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Raisin In The Sun August Wilson
633 wordsMONEY: can it buy happiness, success, or just stuff? Imagine for a moment it is your big sisters 17 th birthday. She is out with her friends celebrating, and your parents are at the mall with your little brother doing some last minute birthday shopping, leaving you home alone. You then hear a knock on th e front door. When you get there, nobody is there, just an anonymous note taped to the door that says Happy Birthday, along with a hundred dollar bill. Youve been dying to get that new video gam...
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Makes The Audience Open The Door
1,070 wordsMany plays have passed the audiences eyes with no recognition. There are some plays which most people do not remember. There are plays about cats, dogs and most anything one can think up. There are also plays which try to send a hidden meaning to the audience. There are plays which are covers for a real purpose of wasting an audiences time. More importantly, there are good plays. As the 1990 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, stands out as one of the greatest plays...
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20 Th Century African Americans
972 wordsAugust Wilson August Wilson is one of the most famous playwrights of the 20 th century. He represents an impressive effort to describe position of black Americans and their struggle against slavery. He speaks about class inequality in the modern society. Actually, the majority of his works can be called the attempts of dramatizing the glory, anger, promise, and frustration of being black in the 20 th century. His works are really impressive, they are touching and interesting. He writes about the...
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Aunt Ester In Gem Of The Ocean
699 wordsAunt Ester in "Gem of the Ocean" The Gem of the Ocean takes place in 1904 in Pittsburgh. It is the ninth part of August Wilsons cycle of dramas, where he speaks about the struggle of black Americans against slavery. The slavery is exposed not only as a physical slavery, but also as emotional one combined with slavery on a government. It forces people to protect themselves, to defeat their ideas and beliefs. The drama shows us rather the slavery of soul than the slavery of body. The play is a bri...
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Martin Luther King Jr Boy Willie
1,531 words" But then I ask the question: How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take? If we can catch the spirit, and the true meaning of this experience, I believe that this nation can be transformed into a society of love, of justice, peace, and brotherhood where all men can really be brothers. " -Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Since the beginning of early civilization, differences in races and cultures have been a part of s...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy Loman
555 wordsThe role of money in peoples day-to-day lives is quite amazing when its put into perspective. The primary reason most Americans get up in the morning is so they can go out and make money. Money buys things; money influences people; money keeps us alive; money makes us happy, or at least people think so. The influence of money in Fences by August Wilson and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller plays a minor but very important role affecting the characters personal lives, the entire families, and ...
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