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There is a major contrast between the way in which the settings of Translations and Stuff Happens are described in addition to the number of places that feature. For example, in Stuff Happens David Hare frequently changes the setting with generally brief descriptions of Hotel Pierre, Camp David and many other locations, cohering with the play’s chaotic style and numerous characters. The stage directions in Stuff Happens are shorter than in Translations and usually fixate on the characters and…

Lighting the Olympic Torch In the image I see two women in front of four other women on the background all of them wearing white dresses and sandals that look similar to those worn during the Roman empire period. One of the women who is in the front is kneeling down with both of her hands stretched out with a bowl that is ignited towards the other women, who is a leader or an important figure. The image demonstrates her as a leader role by her standing up while the woman with the bowl is…

and Sergeants with twenty to thirty years of service. Therefore, it was then that I had set my personal objective to achieve the rank of Staff Sergeant (SSG). Being an NCO was something I took pride in and I realized that I wanted to go much further than an E-5. At this point, I investigated all conceivable outcomes to getting elevated to the rank to of Staff Sergeant I understood that I had been in the infantry for some time now and advancement was much slower than other Military Occupational…

After entering his office, we spoke for over an hour about leadership, professionalism, and standards of conduct. In the Army, formal counseling is supposed to happen at set intervals; but, this rarely occurs once you become a Non-Commissioned Officer, or Sergeant. This was the first bit of one on one professional development that I had received in years. It was an important event. Additionally, it set the tone for the unit I was entering and let me know my limits. Furthermore, the counseling…

Warrant Officer Corps is one of the most prestige technical career field in the United States Armed Forces. Warrant officers are highly skilled, military occupational specialty (MOS) officers. The selection into the Warrant Officer Corps is completed through an application process where only the best of the best are chosen. As a Senior Noncommissioned Officer in the United States Army, I (SFC Bivins) felt I was full qualified; therefore, I submitted an application and was accepted based on my…

The purpose of this reflection paper is to illustrate how I will use the principles of mission command in my future positions after graduating from the Sergeants Major Course. Army Doctrine Reference Publication 6-0 defines mission command as the “exercise of authority and direction by the commander using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations”. Commander’s use the principles…

onto when reading The Fall, readers are, in a sense, forced to accept the idea of a subjective reality. No Man’s Land, a play written by Harold Pinter, further explores the theme of reality and it’s relationship to existentialism. Two men in their sixties, Hirst and Spooner, are talking in Hirst’s living room. They have just met at a bar. They are both drinking, which is evident from the somewhat choppy dialogue. The encounter seems choppy as well. At first the two men seem like strangers but…

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works…

CHAPTER 1: CONCEPT OF FREEDOM George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a critic. His work as a London newspaper critic of music and drama emerged in The Quintessence of Ibsenism. His celebrated plays include Arms and the Man, You Never Can Tell and The Devil’s Disciple. His works present a bold intellectual criticism sugar-coated by a pretended lightness of tone. He rebelled against disordered thinking, and sought to puncture pierce pretensions. In the essay Freedom, G.B.Shaw reveals his…

Vladimir 's Song as a Representation of the Play in Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 's two act tragicomedy Waiting for Godot depicts the endless wait for something better as told through the eyes of two homeless men named Vladimir and Estragon who have nowhere to go. As both men wait for a person by the name of Godot, they find ways to pass time in the form of friendly banter, contemplating suicide, philosophical conversations and reminiscing about the past. Both acts end…