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    SETTING OBJECTIVES AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK This week’s reading is related to how learning objectives should be‚ what learning objectives should engage with and importance of providing feedback. Learning objectives are what students learn in class. Feedback is making comment on what students need to do to improve their performance and understanding. Setting objectives has some features to increase effectiveness of objectives. The first one is that learning objectives are not too general or too

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    Although many essays written about A Streetcar Named Desire concerns the "social attitude and psychological constitutions of its characters‚"(61) and the author‚ Tennessee Williams’‚ purpose in using of symbolism and imagery‚ Leonard Quirino instead intents to examine and emphasize the use of symbolism and how Tennessee Williams uses it in order to construct his marvelous play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. Instead of focusing in terms of its theatrical presentation‚ Quirino sets out to reveal how two

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    13 November 2013 Desire and Death in A Streetcar Named Desire In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Blanche refuses to accept reality and tries to resuscitate her idealized past through memory. She allows desire to conduct the way she lives and as a matter of fact is ultimately destroyed by the pursuit of her sexual desires. The correlation between death and desire is a prominent aspect that Williams explores in A Streetcar Named Desire. Throughout the play‚ death and desire are frequently and consistently

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    Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desire Postmodernism has emerged as a reaction to modernism thoughts and "well-established modernist systems". (Wikipedia‚ 2005) Specific to Nabokov’s Lolita and Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire is the idea that both of the novels are written under the view of postmodernism as a cultural movement and that they are broadly defined as the condition of Western society especially after World War II (period in which the novel were written; 1947 for Streetcar and 1955 for

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    Williams has certainly used symbolism and colour extremely effectively in his play‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. A moving story about fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her lapse into insanity‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ contains much symbolism and clever use of colour. This helps the audience to link certain scenes and events to the themes and issues that Williams presents within the play‚ such as desire and death‚ and the conflict between the old America and the new. Scene Three is one

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    A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: THE WOMEN The play‚ “A Streetcar Named Desire‚” is set in a time where gender roles were severe. Compared to men‚ women were very restricted when it came to exercising their empowerment. Perhaps it is due to this reason that Blanche Dubois‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Eunice Hubbell‚ all exhibit low self esteem‚ depending on male companions for happiness. Blanche Dubois wanted to be perceived as a woman of elegance. In addition to frequently bathing‚ she wore the finest

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    A Streetcar Named Desire conforms to the expectation that a major theme of Williams ’ plays is that of human sexuality. Various aspects of human sexuality are explored through the diversity and complexity of the characters. Whilst Stanley Kowalski epitomises masculinity through his primal strength and power‚ and the increasingly fragile Blanche DuBois attempts to cling to the feminine role of the Southern Belle‚ these are only aspects of their characters. The fact that their relationship is one of

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    The play “streetcar named desire” written by Tennessee William in 1949‚ which was received the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. The play commenced on Broadway on December 3‚ 1947 in the Ethel Barrymore Theater. This play is about life of a woman in 19th century who could not come out of the fantasy to the real life that her self instinct and her surrounding creates extra problems in her life that makes her hide her historical and physical appearances and lied her sister and suitor. On the other

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    Debra J Chawner‚ To whom it may concern Ashley Charles is a man I have known all of his life. His mother and I were school friends and have remained close friends ever since‚ always living near enough to maintain regular contact. Because of this I have always had a close relationship with extended members of the family. I have always been Ashley’s hairdresser and enjoyed being able to talk freely with him‚ sharing his experiences and thoughts such as in recent years his passion

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    ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ – Exploration Notes Our exploration into ‘Streetcar’ began with a focus on vocal awareness. Through developing the opening of the play through non-naturalism‚ I discovered how the use of voice and movement was key into creating the atmosphere of a multi-cultural and rundown area of New Orleans. I found that accent was a main factor in conveying the vibrant racial mix in the Quarter. The use of crescendos allowed us to create eerie atmosphere within Blanche’s living nightmare

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