The play, Rover, hence consists of four different plots tied together by a sole character, Willmore. ... Elaborating more on the genre, one of the important features of restoration comedy is its stock characters or the Mall-Rats of its time. ... Therefore Wilmore is a character who is never satisfied (will-more). ... Frederick and Valeria are confidante characters who ease the plot along either by scheming or by allowing the main characters share their feelings. ... (Maguire) The stock characters of the restoration drama included the fop and the rake. ...

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In 1929 the Wall Street stock market crashed, having a devastating effect on the nations economy. ... The stock market crash led to mass-disillusionment, millions of people lost all their savings, businesses and even homes. ... These films contained characters that people could relate too, tackling real, everyday issues. ... Despite most of the leading characters of these films being murderers, racketeers, and generally unsavoury citizens, they were still often idolised as 'heros' or 'antiheroes'. Many of the public considered Prohibition unfair, and the gangsters were seen...

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In Daniel Defoe's novel, "Robinson Crusoe," the titular character struggles to remain moral in a society which places great significance on the attainment of power and wealth. ... A critical presentation of Crusoe's character is then made, as he seems to be an economical man in practice, yet a spiritual one in mindset. ... Crusoe's ability to seek the good in such a hopeless and lonely situation reflects the strength of his character. ... His total focus is on making the most of his supplies and cultivating his stock. ... This connection may be best expressed in an instance when...

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After taking careful field notes for multiple weeks, and taking stock and mining that data, I have noticed that Individuals are HYPE is a space, where individuals possess the abilities to learn and thrive from one another and have the potential to learn about each other while being in the space. ... One of the activities we completed earlier in the term forced us to act as a character of one of the characters of the civil rights movements and complete a plethora of mini-role plays, which would introduce us to the cast of characters that made up this time period. ... I really noticed how everyo...

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And, even though his occasional refusal to accept established engineering principles may have revealed a flaw in his overall character, his "free wheeling" style of observation and creativity worked amazingly well for him during the emergence of the relatively "new age" of electricity. ... In 1868, after making a name for himself amongst fellow telegraphers as being a flamboyant and quick witted character - who enjoyed playing "mostly harmless" practical jokes - he returned home one day ragged and penniless. ...

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His inability to realize certain things about his life will come through in a painful epiphany later in the story, after his dreams have been shattered by the harsh reality of Gallaher's character, just as the dreams of the Irish have been shattered and cloaked under a reputation of the past and a pride on those that are long dead. ... The position of a poet is something that would elevate Chandler socially, and the reader is brought into a private moment of Chandler's where the insight of his character shows him desiring affection and praise rather than genuine artistic vision, on...

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So too did the French Impressionists and German expressionists who used other of the cinematic formal elements, such as camera work and mise-en-scene, respectively, to externalize characters' inner states (Thompson & Bordwell). ... According to Thompson and Bordwell, photogénie "is created by the properties of the camera: framing isolates objects from their environment, black-and-white film stock transforms their appearance, special optical effects further change them, and so on" .This emphasis led the Impressionists to develop innovative camera techniques to externalize...

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These brand-new facets of the LEGO item profile produced brand-new possibilities to market and offer its item, as it today combined its product using the opportunities of role-playing and character. 2. ... The shops have actually required cut in wholesale rates, increased in stock return, and a rise in margin per-square base. ...

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The opening line emphasizes (assuming that in accordance with Blues musical lyrics, 'dancing' often was a euphemism for sex) the loneliness as felt by Native Americans as a result of fractured family and community life on the Reservations (not one of the main characters has grown up through functional happy childhoods, Victor being abandoned by both his parents, Junior losing his parents, and as an indirect consequence his immediate family of younger siblings, to drink driving, whilst Thomas and Chess/Checkers both live through alcoholic abuse by their fathers). ... Alexie first m...

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Gezea Kende told Wilson that many Hungarians considered him an enemy, referring to passages from A history of an American People, what Wilson said,'' I believe in the responsible restrictions of immigration, but not in any restrictions which will exclude from the country honest, industrious men who are seeking what America has always offered Preferred-an asylum for those who seek to free field...Anyone who has the knowledge of Hungarian history least must not feel that stock to have proved itself for liberty and opportunity.''... The protest was attended by over three thous...

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Smith claimed that the keys to wealth are productive men, productive stock, and productive land. ... To Smith nature is many things, including "nature is the essential quality and character of something, it is the inherent force which directs either the world or human beings or both, thirdly, it is the material world itself, taken as including or not including human beings" (Smith 392). ...

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Introduction Various authors have adapted adopted different approaches while discussing culture. According to Flamholtz and Randle (2011), corporate culture cannot be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or even heard even if it is prevalent in every organization. Nevertheless, corporate culture permeate...

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Thus the theory seeks to address the common problems encountered in different leadership styles, it calls for wide application of leadership and change of character by leaders in order to solve the many problems facing organizations and in particular that which goes ahead to reduce the employees' morale. ...

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By the nineteenth century, the transfer of exotic plants and the search for wild plants that might be domesticated were activities that were becoming rationalized and organized and put at the service of industrial capitalism. Collectors were sent from Europe to the farthest reaches of the earth in search of unknown species that might serve as raw material, remedy, or ornament . This enterprise, even though it was the expression of scientific and state bureaucracies, nevertheless partook of romance: It was a quest for the rare, the precious, and the danger-scented. Of all the great feats...

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1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. He goes by the nickname "Tita" and used to be an assistant and then a professor of plastic arts at the Academy of Arts of Dakar and a graduate of the Arts Education High School (Magnin, 1996:88). He completed an internship in cartooning and set design under the aegis of the French Community of Belgium. It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. It is known that he has a pa...

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In some cases, this simply means users might be unable to wirelessly update their Facebook page for awhile; in others, blocking access to email or other corporate resources; and in others blocking stock trades or other time-critical transactions that could cost companies a lot of money. " (Cox, 2011) The 802.11 standard itself contains numerous powerlessness imperfections. ...

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Whether it affected us directly with the loss of a loved one or an incident we were a part of, or indirectly by heightened security at the airports causing delays, sudden drop in a stock values we own, or emotionally by the countless reports and images displayed by the media, terrorism has affected us all and shows no signs of going away anytime soon. ...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avan...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said person resides permanently in a wilderness beyond range of all TV, radio, newspaper delivery, and the U.S. Postal Service. ...

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