Pygmalion is written by dramatist‚ playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw in the year 1912 and was first published in the year 1913. The drama revolves around three main characters – Eliza Doolittle‚ Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering – who are all striving towards the same goal. That is‚ they want to be able to pass Eliza off as a Duchess rather than the flower girl from the London slums that she actually is. It starts as just a bet on the part of the Professor and the Colonel‚ but
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not shocking that sectioned areas of high populous cities having varying socio- economic statuses and crime rates. The work of Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay explains crime rates as determinant depending where an individual resides. The theorists create ecological maps to determine criminal “ hot spots” due to patterns of continued deviance in specific areas. Shaw and McKay direct attention towards the discrepancies in crime levels for neighborhoods of varying socio-economic statuses‚ discovering that
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The Creation of Johari Window The Creation of Johari Window Ever since the creation of life‚ humans have fought with one and other‚ bickering‚ and talking behind each other’s backs. This is especially true in the workplace‚ who has not had an argument with a coworker? It seems like no one has anything nice to say about each other. Maybe people do have nice things to say‚ but the problem is finding a way to say them. There must be a way to improve this everlasting problem‚ which two men set out
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Modern Theatre in Context :: The Second Mrs Tanqueray Pinero‚ whom even Shaw’s collaborator William Archer praised for his ’serious treatment of serious themes’‚ believed that the proper function of drama was ’giving back to the multitude their own thoughts and conceptions illuminated‚ enlarged‚ and if needful purged’. Treating moral ’problems’ in such a socially conformist way on the stage won Pinero an immense popularity; and from 1885 through 1895‚ with a new play appearing every year‚ his work
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George Bernard Shaw once said “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” A question such as “who am I?” really helps to distinguish and express who I actually am and who I desire to be. I am not someone who commonly waits till the last second to achieve something. I am a hard worker and I plan for my future along the way with help from my family and friends who guide me in the right direction. I’ve always been the type of person that never likes to procrastinate. I have
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maken. Hij slaagt uiteindelijk in zijn opzet‚ maar tijdens het proces is Eliza zodanig geëmancipeerd geraakt‚ dat zij aangeeft niet langer afhankelijk te zijn van Higgins en haar eigen weg te kunnen gaan. Pygmalion is a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw‚ named after a Greek mythological character. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ to pass for a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer
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Elements of Drama‚ A.R. Yesufu‚ ed. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008. Milne‚ Ira Mark‚ ed. Literary Movements for Students‚ 2nd ed. USA Gale‚ 2009. Scholes‚ R. and C. H. Klaus. Elements of Drama. New York: Oxford University Press‚1971. Shaw‚ George Bernard‚ Candida (USA: An Electronic Classics Series Publication‚ 2003). Yesufu‚A.R.‚ed. Elements of Drama. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008.
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The Way of the World By William Congreve Play Summary Before the action of the play begins‚ the following events are assumed to have taken place. Mirabell‚ a young man-about-town‚ apparently not a man of great wealth‚ has had an affair with Mrs. Fainall‚ the widowed daughter of Lady Wishfort. To protect her from scandal in the event of pregnancy‚ he has helped engineer her marriage to Mr. Fainall‚ a man whom he feels to be of sufficiently good reputation to constitute a respectable match‚ but
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Bill Shaw‚ a philosopher‚ wrote the paper “Affirmative Action: An Ethical Evaluation”. In this paper he presents four objections people have to why affirmative action is wrong and then gives reasons as to why these objections are not valid. In this paper‚ I will first discuss what affirmative action is‚ then Shaw’s point argument against “the objection of unfair burden on present generation of white workers” (Shaw 766). Following this‚ I will articulate an objection to Shaw’s argument‚ regarding
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the heavy land and sea bombardment subsided‚ Gillmore sent forward his Federal regiments. The assault was led by the 54thMassachusetts regiment; a Boston regiment filled with free African-Americans‚ and led by the Harvard educated Col. Robert Gould Shaw. The decision to have the 54th Massachusetts lead this dangerous attack was fraught with all sorts of political and military risk‚ but in the end it was Shaw’s men that led the attack up the narrow beach. As the Federal soldiers neared the fort they
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