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    August: Osage County-Alesha Jeter ITR 1 Summary: In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark comedy play called August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. It has many characters but the main characters are the Weston sisters, Barbara, Karen, and Ivy, and their mother, Violet. It has similar themes to Long Day’s Journey, such as communication, addiction, and acceptance. This play takes place outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma and it begins with a prologue. We meet Beverly Weston, who used to be a…

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    Family is where one’s core roots are formed, where one puts together the building blocks of their character, and where it is determined whether they will be viewed in life, through a lens of prejudice or acceptance. Generally, in a family, an individual will discover how to draw the line between right and wrong. Dysfunctional families blur that line, and boundaries become unclear. In August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, the absence of moral boundaries is evident throughout generations of this…

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    August: Osage County “August: Osage County”, written by Tracy Letts, is undoubtedly a brilliant play about a dysfunctional family that is obligated to deal with veiled duplicities and cruelty. The storyline follows a dysfunctional family who gather together after the father leaves home, offering no word of his whereabouts. The issues of this play transcend all periods of time and place. The plot of the play is intriguing and the characters are well developed, slowly unveiling their secrets. The…

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    Communication Analysis Introduction Within todays media, the relationships between each characters have become a focal point for those who watch as they try to connect themselves to the characters they see in an effort to place themselves into their shoes. In August: Osage County, we are greeted to the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma during a very hot August. As the plot unfurls, we learn the problems that tie this family together and how they try to handle them, be it in a positive or…

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    Melissa Wong
March 11, 2015
Andrew Forrester
DISC 1313
 Escaping Heartland America
 Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a town of a little less than four thousand people, is where Tracy Lett’s play turned movie August: Osage County is set. Beverly Weston, the patriarch and a heavy alcoholic, has disappeared and eventually commits suicide, leaving behind his psychotic wife, Violet, in the care of a newly hired caretaker, a Native American named Johnna. After their father’s disappearance, Beverly’s adult…

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    Tarra Kooker Assignment 10 While reading the play “August: Osage County” the readers encounter many compelling and interesting characters. The character that seemed to be one of the most important and prominent in the play was the mother, Violet. Violet expressed many different emotions throughout the play, most being negative, but as the play continued to develop it is discovered that perhaps she wasn’t inherently a bad person. It can be argued that Violet was not an antagonist in the play,…

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    The Local History of Osage County circa 1867 Thesis statement: Settlers came to Osage County in Missouri for the prosperous land resources of trees, hunting, rivers and hills; and to establish a community based on strong roots. Part I: Facts of population and the county itself Osage County is in Central Missouri. The county came into existence after having been detached from a part of Gasconade County. In 1855, the bottom part of Osage County was given to form the top half of the new…

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    Yes, I have learned to follow directions and how to solve a math problem, but I haven’t learned how to think for myself and be my own leader. The curriculum of College 100 taught me how to be a more efficient student, but more importantly, the class taught me how to be an adult in society. My teachers in high school have given us warning after warning on how they are preparing us for college, but as someone who is already attending college and has been shown what it takes to be successful, I can…

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    City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

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    the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…

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