people are not accepted? Would you fight the battle or throw the white flag and settle for the offer? In the play Walter and his family are going through a lot of racism and discrimination. This play relates to the 1950s because black families were not able to move in white neighborhoods. Which is why Mr.Lindner visited the Younger’s home to offer them money to move out their home. In the play Walter Lee shows that all he cares about is money and has very little morality because he is willing to spend
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Give advice to the actor playing Mr Birling on how he should present the character to an audience? In this essay I am going to discuss Mr. Birling character in depth and advise the actor who plays him on how he should be presented. Mr Birling is a ‘heavy looking‚ rather portentous man in his middle fifties’ who is head of the family. Since he is next socially superior wife after his wife the actor should have a sense of power and authority in the room and be sat at the head of the table to emphasize
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inspired him to write his book. Scrooge absolutely despised Christmas at the beginning of the book. He always used to say “Bah Humbug”! The author had said that he was “thoroughly dislikeable‚ selfish‚ rude and lonely”. In my opinion there are many reasons why he was so grumpy all the time. I think the biggest reasons why he is like that is because Marley had died. Marley was his soul mate and only friend. I would feel upside down if I was in Scrooge place. Another part that shows that Scrooge is cold
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created drastic change in character . As the story’s ;Franklin ‚ and Knight tales ‚promoted honor to the character ‚ this recognition helps them improve any outcome and gain any respect for each other . Beginning ‚ the Geoffrey Chaucer uses the Franklin tales to help express changes in the main characters . They all have in common that ‚ loyalty and real integrity shows in their conscious . Dorigen shows loyal to Arveragus for waiting for his return to two years . This soon led her to despair of two
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Lady Macbeth who plays a pivotal role in most of the events that occur in the play. We meet her and not think much of her but by the end of the play‚ we dislike her completely. During the play we see her marriage fall apart‚ her mental health deteriorate and whatever good she had in her disappear. We are first introduced to Lady Macbeth at the beginning of Act 1 scene 5 when she is reading a letter sent to her by her husband Macbeth. The letter details an encounter Macbeth had with the weird sisters
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Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell. This story is about a fourteen-year-old boy crushing over a seventeen-year-old girl‚ he has to choose over her or a bass. In this journal I will be questioning who he picks. The main question I have for this story is‚ will the narrator pick Sheila or the bass? One option he has is to pick the bass. He has always had a big passion for fishing. The fish he had hooked was one of the biggest catchiest of his life
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is the dance “Takademe” by the Artistic Director of The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater‚ Robert Battle‚ who is known for his more modern dance styles. This dance features a very interesting musical piece in the background by Sheila Chandra called “Speaking in Tongues II”. It features her imitating these sort of clicking sounds as though she is speaking a different language. Before I dive into the dance movements‚ I would like to break down the music so that you can better understand this dance in depth
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River‚ and Sheila Mant THE BASS‚ THE RIVER‚ AND SHEILA MANT BY W.D. WETHERELL - October 3‚ 2008 In the short story The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant‚ the narrator becomes fond of a girl at the river where he is vacationing. This is Sheila Mant‚ a girl three years older than him. In the story‚ the narrator works up the courage to ask Sheila out. While they are going to a concert by canoe‚ the narrator casts a line to try and catch a fish. The moment Sheila Mant says that fishing bores her‚ a bass
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the inspector is the most important character in An inspector calls and Priestley manipulates the personality and actions of this particular character as the perfect citizen who doubles up as a driving force to change the ways of stereotypical upper/middle class people. The language and stagecraft Priestley uses reinforce the importance of the inspector and make us understand that this inspector‚ Police or not‚ is one to be taken seriously. Right from the moment he is introduced‚ Inspector Goole
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Priestley presents Inspector Goole as someone who will contradict the views of Mr. Birling- he does this through his timing of Goole’s entrance in Act I. Goole’s entrance interrupts Mr Birling speech‚ in which he discusses his selfish views on how ”a man has to mind his own business and look after himself”. This not only characterises Mr Birling as selfish but also illustrates to the audience that these views are false as a “sharp ring of a front doorbell” interrupts them. The “sharp” sound of the
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