Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders was born in Brooklyn‚ New York on 8 September 1941 to Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father is of Polish decent and immigrated to the United States when he was 17‚ with little education and money. Bernie once graduated moved to Vermont which is situated in the North Eastern part of the United States‚ there he worked in carpentry and documentary filmmaker. 1981 saw the start of his ever growing political career‚ he was elected as the mayor of Burlington‚ the largest
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"We must always think about things‚ and we must think about things as they are‚ and not as they are said to be" (George Bernard Shaw). These words define how people tend to only view things from the outside‚ without looking deeper. They do not look past the stereotypes to see things for what they really are. Such is the case of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The audience generally views her as a Machiavellian villain. They do not see past the few corrupt incidents that she is involved
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ideas in any of Shaw’s other major works. It can be considerated an issue of language. This play was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912‚ presents a comic Edwardian version of the classical myth about Pygmalion‚ legendary sculptor and King of Cyprus‚ who fell in love with his own statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer‚ Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea. George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is the story of Henry Higgins‚ a master phonetician‚ and his mischievous plot to pass a common flower
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S – Solitude Arguments – conflict‚ debate and disagreement - Arlene used 3 arguments (yung nasa test 3 pero yung nasa book 4) These arguments are: - Virginia Woolf – English writer who uses the “steam of consciousness” technique - George Bernard Shaw – an English playwright‚ said that Filipinos will go from being primitives to becoming exhausted civilization. - Imelda Marcos – former first lady of the Phil.‚ who was never seen reading a book from cover to cover get positions of power.
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In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard has to be gently told that her husband has died tragically. Her sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind‚ she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her‚ she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they
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Weekly Reflection Assignment • What is the most significant thing you learned this week? In my reading this week‚ I found three things that stood out as significant. I find leadership and conflict training to be interesting and enjoyable. the text gives us the encouragement for this same thing‚ this can be accomplished in several ways. In my experience‚ the most frequent reason people choose to participate in conflict and leadership development workshops and seminars is that they have been referred
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Medea Medea is a character existing outside of the typical Greek value and social systems that existed in the Greek Polis’s at the time of the play’s inception. She is strong willed‚ powerful‚ intelligent‚ cunning‚ volatile and independent. She possesses many traits and characteristics reserved and associated with Greek heroes in other plays common at the time. It could be possible to assume that a typical Greek audience of the time (likely predominantly male) would find this character absurd
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analyze and criticize love as it was in those times. The present paper will attempt to compare and contrast the portrayals of love in Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen‚ Happy Days by Samuel Beckett‚ Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ and Candida by George Bernard Shaw. We will observe whether love is always portrayed the same way‚ through study of the plays. In the past‚ drama associated love with innocence and purity. For instance in Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet‚ love was eternal‚ true and irreversible
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natural and important to them—they are confined to barren cages‚ socially isolated‚ and psychologically traumatized. The thinking‚ feeling animals that are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment. George Bernard Shaw‚ an Irish critic and political activist‚ once said “Vivisection is a total evil because it advances human knowledge; it does so at the expense of human character.” Nowadays‚ the development of new procedures has changed the need to test on animals
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prepared to comprehend.” — Henri Bergson We see what we want to see‚ which our minds tell us‚ also making us comprehend it in a different way. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” — George Bernard Shaw “Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us‚ another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.” — William James “Language forces us to perceive the world as men present it to
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