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    A Doll's House

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    A Doll’s House A dominant style in theatre for the past 120 years‚ representing sexual romance‚ violence and domestic disturbances is the realistic style. “The live production “A Doll’s House” by The Young Vic’s effectively uses realism to address gender equality in the 19th century‚ foregrounding the idea that women are bound by the social conception of the duty of a wife‚ this is shown through effective use of the elements of drama”. A Doll’s House opens in the main setting of the play which

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    Niagara Falls

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    Niagara Falls Forming long before man roamed the earth and still today slowly continuing its process of reformation‚ Niagara Falls has become a worldwide tourist site and geological amazement. The continued and present process of reformation is contributed to an annual freezing and re-thawing of the rivers water. This event allows the reformation and eventual wearing away of the rocks beneath the surface‚ that along with continued erosion and periodic falling of large rock formations have slowly

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    Bleak House

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    Bleak House In the book “Bleak House” Charles Dickens expresses his contempt towards the vast amount of pollution in the air‚ water and lives of the citizens due to the filthy and unsanitary conditions in London. Throughout the book‚ Dickens describes very vividly the mud in the streets‚ the fog in the air and the dung in the streets. The polluted conditions in London were described as being a layer of thick fog that held within it components of gas‚ dirt‚ grime dung and grease. Just about every

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    The Doll's House

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    The lamp in Katherine Mansfield’s "The Doll’s House" and the monkey in Liliana Heker’s "The Stolen Party" illuminate the common theme by showing children in the middle of learning a harsh reality about the world they live in. The young main characters‚ Kezia Burnell in "The Doll’s House"‚ and Rosaura in "The Stolen Party"‚ live in a society where classism is common. They are both naïve though‚ to the fact that classism exists and that people are seriously affected by it. The lamp and the monkey are

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    Life as a House

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    NAME: Liban Hussein Film Review: Life as a House George Monroe is a lonely and sad man. Divorced for ten years‚ he lives alone on the Southern California coast with his pet dog in the same run down shack he has lived in for twenty-five years‚ the shack which his father passed down to him. In the intervening years‚ ostentatious houses have sprung up around him. He’s been at the same architectural firm for twenty years in a job he hates‚ which primarily consists of building scale models. On the

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    The Tree house.

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    heat‚ and air so thick you could cut through it with a knife‚ my dad and uncle labored on to build me the most beautiful tree house I have ever seen. Even though it was nearing twilight the heavy July air still laid upon the three of us like a wool blanket. They had just let me help hammer the last nail in place before my mom called out to us that dinner was ready. My tree house‚ my sanctuary‚ my refuge‚ was the only place that I ever felt invincible. It was built about four feet from the dark moist

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    A Doll's House

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    November 2012 Written Assignment Word Count: The Importance of Appearances in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen was a prominent realist writer in the 19th Century and his works were famous for broaching timeless topics that were not only prevalent in his 19th Century society but are still applicable in present day society. This trend is evident in one of his more known works‚ A Doll’s House. The plot of the play revolves around the consequences the protagonist‚ Nora‚ suffers after deceiving

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    Good Fall

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    A Good Fall The word Freedom has a different connotation in every part of the world‚ to have freedom means to have certain characteristics. These characteristics would be having the Third Eye‚ self-control‚ humility‚ and the ability to be able to overcome problems with a strategized plan. In the short story collection A Good Fall by Ha Jin‚ each story puts characters in dissimilar positions where they show whether or not they have the characteristics that define freedom. “A Composer and His Parakeet”

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    Free Fall

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    Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to verify the acceleration due to gravity using the picket fence with a photogate‚ LabPro and LoggerPro software by measuring it with a precision of 0.5% or better. Theory: All objects‚ regardless of mass‚ fall with the same acceleration due to gravity assuming that there is no air resistance. Objects thrown upward or downward and those released from rest are falling freely once they are released. Any freely falling object experiences acceleration directed

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    A Dolls House

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    Deandra Mckie E. Dekline English 201-085 16 April‚ 2013 A Doll’s House: Woman Sacrifices How would you like to live in a society in which you were subjected to live for a man and not yourself. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen tells the story of Nora a wealthy woman and the struggles she as well as the other female characters in a male dominant society face because of their gender. In this essay I will discuss how the women in Ibsen’s society scarifies themselves in order to remain in there gender

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