contemporary audience. The production is based strongly around themes and complications of the lower class society in today’s day and age. Also inspired by a series of new stories about children who had been abandoned in cars by their parents for hours at a time. The performance targets the audience in an attempt to incorporate Epic Theatre and Brechtian theatre conventions such as alienation‚ morphing‚ melding‚ and jumps. Techniques such as alienation and morphing are used to disconnect the audience
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Rezendes (one of the investigative reporters) thought that the story would attack the law but it was attacking the semester. The story would go unnoticed if they sole purpose was to attack the law. In order to make an effective boom‚ they would have to attack the head of the system. “We have close to stories on 70 priests‚ we nail that along with one of those letters. This is proof that this is bigger than the law. It’s the whole system.” The solution to go after the law was not the best one‚ but instead
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In her poem‚ "One Art‚" Elizabeth Bishop constructs a poem that reveals a struggle with mastering the issue of loss. Through the use of a villanelle‚ Bishop utilizes the significance of structure and word choice to further the meaning of her work. Bishop crescendos each stanza to create a firm foundation for the dramatic conclusion‚ and incorporates expressive words throughout the poem to illuminate the last stanza’s attitude shift from that of carelessness to seriousness. The villanelle form is
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The 11th Hour The 11th Hour written and directed by Leila and Nada Conners is clearly propagandistic and openly gives audience a call to action. However while their goal is to persuade the viewer to their point of view‚ a lack of story caused me to lose interest and not engage as much in the film as most likely the filmmakers would have hoped. The film used several interviews combined with narration along with as many visuals possible to support the peoples’ statements and make them visually interesting
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A Reflection of " The Hours" After watching the film‚ I was overwhelmed by the plot which expressed the difficulties these three women faced in their families‚ their societies and even their lives. The stories of these three women‚ Virginia Woolf‚ Leonard Woolf and Vanessa Bell‚ were perfectly interweaved that it’s not until watching through the end of the film that I realized they lived in different times. However‚ the close intertexture of the three women pertinently shows the similar tough
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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble‚ great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. I believe that someone that was diagnosed extensive heart trouble in the mid 1800’s would be easily be susceptible to heart attack‚ or death. Another main point in this sentence is the immediate introduction of the death of Mrs. Mallards husband‚ as it strives to enlighten the reader quickly of the correlation between her heart trouble and her
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The film 127 Hours delves into a number of themes‚ such as: taking risks while alone‚ the power of music and its importance to human beings‚ belief and faith‚ accident vs. risk‚ being in the wrong place at the wrong time‚ dangerous situations… Articles on the film: 2 purposes – to discuss the story /theme‚ but also‚ to analyze the film maker’s choices in this movie and to judge (critical) the effect of these choices on the audience http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8223925/127-Hours-Aron-Ralstons-story-of-survival
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Frida and the Role of Women During the 1930’s and 1940’s‚ women of the world held virtually one role and one role only…homemaker. This was no different for the women of Mexico‚ except for one woman in particular‚ Frida Kahlo. Frida refused to accept the current ideals of society and the accepted social norms by engaging in things that few women in history ever had. Frida was involved in politics‚ she was promiscuous with men and women‚ she painted pictures of herself in ways that had never been
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The movie The Help‚ produced by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the average lifestyle of African American women during the 1960’s‚ at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.The most conventional job for an African American woman during this period was a maid for an American family. The movie has a social message and “explores race relations in the 1960’s South by telling the stories of four black housekeepers and the white women for whom they work ” (“Former Slave Sues Author For False Portrayal” 1)
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In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and Novel‚ 1966). The Hours is a piece
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