1350-01 1. How did the wave of Immigrants coming into New York influence the kind of entertainment being created? 2. Discuss the importance of early comedians‚ such as Harrigan and Hart‚ and Weber and Fields on the way musicals developed. 3. Describe what Tin Pan Alley was‚ and its importance in the rise of musical theatre composers. 4. How did Irving Berlin get his start‚ and what made his work resonate so much with his audiences? As a teenager Irving Berlin learned the value of hard work‚ he
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Shipbreaker Summary Set in a terrifying dystopian America where fossil fuels have run out and cities have been drowned‚ Shipbreaker takes place along the US Gulf Coast and centers around the life of a seventeen year old boy named Nailer‚ who is just one of the numerous teens working in crews to disassemble grounded oil tankers for their parts. Living a life of complete and utter poverty‚ Nailer works on the light crew scavenging for copper wiring and other light metals from the ships‚
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Would Broadway be what it is today without the magic of Sondheim? Stephen Sondheim is an American composer that dates all the way back to 1930. (Stephen Sondheim Biography.com) Sondheim is a musical theatre legend who has won eight Tony awards‚ making him the composer who has received the most Tony’s (Tony Awards Facts and Trivia Tonyawards.com.) His words and wisdom seep onto paper and put on a variety of productions. From “West Side Story” to “Passion‚” there is diversity between the shows that
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Micharus Neely 3/11/2014 EDU 260 Water Is Wide Journal Entries Section 1 (chapter 1-2) Passage: The Water is Wide is about Pat Conroy’s experiences he had while teaching for two years and the local school on the island of Yamacraw off the coast of South Carolina. The book starts with Pat Conroy meeting with Henry Piedmont‚ the Superintendent of the Beaufort school districts‚ about his interest in teaching at Yamacraw Island. Pat admits to the reader that he was racist as a child because
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What makes a man go into cold‚ frigid water to save other people? What makes people go to save others? Why do people go to such great lengths to save other people? In the story “The Man in the Water” by Roger Rosenblatt‚ these questions are addressed to the reader. He is wanting us to think about these questions and others. Another question that can come from this is why would someone give up their life to save others? So the theme I will say is the theme for this story is bravery. This paragraph
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1. Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner got the inspiration for the musical Camelot from the idea based on the King Arthur Legend as adapted from the novel The Once and the Future King. Lerner also wrote the music with Frederick Loewe in the 1960’s. The musical faced criticism because some say it wasn’t as good as My Fair Lady‚ and the musical did suffer from structural problems‚ but it still was able to tour around the country. 2. There were two ways that the economics of producing Broadway musicals changed
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INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE SPANISH FASHION BRAND ZARA Carmen Lopez Ying Fan Brunel Business School Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (2009)‚ 13:2‚ 279-296 INTRODUCTION Zara is one of the world’s most successful fashion retailers operating in 59 countries. However‚ there is little research about the firm in English as the majority of publications have been written in Spanish. This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining the internationalisation process
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Strategic Audit of The Gap‚ Inc. Submitted by: Chris Bess‚ Teddy Ormsbee‚ Tiffany Sayers‚ and Jeremey Williams Submitted to: Professor Ditmore 13 April 2010 Table of Contents I. Current Situation: The Gap in 2002 3 A. Past Corporate Performance 3 B. Strategic Posture 4 II. Corporate Governance 5 A. Board of Directors 6 B. Top Management 7 III. External Environment: Opportunities and Threats 8 A.) Societal Environment 8 B.) Task Environment 10 IV. Internal
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When Anything Goes first set sail on Broadway in 1934‚ America was recovering from the Great Depression‚ Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in his first term in office‚ the New Deal was still in its infancy and many Americans were out of work. These were challenging times in America and many were longing for that sense of freedom and optimism that had defined our nation. The birth of musical theater and the popularity of the radio in the 1930’s gave the brilliant music of Cole Porter and other famous
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An introduction of business proposal Executive Summary Gap is proposing to bring a new product of fast food into the market. Nowadays fast food has become one of the popular selections for people in their lifestyle‚ so Gap is planning to venture into the fast food industry with the new slogan; Fast Food Can Be An Icon Of Fashion. The target audiences are customers of Gap and also tourists around Malaysia of ages from 18 – 28. Objective: 1. Using posters‚ internet‚ and online advertising to
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