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The Movie Experience

interruptions and is quite different from the theater. It is true that some people today do have very large television sets, but t...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Ballet

of her toes), wearing the bell-shaped white tutu that is, for many, the enduring image of the ballet dancer" (Webb, 2006; 41). ...

Neil Simon and the Theater

they were concentrating on TV, "one of their sketches did make it to Broadway in the 1956 revue New faces, starring Maggie Smith (...

History of Public Administration

served in the Revolutionary War and employed them in civil service positions in the government (Highlights in the History of Publi...

U.S. Action in the Pacific in World War II

in which the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were heavily engaged, although there was Army presence as well. Still, it is the Mari...

The United Nations: History.

the purpose of establishing ways to settle crises peacefully, prevent wars and codify "rules of warfare" ("History of the United N...

'No Smoking' Policy For Portsmouth, NH

but has not instigated any cause for concern toward those nonsmokers who must inhale the expelled pollutants of smokers. From air...

Lakewood, New Jersey

Lakewood, New Jersey ("History of Lakewood," 2007). Lakewood had slowly but surely become known as a resort area ("History of Lake...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

The History of Basketball

It was in 1892 that the rules were first developed (Bellis, 2007). At first the ball that was used was a soccer ball and it was es...

History of Des Moines, Iowa

It was during this year that "John Dougherty, an Indian Agent at Fort Leavenworth, Ks, recommended that a military post be establi...

History of American Education, 1950-1980

that is largely what the period was about. The episode first discusses Brown v. Board of Education and then moves on to talk about...

Importance of Black History Month for African American Youth

of the white people. The history focuses on how the nation was founded, the Civil War, how the Depression affected people, the Wor...

Escalators

history of the escalator, the earlier patent was used in many places. The problem it seems was that there was not the use of elect...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Politics in the English Renaissance Plays

mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...

King Philip's War and School Bullying

This paper compares historical revision through theater and other factors to the way the various stories differ in regard to incid...

"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

This essay first addresses the features of the Theatre of the Absurd, and then offers an overview of how these characteristics app...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Questions on American History

This paper pertains to various issues in American history, which range from Washington to the War of 1812. Eight pages in length, ...

A Humanities Essay/Paige Greco/The Globe

This essay is on Greco's article on the Globe Theatre and argues that its features quality it as an excellent example of this form...

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CAR

the 1960s, the "Big Three" had most of the automobile market share. Other factors helped the automobile. One of these was ...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

Exploring Mise-en-scene

is familiar to them from their own experience of life. If however the audience suddenly finds itself at Hogwarts School of Witchc...

Oedipus Rex in Performance

to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...