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Flower Girl Stage Directions
1,096 wordsIn the preface Shaw describes the Oxford phonetician Henry Sweet, on whom Professor Higgins is modeled, but warns us that Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet. Shaw says that he wrote the play in order to make the English aware of the importance of phonetics, and he is grateful that the play has been a great success on the stage. He complains that the way English is written has little to do with the way it is pronounced, and he pleads for a new alphabet and a reform in spelling. A heavy late-night...
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Number Of People Human Beings
609 wordsAny culture that takes just what it needs form the surroundings and leaves the rest is called a leaver culture. These people are very nomadic, such as the pygmies in the Forest People. Leavers move to an area that they fell they can live off the surroundings for awhile without using everything up. A few such leaver cultures have tried some forms of agriculture, though not the same way as the taker cultures have. The people of the leaver culture believe that they will only use what is necessary t...
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Literary Critic Bad Reputation
383 wordsEdgar Allan Poe was a famous American poet, short story writer, journalist, and literary critic who lived from 1809 - 1849. He was born in Boston on January 19 th, 1809 and was orphaned at an early age, after which he was sent to live with a foster family (The Allan's) in Richmond. He was never officially adopted by the Allan's and he was eventually disowned by the family. Poe won a short story contest in 1833, and two years later became a literary critic for the magazine (The Southern Literary ...
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Adam And Eve Western Culture
823 wordsStories are living mechanisms constantly evolving to adapt to new conditions and to explain the unexplainable. A different blend of stories inhabits every body. In order for our cosmopolitan society to survive, it is essential that people have a foundation story or a mother story; such a shared story coalesces different cultures. Stories are characterized by interpretation. We only remember those things that we feel are important to us. As a result, a new hybrid story is born in all persons by w...
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Mountains Of Ignorance Valley Of Sound Milo
886 wordsMilo, a very bored little boy, receives an unusual package one day: a make- believe tollbooth. When he drives through it in his electric toy car, he is suddenly transported to the Lands Beyond, a fantastic world of imagination. On his way to Dictionopolis, one of the country's two capitals, he meets Tock, the watchdog who joins him on his journey. In Dictionopolis, Milo meets King Azaz who presides over the world of letters and words. Azaz sends Milo on a mission to rescue two princesses, Rhyme ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Murders In The Rue Morgue
919 wordsWhitman, Dickinson, Crane, Frost, Cummings, and Longfellow. All examples of prominent and reputable men and women of the past who had one thing in common: a love for poetry. They wrote on the dignity of man, nature, war, politics, theology and of nursery rhymes. Yet there was one poet who was prominent but not reputable or well liked. He was known as Edgar Allan Poe. Due to his drinking, reviewers have made him sound like the town drunk who staggers around writing stories of death and horror. Wi...
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Civilizing His Fellow Man Civilize His Fellow Man Nature
510 wordsGod-like Manager since the beginning of time, man has aspired to achieve god-like status. Adam was on of the earliest men to achieve this status; all he had to do was to dominate nature and to civilize his fellow man. Literature also provides a cornucopia of men that go through these same processes to become god-like. One man that did become god-like was Odysseus. Adam was a man that led the Taker culture to dominate and civilize. Throughout Odysseus journey, he is given very many opportunities ...
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Test Taker Good Student Life
506 wordsThe score on an intelligence test does predict one s ability to handle school subjects, though it foretells little of success later in life. (Gardner) Intelligence by definition is the capacity to understand and apply knowledge. Honestly, how can that be tested? What happens if the test taker is sick or he / she is answering the questions stupidly for some odd reason? There is too much esteem behind this test; it should have no bearing other than a predicting tool. Not the scale that one must me...
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