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    Diversity In Theatre

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    Diversity in Theatre Theatre has evolved over the many years. As it has grown, it moved to include more diverse performers, crew, producers, and audiences. This is an exploration of the expansion of diverse theatre. Western Theatre as an artform began as religious rituals in ancient Greece. Formerly, only men could become actors, women being typically played by men or boys. In Ancient Roman and Medieval theatre women were allowed occasionally, but not often. In the 17th Century opera became prevalent

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    André Gide est né en 1869 et il est mort en 1951. Il habitait à Paris. Son père est mort en 1880, quand André avait seulement onze ans. Il est éduqué par sa mère et sa tante. Son premier livre de poésie est de 1892 et il s'appelait 'Les poésies d'André Walter'. Plus tard dans sa vie il a découvri qu'il est un homosexuel, mais malgré cela il s'est marié avec sa cousine en 1896. Dans les années suivantes il a publié beaucoup de livres, comme 'Les nourritures terrestres' (1897), 'L'immoraliste' (1902)

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    women trying to address him as a man. Patriarchy made men ego centric and self-centred towards their women particularly Antoinette as a creole woman. When he realises that he’s been bewitched by Antoinette he revenges by sleeping with their servant Amelie and offered her huge amount of money. He does this deliberately to revenge the betrayal that Antoinette did to him. Which drives Antoinette mad. Even Antoinette’s half-brother Daniel sends him a letter that humiliates Antoinette that she is crazy

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    How and why are selected canonical texts re-written by female authors? Answer with close reference to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is a relatively still sea, lying within the south-west zone of the North Atlantic Ocean, at the centre of a swirl of warm ocean currents. Metaphorically, for Jean Rhys, it represented an area of calm, within the wide division between England and the West Indies. Within such an area, a sense of stability

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    Orange Coast College Student Dance Concert having multiple dances of different types of dances. It’s inside the Robert B. Moore Global Theater. It’s starts at 8:00 and ends at 10:00pm and I went on April 28th, a Friday night. The artistic directors are Amelie Hunter and Shana Menaker and I believe to be one hundred people or more in the theater. So it’s a full house fill with students and adults alike. What I enjoy during the concert was the dancers performing without being distracted or scare by the

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    Descartes began a prolific written correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, in which he answered her moral questions, especially the nature of happiness, passions, and ethics. Passions of the Soul was written as a synthesis of this exchange. Amélie Rorty asserts that the examination of the passions present in Descartes' work plays a significant role in illustrating the development of the perception of the cognitive mind in western society. According to her article “From Passions to Emotions

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    capable of treating Antoinette in such a way, of purposefully “breaking her up” as Christophine would say, makes one wonder if he is even capable of redemption in Jane Eyre. His little encounter with Amélie could be ascribed to his intoxication on the voodoo love potion, though by the time he sleeps with Amélie many hours have passed including a trip to the ruined house and a nap in its eerie surroundings. Furthermore, Rochester’s actions are inherently selfish. Motivated solely by greed, he seems to be

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    It feels like every day, countless news stations, websites, and social media users break the tragic story of yet another mass shooting in the US, a fact that is shared by almost no other developed countries. Clearly there is something anomalous about the U.S., why else would the U.S. be the only country where this regularly happens? The answer lies in one key difference between the United States and other developed countries, its policies on gun control and ownership. The 2nd amendment to the United

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    striking pieces out in the market, but all the vintage shops only chose to stock up on easy everyday pieces. In an attempt to bring color to the vintage scene, I opened a vintage e-shop of my own and handpicked a themed collection inspired by the movie Amélie(2001). My work covered everything from licensing the business and arranging photo shoots to designing and promoting the website. Although I didn’t sell enough to generate profit, I gained a plethora of experience and related skills by experimenting

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    Delving into the economic heart of Australia for an understanding its economy. Australia is located in a region known as Oceania (a huge body of water) that houses the island called Australia. According to John Pearson, author of the 2015 report “Our World,” Australians Population estimates around 22,750 million people. Australian population spreads across this mass of land that spans 2.96 million square miles with almost half of the land climate is dry desert. Surprisingly with such dry climate

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