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    English Speech Example

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    Good morning fellow listeners‚ I am Toni Turrell from the Facebook forum. Today i am here to talk to you about how the global village has affected everyone even small secluded Aussies like the Kerrigan’s in the movie “The Castle” by Rob Stitch. Whether the global village has a positive or negative impact on the individuals of this world is yet to be proven. Well can people now days live one day without facebook‚ msn‚ mobile phones‚ telephones‚

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    PYGMALION 1. Significance of Title: The significance of the title‚ ”Pygmalion” is in Greek mythology‚ The town Cyprus Pygmalion was a king who deeply fell in love with the statue of Aphrodite. Pygmalion had pictured nothing but beauty in his mind. He worked many countless days and nights in search of loveliness beyond his powers of expression. The statue

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    Plot Twist

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    A plot twist is a change in the expected direction or outcome of the plot of a film‚ television series‚ video game‚ novel‚ comic or other fictional work. It is a common practice in narration used to keep the interest of an audience‚ usually surprising them with a revelation. Some "twists" are foreshadowed and can thus be predicted by many viewers/readers‚ whereas others are a complete shock. When a plot twist happens near the end of a story‚ especially if it changes one’s view of the preceding events

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    Modified Realism

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    Modified Realism Realism in the theatre is when the actors move and talk in a manner that resembles every day life. It became important to create a complete imitation of natural life. But it became apparently that life was not so simple. Realism was adapted and changed to become modified realism. These plays tried to maintain truthfulness to life; however‚ it was artistic truth rather than photographic truth. Theatre artists took the simplification of modified realism a step further and

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    The Gunpowder Plot

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    Eng/Lang arts 12 Mrs. Landrum-May February 26‚ 2013 The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to kill King James I. the plot was to blow up the house of the lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament. The plan also included the king’s 9 year old daughter whom was supposed to be awarded as the Catholic head of state. This may have occurred after the hopes of greater religious tolerance was defeated‚ which left many English Catholics disappointed. They had few but strong plotters. One in particular

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    studied in the course and discuss their effectiveness in terms of audience response and/or plot development. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.pag.)‚ drama can be defined as‚ “a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance.” In the two plays that I have selected‚ drama is definitely a depiction

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    Left Realism

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    LEFT REALISM. Left Realism developed in the 1980s and is particularly identified with John Lea and Jock Young (1984). Left Realists are interested to find out why crime was increasing so significantly Left Realism is critical of the perspectives which sees longer prison sentences as the solution to crime‚ (Right Realists) but also oppose the views of left idealists. Therefore it developed as a response to traditional Marxist and neo-Marxist approaches (Left idealists)‚ which

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    original as much as possible so that the translation represents the goal and effort of the original author. Each translator aims at a maximal realistic authenticity‚ including both the inner (author’s and director’s notes) and outer language of the drama. “Translation‚ the surmounting of the obstacle‚ is made possible by an equivalence of thought which lies behind the different verbal expressions of a thought. No doubt this equivalence is traceable to the fact that men of all nations belong to

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    The Rise of Realism

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    THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources

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    The Rise of Realism

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    intentionally seeks out and publishes the misdeeds of a public individual for profit or gain. Theodore Roosevelt is said to be linked to being the creator of the term. 2. Naturalism was a literary movement of the late 19th century that was an extension of Realism. What was the main focus of the Naturalistic writer? -The main focus of a Naturalistic writer was about the fringes of society‚ the criminal‚ the fallen‚ and the down-and-out. Naturalists argued that individuals have no choice because a person’s

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