1. What is Tin Pan Alley and why is the history of Tin Pan Alley important to the history of rock ’n’ roll leading up to the 1950s? Tin Pan Alley was a place in New York City where music publishing was centered. Great songwriters such as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin wrote music here. Many of the Tin Pan Alley songs were written in a strophic verse-chorus form. Tin Pan Alley was originally the name of the place in New York‚ but then came to refer to the very popular style of music that was
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and spectacular student of Plato‚ Aristotle achieved amazing things in his lifetime. Aristotle developed the six element of a play; plot‚ thought‚ diction‚ character‚ spectacle‚ and song. All of Aristotle element can be found within the Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. To begin the plot of the story is dramatic and follow an order. From the beginning when Brick and Maggie were alone talking to Brick and Maggie final making love‚ the plot was chronological. It made sense and was straight to the point. The
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Judy Brady studied art before she decided to get married‚ have a family‚ and star her writing career. She is a breast cancer survivor who wrote many essays and poems during her difficult time. One in particular that seems unethical and morally wrong is her essay entitled‚ “I want a wife.” The logic and evidence used by Brady explains why she deserves a wife to take care of her‚ however‚ she also gives characteristics of a wife‚ which is reputable in a sense that women are indentured servants. While
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that I had succeeded where others had fallen short. Although some of the characters in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof were able to aggrandize through the pride they had gained throughout life‚ others fell short of this success and instead spent time drowning themselves in reminiscence and rum. Big Daddy could be considered the epitome of pride in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He owns “twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land” (112)‚ all of which he gained through hard work and dedication
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Before we start talking about “cat on a hot tin roof” by Tennessee Williams and the film adaption that soon came later and how the homosexual undertones of the play were not included into the film because of the industry’s strict laws; it must begin with having to address the stigma of homosexuality as a whole. Bringing it back to Thomas Jefferson and his “Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments”‚ homosexuality or also referenced as sodomy was illegal and under the same consequential group
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Rough Draft Judy Brady specified in her text‚ “Why I Want a Wife” that having a wife would be great‚ and then she starts naming off many things that woman name that make a man very happy. She supports her claim by first talking about her friend who had recently been divorced and trying to look for another wife‚ then she starts talking about the small things that women do that would make a man want a wife‚ then she starts asking why wouldn’t she want a wife‚ and finally asks “Why wouldn’t anybody
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Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus Mississippi in 1911. He started writing plays in 1945. Ten years later he released Cat on a Hot Tin Roof‚ which embodied much of Mr. Williams’s experiences during his life. As his father drank and gambled‚ Williams’s family had to continue moving and struggle with money (SparkNotes Editors). This drama is written about a family which is lying and scheming in order to receive a larger portion of a fortune when the character Big Daddy dies. Though numerous people
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stir the reader body‚ mind and even imagination of the story behind it. In this essay‚ I will explore how can poems literature stirs the body‚ mind‚ and imagination and this will present through two poems ‘ The Weary Blues’ by Langston Hughes and ‘The Tin Wash Dish’ by Les A. Murray. In the Hughes poem the literature stirs the body in slow motion‚ stirs the mind in that musician have a great night and that have the same effect on the reader. Imagine the musician enjoying the piano music. However‚ in
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A Visit to The Wizard of Oz -5 people play script A Visit to The Wizard of Oz by Wu Hsiu-yao Cast Wu Yu-chieh: Child A‚ Scarecrow‚ and Vicky’s mother Huang Chi-ying: Vicky Yeh Chung-cheng: The Tin Woodman Chang Tun-wei: The King of Oz and Park Keeper Lai Kuan-ling: Dorothy ——————————————————————————– SCENE I (This is a park; there is a tree in the middle of the stage. There is a bush on the right hand side of the stage. Some children are on the stage. They look
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A woman’s place in the workforce is more accepted now than it has ever been before. However‚ in the 1970s‚ many women were expected to work in the home and be a supportive and loving wife to their husbands. Judy Brady‚ a feminist writer and survivor of breast cancer‚ writes about her longing for someone to take care of her as she takes care of her husband. First delivered at a rally in San Francisco in 1971 to mark the fifty year anniversary of American Women’s Suffrage‚ Brady’s essay awakened the
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