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    Anton Chekhov’s play “Uncle Vanya” tells the story of a late 1800’s Russian estate tossed into turmoil by the arrival of a professor Serebryakov‚ a man that has retired from academia to live on his dead wife’s land. The tiresome Serebryakov‚ displays arrogance and tyranny to everyone around him‚ and only stays on the estate due to the blind admiration of his former mother-in law. His beautiful young wife‚ Elena‚ is lusted after by the other men on the estate‚ including the doctor Mikhail Lvovich

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    Anna in the Tropics‚ a play that had won a Pulitzer Prize for 2003 had made one of its many performances at the wonderfully built and great resemblance thrust stage. The show was quite spectacular when you look at all the things it had to offer. From the moment you walk into the theatre you notice that almost all of the seats are taken and that this play is very well known and can offer an explosive performance. You knew that by seeing where everyone sat that the distance from the stage to anyone

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    Sam Houston : A True Frontier Legend of the United States Sam Houston was a great man who was involved with much of the early development of America and especially Texas. He was a soldier‚ lawyer‚ politician‚ businessman‚ and also family man. He was taken adopted by the Native American who later became the people he admired and supported. They together helped to bridge the gap between the American government and the Native American. Sam Houston succeeded in many roles in American’s history‚ and

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852‚ a book that quickly became a topic of polarizing national discussion. Harriet Beecher Stowe used the power of the pen to prompt a debate about change centered on the social movement of abolitionism. Considered one of the precipitants of the Civil War‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin raised awareness among abolitionists and northerners who had never interacted with African Americans or had never experienced slavery first hand. When slavery’s

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    tiny detail in the short story “Uncle Marcos”‚ written by Isabel Allende‚ significantly

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    showed tremendous intelligent strength. Two characters Uncle Basil from “You can’t take it with you” and Janie from the book Wake they are both very intelligent because they are good thinkers and are good at coming up with plans. First of the characters is Uncle basil by making people question his intelligence because he is secretly smart. “Uncle Basil lives in a house very small for his money questioned his family” (Wuorio 1). In this quote uncle basil shows he hardly uses money and he uses it in

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    Sam Walton was an American businessman best known for founding the retail chain Wal-Mart‚ which grew to be the world’s largest corporation. Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher Oklahoma in 1918. From his humble beginnings‚ he rose and founded the largest retail empire in the world. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia‚ graduating in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He served as a Captain in the Army Intelligence Corps from 1942 to 1945. He married his wife Helen in 1943

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    The sharp‚ strained movements and demonic screeching in Anna Halprin’s 1975 improvisational piece‚ Darkside Dance‚ make it is easy to understand the amount of despair Halprin went through upon hearing that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer a second time. In an interview‚ Halprin described her feelings regarding this diagnosis when she said‚ “For those of you who have cancer or have had cancer‚ you know how life threatening it can be. You’re unprepared suddenly to face the possibility of dying

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    The society’s judgments of Uncle Willie be crippled Uncle Willie was a cripple man who was seen differently by his appearances. He’s deals with people negative opinions about him being crippled. The narrator says “The tragedy of his lameness seems so unfair to children that they are embarrassed in its presence” (Angelou pg39). Angelou experienced at a very young age that judgments others assume by looking at the appearances of a person. Angelou says: “in our society‚ where two

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    UNCLE HAMMER CHARACTER SKETCH Roll of thunder hear my cry Elliot white u2d UNCLE HAMMER CHARACTER SKETCH Roll of thunder hear my cry Elliot white u2d In the book “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry” by Mildred D Taylor‚ she uses a minor character called Uncle Hammer to take a stand against racism in Mississippi and to teach his nephews and his niece’s valuable lessons. Uncle Hammer is a hot-tempered African American‚ who is strongly against racism. He is big ma’s oldest unmarried son‚ who

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