Evaluation 1 On 12th of December we went to Stifford Clays Primary and performed our piece to 180 year 4’s and 5’s. When we got there we had to straight away bring in our set and therefore had to quickly work out our staging. We all agreed to have the boards on a slant so that we could get changed and await our queues without the children seeing us as if they did it would ruin the illusion. We did this and got changed into our costumes in 20 minutes which I thought was really good and professional
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Rags to Riches Eliza Doolittle is a main character in the play Pygmalion. She is a poor girl from the streets of London who turns out to be a brilliant and beautiful young woman. Eliza Doolittle uses her skillful thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer to lessons with the rude Henry Higgins to become a lady in a flower shop. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle does not
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Basem Chammas Mrs. Borchers English IV (F) 6th September 2012 A Look At The Older Views of Society There is a saying that renders strong and important advice that should be instilled within all of us. The saying‚ “Don’t judge a book by its cover‚” displays a very enriching message. One is not to judge others by their outward appearance. This means that one cannot simply critique someone based upon physical appearance‚ education‚ social status‚ and financial status; instead a person
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Tragedy and Drama In a range of dramatic works from Agamemnon to Hamlet‚ one sees the range of development of the tragic form‚ from the earliest Greek to the later Shakespearean tragedies. There are two basic concepts of tragedy: the concept introduced by Aristotle in his Poetics‚ and the concept developed by Frederick Nietzsche in his "The Birth of Tragedy." Many dramas can be reviewed to reveal the contrast between these two concepts of tragedy‚ and demonstrate the development of the tragic
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Pygmalion in Management Name: Institution: Date: Pygmalion in Management Introduction The following is the summary of the article Pygmalion in Management by J. Sterling Livingston in the July /August‚ 1969 Harvard Business Review. The manner in which managers handle their subordinates is mainly influenced by their expectation. Therefore‚ the article clearly points out that worker performance in a particular organization is directly related to
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Although early prose fiction prototypes of the novel had been popular with readers since the late seventeenth century‚ the English novel as such only became a mature and predominant literary form in the mid-eighteenth century. After decades of embattled popularity—embattled because the guardians of aesthetic value saw these works of fictions as a frivolous and corrupting upstart too derivative of French romance—the novel finally won a respectable place in the literary echelons in the 1740s‚ due largely
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Pygmalion: An analysis of Shaw’s comedic style In this modern interpretation of the Greek tale about a sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue‚ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of two opposite people and their conflicting desires. In this play‚ Shaw criticizes the British class system and makes a statement towards his feminist views. Shaw also incorporates three types of comedy‚ and these are: old comedy‚ physical comedy and comedy of manners. Old comedy is
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the coming of sound and color films as a negative step for the industry. He thought it would lead to the end of the silent era and to a pursuit of technical perfection in movies that place emphasis on "inartistic demand for the greatest possible realism" (Arnheim ‚ 183) In an excerpt from Film As Art titled The Complete Film‚ Arnheim expresses his views on the future of film. He uses the term "complete film" to describe what he will become the perfected film format that is hardly artistic
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Pygmalion had the worst luck dating women; some were rude‚ others selfish. He was revolted by these faults. Eventually came to despise the female gender so much he vowed he would never marry. This discovery left him depressed so he turned to the arts and took up sculpting. He carved a statue out of ivory that was so exquisite and beautiful no living female could compare. Pygmalion fell in love with his statue and often laid hands upon her to reassure himself she was not real. He named her Galatea
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This summer I read the book Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw. The genre of the book is fiction and realism. Pygmalion is about a flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ who meets Henry Higgins‚ who is a professor. Eliza hears Higgins bet Colonel Pickering‚ Higgins friend‚ that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at a party. Eliza takes up his offer and learns how to speak English perfectly. Many complications come along the way as the story progresses. In the end‚ Eliza leaves Higgins house and marries Freddy
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