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Mrs. Bazzo CHC2D1-01 January 6, 2015 The “Golden Age” of Sports for Women The 1920’s, which was also referred to as the roaring era, was a time period where entertainment, partying and generally having fun was at its peak. A favourite pastime for women besides partying and having fun was to play sports competitively. When women played sports they were as competitive as the men who played sports, and playing sports was physical fun for women. Due to technological advancements, women had an…

Symbolism allowed him to indirectly substitute actual figures for their literary ideas. In “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime,” Sybil represents an art that is untouched by the outside, corrupt world. Podgers, on the other hand, is to symbolize the complete opposite. This character has everything to do with the world that is affected by humans and corrupt. He is on the side of the…

The defining symbol of Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression during the Second World War occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto between April 19 and May 16, 1943. After the first major removal of Jews from the Ghetto (22 July-3 October 1942), the inhabitants knew that there existed no other option but resistance. The uprising was not necessarily a fight for survival, but rather a fight to die with honor and dignity. The inhabitants of the Ghetto knew that the Nazis intended to round them up and ship…

Introduction Eutrophication is a condition in an aquatic ecosystem where high nutrient concentrations stimulate blooms of algae (e.g., phytoplankton). Eutrophication is a natural process that occurs to all lakes over time as the weathering of rocks and soils from the surrounding area that leads to an accumulation of nutrients in the water. It can also be caused by run-offs of fertilisers. Three of the key components of modern fertilisers are nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. After a rainy…

Rabbis, Priests, Ulamas, though these three religious figures are different there is one characteristic that links them closely together, they’re all typically male characters. Yes, it is true that there are women of power in certain religions but, this was not always the case, in fact it wasn’t until just recently women started making an impact in their place of religious practice. Specifically, Judaism has made significant strides associated with women becoming a bigger part of the community…

In the book Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, there are four types of genius and beauty that affected character’s lives: reputational beauty, superficial beauty, scientific genius, and psychological genius. Sibyl killed herself after abandoning her acting career for the beauty of Dorian Gray, who met her only a few days before. Even Basil the painter is stabbed by Dorian, after trying to help Dorian regain the purity of youth, the reputational and superficial beauty of whom Basil had for himself (in…

Private Lives Response Paper The live production I attended was Private Lives by Noel Coward. The play was put on by Acting Unlimited Inc. at Theater 810. Overall, there were three main elements that were the primary contributors to my enjoyment of the live performance; they were the costumes, the set design, and the body language of the actors and actresses. For instance, the costumes were very well done for a small local production. The play revolves around a divorced couple in the 1930’s,…

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…

individual girls or between individual boys are much greater than those between the “average” girl and the “average” boy. Yet we tend to generalize from the “average” girl or boy to individuals. There are four female characters in An Inspector Calls: Sybil Birling, her daughter Sheila, their servant Edna, and the unseen but ubiquitous Eva Smith/Daisy Renton. Through these four and the words and actions of the male characters, Priestley tries to show that where capitalism exploits women,…

present circumstances, he knows that reintegration is hopeless. He cannot bear to witness his wife’s, or society’s, disregard for what is happening outside of their lives. This blissfulness is pointed out by Seymour himself during his conversation with Sybil. When asked where his wife was, he states, “She may be in any one of a thousand places. At the hairdresser’s. Having her hair dyed mink. Or making dolls for poor children, in her room” (17). Seymour sickened by his wife’s materialistic as…