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The short story,” the destructors” was written by Graham Green. The short story was about a group of kids that were in a gang, wanting to destroy an old house. When the owner of the house left on a trip to go to bank holiday they planned it all out. The former leader, blackie, wanted to just see how many free rides they could get on a bus but another kid in the gang had a different idea. Trever, known as T., wanted to destroy the neighbor’s house, Mr. Thomas. When he left for his trip they began

Silva Laukannen is a mixed abilities dance teacher who works at a company called Dance Ability. She grew up trained in dance, but was really seeking a career in community dance. She was able to study a community dance program in college and even worked in a mixed ability dance company while in South Africa. Besides working at Dance Ability, she teaches classes for children with special needs, incarcerated women, senior citizens, children with a history of trauma, and parent child dance classes. Tanya

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, recounts the tale of the revolutionized American dance by consolidating advanced customary dance to make another brave work of art. The Joffrey Ballet was an group that effectively went out on a limb that changed the dance form for eternity. As the title indicates, the film depicts the organization as a nonconformist – the principal American dance company to coordinate current dance moves into its traditional expressive dance base, and one that was so associated

“‘The darkness of destructive selfishness’” is a common theme throughout twentieth century British literature (Thomas). A great deal of literary works contain tenants, such as selfishness, which are supported throughout the stories. These tenants, or themes, can be supported various different ways depending on the literary techniques used by the author. Numerous times the literary techniques common in twentieth century British literature were used to develop the commonly used theme of inherent

Martha Graham: dancer, teacher, choreographer, mother of 20th century dance. Martha is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Her dance technique and style was constantly growing and expanding through experimentation of what the body could do based on its own structure. “’I wanted to begin,’ she said, ‘not with characters or ideas, but with movement’” (World Biography). She believed that the purpose of dance was to create an increased awareness of life

I am who I am. I talk to each and every one of you everyday. I promise you that you know me well. I will tell you a story that takes place in a particular town, where as strange as it was, no one left, and no one entered it. It existed just as you and I did, breathing, living, and suffering. A scream escaped Rue’s lips, when she awoke from her dream, as her hollow gray eyes darted back and forth, confirming her surroundings. Her arms ached from a memory of excessive pain from being beaten by her

The basic concept in feminist theory recognizes the fact that gender is produced psychologically and socially rather than physiologically. Conceptually, sex means the biological sex of a child whereas gender is the culturally and socially produced behaviour assigned to that particular category of human beings into which the child is born. Under the patriarchal set-up, the male is supposed to imbibe a set of ‘masculine’ traits such as aggression, tenacity, courage, intelligence, ambition, initiative

Introduction Humour is an universal human characteristic which all cultures posses.In the British society it is important to have humour,because it is seen as demonstration of health and well being.Humour firstly appeared in British literature during the Middle Ages,when Chaucer developed the storytelling tradition along with the ironies that resulted from the juxtaposition of people from different classes and points of view.Britain’s ancient class system has always been a mystery to strangers and

Martha Graham was born May 11th, 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania United States (Terry, 2016). Martha was a noteworthy dancer, teacher, and choreographer who specialized in ballet. “Over more than 50 years she created more than 180 works, from solos to large-scale works, in most of which she herself danced. She gave modern dance new depth as a vehicle for the intense and forceful expression of primal emotions” (Terry, 2016, pg. 1). As the daughter if an esteemed physician this sparked her interest

Philip Noyce's version of Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American to film was a large success. It stayed pretty close to the book, and kept the personalities of the character’s the same. What I respected about the movie was that the director chose to film in actual Vietnamese locations and without compromise, boldly sticking to the novel by not letting the Americans come out of the story too kindly. It was filmed greatly and he captured so many details of Vietnam. Brenden Fraiser and Michael Caine