...Ryan Dorsey Modern American Drama 11/5/15 At a basic level, Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof confronts the issue that runs through all great American drama, from Eugene O'Neill onwards: the conflict between truth and illusion. Set on a rich Mississippi plantation, Williams's play shows the conflict from many angles. Brick, an alcoholic ex-athlete, refuses to sleep with his wife, Maggie, supposedly out of guilt over the suicide of his old friend, Skipper. The problem Brick is unable to confront is his own, and Skipper's, latent homosexuality. On the other hand, there is Brick's father, a towering patriarch known as Big Daddy over whose inheritance the family fights over. In the same way Brick is unable to face realities about himself,...
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...The Broadway Version Significance:- When Tennessee Williams made the decision to take Big Daddy, the pivotal personality of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, off stage for the entire final act of the play, it was a bold choice, so bold a choice, in fact, that the original Broadway director, Kazan, forced Williams to rewrite the last act to fix it. | | | | | | | | | After their long association Williams greatly respected Kazan, and trusted his instincts. Williams writes in the explanatory note of the published edition of the play that a playwright can hand a director an absolute final play without allowing him access to drafts, or he can find a director who will cave to the writer's every request – and neither is desirable. In Kazan, Williams said, he had found a director he could trust to give perceptive and meaningful notes early on in the process. And Kazan had major reservations about the first completed draft of the play, the one that is still printed in published editions. As summed up by Williams in his explanatory note, these reservations were: 1) Big Daddy was too vivid and important a character to disappear from the play 2) The character of Brick should under go some apparent mutation as a result of the virtual vivisection that he undergoes in his interview with his father in Act Two. 3) The character of Margaret should be, if possible, more clearly sympathetic to the audience. Williams did not agree with these edits – especially the second...
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...dealing with discrimination regarding homosexuality: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & All Mothers are Working Mothers Homosexuality refers to sexual attraction that one possesses for the person of his/her same sex. It is a tabooed term in most of the society and is often dealt behind the closed door. The reasons due to which homosexuality is considered a taboo vary from society to society. Sometimes it is the culture of a certain society that discourages homosexuality and sometimes it is the religion that forbids people from adopting same sex relationships. Either ways, this attitude of the society towards the homosexuals forces many people to suppress their homosexual identity and lead an unwanted life. Yet there are few people who rise above this suppression and become successful in observing their lives according to their freewill. A better picture of this situation can be drawn from the comparison of societies’ attitude towards the homosexuality and the counter response of protagonists regarding it in Tennessee Willaiams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) and Sangita Rayamajhi’s All Mothers are Working Mothers (2005). This paper thus aims to compare the societies’ responses towards the homosexual lifestyle of Brick and Shiela and show that although the settings of these two plays are different, the societies in which these plays are set displayed similar discriminative approach towards the protagonists’ homosexual identities. However, due to the increasing acceptability of homosexuality...
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...Gender role analyzation in William's Cat “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,” Written by Tennessee Williams deals with several abstract relationships throughout the entire play with buried acts of deception, conflict and conmunication tension. Along with these problems comes sexuality and gender role problems. During the 1950’s, the role of women was decidedly fixed as child-bearers and doggishly loyal trophy wives, while men were prescribed as bread-winners and archetypically masculine in nature. (Müller 28) As such, the relationships and behavior of Williams’ characters follow the patterns described by their gender. As each character works to fulfill the role attributed to their gender, the barrier between them are blurred. The gender conflict between Maggie and Brick is the most import aspect of the play. Maggie and Brick are couples in the play who have two completly different feeling about each other. Maggie says to Brick “You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool”(Williams 10) The quote presents Brick to be represented to the audience as a man who is self contained, cool, and perfectly masculine. (Class Discussion) He physically embodies a real man. While Maggie see’s herself as a women who is dissatisfied, ignored, and exhausted from sharing her desires. (Fellows 2) In the case of Maggie and Brick, he reminds her they are simply living together and married only by name. She seems to be in constant torture because she cannot experience intimacy (physical or emotional)...
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...overcome my curiosity of investigating the ways of which Starbucks Coffee Shop differs itself uniquely from other coffee shops, I will investigate the difference between the three Starbucks Coffee Shops of Sha Tin New Town Plaza, Hong Kong. Not only will I analyze the different design factors of Starbucks, but I will also be comparing them against the competitors within the perimeters of Sha Tin, Hong Kong. I will conduct an interview with a Coffee Shop entrepreneur; give out questionnaires to random customers of the three different Starbucks Coffee Shops of Sha Tin New Town Plaza, as well as observing the surroundings with my personal judgment. Furthermore, I am going to research the background and history of the Starbucks Coffee Shop design. Starbucks Coffee Shop originates from Seattle, and the after employing several designers, Schultz finally come across Wright Massey who quoted 'they didn't want any two stores to look alike'1. I conclude from my research, that Starbucks is unique from other Coffee shops in terms of its store designs, as well as its products. Aside from this, each of their stores are similar since their designs are of a template, but there are no two stores that are identical. From my observations, I round that the three Starbucks stores of Sha Tin New Town Plaza have their own styles. 1 ‗STARBUCKED A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce & Culture‘ by Taylor Clark, page 100. How does the design of Starbucks compare to other Coffee Shops in...
