Jackson Wise English 4 4A October 15 2012 Metamorphoses in Pygmalion Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw that is based on a poem called Metamorphoses‚ written by Ovid. The play and the poem are very similar in the themes‚ but the actual stories are not alike. Ovid’s version of Pygmalion is about a sculpture and its creator who falls in love with a woman who he created and brings her to life. Shaw’s version of Pygmalion is about a low-class flower girl who is turned into a
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What is Andragogy and how is it relevant to training and development? Topic 1: What is Andragogy and how is it relevant to training and development? Andragogy is the term used to describe ‘the art and science of teaching adults’ (Delahaye‚ 2011). It focuses on the post-school vocational education‚ where the adults learning needs are the main importance and also should allow them to take responsibility for their own learning (Delahaye‚ 2011). In this sense‚ the differences between andragogy and
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable‚ but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Nothing is impossible‚ the word itself says ’I’m possible’! Audrey Hepburn Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can
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English II 3 December 2013 Paper III Self-evaluation is critical to being your best self. In Pygmalion‚ George Bernard Shaw depicts Eliza Doolittle as becoming highly motivated to address her issues in hopes of a better life through the help of phonetician Henry Higgins and his associate Colonel Pickering. While this is a quality Eliza holds‚ Higgins does not. Being born into the upper class and having become extremely skilled in his speech profession‚ his manners lack tenfold. This is not something
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George Bernard Shaw once wrote: "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it." Clearly‚ Shaw had his heart broken once or twice. Shaw was right. As we strain to grasp the things we desire‚ the things we think will make our lives better: money‚ popularity‚ fame... we ignore what truly matters‚ the simple things‚ like friendship‚ family‚ love. The things we probably already had. This year‚ I got everything I wanted and everything I wished for. But
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How do you respond to the presentation of Professor Henry Higgins in ‘Pygmalion’? Professor Henry Higgins is one of the main characters in Pygmalion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins meet one rainy night in Covent Garden. We soon find out that Eliza Doolittle is a common flower girl by the way she speaks‚ ‘Garn. Oh do buy a flower off me Captain.‘(very cockney dialect) and the man who is taking notes of very thing she says is Professor Henry Higgins. He teaches Eliza
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Today I will be commenting on an excerpt from Pygmallion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. This play was first presented in 1912. Pygmalion is a play that focuses on Eliza Doolittle the main character and Higgins‚ the teacher. The storyline basically tells how Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak a proper English. The reason behind this was because the way someone spoke during the time Shaw wrote this play allowed people to define from what social class a person came from. B/c Eliza was from a lower class
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Apart from being problem plays ‚ Pygmalion and A Doll ’s house deal with the common theme of transformation of individuals . In Pygmalion‚ Shaw explores the idea that if a person is born in a low class and gets the opportunity to be trained in the ways of correct speech and manners then he or she can easily come to the social and intellectual level of the higher classes . He proves this by transforming Eliza Doolittle‚ a poor flower girl from the slums‚ to a sophisticated woman by changing her speech
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in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” - Warren Buffett “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” – George Bernard Shaw “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish‚ but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand “If all the economists were laid end to end‚ they’d never reach a conclusion.” – George Bernard Shaw “Business opportunities are like buses‚ there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
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author My Fair Lady was originally a stage musical based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Alan Jay Lerner adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play for the musical My Fair Lady. Alan Jay Lerner’s words for the songs use many of the spoken words in Shaw’s play. This was partly because Lerner‚ by law‚ had to stay as close as possible to the original. The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 –1950) was born in Dublin‚ but moved to London when he was twenty‚ and soon began publishing
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