Federal Theatre Project

Tuxedo.” Jackie Chan is working for a millionaire and in the scene the millionaire turns to Jackie and says, “It’s 90% the suit.” What he is referring to is the optics of a situation–what perception the picture creates. In Australian politics, the Federal Treasurer, Mr. Joe Hockey, was photographed smoking a cigar at the time when he was bringing down a tough budget in parliament. The imagery was all wrong and the press had a field day depicting Mr. Hockey as a fat cat, smoking cigars while the common

and even surpass, the heavy hitters of his day. His career seemed to be on a steady incline for almost a decade; however, did his talent and work hit a plateau? Welles was always seen as an active political figure that was not afraid to voice or project

1933-1935. The CCC or Commodity Credit Corporation was created to complement the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The CCC sought to help the commodity market by allowing farmers to take a loan in exchange for allowing their crops to be kept in federal warehouses. If the economy bettered farmers were allowed to repay the loan and sell the crops. This sought to build a more stable economy and create smoother fluctuations. The PWA or Public Works Administration created by the National Industrial Recovery

Revolutionary Theatre Revolutionary Theatre opted for self-select segregation, violence, and community involment as tools for survival and teaching theatre during The Black Arts Movement. The founder of this undertaking was LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) a poet, political activist, playwright, author, and musician with a strong passion for the Black Aesthetic, a new art that gave life to the black experience in America at the pinnacle of the Civil Rights movement. Jones was the first person that followed

Historically, research with vulnerable groups experiencing health inequities has been problematic (Quinlan, 2009; Smith, 2012). The imposition of research agendas and failure to engage research participants at the very onset of a research project can yield findings that are incomplete and misrepresent the knowledge and resources of those being researched (Wilson & Neville, 2009). For example, throughout the world Indigenous groups have been researched to their detriment, often with little or no representation

subject African American Theatre has a very dynamic and rich entity which comes from ancient Egyptian practices, and the African background of Greek legends contributed by Shakespeare. While black theatre was in its early stages, plays echoed of the lives they were living. Black American artists were constructing and preforming plays for mixed audiences as early as 1821. The dance and rhythm black people inherited caught the eyes of European audiences. Black theatre involves all sorts of black

be redefined to include the redesigning of already existing structures. In densely populated cities such as New York because of issues such as cost and space availability, the average architect might end up working renovation projects rather than full scale new built projects and this is where adaptive reuse comes into play. Adaptive reuse as defined by Burchell and Listokin is “a process of revitalization that utilize a sequence of simultaneous methods of planning, making inventory, acquiring, managing

"Once I built a railroad, I made it run. I made it race against time. Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?" This quote in the song “Brother, can you spare a dime? by lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and composer Jay Gorney. The lyrics accurately represents the pain and suffering of workers and veterans. The Great Depression was the biggest economic disaster in American history. Aside from the negative economic perspective, the Great Depression also negatively affected

George Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His Parents were Richard and Beatrice Welles. His father, Richard, made a lot of money by inventing a carbide lamp for bicycles and Beatrice was a concert pianist who taught Orson how to play the piano and violin. In 1919, Orson just four years old, Richard and Beatrice got divorced. Sadly, Beatrice died of jaundice when he was only nine years old. Richard’s success and wealth began to drop. He started drinking to wash away the stress

New Deal. The New Deal was a series of projects and programs that aimed to restore the United States economy. The New Deal was split into two parts, one from 1933 to 1934 and the second from 1935 to 1938. Before the New Deal began, Roosevelt declared a four day bank holiday so Americans would stop withdrawing money from their bank. The first act passed during