... and audience members, most of whom are older and white. If these institutions are going to survive in the long run they must begin cultivating a much younger and more ethnically diverse audience. These reports have been met with corresponding actions that can be seen through a multitude ... I lived, the more baffled I have been about what I perceived to be a distaste for theatre among people in my age cohort. In order to begin to seek an understanding of the underlying factors behind the fact that nearly 90% of people in my age cohort attend non-musical plays less than once ... 1995]. I ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... within the ward; Mulberry Street, Anthony (now Worth Street), Orange (now Baxter Street), Little Water Street (no longer in existence) and Cross (now park street). George G. Foster (Sixth Ward Map)1 Walking Down Mulberry Street, which is the only street converging into the historic Five Points area that has kept its' original name,2 I am completely relaxed and in awe of its' simple ... north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. It is a relatively quiet stretch of street with many affluent people walking along the side...

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... disillusionment connotes the growing lack of faith in conventional images of American society. A type of moral ambiguity emerges in a way never seen before in cinema. In film noir, the heroes begin to skirt along the edge of corruption, eventually rooting out the villains, but typically using questionable methods to do so. "Audiences and artists were now eager to take a less optimistic ... third phase, of film noir, the one to which "Taxi Driver" is most closely related: "the forces of personal disintegration are reflected in these films (Schrader 62). Travis is indeed a walking contrad...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate