A Cream Cracker Under The Settee is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television‚ as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. In A Cream Cracker Under the Settee Alan Bennett has addressed the issue of elderly people in our society and how they are treated by others. It revolves 75-year old Doris on an ordinary day in her house. The play begins after her fall from the buffet and her reflecting on the events that led up to it. The reason the writer uses a monologue is
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Topic: Alan Sears‚ Retooling the Mind Factory: Education in a Lean State Abstract One of the neo-liberal reform agenda is the “lean state”. The lean concept involves every aspect of social changes. This paper will begin discussing the effects of lean state in education reform. Then‚ it will expand any dramatic changes according to neo-liberal agenda. These changes require to be built upon the most efficient production system the lean production. As a result‚ the education reform will have a certain
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why they were effective. All excellent novels have an important and significant beginning that helps set the story in motion. The beginning of each book in the thought provoking novel‚ Cry‚ the Beloved country – a Story of Comfort in Desolation by Alan Paton is such a one. Paton skilfully uses the literary technique of setting to help us understand an important idea‚ the idea of segregated cultures. Poetic writing‚ parallel structures and direct pronouns are techniques further used to emphasise the
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Alan Ball’s play “five women wearing the same dress” by is a realistic tragic-comedy. It is said to have its setting in Knoxville‚ Tennessee. It takes place during a newly married couple’s over-perfected wedding reception. Five odd bridesmaids found themselves hiding together in an upstairs bedroom‚ trying to escape the wedding reception. The bridesmaid realized that despite their differences‚ they all have so much in common with each other‚ including their dislike for the bride. Alan’s play has
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According to famous author and Holocaust survivor Alan Grantz‚ “I shook with helpless and rage‚ but also with fear. This was what fighting back earned you. More abuse. More death. Half a dozen of Jews would be murdered today because one man refused to die without a fight.” Adolf Hitler and his Nazis set up concentration camps to further imprison his control over the Jews. Concentration camps had two types of camps‚ death camps and work camps where they were either enslaved and worked under devastating
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ELEMENTS OF PASTORAL LITERARY MODE IN ALAN HOLLINGHURST’S THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY Summary: This essay ’s purpose is to explore the use of the pastoral technique as a specific dominion for English homoerotic literature‚ focusing on Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Swimming-pool Library. I make an attempt to look into the main features of classic pastoral mode incorporated in English landscape culture and also to find the contrasting characteristics of anti-pastoral literature. This
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Testimony of Dr. Alan Greenspan Committee of Government Oversight and Reform October 23‚ 2008 Word Count: 1‚133 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: Thank you for this opportunity to testify before you this morning. We are in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. You‚ importantly‚ represent those on whose behalf economic policy is made‚ those who are feeling the brunt of the crisis in their workplaces
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FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS – Alan Ball Pg 22-25 Georgeanne: (Looking in mirror) God. Look at me. I am totally pathetic. I just don’t want to be alone. Is that too much to ask? I mean‚ I still believe in marriage. I do. (Trisha laughs ruefully.) You don’t? Trisha: To be perfectly honest with you‚ Georgeanne‚ I think any woman who chooses marriage in this day and age is out of her fucking mind. G: Don’t you believe in love? T: I certainly believe in consideration. And respect
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Week 4: 4 - Class Discussion 1 and 2 Describe what is motivating Jim Goodnight. Discuss how these factors are similar or different to what may motivate you if you worked at SAS. What motivates Jim goodnight is that he has assembled a company with loyal employees that enjoy working in the organization. Jim believes that” if you treat employees as if they make a difference to the company‚ they will make a difference” to the company. (Hellriegel & Slocum‚ 2011) As stated in the case just having
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“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it‚ does it make a sound?” A Reader- Oriented approach to Edgar Alan Poe’s The Tell- Tale Heart The Titular question is an old philosophical riddle for which a wide range of metaphysical and non-metaphysical solution has been offered. The answers differ based on the perspective of the interpreter. Judging these answers is neither possible nor desirable for us‚ but the riddle and the ensuing debates attest to the veracity of one of the most
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