Beth Cooper Professor Barrett Introduction to Drama West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s plot is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York in the mid-1950s‚ the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks‚ two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation
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In the United States of America‚ it is almost beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse to address the question‚ why did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait in 1990? Even to ask the question‚ one risks the appearance of supporting a repressive dictatorship‚ and to the extent that the question is entertained at all‚ the simplistic answer proffered by political leaders is that Saddam Hussein is an aggressive tyrant‚ bent on territorial acquisition and the subjugation of other nations. He is a modern day Hitler
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UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY-MUKONO FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF FOUNDATION STUDIES AGENCY: LIRA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY AKELLO HILDA S11B17/010 END OF YEAR TWO FIELDWORK REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR DEGREE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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I really enjoyed the documentary East of Liberty. It is very important to talk about issues surrounding gentrification‚ especially when it is clearly happening in the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has a very strong identity‚ and pushing people out of these neighborhoods takes away from the identity of our city because they are Pittsburgh. It is very easy for people who live outside of the city‚ such as myself‚ to say they are from Pittsburgh‚ but that simply is not the case. The people
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Side Bet Sequel: The Rat The rat sat‚ his poorly-postured belly slouching lower and closer to the ground‚ as he crammed kilogram after kilogram of biscuits into his whiskered yawning mouth. It had barely been three days since the man had been taken from the island. Three days since the rat had begun his feast of the uncountable kilograms of sea biscuits the man had left him on the island. On the island‚ where above the expanse of sky shone as greedily blue and maliciously amused as the man’s eyes
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Chinese ghost festival – A ritual that embodies Buddhist and Chinese values The Ghost festival‚ the second most important festival of the year‚ is an event in which features of Buddhism are most relevant in Chinese culture. The ritual‚ by essence‚ belongs to the living and the dead – it creates a harmony between the two‚ as well as that between the individual‚ society and nature in its performance. Its Chinese term‚ Yu lan pen hui‚ is composed of the foreign word “yu lan” that refers
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The Other side of the Postcard More often than not tourists come to Oahu thinking of a tropical setting in Waikiki sitting on the beach sipping a cold beverage isolated from the problems of the rest of the world. The reality is that Waikiki may not seem as pleasant as is portrayed to be in postcards and travel advertisements. The once royal surfing grounds reserved only for the highest ali’i(chiefs) has become plagued with worn down drunks splayed out on the benches in the park and card board
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Christianity in East Asia When Europeans started sailing the globe looking for new land they wanted to colonize they had many tools that they could use‚ ships‚ the astrolabe‚ muskets and cannons for showing their military might‚ manufactured goods to show their economic power‚ and their last tool was religion‚ specifically Christianity of the Catholic and Roman Catholic denomination to counter the spread of the Protestant movement in Europe. Dominican‚ Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries successfully
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DATA OF UDAIPUR Udaipur is known as the Venice of the east. It is also called the city of lakes. The Lake Palace on Jag Niwas Island in the middle of Pichola Lakes is the finest example of its architectural and cultural explosion. The grand City Palace on the banks of the lake compliments the palace along with the Monsoon Palace (Sajjan Garh) on the hill above. Udaipur is also the centre for performing arts‚ craft and its famed miniature paintings.The Shilp Gram festival is a center of attraction
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Middle East Conflicts Question’s 1. The zionest is a movement founded in the 1890’s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine 2. The 1917 Balfour Declaration declared that the British favored a Jewish homeland in Palestine 3. Divide palestine into two states one for the palestinians and one for the jews. The jews supported it but the palestinians did not. 4. The Israeli Declaration of Independence was read out on Friday‚ the 14th of May 1948 by David Ben Gurion‚ who
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