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Pontifex Maximus Augustus Caesar
1,054 words... y was strictly forbidden. Married men were heavily fined and taxed for not having children and tax breaks were given to people with three or more children. Augustus laws also gave the male head of household the right to decide who the children would marry, where they would live, and what profession and economic goals they would pursue. Augustus also re-established the priest hoods of Rome. He revived old religious customs and attempted to restore the old stern morality. When the elder incumb...
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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 wordsHow on earth do horror film directors sleep at night? Don't they ever wake up and say, "Is this what my life is about: making people fear dark rooms, old houses, and things that go bump in the night?" How do they stand it all? What inspires them to create these vividly outrageous spins on reality? These may be the questions often asked by people who don't quite understand the method behind the madness that is the horror film. These questions will be answered in this paper as it explains the deve...
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Cinco De Mayo Miami Dade County
514 wordsDuring my whole life of education received it has led me to make many contributions to the Hispanic community of Miami dade county. However, while not yet finishing with my education I do plan on making big contributions to the Hispanic community now and in the future. The Hispanic community has many activities where everyone can get involved including others and myself. When I say, "making a contribution, " I mean as participating in an event that takes place every year. Calle Ocho is a festiva...
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Beauty Pageants Beauty Queen
1,229 wordsIn 1997 images of a beautiful six-year old beauty queen flashed across the T. V screens in homes across the U. S. and around the world. Who had murdered Jon Benet Ramsey? No one knows. The case brought all eyes to the attention of child beauty pageants. Videos and pictures of Jon Benet were literally on every news-program and in every newspaper and magazine. The world of beauty pageants had been exposed. The world of child beauty pageants that to an outsider- seemed to tread a fine line verging ...
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Helena Bonham Carter Franco Zeffirelli Hamlet
731 wordsMel Gibson and Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Hamlet has filled some of the gaps left by Shakespeare. This version of the classic story is thoroughly watchable. This is "Hamlet for the 90 s, " according to the director, and it is an especially entertaining version. With much of the text diced, the pace quickened, and the action streamlined, the film offers what amounts to an introduction to Shakespeare's classic, without losing any of the play's psychological complexities. Gibson is perfect a...
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Musical Comedy Body Language
579 wordsChoreography by Lucy Cullingford The play "Thick as a Brick" is a play, which is written and directed by John Godber and was performed by Hull Truck. The music was by John Pattison; the choreography was by Lacy Callingford and was designed by Pip Lakenby. It was a professional performance shown at Greenwich Theatre on the 31 st of the 2001. The play was set in a kind of a school. In there we looked at the lives of three teenagers and their supply drama teacher. Common Road High is a problem scho...
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Body Life European Costume
801 wordsObviously, the form of costume is depending on the form of human body. This fact separates the art of costume from design and architecture. Thus, fashion always has been longing for human bodys stylizing in costume. The form of costume has always been submitting to the human bodys form. Nevertheless, this is also true, that the costume forms are able to create the perfect human body in accordance with the fashionable and cultural standard. The fashion dress history can be divided into several pe...
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Portrayed Their Characters Scene Of The Performance Audience
1,007 wordsThis paper is a critique of a production of Never the Sinner, a murder drama written by John Logan, which was performed and produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance at E. S. Strother Theatre located on the campus of Ball State University. Director Judy E. Yordon captures the viciousness and brutality of the murder of an innocent, young boy in this dramatic account of a homicide at the hands of two young men who are intertwined in a dark, sexual relationship. During the murder and trial of...
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De Mott P 123
1,553 wordsDogon Masquerades The artistic interactions between the Dogon people of the Niger Delta and their neighbors who dominate Southeastern Nigeria to the north and east are not difficult to demonstrate. Art objects, including textiles, bronze shrine sculpture, and masks, have been traded between these regions for generations. More than objects alone, numerous masking and figurative traditions have crossed ethnic and regional boundaries and are practiced in both areas. Dogon Masquerades are by far one...
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Theatre South Australia State Theatre South Australia Alan
943 wordsMartin Dysart, child psychiatrist, is on a quest to discover why a confused, passionate 17 year old boy named Alan, has savagely blinded six horses with a spike. The discovery of this forms Peter Shaffer? s brutal play? Equus? . ? Equus? , meaning horse in Latin, was performed by State Theatre of South Australia and directed by Marion Potts. Although written in the 1970? s many of the issues raised are highly relevant to today? s audience. The emotional impact of the play remains intact and cont...
