Young people want to be popular and fit in‚ and if fitting in means drinking or using drugs‚ they are going to do it. After a few parties‚ and a few nights out at a friend’s house‚young people start to get addicted to drugs and alcohol and their life begins to fall apart. Being popular is a goal that all teenagers want to achieve. There’s nothing like sitting at the popular lunch table or knowing all of the football and basketball players. Being popular also means that you have
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The Origins of Drama: an Introduction The word drama comes from the Greek meaning “to act‚ do or perform”‚ and it is in the several subtle and diverse meanings of “to perform” that drama can be said to have begun. All communities accept that their later drama has roots in pre-history. Anthropologists have shown that primitive societies used (and in certain cases still use) role-playing in teaching the codes and behaviour required to live and survive in that society; for example‚ to teach
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Bless me father for I have sinned... You see‚ lately I’ve been having impure thoughts about… (He trails off‚ his eyes red and full of tears.) Um…actually‚ I haven’t been doing very well lately. This is…the first time I’ve been in a church since my mum died. (He looks down‚ whispering) I think about her every day. I just...I wonder what she would say to me right now if she could see me and see how I’ve been living. (Pause) And I wonder if she knows that most days‚ I fall short of being the person
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Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon addresses Australian cultural issues‚ as well as the characters’ personal issues and concerns. How are these issues and concerns made engaging and challenging for an audience? Refer to study and workshop Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon is an engaging and episodic play that employs Australian cultural issues as well as character issues and concerns. These techniques are used effectively through the freedom of practitioners in staging and characterisation
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Educational drama in education for sustainable development: ecopedagogy in action he research on which this paper is based is a response to the UNESCO directive for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 2005–2014. Educators are advised to prepare young people for sustainable development and global citizenship and the Arts should be included in programmes in ESD. This paper presents an overview of a research project based on the hypothesis that educational drama might be a useful
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2011 HSC Question How are taboos used in black comedy to challenge and confront the audience‚ and make them laugh? In your answer‚ refer to study and experience of TWO of the texts set for study Black Comedy‚ as defined within both an Aristotelian-cathartic model and through a Freudian psychological perspective‚ aims to allow its audience to bypass the mind’s censor and to allow release of otherwise socially impermissible emotions on issues that are of a dark or macabre nature. It is a form
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What is popular (low) culture? "Popular culture is a symbolic expression allegedly aligned with the questionable tastes of the "masses‚" who enjoy commercial "junk" circulated by the mass media‚ such as soap operas‚ rock music‚ talk radio‚ comic books‚ and monster truck pulls" (Campbell‚ 18). When looking at the high-low hierarchy it often determines the way people view culture as a whole today‚ saying high culture is good taste and low culture is questionable taste. Many audiences take for granted
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1 W h a t is Popular Culture? - - - aus: STOREY‚ John: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. London e al. (PearsonlPrenUce Hall) 2001 t I Before we consider in detail the different ways in which popular culture has been defined and analyzed‚ I want to outline some of the general features of the debate which the study of popular culture has generated. It is not my intention to pre-empt the specific findings and arguments which will be presented in the following chapters. Here I simply
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A Brief History of Drama The time period from about 1650 to 1920 was ever changing in the world of drama. Neo-classicism sprung up from Greek and Roman models in Europe during the Enlightenment‚ Romanticism struck the Globe in the 1800’s based on principles like emotion‚ intuition and seeking God. During and after the 1800’s naturalism and realism began to play major roles in the area of drama. Naturalists such as August Strindberg and realists such as Henrik Ibsen demonstrate an entirely different
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Popular girls "Popular girls" is a short story from 2001 by Karen Shephard. She is born and raised in New York and her work has been published in several papers. The short-story sets in the early 80 ’s where we get some insight in the life of five rich and popular girls. They are self-centered and don ’t have the slightest interest in other people. Their entire life is about maintaining their image as a group. The setting is New York‚ which is the riches city in the US. The city is also known as
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