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    When you hear witchcraft what comes to your mind? Do you think of witches flying around in brooms? Well back in 1962 a group of girls claimed that they were being possessed. In addition this was the start of The Salem witch trials. This event is Important to America's History Because it was a time Where people thought witchcraft was happening and innocent People were getting P, but in reality it was just mass hysteria. In this event 1962, Salem there were witch hunts leading to persecution, mass

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    Sociology has been used for many years and is still used today to study all of the social concepts of people in a society. Most if not all things that occur in a society can be explained by means of sociology. The entertainment industry is very influential in society with movies, television, and music that people are surrounded with on a daily basis. The fact that entertainment is so influential in people’s lives makes sociologists inherently interested in it. Additionally, the things that are produced

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    In first grade, I told my teacher I would work for Disney one day. Applying for this internship is a step closer to that dream. Graduating with a degree in Theater Arts Studies with an emphasis in playwriting and dramaturgy has given me the skills and hands-on experience to join this creative team. Besides my schooling, living with Cerebral Palsy has given me a hard course in daily, creative problem-solving. This is why I will make a great addition to Disney Live Entertainment as a show writer.

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    Dramaturge Essay

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    Dramaturgy is an essential and significant fragment of both stagecraft and theatre itself, it serves to analysis and explore the dramatic structure of the play or performance that is being prepared or analysed and presented. In traditional theatrical turn of phrase, a dramaturge can be broken down as an rational deviser, or a associate of the production team who is bothered with the way in which the concepts, subjects and the ideas of a play are reflected on stage. The role of the dramaturge is both

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    approach to his theories. However, his basic principle was that action, not consciousness is the basis of knowledge. He noted that if social forces are true, they should be observable to solidify that truth. To study this, Goffman employed his idea of “dramaturgy” which is depicted through his metaphor of the theater and the theatrical performance of life. The only self that humans have is situational and it varies in every social setting, so therefore we are always putting on a front. This front is an expression

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    According to Erving Goffman ,social life is a drama or a stage play .There are three elements of dramaturgy which is behaving like actor ,presenting the self and performing interaction rituals. First is behaving like actors.The meaning of behaving like actors is playing the character such as daughter or son, father or mother , husband and wife and so on. Everyone must have more than character in our live. In different character, we will act by following the character such as I am a mother, I will

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    Furthermore, when people alter their behaviors, it sometimes becomes impossible to know when a person is truly being themselves. This type of “playing the part” leads into the sociological theory known as Dramaturgy. Dramaturgy was first theorized by Erving Goffman. Goffman believed that people conduct themselves differently in different situations to appear in some way that is advantageous, kind of like actors playing different characters in films. For instance

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    The study of the dramaturgical approach includes how people typically present themselves, act out their lives, and control how others perceive them during interactions on a day-to-day basis. The concept, impression management, focuses on how people manage the way in which they act so to control how others perceive them. It is assumed that a person has some control over how the people or audience views them, especially during our interactions with them; according to the text, people also need to use

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    1. What is Sociology and who was the founder of Sociology? When and how did Sociology emerge as a field of study? Sociology is study of the human society by observing and doing experiment. Sociology is mainly study in two ways; basic/pure and applied. Auguste Comte was the founder of sociology. Sociology was emerged as a field of study during the 1920s and 1930s. It becomes field of study because people started to observe a lot of things on a society such as: inequality, discrimination, poorness

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    It can be argued that utilization of suspense is the single most connecting element in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. ?Suspense is a dramaturgy technique that plays of the difference in knowledge between the audience and the characters on the screen? (Allen 32). Hoffman and Fahr define suspense as: ?Suspense can be conceptualized as an enjoyable experience between hope and fear that relies on certain cognitive mechanisms and often goes along with autonomic, physiological arousal? (2). It often revolves

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