Endgame

Antonin Artaud was an artist who was cursed physically, tormented emotionally, and was constantly walking in the shadow of his childhood ailments. Though his illnesses set him back in many ways, Artaud was ever persistent and dedicated to expressing himself artistically, even if it meant he had to work twice as hard as anyone else to be heard and understood. As such, Artaud’s work in the theater gives us a sense that anything is possible. His writing, directing and conceptualizing are evidence of

The theatre of the absurd is a term formulated by Martin Esslin during the 1950s and 1960s. Essentially, it is derived from Albert Camus, the French author, in his Myth of Sisyphus. The origins of the absurd theatre are in the hard experiments in the art during the 1920s and 1930s. The absurd drama is not determined to solve any problem on the modern stage. Absurd drama excludes language as a resource for communication. Language has become meaningless exchanges. In fact, it fails to reflect the importance

Theatre is a complex art that attempts to weave stories of varying degrees of intricacies with the hope that feelings will be elicited from the audience. Samuel Beckett’s most famous work in the theatre world, however, is Waiting for Godot, the play in which, according to well-known Irish critic Vivian Mercier, “nothing happens, twice.” Beckett pioneered many different levels of groundbreaking and avant-garde theatre and had a large influence on the section of the modern idea of presentational theatre

Depending on the time and place, midwives have played a key role in childbirth and comfort for new mothers. In early American, the midwife was the standard attendant for a birth, but today a vast majority of Americans choose to go to the hospital. Despite this, midwives still have a role to play in American childbirth, and always have. Wherever it has existed, under whatever circumstances, midwifery has found a way to stay relevant, whether it be in performance, trends, or even through ethnic pockets

Individual Retirement Accounts: Why Bother? Outline Thesis: When planning for retirement, Individual Retirement Accounts offer several benefits; however, careful planning is essential to ensure that: upon retirement there is an adequate amount of money saved, that the heirs to the IRA are chosen carefully, and that unnecessary taxes and penalties are avoided. I. Upon retirement there is an adequate amount of money saved. A. How much money necessary to retire? 1. Social Security

Landscape photography is often considered a metaphor for something else. The experience of nature through photographs is often sublime and evokes feelings of overwhelming magnitude and awe, feelings often provoked by the boundless essence drawn from the power of landscape. This essay will investigate the Edward Burtynsky’s photographic series, Oil, and his approach to find a sinister beauty within the damned. The underlying metaphors poised within Burtynsky’s work in regard to environmental change

stayed true to the beliefs in a private setting, while using them during his election-year to appeal to specific organizations. Yet this political/tactical malleability should not conceal his steadfast political purpose. His simple yet successful endgame was as such; move the country to the right. The Nixon administration signaled the end of

Intro: What is human nature? Recently I heard the story of Edd, a man who begin therapy after being found on a kitchen floor with a knife, several vicious wounds, and no knowledge of how he got there. In his first therapy session the therapist asked about family and medical history, and finally life events leading up to the “kitchen incident,” as Edd termed it. After Edd filled him in on his struggle with depression and suicide and explained the “kitchen incident,” The therapist exclaimed, “You’re

The barbarian snarled, a war cry bursting from his lips as he ambled toward me. His leather boots kicked dust up from the arena floor as he moved in a slow circle, trying to get his back to the sun and diminish my line of sight. It was a good trick, but there was just one problem with that. I knew what he was trying to do. Even if I could keep him from blinding me, that hulking axe of his would do some major damage. If he hit me with that, no amount of blocking would keep my head from getting caved

was shown in the movie, women always surrounded Cleopatra. They were at her service but she never treated her as her maids but instead treated them like her friends. They were doing all their activities together. Angelica E. Delaney mentioned, “The endgame was to speak to the