... I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. "Dream" brought in an audience of people in my age group, who rarely, if ever, had attended theatre, and exposed the joy of Shakespeare in performance to a demographic of audience members that, for the most part, had no ... people my own age. The only exception was a theatre piece I was hired to direct entitled Spurn, which succeeded remarkably well at brin...

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... sleep there are four stages that we go through (Carskadon 4). Stage one is the lightest phase of sleep. In stage one sleep there is often visual imagery involved. Images appear in the form of wandering or dream like thought which can be controlled unlike a full dream state. In this stage of sleep someone can be awakened by low volume sounds or slight touch. Stage one sleep happens ... through-out the night. It often reappears as a transitional state of sleep following arousal during the night. When stage one does reappear during sleep ... it only last thirty seconds to one minute (Carsk...

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... The catcher in the rye is a work of fiction and a tragic-comedy. I came to choose it because I heard it is about a boy who is around my age. In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private ... to find someone to spend some time with, but he fails to find anyone to talk to and comes back to the hotel feeling more depressed. In the hotel, he meets a prostitute, but he sends her back without having sex because he feels depressed and sorry for her. He was f...

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... usually end up making a decision upon what is the best offer or outcome for us. In this case, I am considering the similarities and the differences between two movies, which are Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe. Dr. Strangelove is an exaggerated sarcastic comedy while Fail-Safe is a severe drama. In this paper, I explained that although the two films are similar, they are also different ... . I do this by comparing the characters of the film. In comparing the characters of the film, each character affected the film in a certain type of way. The characters I discussed in this paper are Gener...

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... stunning when the camera cranes up and exposes the skyline of Chicago. And then it is romanticized with the ends on the top of the Empire State Building when New York City is brightening at night in panorama. Furthermore, the space of the top of the Empire State Building carries with it a meaning. Annie ... Ryan is also convincing and gives her female audience a character that any woman can relate with. Ross Malinger is also believable and realistic in his portrayal of a boy who has lost his mother and refuses to lose his father as well. One other element contributes most significantly to...

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... to the image that he projects to others, approached her. Drouet is symbolic of the lure, changing facade of America's new economy and the increased mobility of the middle class of worker that was ushered in by the coming of the industrial age in America. In the early stages of her stay in Chicago, Carrie resided in the home of her sister Minnie and her husband Hanson, a taciturn and stern family man ... world, dreamers like Gatsby. Again about Nick's analogy on symbols taking the interpretation of what individuals give them, we see in the last scenes of The Great Gatsby that Wilson, Myrt...

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... a video called "Nuyorican Dream." This video talked about a young man named Robert. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1968. He and his family came to New York and began taking welfare. His sisters (Betty and Taty) got pregnant at early teenage years. His brother Danny is always in jail because he's always ... caught for robbery. Robert is the only one who graduated from High School and finished college. He got a degree and started teaching in Brooklyn. As watching this video I began to observe that most Latina women are women who really care about their kids. No matter ... has emphysema. A...

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... TV doesn't breed murderers, and to some extent it is true, but the fantasy violence on TV and computer games is enough to tip a blood-drenched fantasy or perhaps a gruesome dream of revenge into an irreversible act of reality. The debate over the effects of violence in the media and computer games has been going on for quite some time, but it was only ... longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven't been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with real nature." Figures show that one in four Britis...

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... . For every 100 females there are 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 86.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $41,566, and the median income for a family is $52,413. Males have a median income of $39,790 versus $33,747 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,553. 10 ... .1% of the population and 8.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 11.9% are under the age of 18 and 11.0% are 65 or older. Kearny is a town located ... ,800, and the median income for a family is $72,568. Males have...

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... so much, a word that caused millions to die, a word that is unforgettable in history. The Author of Night, Elie Wiesel, first writes the book after a ten-year vow of silence upon him before trying to describe what happened to him and over six million other Jews. The book reencounters his experiences in the holocaust from 1941 to 1945. His autobiography involves an amazing dialect that ... little children are being thrown into the furnace. They way he imprints the children being thrown into the furnace is by repeating the word "Never" in paragraphs. (Page 32, line 1-14) More important, i...

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... was an infamous day. When I first heard it, I was overwhelmed with feelings of confusion and disbelief. The situation seemed surreal. I had always been thankful to live in this country, and have the freedom that so many others in this world can only dream about. The entire disastrous event was like a bad dream. The destruction our nation faced on September 11, 2001 was more than I could ... ever fathom. I was in school when I heard of the attacks against America. I was sitting in history class when all of suddenly , another teacher rushed ... in and said, "America is being attacked!" T...

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... an alcoholic, etc., when these individuals are much more. Little attention is paid to what such people do, or what their particular stories are. In written work, though, as opposed to life, the characters can be examined, their vices scrutinized, and, eventually, all can be tied into the ... character in Cather's short story voyages from his drab life and home in Pittsburgh to the marvelous New York City, where he fully expresses his shopaholism. Under his father's roof on Cordelia Street, Paul is dramatically oppressed; he dreads coming home at night for fear of his father. Paul, in one...

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... most influential Jazz/Swing artists of all time. However her life was not all glitz and glamour that one would think a person with such a title should possess. With little education and no money she had a dream and was determined to get there, no mater what. Her experiences, achievements and downfalls contributed ... to her success. Unfortunately, family was not the best support system for Eleanora Fagan, the name given to her at birth. Her grandfather was a slave in Virginia and hard work was ... the equivalent of a 6th grade education this meant easy fast money. She was recruited to w...

