The play also demonstrates how they survive, despite these humiliating conditions. ... The mateship between the women in the play changes the way we perceive the world through the use of distinctively visual techniques. ... In the author's note Misto describes why he wrote the play "I didn't have the power to build a memorial so I wrote a play instead". Misto's purpose in writing the play is to pay tribute to the women who survived or died in the POW camps in WWII. ... " "Music 'when you're smiling' plays following this....

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The island of Sri Lanka was colonised by Portugal from 1505-1658. During this period the Portuguese attempted to acclimatise the native population to Western customs in order to stem the flow of any potential resistance to their rule and gradually eradicate the local cultural and religious ways. One...

• Word Count: 1990
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In fact, William Penn, in the Frame of 1682 of Pennsylvania, wrote that all believers in God, "shall in no ways be molested or prejudiced for their religious Persuasion or Practice in Matters of Faith and Worship.... Although William Penn was unsuccessful in his opposition to slavery, his belief in equality was later demonstrated by the Quakers in playing a major role in the abolition movement. ...

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While I do agree that emancipation played a very important role in the need for the importation of labour from 1838 - 1900, I believe that the true beginning of the labour problems began on January 1, 1807 with the abolition of the slave trade. ... Sir Charles Metcalfe in a dispatch to the Secretary of State in 1839 wrote "It naturally became the interest of properties to obtain labour on the cheapest, and that of the labouring population to sell it on the dearest terms; and a struggle with these two opposite view commenced between the two parties." ...

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Here again Carpenters views come into play, it seems that Gandhi agrees with Carpenter here as he views industrialization as the central problem to the grave problems being faced by European nations, namely Germany, at that time. ... Various authors such as Jeffrey Sachs believed Gandhi's ideology of local and village self sufficiency employed a distinctive Marxist trait19, this view though was strongly rejected by Gandhi who wrote in Young India in 1928 that "it not only does...

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In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... They had also imported back to Britain many pukka (first class) habits such as smoking cigars, playing polo and taking showers. ...

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Nevertheless, Joll points out that domestic policies played a part, but not a big one as to lead to war. ... The following historians wrote in different decades and approached the causes of WWI from different directions. ...

• Word Count: 4114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate