Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House is a play ripe for a director’s dissection‚ with deep reflections of love and loss. I consider the central character‚ Mathilde‚ a Brazilian maid‚ who has a job cleaning the house of an uptight American doctor (Lane)‚ to be the axis from which the action of the play orbits around. Ruhl’s writing riffs on the roles and status ascribed by social class: “It’s a telenovela!‚” Mathilde declares wryly. This piece is a myriad of fantasy‚ social commentary and dry humor. And
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The Prohibition Era was a period during the 1920’s when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment. This era full of oppression influenced many trends‚ examples being: jazz music and dance. Jazz music originated mainly in New Orleans‚ and is a blend of African and European music. And even though older generations considered the music corrupt and threatening to old cultural values‚ this music and dance style became very well known. Throughout
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Rebecca has been described as the first major gothic romance of the 20th century; Mrs. Danvers’ character is one of the few Gothic interests within the novel. Her unnatural appearance and multi-faceted relationship with Rebecca provides scope for manifold interpretations and critical views. Furthermore‚ Mrs. Danvers connection with Rebecca and Manderlay is a sub-plot in itself‚ making Mrs. Danvers the most subtly exciting character in the novel. Mrs. Danvers bond with the late Mrs. De Winter is
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Marketing Management Chapter 8 key points * To develop the best marketing plans‚ managers need to understand what makes each segment unique and different. * Effective target marketing requires: market segmentation; market targeting‚ and market positioning. * A market segment consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants. Market segments are generally defined by looking at descriptive characteristics or behavioral considerations. * Geographic
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French Rococo Era Painter‚ 1703-1770 Francois Boucher seems to have been perfectly attuned to his times‚ a period which had cast off the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the preceding age of Louis XIV and had replaced formality and ritual by intimacy and artificial manners. Boucher was very much bound to the whims of this frivolous society‚ and he painted primarily what his patrons wanted to see. It appears that their sight was best satisfied by amorous subjects‚ both mythological and contemporary
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Wright has a strong concern for the importance of the human relationship with nature as well as the need for a sense of continuity in time Judith Wright’s poetry evokes a deep sense of the importance of human relationships with nature. Through her constant use of organic‚ fruitful imagery she conveys the intrinsic importance she places upon connections and the need for a sense of continuity in time. The process of natural creation is one which Wright espouses through her references to the “seed”
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Apostrophe to Helen Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus shows the tragic doom of a budding scholar‚ who was highly efficient in all the field of studies and also a young aspirant‚ who had the immense potentiality to rise high above all other existing academicians of all times. It is fair to say that Faustus represents the quintessential Renaissance man - it is his thirst for knowledge that drives him into his pact with Mephostophiles. Faustus had that unquenchable thirst for knowledge and in his attempt
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(From a film and lecture course‚ covering the segment "Women and World War II") Roles of American Women in World War II Essay Two During World War II‚ Hollywood films strongly influenced the roles American women played‚ both while men were away and directly after they returned. These films often sent the message that while their men were away‚ women must be romantically loyal and keep a secure home for the men to return to. The films also often encouraged women to do their patriotic duty and their
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Hard Times written by Charles Dickens has themes of morality‚ importance of fellowship and sharing‚ irreparability of human action‚ childhood and money. The novel which is set up in fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown‚‚ assesses industrialization and the effect it had on people The ill effects of Victorian Utilitarianism are seen in the novel‚ through two of its characters‚ Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby. the sleary circus in Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times is full of life‚ color
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enhancement‚ giving the largest voice to women. Drawing from conversations with people of varied socialite circles‚ he investigates the structural‚ cultural‚ psychological‚ and historical factors that influence beauty such as the implications of sensuality that are embedded in plastic surgery. By the end of his ethnography‚ however‚ the neglected viewpoint within this realm of beauty is that of those who do not want to receive surgery. Through my own brief discussions
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