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    MARLOWE’S CONTRIBUTION TO ENGLISH DRAMA Tragedy before Marlow: Swinburne’s remarks‚ “Before him there was neither genuine blank verse nor a genuine tragedy in our language. After his arrival the way was paved for Shakespeare.” With the advent of Marlowe‚ Miracle and Morality plays vanished. He brought Drama out of the old rut of street presentation and made it a perfect art and a thing of beauty. After the Reformation‚ the Mystery and Morality plays were disliked by the public at large until the

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    Modern Fiction

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    Virginia Woolf‚ a modernist writer‚ wrote Modern Fiction in which she claims that the traditionalist novelists like H. G. Wells‚ Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy are ‘materialists’. Materialist are writers who believed that the great force that impacts an individual is the environment. On the other hand‚ a modernist writer emphasises on impressionism and subjectivity in writing and how opinions are formed‚ rather than on what is perceived. She also wrote in Modern Fiction her famous quote “Examine for a

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    possible vernacular definitions or registered in a dictionary of what is modern‚ what makes modernism and what led us to modernity. It is wide known that whatever allow us to call something modern is still part of a ongoing process nowadays‚ so in order to try to define it we must take it into account. Modernism – noun 1. modern character‚ tendencies‚ or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern. 2. a modern usage or characteristic. 3. a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement

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    Modern Dating

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    Pros of modern dating: 1: Fast and straight to point 2: easy entry‚ easy exit 3: equality 4: You can have her sleep over at your place anytime any day 5: Sampling knows no boundary 6: Can have issues even before tying the knot. Add more if you have any Cons: 1: Infidelity is likely to be rampant here 2: Deceits too 3: Contracting of deadly disease is also possible 4: Unwanted pregnancy is a likelihood 5: Dumping very common 6: Over familiarity thereby killing the zeal to get married

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    Modern Dance

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    Kanghua Chen Dance 270 Baker‚ Janice A 2/18/2013 Modern Dance Summary Modern Dance is tradition of theatrical dance unique to the 20th century. Modern dance flourished in areas that lacked strong ballet traditions‚ such as in the United States where ballet companies were imported from Europe. Although modern dance originated in Europe‚ by 1930 the United States had become the center for dance experimentation. Many early modern dances were miniatures—solos of highly compressed effect. They

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    Rakhshaan  Qazi-­‐  Modern  Architecture‚  Essay  two       Four  of  the  leading  architects  of  the  modernist  period  were  Adolf  Loos‚  Frank   Lloyd  Wright‚  Ludwig  Mies  Van  der  Rode‚  and  Louis  Kahn.  These  architects  drew   significantly  from  each  other  and  explored  similar  ideas  in  their  establishing  of  a   new  standard

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    Modern Theatre in Context :: The Second Mrs Tanqueray Pinero‚ whom even Shaw’s collaborator William Archer praised for his ’serious treatment of serious themes’‚ believed that the proper function of drama was ’giving back to the multitude their own thoughts and conceptions illuminated‚ enlarged‚ and if needful purged’. Treating moral ’problems’ in such a socially conformist way on the stage won Pinero an immense popularity; and from 1885 through 1895‚ with a new play appearing every year‚ his work

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    Modern Medicine

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    Modern medicine has made life more comfortable‚ and humans are living longer‚ healthier lives thanks to discoveries like penicillin to treat bacterial infections and vaccines to prevent deadly diseases like diphtheria‚ tuberculosis and tetanus. In 1920 there were 206‚000 reported cases of diphtheria‚ and of those 15‚520 deaths were reported. Between the years of 2004 to 2008 there were no reported deaths related to diphtheria. The first vaccine to treat diphtheria was created in 1921‚ but not widely

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    As a Modern Poem

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    As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation

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    Modern Olympics

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    When and where was the first Modern Olympic Games held? How many countries and athletes participated? How many countries and athletes competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2010 Vancouver Games? 1896 Summer Olympics was the 1st celebration of the modern Olympic Games. They had 14 nations participating and 241 athletes competed. In Beijing in 2008‚ there were 204 nations that competed with 10‚942 athletes. In 2010‚ the Vancouver Games had 82 countries competing with 2566 athletes.

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