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    She seemed less two-faced and more frightened. Because of this domineering personality‚ I saw Blanche as being taller and less fragile at the beginning and only deteriorating as the story progresses. She seemed less glamorous in the film in my perspective. I saw Mitch to be a lot younger. He did not seem the type of person in the film that Blanche would be attracted towards. However‚ I think that Kazan had mastered his shy and awkward personality. The characters I felt

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    In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ both American playwrights utilize stage directions as well as their character’s interactions within the narrative to provide a setting. The social environment‚ transitions between act or scene location and atmosphere from the settings staging directions reveal the different lifestyles in New England and the post-WWII New and Old South of America. Both plays involve characters originating outside of the main setting

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    in New Orleans in the 1940s and it portrays the life of Blanche Du Bois‚ the main character. The play follows Blanche’s life living with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Stella’s husband‚ Stanley. Blanche is a delusional and flirtatious liar who lies to everyone about almost every aspect of the life‚ especially her past and her age. She was born into an upper class southern family in the South‚ but due to her somewhat traumatizing past‚ Blanche moved to New Orleans with her sister to escape and start

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    The Downfall of Enron Valerie Glushkov Enron Company was once one of the biggest energy company in the U.S. Fortune magazine ranked Enron as #7 in April 2001 in Fortunes ranking by market capitalization of the five hundred largest corporations in the United States. On December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The unexpected and rapid collapse in the market value of this corporate giant has had immense consequences for nearly all of its stakeholders

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    the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ there is an on going battle of rivalry between Stanley and Blanche‚ resulting to Blanche retreating into a world of illusions in order to protect herself. The two come from completely different societal worlds and have contrasting personalities‚ Stanley being powerful‚ controlling and strong and Blanche‚ being fragile‚ weak and vulnerable. Despite their hatred for each other and their differences they have many similar traits‚ including

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    The plot of A Streetcar Named Desire is driven by dueling personalities of Blanche and Stanley. The source of their animosity toward each other comes from many sources. These sources include instances where Stanley assumes Blanche sold Belle Reve‚ Blanche asks Stanley to compliment her‚ and when Stanley attacks Stella. The first source of Stanley and Blanche’s animosity toward each other is when Stanley assumes Blanche sold Belle Reve. Stanley questions Stella‚ “she didn’t show you no papers‚ no

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    The moment that Blanche and Stanley meet‚ a fire has begun. In the novel‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the main character‚ Stella’s‚ husband and sister do not get along. Blanche comes to New Orleans‚ Louisiana to visit her sister Stella. Blanche is in for a surprise when she meets Stella’s husband Stanley. From the moment the two meet‚ there is a bad feeling. A Streetcar Named Desire’s author is Tennessee Williams‚ who is from Columbia‚ Mississippi. Blanche and Stanley’s relationship is like an untamed

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    be in have supremacy over women‚ conversely he is being aggressive because he is aggravated by the fact that Blanche is living with the couple and inspiring trouble between them. At the start it is very translucent that Stanley does not have anything in opposition to Blanche for instance when the twosome first meet Stanley is very interested in Blanche’s past “what do you teach‚ Blanche?” This indicates that Stanley is very intrigued by her sister-in-laws past and wants to get to know her; this

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    Eunice and Blanche talk about the neighborhood and where Blanche has come from‚ and Eunice lets her into the Kowalski’s two-room apartment. Stella arrives and expresses happiness in seeing her sister. Blanche asks for a drink‚ and Stella prepares it. They chat‚ and Blanche tells Stella how terrible the neighborhood is. Stella responds positively about her home. Blanche explains why she left her teaching job‚ an explanation that proves to

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    the story of a woman named Blanche DuBois who embarks on a quest to find such salvation. Readers watch as the protagonist of the play stumbles through the obstacle course of her life in search of a redemptive character who can bring her rest. In a captivating narrative‚ Tennessee Williams uses his characters to demonstrate the dangers of selling out

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