In his novel Being There‚ Jerzy Kosinski shows how present day culture has strayed away from the ideal society that Plato describes in his allegory of the cave. In his metaphor‚ Plato describes the different stages of life and education through the use of a cave. In the first level of the cave‚ Plato describes prisoners who are shackled and facing a blank wall. Behind them is a wall of fire with a partition that various objects are placed and manipulated by another group of people. These shadows
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World Upside Down” by Hannes Grasseger and Mikael Krogerus; a psychologist named Michal Kosinski uncovered something that many of us do all too often and are unaware of its implications. Kosinski discovered that the easiest to way to study someone or understand them was through a person’s Facebook likes. This new-found knowledge by Kosinski allowed him to examine millions of people on facebook. According to Kosinski‚ based on someone’s Facebook activity such as likes and shares he was able to determine
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Jerzy Grotowski There were few men who were seen as key figures in the 20th century in terms of furthering the actor’s technique‚ and Jerzy Grotowski was one of them. Grotowski was a Polish theater director and innovator of experimental theater‚ the “theatre laboratory‚” and “poor theatre” concepts. On August 11‚ 1933‚ Grotowski was born in Rzeszów‚ Poland‚ and he died in Pontedera‚ Italy on January 14‚ 1999 at age 65. During World War II‚ Grotowski’s family got separated. His father went to
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With everything from lectures about Chamberlain to a bus tour tracing Robert E. Lee’s final retreat to discussions with renowned historian James McPherson‚ my erudite group was buzzing with excitement upon arrival. Every lecture‚ panel‚ and historical tour provided an in depth look into some facet of the war we had never even considered. Of course‚ many soldiers died‚ but how did they transport bodies back to Virginia? How did the advent and spread of photography affect the war? How historically
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film of the production was made with an introduction by Peter Brook‚ which constitutes one of the most accessible and concrete records of Grotowski’s work. In 1964 Grotowski followed success with success when his theatre premiered "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" based on the Elizabethan drama by Christopher Marlowe‚ featuring Zbigniew Cynkutis in the title role.
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Historical Movie I like to watch historical movies‚ because they are interesting‚ you don’t need to read a book‚ and in the movies a lot of cool effects. Hollywood did a lot of historical movie with really cool special effects‚ but I don’t like them movies‚ because they always lie. I mean in old movies‚ like 300 spartans and another they create movie like was in the book‚ but another movies about world wars and another they lie. Hollywood create movie where America is the main and America always
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History of historical linguistics Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of philology‚ the study of ancient texts and documents‚ which goes back to antiquity. At first historical linguistics was comparative linguistics and mainly concerned with establishing language families and the reconstruction of prehistoric proto-languages‚ using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The focus was on the well-known Indo-European
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Historical Influences of the Roaring Twenties Roaring Twenties The Jazz Age‚ the Age of Intolerance‚ The Age of Wonderful Nonsense was the era better known as the Roaring Twenties. This era pioneered the way to modern America. This decade followed the conclusion of World War I‚ “the war to end all wars”. The United States experienced a radical change socially‚ economically‚ politically and innovatively. The 1920’s would be an era where the identity of the United States would evolve and become
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village in Poland‚ sheltered from ideas and industrialization‚ seemed a safe place to store one’s most precious valuable: a 6-year-old boy. Or so it seemed to the parents who abandoned their only son to protect him from the Nazis in the beginning of Jerzy Kosinski’s provocative 1965 novel The Painted Bird. After his guardian Marta dies and her decaying corpse and hut are accidentally engulfed in flames‚ the innocent young dark-haired‚ dark-eyed outcast is obliged to trek from village to village in search
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prodigious amount of history built into the play. Shakespeare may have intended his play to be a false image of the historical ruler of Scotland MacBeth MacFindlaech. Between both of their stories they had similar deaths and similar ways of becoming king‚ but they had very different personalities as a ruler.
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