Recently‚ I had the pleasure of seeing Nikolai Gogol’s 19th century comedic farce‚ The Government Inspector. The thrilling play I attended on Thursday November 5‚ 2015 was adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher‚ directed by Matt Foyer‚ and produced by Jeanette D.Farr at the Glendale College Auditorium Mainstage Theatre. This funny contemporary production illuminated the absurdity and vanity of human behavior. The 90-minute comedic face‚ performed in the grand Proscenium theatre‚ had a clever and unexpected series
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How does Priestly build tension within the play ‘An Inspector Calls?’ The tension first begins to build when the inspector first appears and begins to interrogate Mr Birling. “I’d like some information‚ if you don’t mind Mr Birling.” The family were having a nice family meal when suddenly he appears and ruins the mood. The audience understand this when Mr Birling says “We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you’ve made of it now‚ haven’t you?” Tension is created
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CSR Gap Analysis of the GAP Gap Inc prefaces their 2004/5 CSR report with the question: what is a company’s role in society? Their answer is that a company ‘only realizes its full potential when it embraces its role as a global citizen’. This raises two interesting points; the first is that the answer to the question ‘what is a company’s role in society?’ will be conditioned by normative assumptions about business/government relations in a firm’s country of incorporation. David Detomasi
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the previous generation used to be‚ Fishman’s evidences are more up-to-date. According to a recent Sun editorial‚ “activism has transformed from sensationalized 1960s tear-gas rallies to online petitions and Internet discussion boards” (Fishman 73). Not only Fishman‚ but also the reality tells that the time has changed. News can be spread worldwide in seconds through the Internet‚ and it can easily gather “Generation Q”‚ written by Thomas L. Friedman‚ and “The Generation of Generation Q”‚ written
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The Gap Inc. business strategy is a combined of cost leader and differentiation. The company provides a highly competitive price with some differentiated fashion features. As a cost leader‚ Gap supplies the similar products at a lower price‚ uses the simple design‚ and applies a tight cost control system to its store space. At the same time‚ Gap also equipped with some unique product features. The company has variety products designed for different group of target customer‚ like GapKids and Banana
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Case #4: Bridging the Gap As customers once knew‚ The Gap was a popular fashion apparel store that attracted many people to it. However‚ this is no longer the case in the present day. So what happened? According to the case‚ competitors are gaining market share with cheaper and fresher fashion designs. One of the problems Gap (including other retailers) is the rising costs of raw materials. Gap said this would force them to raise their prices on items by 20 percent‚ but the customers
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Priestly portrays the character of the Inspector as an unconventional figure on stage‚ this is due to the way in which he expresses his thoughts‚ his personality and the way in which he conducts the investigation. In act 1 he is very direct‚ in the way he talks to the family‚ unlike other inspectors‚ who would be politer and indirect when asking questions about what they have done‚ “cutting through‚ massively”. In addition to that‚ the stage directions‚ in which he is described as having an “impression
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J.B. Priestly presents Arthur Birling as a self obsessed‚ work oriented “hard-headed business man” in Act 1. The stage directions describe him as a “heavy-looking‚ rather portentous man” giving an impression that he looks rather threatening. He is very traditional and speaks formally‚ even around his family. He has worked hard to raise himself up the social ladder and is proud to think that he’s going to be knighted. Even at his daughter’s engagement party‚ Birling’s head is still wrapped around
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An Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912. In the play‚ Gerald and Sheila are enjoying an engagement party when intrudes a ‘police inspector’ who reveals that a lower class woman drank disinfectant and died. The inspector gradually reveals that every member of the family plays a part in the girl’s death. What is important about this play‚ and at first seems irrelevant‚ is that it is set in 1912. What must be remembered is that today if a young woman was struggling with the dilemmas that Eva Smith
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What Do You Think is the Importance of Inspector Goole and How Does Priestly Present Him? An Inspector Calls is a play with lots of political messages as well as social messages. J. B. Priestley believed in socialism and he used large sections of his plays attempting to convince people of his way of thinking. It was written in a time when Britain was ruled by a Labour government and socialist policies were seen to be a good way to go. It was a common way of thinking at that time so Priestley’s
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