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Can someone be born evil or is the ability to be immoral something that’s acquired through the environment? Various techniques were used by Alan Bennett in the History Boys to convey how Hector wasn’t purely immoral because he let his sexual desires lead to the fondling of his student’s genitals, but because he was a dedicated educator who would stop at no means including disconnection with the traditional form of teaching in order to per-quire his students futures through alternative education.

Alan Bennett Talking Heads In Bennett's monologues the main character faces an important decision which will affect the course of their lives. I will go on and explain in this essay, the play writer's use of literary techniques - including setting, theme and characterisation- which may make the decision seem correct or not. Talking Heads was originally produced for BBC television but has recently been used as a collection of short stories. Each of the characters portrayed, is played by an

researched the The Bennett Place Farmhouse and discovered the history that hides behind this simple farmhouse. Fascinated by my trip, my perspective opened up to a variety of views and ideas about the battles and surrenders that resulted from the Civil War. The history of the site, the valuables and sighting, and my reflection towards the Bennett Place Historic Site all contributed to my understanding of the many surrenders that occurred during the great Civil War . The Bennett Place farmhouse, at

In this essay I will be analysing how Alan Bennett’s ‘The History Boys’ and ‘Educating Rita’ by Willy Russell investigate the notion that ‘all knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use’ along with how they explore the purpose of education. Educating Rita is about the journey of Rita, a twenty-six year old working class woman from Liverpool, entering the world of formal education through an Open University course or as she refers to it as a ‘degree for dishwashers’. Rita’s

A Sense of Tragedy and Humour in alan Bennett's Talking Heads Monologues Alan Bennett uses a variety of techniques to convey a sense of both tragedy and humour in his 'Talking Heads' monologues. I will be looking specifically at 'Bed Among The Lentils' and 'Cream Cracker Under The Settee.' Alan Bennett achieves both of these effects by use of several clever choices regarding the casting as well as sound and visual effects. There are two very different types of humour

Throughout the reading this week, the information presented in David Elliott and Bennett Reimer’s texts stressed the importance of music and more specifically, music education. “People everywhere find music rewarding, and everywhere we find people engaged in formal and non-formal efforts to teach and learn music.” (Elliott, 2014, p. 4) One of the major themes of Elliott’s writing and his Philosophy can be summed up as “multidimensional” (Elliott, 2009, p. 7) His goal in writing both of his books

In Marc Bennetts’ article, “Russia’s anti-gay law is wrong – but so is some of the criticism from the west”, he explains what exactly the law is about in laymen terms. Though the law is ‘vaguely’ word as Bennetts puts it, the law basically outlaws propaganda of homosexuality to minors. Bennetts is stating how the western world, the United States mostly, has played into Vladimir Putin’s hands by its criticism of the law. This anti-gay propaganda law was signed in the summer of 2013, and some of

friends and finds it difficult to fill her time so she is often sitting in her chair, looking out of her window and noting what is going on in other people’s lives. She has no social life and she only leaves the house when she has to. Alan Bennett shows Miss Ruddock’s loneliness through her obsession of writing letters. She uses these letters as a way of communicating with the world outside her home. In the drama, before going to prison, we do not hear Miss Ruddock have a meaningful

BENNETT CRAFTON DUKE AND THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO Bennett Crafton Duke was my fourth great grandfather. Bennett was born in 1810 in North Carolina to Dabney Minor and Elizabeth Addie Duke. When Bennett was just six years old his mother Elizabeth, passed away. His father Dabney remarried not even a year after Elizabeth’s death. The quick remarriage of Bennet’s father was probably due to the fact that he had four small children to care for and, they ranging in age from Bennett at six to his

Tony Bennett: Collaborator and Mentor Over the past couple decades Tony Bennett has become a household name for his role in the jazz music world. His tenor voice is timeless and his performances of jazz standards are held to the highest regard. However, in recent years, Bennett’s presence in the world of jazz has expanded into the realm of popular music. Bennett has released individual songs and entire albums with popular music stars that solely consist of traditional jazz standards. Over the past