going to make it?” The Commentator says. “Is it a homerun‚ yes it is!” The horns Roar as loud as a Lion and the Crowd goes wild. “He makes it once again‚ is Babe Ruth Unbeatable?” The commentator says as if he wasn’t amazed. Bring back one of the greatest baseball players of all time and watch the story right before your eyes. In 1914 Babe Ruth became Major league in July‚ the first Major league team he joined was the Almighty New York Yankees. In the year of 1927 Babe made a stunning 59 homeruns‚ the
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Close Study of Text: Cosi The play “Cosi” by Louis Nowra is about a young‚ inexperienced university student who is given the task of directing a play in a mental hospital. The play uses many dramatic techniques including the setting of the play‚ humour‚ Language‚ the play within the play structure‚ and the fourth wall to help draw the audience into the world of the play. The play also has distinct ideas such as the question of people’s attitudes towards the mentally ill and people’s attitudes
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According to a biblical dictionary‚ the definition of Ruth is “satisfied”. This perfectly fits with who Ruth is‚ as her main goal was to satisfies those around her and in return she found herself to be satisfied. The book of Ruth teaches reader of selfless love and commitment. In Ruth 1:14-18‚ Ruth makes it clear that she will forever be bound to Naomi although they are not related by blood. She shows her acceptance in the misfortunes she has suffered but chooses to make the best out of that situation
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The playwright ‘Cosi’ has several backdrops throughout the book. The main once is obviously the theatre but the more in depth backgrounds is the movement of the people in the real world. The Vietnam Moratorium‚ which was fighting for the government to return all the troops from the Vietnam War and the Sexual Revolution‚ which was a social movement that fought against the traditional codes towards to sexual relationships. The Vietnam Moratorium The moratorium was a mass demonstration against
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Throught the play Cosi the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Louis Nowra has used black comedy within Cosi to allow the audience to abandon their pre-conceptions of ‘mad’ people and to see the characters not for their illness but for their personality. Because of this the audience is able to relate to each character and their situation and realise the underlying sadness of the patients lives. We are confronted by their pasts as we come to realise the causes
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convey a work’s theme and can be used to give pattern to a passage which points towards a greater message and in the book of Ruth‚ it joins similar concepts to show their connection. The parallelism in Ruth‚ allows for a reader to reflect on the consistency of Ruth’s character and how it compensates for her foreignness. In a first reading‚ one might look over the fact that Ruth is from Moab because the text does not explicitly mention the tension carried with being a Moabite in Israel. But‚ to the
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George Herman Ruth also known as ‚Babe Ruth‚ was born on February 6‚1895 in Baltimore Maryland. Babe Ruth had many nicknames such as‚ “The Sultan of Swat”. He also had two other nicknames of “The Big Bam”‚ and “Jack Dunn’s Baby”‚ and many others besides those. On February 14‚1914 Babe Ruth signed his first contract with the minor-league baseball team Baltimore Orioles. The man who signed Ruth was named Jack Dunn‚ a former major league player and the owner and manager of the Orioles.
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Cosi by Louis Nowra is a play within a play‚ Meta Theatre‚ and is a semi-autobiographical‚ touching and a biting portrayal of human relationships and mental illness. Prior to the 1970s‚ people who suffered from ‘mental disorders’ were sent to mental institutes in order to prevent them from bringing shame onto their families and the community. The ‘illnesses’ ranged from true mental instability‚ such as OCD and schizophrenia‚ to alcoholics and drug abusers. This is what Nowra’s play is based around
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‘Cosi is both a tragedy and a comedy’ The book Cosi‚ written by Louis Nowra consisted of being about a play called ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ which involved madness‚ illusion‚ sanity and theatre. This play was set in a mental institution and involved fellow patients to become the extraordinary actors that were finally able to get an involvement to bring them out of their dull shell. Lewis‚ is the fresh out of university‚ new director‚ which gasp’s on the idea that having this role isn’t as easy as he was
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For my roaring 20’s project I researched Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was an important figure in the 1920’s. Baseball players still talk about him even today! Babe Ruth is considered the greatest baseball player of all time and one of the most iconic. He holds many records including highest on base percentage and highest slugging percentage. He held the most home runs hit all-time until 1974. Babe Ruth was one of the eight children in the Ruth family. His parents were George Herman Sr. and Katherine
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