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    Articles http://www.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/Visitor-Info/Meet-the-guides/Meet-the-guides/default.aspx?FolderID=48 Lotte – Inspiration for Anne Frank - Holocaust museum ESSAY ANALYSIS FROM YEAR 11 ENGLISH Perspective can vary in stories due to different circumstances. The Diary of a Young Girl is a subjective story of Ann Frank’s personal experience during the Holocaust. Ann Frank’s diary was

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    Reality and Illusion In the stage directions at the beginning of Act I of Six Characters in Search of an Author‚ Pirandello directs that as the audience enters the theatre the curtain should be up and the stage bare and in darkness‚ as it would be in the middle of the day‚ “so that from the beginning the audience will have the feeling of being present‚ not at a performance of a properly rehearsed play‚ but at a performance of a play that happens spontaneously.” The set‚ then‚ is designed to blur

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    Wilde uses puns throughout this play‚ but the major pun is found within the title. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ the pun‚ widely considered to be the lowest form of verbal wit‚ is rarely just a play on words. The title‚ - The Importance of Being Earnest‚- insinuates the importance of being honest and truthful‚ while playing on the male name‚ Ernest. The pun in the title is a case in point. The earnest/Ernest joke strikes at the very heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen

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    ma ORIGINAL TEXT: (Act 1‚ Scene 2) O that this too too solid flesh would melt‚ Thaw‚ and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary‚ stale‚ flat‚ and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden‚ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! — nay‚ not so much‚ not two: So excellent a

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    Jacobean period‚ an age that questioned the preceding Elizabethan era’s belief that all social‚ political‚ and even spiritual relations were defined in an unchanging hierarchy. The suggestion that chaos lies beyond such order glimpsed in Elizabethan drama become

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    Point of Sale And Inventory Monitoring System Formilleza‚ Oliver Jover‚ Von Jovi Trompeta‚ Melody Mendoza‚ Eddie Pama‚ Reylandier BSIT-3 Go Pun & Company‚ Inc. Point of Sale and Inventory Monitoring System Table of Contents I. Introduction a. History of the Organization b. Nature of Business c. Organizational charts d. Mission and Vision e. Corporate Objectives Objectives of the Study Scope of the Study Assessment of the current system a. Overview of the current system b. Problem

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    Q 1.Discuss the plot of Dr.Faustus The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus‚ commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus‚ is a play byChristopher Marlowe‚ based on the German story Faust‚ in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.Doctor Faustus‚ a well-respected German scholar‚ grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic‚ medicine‚ law‚ and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. He begins his new

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    On Drama Translation Like their contemporary prose translators who were introducing Western fiction to China‚ budding dramatists were enthusiastic about bringing Western plays to the Chinese stage. The first play was staged in Japan from an adaptation of Lin Shu ’s translation of Uncle Tom ’s Cabin. A Chinese student in Japan named Li Shutong adapted the script. The play was put on by members of the Chun Liu (Spring Willow) Drama Society. Their performance marked a complete break from traditional

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    History of Drama Ancient Drama The origins of Western drama can be traced to the celebratory music of 6th-century BC Attica‚ the Greek region centered on Athens. Although accounts of this period are inadequate‚ it appears that the poet Thespis developed a new musical form in which he impersonated a single character and engaged a chorus of singer-dancers in dialogue. As the first composer and soloist in this new form‚ which came to be known as tragedy‚ Thespis can be considered both the first dramatist

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    Literature The nature of drama Drama utilizes plot and characters‚ develops a theme‚ arouses emotion or appeals to humor. It may be escapist or interpretive. Much drama is poetry. But drama has one characteristic‚ it is written primarily to be performed‚ not read. It presents its actions through actors‚ on a stage‚ and before an audience. Of the four major points of view open for a fiction writer‚ dramatists are limited to one- the objective‚ or dramatic. Dramatists cannot enter the

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