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    The characteristics of anger in literature appear in many literary works. Anger in literature is characterized by the struggle against the establishment, values, conventions and authority. The 20th century modern playwrights focused on many themes such as: the theme of social critic against middle-class values, theme of violence, damage, rage, hatred, loneliness and frustration. The protagonists are mostly of the working-class or of lower middle-class origin; who view society with contempt and ironic

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    Philip C. Kolin, an English critic and author, hailed Streetcar as: “the most creative new play….the one that reveals the most talent, the one that attempts the most truth. Not surprisingly, Streetcar quickly became a staple on the world stage, one of the major theatrical experiences and experiments of the twentieth century” (Kolin2). Streetcar Named Desire was published just after World War II. When the play came out, the country had just emerged from the war after struggling through the Great Depression

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    Chapter I Introduction Metrophil Construction & Supply is a firm that was established by John L. Lebrilla in the year of 1989. Ever since he was a kid, his family is in line with many kinds of business especially construction and supply services. And Mr. John decided to pursue their family business and get twenty personnel to help him run the business. Though his business is new in the industry, Metrophil Construction & Services makes sure that they have the skilled personnel who would help them

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    first possibility was to extend Lake Shore Drive along Stony Island Avenue to the Pennsylvania Railroad Right of way where it would proceed in the same manner as proposed in the 1928 plan; the second possibility was to simply extend the roadway along lake fill to Rainbow Beach Park, where it would then merge onto South Commercial Avenue which would carry it to Indiana Avenue. A subsequent study in 1939 championed the Stony Island Avenue plan; however, the project was ultimately shelved because Lake Shore

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    "I left" echoed in my head, rousing me from sleep. A loud buzzing overtook my ears like a hive of bees churning. It sounded so close. It was 8:00 in the morning and auditions began at 10:00. I slipped on a pair of dark denim jeans and a navy halter top. As I combed through my hair, after blow drying it. From the corner of my eye, I noticed a silver bracelet on the edge of the dresser. I fingered it curious as to whether whoever stayed here before left it. Yet, it looked far too costly for a previous

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    destination for San Franciscans, since the neighborhood was just outside the city limits (Schwartz). Colonel Thomas Hayes, a county clerk in a time when James Van Ness was Mayor of San Francisco, came to acquire a land grant of 160 acres west of Van Ness Avenue, starting in Divisadero, and bordering, Haight, Market and Turk streets. (Schwartz). If this were acquired during modern times,where value of the neighborhood is currently, Hayes would have been filthy rich. During the old days, San Francisco wasn

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    Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Thomas “Tennessee” Lanier Williams, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose work includes A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. During his childhood Williams’ family took a turn in life when they moved to St. Louis, Missouri. There on, Williams grew up in a destructive home where his father was a violent alcoholic; his mother was ill; and his sister, Rose, suffered from several mental illnesses. This resulted in Williams turning inward and start

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    Dr. Xing pulled the door of the 20th Avenue 86th Street Starbucks open. The warm scent of freshly brewed coffee hit her, warming her from the brisk New York City fall. The two stools located in the left corner, right in front of the window, decorated with reusable leaf stickers are always the first seats she noticed. Her first kiss, at precisely 10:58 p.m. on January 13th. What she had felt was just skin, nothing particularly special. Maybe it was the person it was with – Austin Cheng. He should

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    The group that I worked with had a lot of fun hunting together. I worked with Angelique, Harrison, and Maria. The most difficult part for my group and I was trying to find times where we could all get together, but we were able to do it and get it done! Our first finding during the hunt was Gate’s BBQ. Gate’s BBQ has more than one location, but they were centralized in Kansas CIty only. The Gate family works at every location, but has other employees that are not family. The family members are typically

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    I am always for freedom; that is the truth. But I realize that today, we have too much freedom, so much so that the truth of our lives have been muddled into this really vague truth: whatever works is OK; as long as you harm no one, what you do is OK; if you obey the law, whatever you do within it is OK; that as long as you are conventional, as long as you obey what people say today, your amorality, your insincerity, your plain stoic unfeelingness is OK. But the simple truth is that this thinking

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