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    Realism is like a glass screen door that gives you a look into what happens in real life to someone. This type of drama mainly uses a lot of monologues. Also as you would think, the costumes in this play would be realistic and authentic. Realism began in the beautiful country of France, home to one of the most glorious city, Paris. The early 19th century was born approximate time of Realism. This style has been has been used through the last 125 years from the the time of Hidden Agenda (the movie) to the most recent upcoming movie Me Before You. Many things today are influenced by this drama especially what we watch as movies. Realism is a type of theatrical play that mimics a person 's everyday life, to the way they move, eat and talk. This has always been so popular because when a everyday person looks at this style they can easily identify who is who and what their motives are. This type of style holds the record for making the stage platform feel more like an environment than anything else. Usually when watching a piece like this there will be a box set. A box set is a four walled room but one of the walls are taken off to allow the audience to see what 's going on in the drama. As I said earlier this style originated in France but once it came to America we twisted it into our own realism; American Realism.…

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    Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government…

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    Bertolt Brecht Influence

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    As one of the most influential figures in theatre, Bertolt Brecht has stamped his legacy in the world theatre. His search for anew kind of theatre made his theatre a modern avant-garde whichhas left its traces in postmodern theatres. This paper tries toinvestigate Brecht’s epic theatre as a modern avant-garde and itsinfluence in postmodern theatre. His epic theatre was in fact a revoltagainst the main stream modern theatre in which Brecht openlydeclares that theatre should be ‘political.’…

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    Chekhov's Monodrama

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    reprimand Chekhov, now that he was sufficiently well known to attract their attention, for holding no firm political and social views and for failing to endow his works with a sense of direction. Such expectations irked Chekhov, who was apolitical and philosophically uncommitted. He was more interested in social issues and this is reflected even in the early farces that will be looked at over the course of this paper. The early half of the nineteenth century had seen the extinction of 'good'…

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    Hygiene Throughout History

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    Over the next nearly a thousand years in Europe there is extremely reduced hygiene practices and rules. And the common people very rarely cared about general hygiene, years do not take a bath. So it was in the VI century, it was in the XIII century, it was at the end of the XVIII century BC! "Happy is your nose, do not smell the smell of Germans", - said at the end of the V century BC Gallo-Roman aristocracy Sidonius Apollinaris. The French philosopher Montaigne (XVI century) stated the fact…

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    Continuing, “The High Middle Ages” (1200-1400), the Gieses broke the era into two centuries; the 13th century was considered the “Golden Century, an era of affluence and growth” in contrast the 14th century of catastrophe and contraction (Gies 166). The 6th chapter is devoted to the High Middle Ages, the authors elaborate on the continuation of technological momentums that the Europeans experienced during this first century of this era. Another advancement that must be mentioned of is the…

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    Marxism In A Doll's House

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    A Doll’s House, written during the Nineteenth Century by Henrik Ibsen revealed three acts, in which, one of the first examples of realist drama was presented in theatre. Based in the Helmer household, Ibsen created the stage to ensure that the audience was able to identify with the setting of the stage. In terms of the modern audience viewing the text both Feminist and Marxist literary criticism perspectives assists to widen the appreciation of Ibsen’s questioning of his society. Through the…

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    rejoice in heaven once their time on earth is done. Chinese Make Silk The Chinese knew how to make silk by the 27th century BC, but it wasn’t until the Second Century BC did the creation of silk begin to be exported to Europe and other areas.…

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    as one of the most novel phenomena that have taken the world by a storm. While much has been hypothesized regarding this phenomenon, it is important to note that there exits distinct factors that drive it. Since the sixteenth century to the present, there are various key factors identified as the key drivers of globalization. Transportation is one of the major factors that have and continue to drive globalization from the sixteenth century to the present. In the past, development of various…

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    The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…

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