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    Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker "Our Country’s Good‚" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker‚ is about a group of English convicts bound for Australia by sea in 1788. In the first scene‚ Sideways‚ a convict on board the ship‚ is being brutally whipped and we are introduced to the constant‚ overwhelming fear‚ hunger and despair that the convicts are going through. We are also introduced to all the officials on board. They are debating the punishment of hanging that three of the convicts

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    Drama Prose or verse telling a story intended for representation by actors through dialogue or action. The Play Playwright : person who writes plays. Script : printed copy of a play. Acts : the major sections of a play. Scene : small section or portion of a play. The People Actor: male performer Actress: female performer Cast: all performers selected to portray characters. Director: instructs actors on how to portray characters. Areas of the Stage Backstage: area behind scenery not visible

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    Modern Architecture and the Modern City- Barbican‚ London Chamberlin‚ Powel and Bon had very little experience being architects‚ after giving up teaching at Kingston University‚ they formed a partnership to tackle the challenge of the Barbican project. Between 1954 and 1968 Chamberlin‚ Powel and Bon (CP & B) created four finished plans which was later modified to a further fifth plan. However with the complexity of the scheme seven official plans were drawn up over this time. With each plan

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    Modern Mindset

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    Modern Mindset Each person develops their own perspective of life and the world based on their own human experience. However‚ no one person is completely separate from his or her society‚ consequently the mindset of a culture tends to reflect the individual’s beliefs. The Western society is no exception. Their perception is mostly consisted of materialistic mindset‚ revealing enormous influence of science and avocation for rational thinking. This modernized materialistic mindset not only

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    Modern Communication A Review of Literature November/11/2011 Modern Communication A Review of Literature In the postindustrial modern world‚ or the “Information” age‚ we as a worldwide society use communication methods as our primary medium. We as a society have evolved to a point where individuals can transfer information freely‚ and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously. This transfer however needs a medium. PED’s

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    Modern Theory

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    Modern Theory- “Management is an art of getting things done through people.” The modern organizational theory is regarded as recent development in management theory. They represent integrative approach to management. There is no one best way of doing things under all conditions. Methods and techniques which are highly effective in one situation may not work in other situations. Situation plays an important role in application of management function. Functions are universal but their application

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    Modern Life

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    As beginning‚ human beings must assure that intelligence is the dominant factor on animals’ behaviors‚ attitude and conducts. Unfortunately‚ some people restrict animals’ level of cognition on same issues because of the fact that they are suggesting all attempts of animals shaped instinctively. People must become conscious to resign this kind of biases in that today’s studies on animals show us animals have more intellect‚ contrary to common belief. Additionally‚ according to a stunning experiment

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    Modern Marriage

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    Studies show American women are waiting longer than ever to get married. Their median age at first marriage hit a record high of 24.5 years in 1994‚ up from 20 years in the mid 1950’s (Crispell‚ 1996). That’s the oldest age since the Census Bureau started to ask about age at marriage in 1890. Of course postponing marriage means an increase‚ at any given time‚ in the number of people who have never wed‚ and that is also reflected in the census study. From 1970 to 1994 the number of Americans aged 18 and

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    Reaction Paper-Drama Angela Ericksen University of Phoenix The play “A Dolls House” was written by Henrik Ibsen. This play truly is an interesting‚ play and it really connects with how things can be in real life which helps the readers truly connect with it! Henrik Ibsen‚ in full Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian play righter of the late 19th century who introduced to the European stage a new order of moral analysis that was placed against a severely realistic middle-class background

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    Modern Witchcraft

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    In Part One of this series we briefly examined modern and contemporary witchcraft‚ discussing some of the major beliefs of this syncretistic movement. The present article will further expound on witchcraft‚ and also critique it from a biblical‚ metaphysical‚ epistemological‚ and ethical basis. It is essential to keep in mind that this movement encompasses a wide range of practices and beliefs. Consequently some of the critiques presented in this article may require some adaptation or modification

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