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    The play I choose to perform is A Doll’s House by Henrik lbsen I choose this play because it was interesting, there are several themes to this play, and one of them is married, in this play Nora and Helmer seems to happy in beginning but by the end of the play they realized their marriage isn’t what it use to be. (Www. shmoop.com) Another theme of the play is women and femininity; in other words, Nora breaks away from the domination and her domineering husband Torvald. (Www. shmoop.com)…

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    Napoleon Bonaparte, a significant historical leader and dominant military general, is seen as the reviver of France after the initiation of the French Revolution in 1789. Napoleon Bonaparte was born August 15th, 1769 in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. At a young age Napoleon attended the military college of Brienne where he studied for 5 years, and his military interests were nurtured from a young age. Later on in 1785, Napoleon returned to Corsica for the death of his father…

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    About the daily life choice, second chance and values The premiere of the performance "The soul must be sighted" based on the Leon Agulansky play "Grandmother's dream" took place on the stage of the Smolensk Drama Theater named after A.S. Griboyedov. The history of what is more important in everyone's life: money or love? family or complacency? rapport or benefit? Genesis A great friend of the Smolensk Drama, Israeli playwright Leon Agulansky (known for a solo performance "Conductor" and…

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    Henry V by William Shakespeare is the fourth part of a serious that deals with the rise of the house of Lancaster. Henry V treats King Henry as a man who has grown up to be an adept king unwavering in determination to claim the French throne contrary to how he was portrayed as a reckless teenager in earlier plays. The play itself shows events between the battles of Agincourt a battle that was a major turning point in the hundred-year war. The play has since become synonymous to how audiences…

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    Henry Tudor is born during the onset of the Wars of the Roses to an illegitimate bloodline which traces its roots back to John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster. This lineage belongs to the House of Beaufort, which was established when John of Gaunt had his son who was born of a mistress legitimized. The only stipulation to this legitimization was that the Beaufort line would never be able to enter the line of succession for the Throne of England. Sadly, the Yorkists which would oppose the Lancastrians…

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    Fourteenth century Italy was divided into many individual city-states. However, instead of being ruled by one sovereign, each city was governed by the dominant families located nearby. Many of these families held strong economic or political roles in their society. From the late fourteenth to the seventeenth century, the Medici family held an extremely influential role in the governance of Florence. Giovanni di’ Bicci, whom many consider to be the founder of the Medici dynasty, brought to life…

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    Ibsen, A Doll’s House from p. 9 (‘Nora [gently]. Poor Christine, you are a widow.) to ‘Nora...It was like being a man.’ This extract of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is possibly the most important extract of Act 1. Through this section the audience is not only introduced to Mrs Christine Linde and Nora’s first discourse with a lady of her class, but the idea of Nora’s growing desire to rebel. During this conversation Ibsen displays the differing histories and the resulting personalities and…

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    Addressing a mass amount of people in hopes to produce a clear and concise message is achievable using proper public rhetoric. “Aristotle saw the function of rhetoric as the discovery in each case of the available means of persuasion” (Griffin, 2012). Ancient rhetoricians have produce principals that guide this art of persuasion that allow the message to be clear, concise, and persuasive. The cannons of rhetoric are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. By using all five cannons,…

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    In the play, A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen, the main character Nora remains the same naive and childlike person through out most of the play. While on the inside dealing with a war waging, a war against what she thought she knew of the world and how it actually is. Her conflict builds up, until finally she can 't contain it and it starts boiling over. This helps set up the ending, in such a way that its overwhelming powerful and self reflecting that she 's unable to return to how things once…

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    and the final say on decisions, while the women generally follow along without providing much input--primarily because their husbands discourage their input. This was perceived as the “norm” preceding 1879, the year Ibsen wrote the play, A Doll’s house. Ibsen introduces the play inside the well-furnished living room of the Helmer household. Nora, the wife of Torvald Helmer, was not raised by her father as an equal which explains why she acts the way she does. She hardly spends any time with her…

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