Stephen Daldry

Non-fiction is something we consume everyday: in the news, in history books, on the television, or in everyday conversation. What makes the choice of nonfiction for a performance interesting is how the performance subjects are often already known by the audience. How can a performer on a stage hope to compete against a new story, a photograph, or a video clip? This need, an abundance of available information and documentation to scrutiny a performance against, make construction of the…

focusing on Supreme Court justice Stephen G. Breyer in regards to his early life and his legal career before he became a Supreme Court justice. Also, this paper will be focusing on his Supreme Court appointment, some of his landmark cases as a Supreme Court justice, his approach when dealing with cases compare to other Supreme Court justices, his belief that the Supreme Court should look at foreign laws for…

Novelist Stephen King centered on the theme of supremacy characteristic of white males over western native peoples masterfully in his book, The Shining. As a country yearning for new land, a young America stretched its borders into the West. While colonizing, white males believed that they were superior to the native peoples inhabiting the territory, and slaughtered hundreds of them to take over their lands. It’s been believed since those turbulent times in the colonial days of the United…

Naturalism in Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Crane’s Maggie:A Girl of the Streets is fundamentally a work of naturalism with a few elements of realism. Donna M Campbell explains in Naturalism in American Literature, that much of the naturalistic literary movement focuses on taboo topics such as violence, poverty, prostitution. Naturalism has other characteristics such as static characters and Social Darwinism, characters who are controlled by their environment and have very little “free…

The story of a vampire, Count Dracula, written by Bram Stoker. Back in 1879 when this piece of literature was written it did not take much to push fear into an average persons mind. But what about this novel makes it so horrifying? Motifs such as revenants, somnambulism, mist/fog, curses, cemeteries, and many more are what give many gothic novels their appeal and emotional interest. This novel has a way of making the reader overthink everything and second guess themselves when it comes to…

According to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective people the first paradigm of human interaction is Win/Win. The Win/Win paradigm of human interaction is a frame of mind that constantly seeks mutual benefits in all human interactions. According to Stephen Covey’s Book the second paradigm of human Interaction is Win/Lose. The Win/Lose is these people are prone to use position, power, credential possessive, or personality to get their ways. According to Covey’s book the third paradigm of human…

Stephen Crane characterized the characters of the novel through their actions and interactions with other characters during the story. Such as Jimmie, from the opening scene it was obvious he was violent and did not care much for rules and even his own safety. In the opening fight scene Stephen Crane wrote,“In the yells of the whirling mob of Devil’s Row children there were notes of joy like songs of triumphant savagery. The little boys seemed to leer gloatingly at the blood upon the other…

critique paper, I would like to talk about my participation in the play Into the Woods. This play was performed in Meridian Community College’s McCain Theater. The author of Into the Woods is James Lapine; the composer of the music and lyrics is Stephen Sondheim. Lapine is known for bringing the story and characters to life while Sondheim is known for creating the music for this play. Sondheim brings great emotion and humor to this play with his wonderful music. Our director for this awesome…

I observed Courtney Beggin’s 3rd grade class at Mitchell-Neilson Elementary. Mitchell-Neilson Elementary is a Murfreesboro City School that implements Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in their culture and curriculum. The Mitchell-Neilson websites says, “We believe in differentiating instruction by integrating leadership language into our daily instruction as we help our students become the best readers, writers, thinkers, and LEADERS they can be!” The school set up a Response…

How there is a hero, a place to go,a reason to go, a challenge, and a real reason for the adventure.This classification can fit into many different fictional or non-fictional pieces of writing, each using it in their own unique way. Charlie, from Stephen Chbosky’s novel the Perks of Being a Wallflower is just one…