... or decrease the overall median age. 7 There are a small number of studies published on the demographics of regional and not-for-profit theatre audiences, which are helpful in gaining an overview of the attendance rate of young adults in American theatre. However, definitive conclusions are difficult to draw from them, firstly, because with the exception of an NEA report from 2008 ... , in order to fully postulate and draw conclusions from these age cohort specific demographics, one must contextualize them within the broader demographics of American theatre audiences. To this end, a brief...

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... television without his knowledge. This is a clear nod to the surveillance that he and others were subjected to in the heightened paranoia of the Cold War while also criticizing the invasion of famous people's private lives by media outlets such as television stations. Chaplin's character – named Igor ... where people free to express their views without the oppression of something like the HUAC coming after them or the hysteria which surrounded the Cold War in America at this point. Another example of Chaplin's overarching bitterness towards the culture of the United States is his pers...

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... grand histories can be. Kinzer often turns, for example, to the minutia of letters and personal diaries, long forgotten books, and obscure journal articles to give even the broadest historical overview a tangible specificity. Drawing mainly on secondary sources, Kinzer shows that most regime change operations achieved their short-term goals of displacing local rulers. In overthrowing the government of Guatemala in ... ...

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... shops and rough brick apartment buildings that I have gotten to know intimately in years past as a real estate rental agent. The sidewalk is narrow, however manicured and every few feet a tree is growing in its' allotted space as designated by the neighborhood's appointed designer. Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick ... ...

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... movement in the US was centered in New York City where in the mid-to-late 1970's people were dealing with intense frustration with the lies of the government, the cold war, and economic depression. The streets of New York were dangerous, and full of street gangs and drugs. If people could find a job, it didn't pay enough to live on ... ...

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... that they had heard that Gatsby was a German spy during World War I. Others also said that they heard that Gatsby was a graduate of Oxford and had once killed a man in cold blood. As much as Gatsby did not know anything about his guests, his guests also know nothing about him. Gatsby's parties therefore came to serve as a meeting place for both ... ...

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... to be called the "Kitchen Debate." And Warhol's painting of the American hero Superman blowing out a fire also takes on an extra fillip of significance in the context of the Cold War domino theory and America's self-proclaimed heroic mission to put out the fires of a world communist takeover (Wollen 171). Andy Warhol was a complex and exciting man who took not ... ...

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... Heather Long was my quick hands, reactions at third base, and that I displayed them all in the tryouts held in March. 7 Heather looked surprised during the beginning of tryouts on a cold day in March when we were all taking ground balls in the field, and I was doing really well. 8 The tryouts became a competition, as it seemed, between her and me. 9 When ... ...

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... were incapable of exercising the rights of citizenship. "Pregnancy and passing indisposition' were no more a barrier of exercising rights on the part of women that were 'gout and the common cold on the part of men' (2). It is, therefore, absurd to exclude women from rights on the grounds of alleged inferior intelligence, because huge numbers of dim-witted men would be ... ...

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... Times Square: "Be Suspicious." I think it might have been something about having discerning taste, but to me it was apocalyptic, because New York, with all its conviviality, could be a very cold place- a melting pot that never quite melted. That sign summed up what the Big Apple represented to me- a bustling metropolis teeming with people of all ethnicities, each wary of the ... ...

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... ") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captain! My Captain!". "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead." In this collection it is apparent that Whitman's love for democracy was diminishing after seeing the destruction it could cause against fellow man, though at first it was ... ...

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