Lydia Burns Professor Craig Lee Theater 1310 23 November 2017 “Our Town” The critically acclaimed three act play “Our Town” was and still remains popular to this day. Since its first performance in 1938 at the McCarter Theater in Princeton‚ New Jersey‚ it found its way to a successful Broadway run and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It also became one of the most performed plays in the 20th century. Written by American playwright Thornton Wilder‚ the play was molded into a timeless
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In the documentary‚ “The ten Town That Changed America” Geoffrey Baer illustrates the evolution of ten popular cities that changed the image of America. Done in chronological order‚ the documentary explores how visionary citizens combined urban planning‚ design‚ and architecture to develop these US cities and change the way people lived. These are planners who had a passion and great insights for urban development. Although driven by different inspirations and motivations‚ they had a common goal;
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of human nature and humanities seemingly many functions‚ nearly all of human life seems to be centered around vanity and personal gain. Such thought provoking concepts are addressed in E.E. Cummings’ poetic masterpiece “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town.” People tend to function in patterns beyond their own comprehension‚ never realizing the never ending loop that
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West in his song ‘Big Brother’ noting that people take what they have for granted until they have lost it. Similarly‚ in Our Town by Thornton Wilder‚ Emily Webb Gibb’s portrayal‚ her approach to people around her and her perspective on life after death puts a spotlight on the mundanity of day-to-day life events and how neglectful people are of it until it’s too late. Our Town is set up as a perfect archetypal American countryside where days start early and
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Fast Can Life Really Be LIFE‚ we may not know what it means but we may know how short and quick human life is. Our Town is about these characters that live in the same town and they all interact with each other and the stage manager is explaining the play in a very unique way. Every single time the stage manager explains the play he always makes a theme. In the play‚ Our Town‚ Wilder explores the brevity of human life. Wilder explains the brevity of human life by giving multiple examples of
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and hence its greatness was recognized all over the world. Lifestyle of people living in Village‚ town and city levels differs a lot. People in villages majorly depend on agriculture and their main source of income is cultivation. Their regular life cycle in terms of earning money is that cultivating two to three crops a year‚ transporting the cultivated food or other products to the nearby towns‚ selling the cultivated raw material either through middlemen or direct selling. Though‚ they enjoy
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absolutely the different sides of the coin‚ so choosing whether to live in a big city or a small town requires serious consideration. Each city has its unique aspects and qualities that distinguish itself from others. Each person has his or her own opinion about where to live based on his or her life style. However‚ according to me‚ living in a large city has certain advantages over living in a small town: convenient public transportation‚ greater entertainment facility and higher employment. To
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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With reference to examples‚ critically assess and evaluate the cause and impact of suburbanisation on towns and cities (40 marks) Suburbanisation is the growth of the suburbs and suburban areas on the fringes of cities due to natural increase or the movement of people. It is one of the many causes of the increase in urban sprawl. Suburbanisation occurs in many countries‚ all at different stages of development. Each case of suburbanisation can have different causes‚ such as urban push factors‚
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for granted. In the drama “Our Town”‚ Wilder wants the audience to realize how they need to appreciate everything in life because there will never be a second chance. We need to live life to the fullest. Eventually the time will come where we are lying on our deathbed and regretting all the things in life that we took for granted. Wilder wants us to appreciate‚ welcome‚ embrace‚ repeat‚ love‚ and share every ordinary day-to-day moments in life. The drama “Our Town” shows that we need to clutch on
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