Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I as the producer of ‘The One Day of the Year’ would firstly like to welcome you and thank you for coming to the auditions of Jan in Act 1 Scene 1 found on Page 34. The discourse represented in this selection of the play is the Generation Gap mainly focusing on parent/child conflict. Personally I felt Jan was silenced here and she doesn’t really get to share all those feelings that are built up inside of her‚ though since we have the chance to‚ let
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“Seventeen and half” (11) below zero and that is a warm day in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The climate is not the only challenging part of the Gulag; the fight to survive also includes a battle with one’s self and one’s fellow prisoners. If I were in the gulag‚ I think that the virtues of fortitude and hope would help me to survive. Two virtues that I would need to grow in to survive‚ I think are humility and charity. To be humble in the Gulag and submit oneself
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by Davis Sedaris In this essay‚ David Sedaris takes a stroll down memory lane in his anecdote about his experience learning to speak French in Paris‚ under the rule of a cruel dictator-like teacher. He describes certain moments of intense cruelty of the teacher‚ such as when one girl in his class doesn’t know the correct irregular past tense of the verb to defeat. The girl was poked in the eye with a freshly sharpened pencil‚ and the teacher‚ although remorseful‚ did
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One day Branson got a car on his 17th birthday and he got the car of his dream‚ a porsche.It was black with white racing stripes. Branson was so excited he got in‚ buckled up and did a burnout in the driveway. Then Branson’s dad said “You ruined my brand new driveway!” “Sorry dad” said Branson. After that his mom said “Here is $800 to buy new wheels.” Branson then got in his car again and his mom said “Be safe.” When he got to a place that had tires he saw a sign that said “$100
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One Day When We Were Young When you are a child it cannot go to fast growing up. But when you are a grown-up‚ you some-times wish you where a child and not worry about the problems. Expecting to have more fun and more opportunities to do what we always wanted to. Going from a child to a teenager‚ also gives you new interests‚ for example girls. In this case‚ in the short story we follow the main character’ new interest. This is an essay on the short story ”One Day When We Were Young” written
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which you have read.Writers do use their knowledge of their own backgrounds and the extensiveness but it usually depends from the theme of the story. The first novel I read “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” the author Alexander Solzhenitsyn uses his cultural knowledge‚ past to express how the brutal and shattering single day in the Gulag (soviet labor camp) of Shukhov (protagonist) is spent. As for the second novel I read “memoirs of Geisha” by Arthur Golden‚ the novel’s setting takes place in
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Within all stories lies truth. Although One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is published as a novel of fiction‚ it is clear‚ that due to the immense detail present within the novel‚ that this novel is not a book stemming from imaginative thought. The author‚ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn uses this work of literature‚ to inform others of this horrific era of the governance of the Soviet Union‚ by injecting his personal recollections of his time served in the Siberian Gulag camp system‚ serving as the
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Grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” when faced with death‚ thinks only of herself and not for the lives of her family. Ivan Ilyich found the finite pleasures of his life slowly being taken away from him as he got sicker and sicker. Fetyukov of “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” incrementally sacrificed his dignity in order to survive the harsh environment in the gulag. Finally‚ Guido Orefice from “Life is Beautiful” demonstrated how to selflessly attempt to defy death‚ not for his own sake
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Both movies One Day and Two Nights and Lars and the Real Girl focus on protagonists who need immediate group response‚ which can be understood and evaluated via the social psychological constructs of empathy‚ altruism‚ and egoism. Sandra‚ married mother of two and an employee in a company who returns to work after taking medical leave discovers that her co-workers were forced by their foreman to vote: for their 1‚000 € bonus or to keep her as an employee. The company cannot afford both so the workers
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One day that changed my whole life. I was 25 years old when I was diagnosed with cancer. It was at a time when I was doing what I did best – dancing and I was taking a course to become a future color and style advisor. I had been working on it for almost two years‚ I grew to the level that I could easily record the dance steps and I built up the necessary condition. In fact I lived and breathed dance and style but nearing the summer of 2007‚ I was getting really fatigued and wasn’t able to attend
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