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Romeo And Juliet Fish Tank
1,010 wordsHow and why does Baz Luhrman s Romeo and Juliet update the characters and themes for a modern audience The ball scene starts as Romeo Takes an Ecstasy tablet. When Romeo enters the actual ball he goes in with his cousins and he flashes his fake ticket at the bouncer in a very stoned way and the bouncer looks down at him as if to say oh good another stoned person. The ball is full of sexual promiscuity with many things going on which aren t considered sexually normal such as Gloria Capulet kissin...
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Side By Side Macbeth Macbeth
571 wordsThe play, Macbeth, Macbeth Macbeth The play, Macbeth, was written by William Shakespeare. The performance was held at the Museum of Art and performed by Orlando Shakespeare Festival. There were eight actors in the play and each one performed several roles. The actors consisted of Stephanie Roberts, Richard Width, Mandi Moss, Jonathan City, Scott Hodges, Jenna Ware, Eric Hissom, and Richard Watson. My overall reaction to the play is that it was well put together and very well performed. I was ver...
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Mardi Gras First Time
792 wordsThe smell of stale beer in the air, loud music everywhere, people shouting and laughing having a good ole time is what carnival, better known as Mashumani is like in Guyana. When it s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, however, broken beads and trash are all over the ground, and everywhere one looks he / she sees someone taking off some type of clothing for some beads. Unlike in New Orleans people in Guyana know how to have fun with out taking off their clothes. I am a native of Guyana, South America, a...
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Mise En Scene Present Day
660 wordsAlthough the average viewer is rarely conscious of it, mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix, in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting, costume, and staging i...
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Didn T Play Stage
617 wordsMatt Misery A New Misery Matt Joseph s version of the Misery is certainly different from what one would expect. While Stephen King s Misery gave the audience a feeling of suspense caused by silence, Joseph s Misery definitely kept the audience on the edge of their seats as the characters in the play were more aggressive and show more emotions. When I first came to watch the play, I only expected to see an amateur play with mediocre costumes and performance. Boy, was I in for my surprise. The pla...
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Museum Of Fine Arts Greek Theatre
2,560 wordsMixed Messages in Greek Theatre: an Examination of Vases and Written Histories No one fully understands the nature of ancient Greek theatre. The barriers that stand between the scholars of the Twentieth Century and the truth of the theatrical practices of 5 th and 4 th centuries B. C. Athens are: 2, 500 years of divergent cultures, incomplete collections of plays, vases, figurines, and theatre spaces, and a lack of the proper tools with which the evidence can be examined. Yet, hypotheses can be ...
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Gamma Rays Play Oedipus
773 wordsModern Vs. Ancient We saw her lying: she had made a noose of her fine linen veil and hanged herself. Harmon lay beside her, his love lost under ground, crying out that his father had stolen her away from him. Throughout history plays have evolved in many ways. For example, the theaters where they hold plays have changed drastically from the original theater. Costumes are another item that has changed, but the content of the play has always been similar, ever since they created the very first pla...
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Russian Society Thirty Three
690 wordsA critique on Thirty Three Swoons In the play Thirty Three Swoons, which is a collection of four farces written by Anton Palovish Chekhov. The play consists of these short productions in order, Swan Song, The Bear, The Proposal, and The Wedding. Each of them their own unique plays that pokes fun on the Russian middle class. The whole production, I believed played on and made fun of a society that is not always familiar with society today. I have no knowledge of Russian society in the late 1800 s...
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Exact Same Person Imposed Upon Us By Society Rilke
1,000 wordsThe authentic self consists of internal forces, dynamic and spiritual, and will above all, which courses through men, nature, and objects. This claim is made by Burton F. Porter on Rainer Maria Rilke s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Bridge on page 11 of Porter s Philosophy: A Literary and Conceptual Approach. I am in agreement with this claim that Porter makes on Rilke s Notebooks. As Porter puts it, Rilke refuses to identify persons by their body and appearance, distinguishing clothing, faces, ...
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Stand In The Yard Globe Theater Stage
561 wordsCompared to the technical theaters of today, the London public theaters in the time of Queen Elizabeth I seem to be terribly limited. The plays had to be performed during daylight hours only and the stage scenery had to be kept very simple with just a table, a chair, a throne, and maybe a tree to symbolize a forest. Many say that these limitations were in a sense advantages. What the theater today can show for us realistically, with massive scenery and electric lighting, Elizabethan playgoers ha...
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