Bernard Shaw Pygmalion A Romance in Five Acts 1. Summary of the Play‚ page 2 2. Introduction and Short Analysis of the Main Character‚ page 4 3. Interpretation‚ page 5 4. Additional Information‚ page 7 5. Literature and Links‚ page 8 1. Summary London at 11.15 a.m.‚ on a rainy summer day. Everybody’s running for shelter because of the torrential storm. A bunch of people ist gathering in St. Pauls church‚ looking outside and waiting for the rain to stop. Among the
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ANALYSIS OF THREE PROTAGONIST CHARACTERS IN DIFFERENT TEENAGE SHORT STORIES: ‘’NEXT TERM‚ WE’LL MASH YOU’’ BY PENELOPE LIVELY‚ ‘’SECRETS’’ BY BERNARD MACLAVERTY AND ‘’THE LICENCE’’ BY FRANK TUOHY Penelope Lively ‘’Next Term‚ We’LL Mash You’’ (1987)‚ Frank Tuohy ‘’The Licence’’ (1964) and Bernard MacLaverty ‘’Secrets’’ (1977) all these three authors wrote didactic literature about young adults and the problems they have to face. The short stories focus on three
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore‚ all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw When I first read this‚ I immediately thought that this goes back to a classical debate of being ideal against being practical. To challenge the status quo. But do we really have to be unreasonable in order to achieve progress? Being reasonable implies practicality which denotes steadiness and soundness
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Bernard McGrane believes that as sociologists they have to think scientifically which means without any bias or personal preference. For instance‚ when we are think about necessity of legalizing casinos in NYC‚ we cannot have any answer influenced by personal experience like lost money there or personal preference like I don’t like gambling. We have to think objectively without any personal emotion. As to culture shock from anthropology‚ it is a individual get in to a new society which has totally
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The paper “The Self and The Future” is written by Bernard Williams. It depicts two very similar cases and stirs a discussion between whether the psychological continuity theory or bodily continuity theory is more relevant when it comes to our personal identity. Psychological continuity is a view that is based on the principle that our personal identity is associated with our thoughts and memories. Bodily continuity theory is a view that as long as we have the same body‚ we are the same person. Throughout
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This week’s case study‚ The Fraud of the Century: The Case of Bernard Madoff‚ details an elaborate Ponzi scheme and characterizes every aspect of a white collar crime. Bernie Madoff originally began carry out buying and trading stocks legally. Madoff was never registered as an investment advisor and the SEC paid little to no attention to the business he conducted (Gaviria and Smith‚ 2009). Bernie Madoff established a family friendly framework. This framework employed his wife‚ brother‚ niece‚ and
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itself‚ through which Tschumi proposes an architecture of difference and opposition rather than synthesis and totality. Narrative techniques—be they pictorial or cinematic—evoke the ability of fiction to produce an alternative form of critique. Bernard Tschumi was already widely known for his theoretical drawings and written texts‚ like The Manhattan Transcripts developed in the late 1970s‚ in which he transcribed aspects normally removed from conventional architectural representation‚ like the
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The Prison – Bernard Malamud Theme : Twenty nine year old Tommy Castelli‚ who was Tony as a boy is now a man who is defeated in life‚ his main aim in life was to get out of the slum he grew up in. Life does not work that way for him and he ends up trapped in an unfulfilling way of life. A 10 year old girl is caught by him stealing from his shop and then he decides to save her life by showing her the right way so that she does not end up having a futile and banal life like his own. He makes a few
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Bernie Banton was a passionate and courageous campaigner whose life was taken away from him all in a blink of an eye. Bernard Douglas Banton or as he was known as –Bernie was born in the year 1946 in Sydney. Banton worked as an employee at the Camellia plant of Australian building products giant James Hardie & co Pty Ltd from 1968 to 1974. He was a lathe operator who shaped blocks of asbestos for the use of power stations and pipe sections. Before I go on any further‚ you might want to know what
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OCR Unit number: 107 The Learner will: 1.Understand how to make telephone calls. 1.2 Give reasons for identifying the purpose of a call before making it. To not waste time‚ so you are aware what information you need and are therefore able to ask the right questions. It is also important as you will sound professional and organised‚ which will reflect well upon the company you work for. It may be a good idea to have a checklist written down of all you need to know‚ this
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