Night Journey (1947): Choreography and Costumes by Martha Graham‚ Music by William Schuman‚ Set by Isamu Noguchi‚ Original Lighting by Jean Rosenthal‚ Adapted by Beverly Emmons‚ Performed by Christine Dakin‚ Kenneth Topping‚ Gary Galbraith‚ Alessandra Prosperi‚ and the Company. With angular lines and sweeping movements‚ with stone sculpted sets‚ a ladder‚ tiny branches‚ held by the Chorus‚ and completely figurative choreography‚ representational of ancient Greek drawings and hieroglyphics‚ the audience
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What if a person’s biggest dream became their worst nightmare? What if its ramification was losing what they loved most? The Pearl‚ a fiction novel by John Steinbeck‚ encounters the bittersweet situations in life. Steinbeck elucidates the story with a family of three-Kino‚ Juana‚ and their baby boy‚ Coyotito-who lived in La Paz‚ Mexico. When their son gets stung by a scorpion and they find the pearl of the world‚ their fate changes. Kino made an injudicious decision throwing away the pearl. Being
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Long Day`s Journey into thePast: The character analysis of Mary In the play ¡°Long Day¡¯s Journey into Night‚¡± by Eugene O¡¯Neill‚ the writer depicts a typical day of the Tyrone family‚ whose once-close family has deteriorated over the years for a number of reasons: Mary¡¯s drug addiction‚ Tyrone Jamie and Edmund¡¯s alcoholism‚ Tyrone¡¯s stinginess‚ and the sons` pessimistic attitude toward future. In the play‚ all of the four characters are miserable about life‚ and they all remember the past
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May 5 is when my life took a dramatic turn and I realized my life is going to be different. It was very difficult after his first birthday because his mom started going out‚ partying‚ and got caught up in bad stuff so I filed for full custody. A one night stand turned into a miracle for me. The difficulty of being a father and boyfriend results with expenses and responsibility. First‚ every day I have to buy meals for my two year old son and my girlfriend. I only work thirty hours a week and get paid
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Kyra Chessman Exam 1 Essay Postmodernism in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” Postmodernism started as a post-war movement in response to the poverty and depression that began in World War II in the early 40s. Although both the postmodern and modern literature are bot breaks from traditional literature‚ postmodernism is considered a reaction to the modernist movement because of the paradigm shift of philosophies. Also‚ it is a metaphysical movement that questions all the fundamentals of literature
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LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT BY EUGENE ONEILL Act I‚ S 1 Summary: 8:30 AM in the living room of the Tyrone family’s summer home‚ August‚ 1912. The room is adjacent to the kitchen and dining room‚ and there are stairs leading up to the upstairs bedrooms. The living room is handsome and full of books; the collection is impressive‚ and all the more so because the books have the look of having been read. The Tyrone family has just finished having breakfast‚ and Mary and James Tyrone Tyrone enter
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Darion and his crew had been sailing for days trying to find the island of the sea queen. They needed her help and guidance to find the gold before the mad Captain Gray. Darion held his telescope to his eye for what felt like the hundredth time today. Looking through the glass‚ he skimmed over the horizon‚ praying for the sight of land. Finally‚ there is the distance he spotted an island. “Land ho!” he shouted to the crew. Several men ran to the side of the ship and pointed across to the island.
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honor as a gentleman‚ I have neither given nor received aid on this work. John Donelson and River Journey The Story of John Donelson and the River Journey exemplifies all the qualities America was built on: resilience‚ courage‚ and leadership. Throughout the journey‚ John Donelson faced major setbacks. Harsh weather‚ boats crashing‚ loss of cargo‚ Indian attacks‚ and fatigue plagued John Donelson and his fleet. John Donelson‚ however‚ was resilient and did not let setbacks‚ no matter how harsh
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acknowledges the existence of a God‚ it does not necessarily mean he is still faithful. He used to burn as bright as a star‚ but by the end‚ he was nothing more than a spark of what he used to be. The Holocaust deeply affected Wiesel’s faith. In his book Night‚ he described how he felt in his first day of camp: “In one terrifying moment of lucidity‚ I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void‚ souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time‚ seeking redemption‚ seeking
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Literature and Environment: An Ecocritical Approach to Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea (Abdulhamid Alansary‚ Dept.‚ of English Language and Literature‚ Faculty of Arts‚ Sohag University) ABSTRACT This research paper tries to explain the desire to return to pure nature through the analysis of a work of art ecocritically‚ namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature‚ which had been previously harmonized‚ has changed
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