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    Depending on level of prank, prank can be either funny or serious. When I was in eighth grade, there was a girl who always fell asleep in my social studies class. One day, before the class bell rang, my teacher decided to play a joke on the girl who fall asleep. While the girl was having a nap, my teacher made all the classmates to leave the room quietly. After the bell rang, we went inside the classroom and as expected, saw the girl looking puzzled. After knowing that the whole classmate played…

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    How does Priestly present Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls? The most perplexing character in J.B Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls is Inspector Goole. Priestley introduces Inspector Goole as a realistic straight forward police inspector. He presents the Inspector into the play using different methods: the language he uses, stage directions, mannerisms, and name through his entrance into the play and his political views and beliefs. Priestley introduces the Inspector as very commanding and…

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    involvement in the young woman’s downfall? Notes on time period/political climate: • Based in 1912 – written in 1945 by J.B. Priestly • Priestly fought for England in first world war • Priestly broadly sympathized with socialism, however • Inspector Calls is an immediate post-war drama (post WW2) • Takes up economic, social, political issues • 1945 – food was still being rationed, towns and cities suffered damage during the Blitz • Major political shift in UK about to happen w/ 1st Labour…

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    One of them being it can facilitate certain processes when getting hired. It can also facilitate interviews. Skype and phone calls have been becoming a trend over the past years. It costs much less to make a skype phone call or a telephone call rather than for an employer to take some time out of his day to have a future employee come in and get interviewed. Because time it money and time is always ticking. The time that an employer…

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    By humiliating Birling like this, Priestley degrades the conservative and capitalist viewpoints. This is intended to make people rethink their current political standpoint and reconsider the labour party for power. In contrast to this, is the Inspector who is clearly a socialist. The Inspector reminds us of our responsibilities for each other: 'All intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are…

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    Responsibility in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley J.B Priestly wrote 'An Inspector Calls' just as the 2nd World War was coming to an end in 1945. The play was based in the time just before…

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    The play an ‘inspector calls’ divulges the truth and teaches the moral message about responsibility, warning the consequences if the message is not heeded. As the play was set before the First World War, it enabled priestly to refer to class division and social hierarchy through the characters and to the audience. Priestly portrays the attitudes of the characters and how family is presented in upper class throughout the play. The eccentric, Mr Birling a pretentious factory owner worries about…

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    Professionalism is a combination of knowledge and wisdom, a virtue if you will, obtained from a variety of sources including education, socialization, and experience in the field. No matter what level of education a person has achieved, or the amount of experience gained, openness, transparency, and continually striving to improve are characteristics necessary for achieving superior results. Something rather profound happened over the past week or so and the following discussion post will…

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    An Inspector Calls was written in 1945 shortly after the Second World War but set in 1912 just before the First World War because Priestley a socialist himself wanted to show how big the class divide was before the wars and everyone had to pull together and how he didn’t want us to go back to that so Priestley uses the Inspector as his voice in the play to try to teach the Birling’s and the audience about caring for each other and looking out for one another. The play opens up in the Birling’s…

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    Priestley's “An Inspector Calls” is a dramatic play that investigates the case of a poverty-stricken girl, Eva Smith, who commits suicide. A rich family, the Birlings, and Gerald Croft are inspected by Inspector Goole to find their link to the death of Eva. Each character has a different reaction when they discover they are responsible for Eva’s death, which reveals their personality traits of egocentricity, denial, and naivety; hence, the personality traits show some of the attitudes of wealthy…

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