Whose life is it anyway? The story is a play written by Brian Clark. It is first presented by Ray Cooney‚ at the Mermaid Theatre‚ London‚ on the 6th March 1978. It’s about a man called Ken who was involved in a car accident‚ and paralyzed as a course of it. Before the accident he was a well-educated artist who made sculptures. He had a great sense of humor‚ and had a lively life. His brain still fully works. But the doctors are not seeing him as fully stabilized yet. When he stabile‚ he will
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There has been an ongoing battle over a strip of land in the Middle East‚ between Palestinians and Israelis for nearly 70 years now. Both sides have their list of supporters‚ firmly believing that the land belongs to either Israel or Palestine. I strongly believe that the land belongs to Israel. This conflict stems out to a religious conflict between the Jewish religion and Islam. Between the years of 1299 and 1923‚ the Ottoman Empire ruled a huge part of the world‚ mostly what is known today as
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Related text to whose life is it anyway? – Power and the individual What ideas of power are represented in “whose life is it anyway” and the related texted material you have chosen and how does the related text link to the prescribe text? There are many ideas and reasons why My Sisters keeper and whose life is it anyway have similar relations to the power and the individual. For one the battle of individual rights‚ Both Anna and Ken fight for their individual rights to their Body and life. Ken doesn’t
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In the film Whose Life Is It Anyway? we are introduced to the character of Ken. Ken’s life is changed after a life-altering car accident leaves him a quadriplegic. Ken‚ being unable to live the life he is accustomed asks to be released from the hospital and refuses medical treatment. Throughout this paper I will delve into the roles that work‚ play‚ and worship played in Ken’s life both pre-accident and post-accident. The roles of work‚ play‚ and worship will also tie in with Ken’s personal freedom
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The play ‘Whose Life is it Anyway?’ by Brian Clark explores conflicting issues and views through the protagonist predicament. Having conflict is essential in drama. Conflict is created through disagreement of different perspectives and allows the audience to question their values in society. The three keys areas of conflict that arise in the play are the dignity of choice‚ professionalism and desire. Dignity of choice is a key conflict that is conveyed throughout the play. Ken is a paraplegic resulted
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In this essay‚ I will be describing and analysing how Ken‚ from “whose life is it anyway”‚ used persuasive techniques to persuade the judge to let him die. Ken is trying to persuade the judge to let him die‚ and he persuades him with this quote “…and I find the hospital’s persistent effort to maintain this shadow of life an indignity and its humane.” this quote is clearly showing that he does not want to rely on other people. The word “maintain” stands for holding something like an object in your
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Who’s in control of your life? Who’s pulling your strings? For the majority of us‚ it’s other people – society‚ colleagues‚ friends‚ family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young‚ of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. We didn’t want to be singled out by the crowd for being different because this wasn’t such
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The Life of Brian (or lack thereof) This is a austrailian short story written by Maree Spratt. The story is about Brian and his uneasy life. He lives in Brisbane‚ Australian‚ with his flatmate Richard. Brian has very high interest in Physics and Chemistry‚ and is also very active on the internet‚ especially on the Yahoo! Website. But one day‚ when Brian is on a full City bus‚ he meets a girl and suddenly everything changes. But sadly‚ his insecuerness and lack of self-confidence‚ blocks his way
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My book that i am reading is about this thirteen year old boy named Brian Robeson who is desperately trying to survive. He was on a plane that crashed in a Canadian wilderness and all he was to survive is what is in the survival backpack that was in the plane. There are only two main characters in the story and they are Brian himself and the hunter that found Brian and his name was David Smallhorn. The hunter lives on a small island on the lake. One of the theme of the story is survival because
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culture is a corruption of their faith and values. One of these conflicts arises when the comedy group Monty Python released their second feature film entitled The Life of Brian‚ which was received by popular culture as a successful movie but to religious Christian’s especially in the United States it was seen as a blasphemous portrayal of the life of Jesus Christ. It was released in 1979 and was the thirty-ninth top grossing film of the year the highest British film‚ fourth in the United Kingdom‚ and IMDb
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