One of the original 13 colonies‚ Pennsylvania was named and founded by William Penn as a place to go for his friends. Philadelphia combined the Greek words for love (phileo) and brother (adelphos)‚ engendering its nickname of “the city of brotherly love.” .Pennsylvania’s capital‚ Philadelphia‚ was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775 .Now the largest city in Pennsylvania‚ Philadelphia served as the nation’s capital from 1790 until a permanent capital was established
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1128A Intro to Theatre Plays & Playwrights Form Winter 2014 Name: Nathan Whitfield 1. Title of the play: The Cherry Orchard 2. Author of the play: Chekov 3. Setting: Russia 4. Time: 1890’s 5. Theme: (NOT THE STORY LINE! – what is the play REALLY about?) The theme of the play has been thought to be the struggle over memory. I would have to agree with this idea. Throughout the play you learn of painful memories that the characters have had and how they are desperately trying to forget them
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Orchard View Care Home was closed down in October 2011‚ 19 vulnerable adults died due to poor practices. A five-week inquest heard how some residents were given wrong doses of medication‚ and left soiled and unattended due to staff shortages. Call bells were also often not answered for long periods or could not be reached by elderly people living at the home. Several examples of poor care and neglect were revealed during the inquest‚ including: A woman who had not stood for six months was pulled
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Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 	The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is a dramatic play set at a cherry orchard in Russia. Some of the characters that help set the dramatic setting of the play are Lyuboff‚ Lopahin‚ and Pishtchik. These characters find life difficult because they fail to understand each other and because they passively submit to their environmental situations without making an effort to rise above them. 	Lyuboff is the owner of the cherry orchard‚ and
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Pennsylvania General situation The state of Pennsylvania is located in the Northeastern of the USA‚ it has one of the largest European American populations and a strong African American population. This is the flag of Pennsylvania‚ it symbolize “virtue‚ liberty and independence”. The state coat is composed by a ship‚ olive branch and Indian corn; it is surrounded by houses on both sides and a bald eagle which represented Pennsylvania’s loyalty to the USA. Philadelphia was the temporary national
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themselves to the events‚ but‚ this does not mean that these actions are ineffective or unimportant. In fact‚ it is just the opposite. ‘The Cherry Orchard’ by Anton Chekhov and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams are two plays in which the main actions occur offstage‚ but the impact on the audience created by them is immense. In ‘The Cherry Orchard’‚ the offstage actions include Madame Ranevsky’s past where she lost her husband and her son drowned as a child. Madame Ranevsky is of an upper
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The Myers are a simple‚ African-American family who struggle to live in their new home in the all-white community of Levittown. As any veteran with a family during this post-world-war era in America‚ William Myers and his wife Daisy sought the American Dream which was to own a suburban home of their dreams‚ and to most Americans‚ one in Levittown. Later on in the novel‚ Levittown‚ after months of experiencing discrimination‚ the Myers‚ the Wechslers‚ Selma Von Blum (who had a crossed burned on her
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The Cherry Orchard: Critical Analysis The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However‚ Chekhov labeled his play a farce‚ or more of a comedy. Although this play has a very tragic backdrop of Russia’s casualty-ridden involvement in both World Wars and the Communist Revolution‚ the characters and
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Racial Integration in Levittown‚ Pennsylvania During the late 1940s and throughout the 50s‚ many city-dwelling Americans were compelled to move to the suburbs‚ driven by a desire to forge a new and more comfortable lifestyle for their families. After World War Two‚ cities had become overcrowded as veterans returned and sought to purchase homes of their own. The implementation of the interstate highway system‚ coupled with the undertakings of developers to build new communities offering more affordable
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Anna Donnelly Mrs. Ybarra English III DC – 7th 10/17/13 Beyond the Orchard Step by step‚ crunch by crunch‚ my bare feet tread over the dried‚ brown pine needles under me. I look to my left and see green‚ as far as I can see. Green everywhere‚ carpeting the ground‚ coating the trees‚ and screening the trail from the persimmon colored sky overhead. I look to my right and see a decaying wooden fence separating the trail from a grove of trees with little green fruits hanging off of the branches
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