Free Music: Why Not?
- ... Enemy who see it a different way. Indeed, music distributed within the internet community allows people to sample available music in order for them to decide what to purchase in the real world. First I’d like to look at the legality of downloading copyrighted music. Obviously it is not legal as the courts have shut down Napster for this very reason. Congressman Steve Rothman of New Jersey believes there is ... exposure she receives facilitates the selling of her music. She explains, “every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot” (The Internet Debacle). Chuck D. of Public Enemy foresees, You will have more music on the outside of the industry than on the inside, so fans will find a lot more music. There will be more money in the pot ... happy and so are the musicians; what more could you want? Works Cited Boucher, Rick. "The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age." Copy Fights. Ed. Clyde W. Crews Jr., and Adam Thierer. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. 95-105. Clay, Steve. Napster attack was misguided. 6 June 2000. 25 Nov. 2002 . Dvorak, John C. One Buck Forty or Die. 24 Sept. 2002. PC Magazine. 24 Nov. 2002 . ...
- 2958: Babe Ruth
- George Herman "Babe" Ruth was an American icon or symbol just as Uncle Sam was; the Babe started it all. He was the best pitcher in his day and still remains the strongest slugger in the game. Ruth had power, strength, an appetite and a desire for the game that no other player would ever have. It was "Babe Ruth, a hero of ... manager's position. George Selkirk, and Dixie Walker replaced Ruth in right field. On May 25th at Pittsburgh Forbes Field, Babe had is farewell. Out of his six final home runs, three occurred on this day, but according to Cub's Fred Linstrom "it was like watching a monument beginning to shake and crack, you were waiting for it to topple". From the time Babe Ruth left New York players found ... To mark the occasion Cobb and Ruth donned their uniforms at the Knox Girls' School gym. Cobb, keeping up his competitive spirit, put a note in Ruth's cleats saying "I can beat you any day in the week and twice on Sunday at the Scottish game". Tensions between the two of them were decreasing over the years and Cobb actually found that he liked the Babe and they remained ...
- 2959: Leon High School Coach Billy Bob Evans
- ... it was fate when that principal told him that. During his forty six years of coaching Evans has won nine state championships, and has not been defeated in a district game since 1972. A typical day in volleyball season is long, considering Evans coaches both high school and junior high. “We have hard practices each day, with a lot of running and fundamentals development. Mainly trying to improve as much as we can before our next game. Game days we do not run as much and we do a little skill work, nothing to hard”. During off season Evans works on conditioning, skills, and fundamentals. “ Each day is different, we work on whatever is needed on that particular day”. To have so many wins under his belt Evans proudest memory is his forty and zero undefeated season. His team that year ...
- 2960: Personal Writing: Response to My Visit to the Boott Cotton Mill
- ... ended at 5:30 p.m., on Saturdays work ended at noon. We got Saturday afternoons off, big deal. No matter how much money I was being paid, I would not work those hours every day. The people of the nineteenth century worked those hours and for little pay. Leona Bacon Pray, another former mill worker was a child when she worked in the mill. She said, “When I collected my ... nineteenth century demonstrate how tough life was back then. Today there are T-shirts that say: “_____ is Life, and the Rest are Just Details.” Back then Work was Life. The majority of a person's day was spent working for barely enough money to live. Even though there were working looms there, a sign said that the weave room was a re-creation and an actual weave room would be different. While the room was very noisy, an actual room would be much louder. To go inside, we needed earplugs, I couldn't imagine working in there all day. Many mill workers went to their doctors complaining of hearing impairments. When the doctors found out they were mill workers, the doctors told them that their hearing was normal. The weave room's air ...
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