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Social Sciences In Theatre
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 337.... uses anthropology to show theatrical aspects in everyday life, which brings one to ask the second question.
How do the social sciences show theatre used in everyday life?
Helbo uses sociology and biology to site instances through which theatre is used in everyday life. Sociologists see theatre in the social structures we face on a daily basis. A handshake, tipping a doorman and even the forbidden middle finger is what Erving Goffman terms “rituals of interaction.” Every culture is immersed in some aspect of performance, even biologists can see theatre in everyday occurrenc .....
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Analysis Of The Use Of Lighting In THE GODFATHER
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 966.... the hatred of what he is talking about. The scene is lit so that the background is completely black, so that the only thing we can see is the man. Even though this is logically unrealistic, the stylistic decision to light in this manner is warranted, since this or any other good film draws heavily upon our expectations and imagination to convey a message or meaning. We as audience accept the unrealistic elements, if they assist in making the story more engrossing. There is another light placed so that the man has an obvious highlight in the center of his black eyes. Thi .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1817.... his opinion that the girls were the “victims of witchcraft” (“Witch”). There has been discussion as to whether these fits were true in nature, or if the girls were acting. There has also been some discussion as to the possibility that the girls were caught in behavior that they knew they would be punished for, and they chose to make up their ‘illness’ so as not to be punished. When the girls were pressed as to an explanation for their actions, “they identified their tormentors as two…women -- Sarah Osborne, Sarah Goode. They also pointed to (Rev Parris's slave), Tituba (Bresla .....
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African Americans In The Civil War
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1125.... Blacks as soldiers as he did. Whereas the later was the Black Man’s will to fight for his freedom and prove himself as equal as any White man. However, because the Black population was stopped from entering the army under a 1792 law, the Black Man becoming a soldier was not officially noticed until late 1862. 1
“There was strong anti-black prejudice among most people in the free states, and in the loyal slave states the idea of arming the Black Man was anthema”. 2This statement talks about the usually held fear White people had about putting Blacks on the fighting line .....
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Conflicts Between The North And The South
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 784.... South was destroying the Union by trading the cotton for goods with the Europeans and not enough with the North. But there was another side to this, the South said that they would trade with the North if they built more factories to process the cotton. The North bitterly opposed this idea. They felt that it was too risky to build more factories and lose a profit. The North would said that if they, the South, slowed down their cotton crop then there would be enough factories to process the cotton. The South disagreed of course, leading to a never-ending quarrel between the two .....
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World War I And Bringing People Together
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1221.... Immigrants were treated as spies and were ridiculed by the American government, and the American people. The immigrants rights were violated, because we were at war. Opponents of the war were equally criticized and were called traitors. War in reality showed that America was really a divided nation, still young, and making mistakes.
World War I showed the separation of the rich, and the lower class. The rich just got richer, while the poor went and fought the battles. "The master class has always declared the war; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master clas .....
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Greek Theater 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 596.... the orchestra and the natural contours of the countryside. The theatron surrounded the orchestra on three sides. Describing the theater of Dionysus, David Taylor writes, " The spectators seats were in a curving area, a little more than a semi-circle and slope down to the center" (Taylor 19). Even though all classes of people attended the theater there were reserved areas for the more prestigious, such as the king.
" The audience arranged in rows, looked out across a rounded orchestra" (Kennedy 1102). Because most of the early dramas were religious and required a sacrifici .....
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Attempts To End Slavery
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 682.... to Massachusetts. Gradually, other northern states had followed, providing for the abolition of slavery. However, after the cotton gin was introduced to the economy, instead of eliminating the need for slavery, it actually had the opposite effect—the south now needed slavery more than ever. In addition, before Missouri joined the union, many northerners opposed the idea of Missouri becoming a state because it would allow the expansion of slavery and also give them an advantage in the senate. In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Henry Clay proposed to let Missouri enter th .....
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