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... Drama Critics Circle Award for best play. Most of the story takes place in the home of Willy Loman in Brooklyn, New York. Willy, his wife Linda and their two sons Biff and Happy are what Miller uses to attack the materialistic aspects of the American Dream. Willy and his family believes that the American Dream identifies with a man in business acquiring material comforts offered by modern American ... life. Because of this flawed view, the family is troubled with the fact of not making as much money as their friends and family. Miller establishes character ... convey the relationships ...

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... bigger green light across a lake. This puts emphasis on the importance of the green light. The green light symbolizes an unattainable dream. After emphasizing on the green light, the light turns into falling snow and the snow is filmed in a way, as if the snow is falling onto the viewers. This ... shows excellent camera work and this is a lot more effective than the script. In the movie the twinkling effect of the ... snow emphasizes the draw to the American dream. While in the script it is written as "A gentle snow begins to fall, obscuring the light..." this ... playing on a buildi...

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... Walter lord A Night To Remember by Walter Lord is about the luxury ship "Titanic" went through. The story takes place on the luxury ship and on its many decks. In the story the Titanic is sailing along the Atlantic Ocean. This book was written in 1955. In this story all characters have the same value in the book. ... 1316 passengers and 891 people on the crew. It was all calm and quiet cruising down the Atlantic, and the Ocean looked like a sheet of Ice. The Watchman in the crow's nest accounted for an iceberg but since the ship was unsinkable there was no need to worry, everyone was doi...

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... and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The success of this tragedy can be viewed as a result of Miller's ability to portray the universal hoes, fears, and struggles of the average American. (Drama for students) "Death of a Salesman could also have been named "Death of the American dream because it shows how Willy's dream came shattering in on him and eventually died. Whether reading or watching "Death ... of a Salesman", the audience can relate to the tragic hero, Willy Loman. Miller states that a tragic hero is "a character ... the fact that Willy lost touch with who he really w...

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... were confronted with hostile fire led by troops under Colonels Daniel Morgan and Henry Dearborn. It was here that fighting was centered through out the duration of the battle. The patriots used the woods and gullies surrounding the area to their advantage and fired at the British with uncoordinated effort. By late ... the patriot troops. This allowed Burgoyne to steady his troops and gradually force the patriot troops to withdraw. The second battle of Bemis Heights took place on October 7, 1777. At this time winter was approaching and General Burgoyne was forced to retreat to join his fo...

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... a few problems. Ichabod wanders out into the forest one night and is confronted by the ghost of an old Hessian trooper who ends up knocking Ichabod of his horse and possibly killing him. In my opinion, the cause of this mishap may have resulted from Ichabods love for Katrina. Ichabod Crane is, in my opinion, the protagonist of this story. Ichabod was extremely funny looking. The book ... had had enough, and Ichabod headed home during the night. Ichabod was then confronted by the fabled ghost of Sleepy Hollow, The Headless Horseman. After a long chase with the ghost the story then hit th...

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... , we can see the significance of colors in different environments. For example, in the Eggs and NYC there are a lot of bright vibrant colors that symbolize life and wealth. While in the Valley of Ashes, there is a lot of gray and soot symbolizing death and poverty. And of course there is the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, symbolizing Gatsby's hope and dream to be with Daisy that ... he could almost grasp. At the end of the film, we can see how Nick is weathered and disgusted ... , they start making the wrong decisions and place value on toxic people and things, similar to what N...

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... to a school called Whooton. It began roughly for him because he was kicked out of both schools for not doing any work. His horrible grades forced him to move to an all boys school Pency Prep where he lived in the dorms with a friend called by the name Ackley and an arrogant roommate named ... of going to school at Pencey Prep he was kicked out for failing every subject. So he left packing his bags wishing he could have worked harder. This lead to him having to stay many nights at hotels around New York until the semester was finished. If his parents had found out he would have been in tro...

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It was a regular day in New York. Wake up, go to school, work, come home at ten o"clock, and then retire for the night. Yes, it was a simple like not much action going on. Most of the day had progressed; the time was roughly ten forty-five eleven o"clock. All of a sudden we heard a big BOOM!! (Me I"m no ... regular New Yorker, I"m a Long Island boy. That sound was not part of my everyday life.) I was sitting in French class ... to the Southern State to The Belt and then take it all the way in (the guys knew the way). By the time we arrived both towers had fallen, and many of our NYC brothers...

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... with the Count. Ellen made sure to talk to Newland that night and they discussed marriage. Ellen wanted a divorce with the Count and Newland, being in the firm, wanted to help her. He advised her she should not divorce the Count because he was liable to accuse her of untrue things about Ellen that would jeopardize her social reputation with family and friends ... he cannot go without her. Mae can not go however because she's pregnant. Many significant things happened in this same room that Mae had told Newland of their arrival. Mae had all three of her kids in this room and their oldest...

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... now 5:30pm and customers are beginning to show up for dinner. As Steven is fabricating all these vegetables down in front of the line Exec. Chef Tom Colicchio is giving orders and garnishing the final products being taken. Juliet who is working ... JFK airport. Back in the kitchen it is now day six of Steven's research in Gramercy Tavern. It is Chef Tom's day off from the kitchen and Sous Chef Mat is left in charge of the night's production. They soon get a substantial amount of V.I.P marked tickets. In disregard the line ... cooks work the same as if everything was the same either way ...

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... opened it up to find that he had a face, which gods are not supposed to have. It was a human face; a product of his own creation. That night, the depressed god got really drunk and had sex with his sister. Then next morning, realizing what he had done. Quetzalcoatl shamefully made a raft ... of snakes and left his kingdom, vowing to return to reclaim his treasure on the day "Ce Acatl," the day of the reed on the Aztec Calendar (Fuentes, 1992). News of ... supplies packed up, Cortes and his crew sailed to the New World not knowing what to expect. On the day Ce Acatl - the day of the reed...

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