Apparently‚ the role of journey differs in texts. It is therefore intriguing to learn how journey is used and what it means to a certain text. Read on to find out what effects journey has and what the importance of this aspect is in the play Educating Rita and the novella A Christmas Carol. In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ the aspect of journey plays an important role in portraying the protagonist’s future and past. In his story‚ Dickens takes the reader on a journey through
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Educating Rita by Willy Russell explores the relationship between the two characters involved in the play‚ Frank and Rita over a time span‚ of several months. A variety of themes are explored as Rita‚ a working class Liverpudlian‚ aspires to a higher social and academic level so that she may have choices‚ with Frank‚ a disillusioned and failed poet as her teacher. As Rita progresses‚ Russell uses a range of dramatic techniques and tensions between the two characters to explore themes of the personal
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play Educating Rita‚ by Willy Russell‚ where Rita’s growth and change comes about with her education and experiences in her social‚ working-class life. A passage from "A Patch Of Blue” by Elizabeth Kata also demonstrate how new stages of experience can bring about risks and benefits in one’s life leading to a transition into a broader world. Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows
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Incident 1 HR after a Disaster 1. Which external environment factor(s) did Hurricane Rita affect? Discuss. 2. How were the human resource functions affected by Hurricane Rita? 3. Do you believe that the HR situation described regarding Hurricane Rita would be typical in a disaster? Explain 1. There are many external environment factors that occurred during the Hurricane Rita affect. One of the factors would be the Labor Market‚ which employees are selected to work in
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Comedy is performance which aims to entertain through humour. Throughout the ages there have been many type of comedy. These have included the genres of stand up comedy‚ situation‚ comedies‚ forms of anime‚ radio‚ slapstick mime as well as cinematic comedy amongst others. Some of these have been more successful than others. Whether funniness has been the sole determinant of success in terms of popularity is debatable. It is commonly believed that the funny factor is indispensable. However‚ this essay
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What is comedy? What determines what is funny to a particular society? Comedy is hard to define and differs from culture to culture. Through out time societies have developed many different forms of comedy ranging from theater and poetry to cartoons and sitcoms. This paper will compare and contrast classical Greek comedy to that of medieval times particularly Aristophanes’s The Clouds and Ysengrimus respectively. These two comedies were composed in completely different time periods (about 500
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Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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Restoration comedies ‘often deal with the absurdity of a world with elaborate rules and codes of behaviour or manners.’ To what extent is this view also true in Educating Rita? There are a lot of rules and codes of behaviour that are presented to be absurd in Educating Rita‚ most are introduced by the character or what the character says. Frank sets up the first code of behaviour when he stereotypes his impending student‚ calling her ‘silly’ before he’s even met her‚ a word that can be considered
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definitions of comedy claim that at the end of the play a happy conclusion will have emerged. How far do you think Educating Rita has a happy conclusion? Educating Rita is a play by Willie Russell‚ set in 1983. It is a semi-autobiographical play about Rita‚ a young working class Liverpool hairdresser who decides wants to gain an education using an Open University. Her tutor is the disillusioned and alcoholic Frank‚ who teaches at the Open University to pay for his drinking habits. Rita decides she
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escape hearing the name "Rita Dove." In October of 1993‚ Ms. Dove’s poem Lady Freedom Among Us was published in a limited edition by Janus Press and became the 4 millionth piece collected by the University of Virginia Libraries. In 1994‚ she read the same poem at the Capitol building to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol and the restoration of the Freedom Statue‚ which adorns the roof of the Capitol Building. This alone should be enough to prove that Rita Dove is probably one of the
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