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    Controlling the future is something humanity would never be able to do. This is one of the most interesting topics about the Greek tragedy of Oedipus and the theme that makes the story to happen. That anxious feeling about knowing what’s going to happen has always been a main characteristic of humankind‚ as they try to figure and control everything‚ even if it’s out of their boundaries. The story of Oedipus clearly shows a hypothetical situation in which specific people are able to predict the future

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    Oedipus Tragic Hero

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    something heroic in his actions etc. A tragic hero is a man of noble birth with gallant or conceivably heroic qualities. A tragic hero is an abstract character who makes a judgment error that unavoidably prompts his/her destruction. In perusing Antigone‚ Medea and Hamlet‚ look at the part of equity and revenge and its impact on every character’s decisions when analysing any "judgment error.” The hero has a character respectable of stature and has enormity must occupy a high-status position additionally encapsulate

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    Meetings

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    Meetings come in all shapes and sizes. There are the everyday office meetings‚ board meetings‚ seminars -- all the way up to major conferences. And meetings can now be face-to-face‚ teleconference‚ videoconference‚ or online via the Internet. And when is the last time you heard someone say‚ "Gee‚ we need to have more meetings." There are more than enough meetings to go around these days‚ and for a good reason. Meetings are more important than ever. Modern workplaces are built on teams‚ sharing of

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    Theseus Athens Great Hero

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    would make him a great hero that would be remembered for many years to come. The first day in Athens Theseus started looking for Aegeus’ castle but what he did not know was that Aegeus was ‚at the time‚ under the power of a sorcerer by the name of Medea. She could see the power in him from afar and saw that he would take her power so she told Aegeus to kill him. At this time either Aegeus nor Theseus knew that they were related. Media told Aegeus to invite Theseus to a party or ball coming in the

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    The Greeks’ history began around 700 B.C. with festivals honoring their many gods. One god‚ Dionysus‚ was honored with an unusual festival called the City Dionysia. The revelry-filled festival was led by drunken men dressed up in rough goat skins (because goats were thought sexually potent) who would sing and play in choruses to welcome Dionysus. Tribes competed against one another in performances‚ and the best show would have the honor of winning the contest. Of the four festivals in Athens (each

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    Plays were written for a yearly festival‚ in honor of the god Dionysus‚ and were either Comedies or Tragedies. All the actors were male‚ and they all played multiple roles‚ so a mask was used to show the change in character or mood. Therefore the two masks are now used as the symbol for theatre. The Greeks invented the epic and lyric forms and used them skillfully. They also invented drama and produced masterpieces that are still deemed as dramas crowning achievement. Attendance at the festival

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    Mats Ek

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    founder of Cullberg Ballet Birgit Cullberg. His parents were giving him perfect environment to develop his talents‚ although as a kid he didn’t feel attraction to dance art‚ at age of eight he danced with his twin sister in their mother’s ballet Medea‚ but this was his only (childhood) experience of the medium. As a young man‚ Ek initially trained in dance with Lilian Karina and Donya Feuer‚ but shifted to drama‚ which he studied at the Marieborg Folks College. He began his career in the theatre

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    Oedipus: A Tragic Hero

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    During the evolution of humans‚ in every culture certain people are cursed from birth. In ancient Greece‚ these people were known as tragic heroes. The stories of these tragic heroes are known as tragedies‚ some of the earliest known tragedies are Medea and Oedipus the King. As stated in The Vocabulary of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern English by Francis Blessington the Greeks believed‚ “a hero must explicitly accept his fate. But in Greek tragedy‚ the hero or heroine or the play itself questions

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    C. GILLIGAN’S GENDER & MORALITY DEVELOPMENT Carol Gilligan compared the moral development of girls and boys in her theory of gender and moral development. She claimed that boys have a justice perspective meaning that they rely on formal rules to define right and wrong. Girls‚ on the other hand‚ have a care and responsibility perspective where personal relationships are considered when judging a situation. Gilligan also studied the effect of gender on self-esteem. She claimed that society’s

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    Restoration Tragedy

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    Restoration tragedy THE lesser tragic writers of this period‚ uninspired as most of their work seems when judged on its own merits‚ fall inevitably to a still lower level by comparison with the amazing literary powers of their great leader‚ Dryden. They have all his faults and only a small and occasional admixture of his strength and resource. In tragedy‚ as in other departments of literature‚ the genius of Dryden overtops‚ on a general estimate‚ the productions of his lesser contemporaries‚ and

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