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...(The first educational building in Hong Kong to achieve such rating) Acknowledgements Received - Finalist in “World Architecture Festival 2008” in Barcelona on October 2008 - one of the 12 Finalists in the Learning Category and is the only Hong Kong architectural practice in this Category. 0.0 Project Brief (I) Introduction The Project is a high-rise 19-storey institutional building for the Hong Kong Community College. It aims at providing a dynamic and interactive space for youth education while incorporating the sustainable design considerations and construction techniques into the building. 4 main design and engineering concepts: - Sustainable multi-storey building for the 21st century campus - Design for identity, adaptability and flexibility - Optimizing public communal space to inherit PolyU’s campus quality - Effective circulation design consideration for high-rise campus | 0.0 INTRODUCTION | 1.0 QUALITY | 2.0 RESOURCES | 3.0 SUSTAINABILITY | 4.0 INNOVATION | 0.0...
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...1)What does the study of humanities involve? What is the relevance of humanities in architecture? 1.The study of humanities involves academic disciplines that study human culture and history. The humanities include ancient and modern languages ,literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. We learn about distant cultures or past cultures. Through the exploration of humanities we learn how to think creatively and critically to reason and ask questions. These efforts preserve the great accomplishments of the past help us understand the world we live in and give us tools to imagine the future. 2.What are the broad divisions of human history? Write a brief on each. Prehistory (meaning "before history", or "before knowledge acquired by investigation", from the Latin word for "before," præ, and historia) is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention. The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings appeared.[4][5] In dividing up human prehistory, prehistorians typically use the three-age system, whereas scholars...
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...A GUIDE TO APPLICATION FOR RESTAURANT LICENCES Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (January 2012 Edition) -1- FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE DEPARTMENT (FEHD) PERFORMANCE PLEDGE APPLICATION FOR RESTAURANT LICENCES We are pleased to state below our performance targets in respect of applications for restaurant licences. Processing Steps To return proposed layout plans which fail the Preliminary Screening to the applicant To arrange Application Vetting Panel (AVP) meeting with the applicant To issue Letter of Requirements for provisional licence and/or full licence To conduct inspection final verification Standard Response Time within 10 working days after receipt of proposed layout plans within 20 working days of acceptance of the licence application for further processing before or at the AVP Meeting upon confirming the premises are suitable for licensing within 8 working days of receipt of notification of compliance with the licensing requirements from the applicant within 7 working days upon confirmation of compliance with all licensing requirements within 1 working day upon receipt of acceptable Certificates of Compliance with licensing requirements from the applicant within 7 working days upon receipt of acceptable Certificates of Compliance with licensing requirements from the applicant To issue Full Licence To issue Provisional Licence a) if the documents are submitted to the Licence Issuing Office b) if the documents are submitted...
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...Building Code of the Philippines CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 101. Title This Decree shall be known as the “National Building Code of the Philippines” and shall hereinafter be referred as the “Code”. SECTION 102. Declaration of Policy It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, consistent with the principles of sound environmental management and control; and to this end, make it the purpose of this Code to provide for all buildings and structures, a framework of minimum standards and requirements to regulate and control their location, site, design, quality of materials, construction, use occupancy, and maintenance. SECTION 103. Scope and Application (a) The provisions of this Code shall apply to the design, location, sitting, construction, alteration, repair, conversion, use, occupancy, maintenance, moving, demolition of, and addition to public and private buildings and structures, except traditional indigenous family dwellings as defined herein. (b) Buildings and/or structures constructed before the approval of this Code shall not be affected except when alterations, additions, conversions or repairs are to be made therein in which case, this Code shall apply only to portions to be altered, added converted or repaired. SECTION 104. General Building Requirements (a) All buildings or structures as well as accessory facilities thereto shall conform in all respects to the principles...
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...Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic gooseflesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room." Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately...
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...Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children First published in 1981 Excerpts from the Koran come from the Penguin Classics edition, translated by N. J. Dawood, copyright (c) 1956, 1959,1966,1968,1974. for Zafar Rushdie who, contrary to all expectations, was born in the afternoon Contents Book One The perforated sheet Mercurochrome Hit-the-spittoon Under the carpet A public announcement Many-headed monsters Methwold Tick, tock Book Two The fisherman's pointing finger Snakes and ladders Accident in a washing-chest All-India radio Love in Bombay My tenth birthday At the Pioneer Cafe Alpha and Omega The Kolynos Kid Commander Sabarmati's baton Revelations Movements performed by pepperpots Drainage and the desert Jamila Singer How Saleem achieved purity Book Three The buddha In the Sundarbans Sam and the Tiger The shadow of the Mosque A wedding Midnight Abracadabra Book One The perforated sheet I was born in the city of Bombay ... once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar's Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time matters, too. Well then: at night. No, it's important to be more ... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came. Oh, spell it out, spell it out: at the precise instant of India's arrival at independence, I tumbled forth into the world. There were gasps. And, outside the...
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...IGOROTS * Home * IGOROT SONGS * IGOROT DANCE * IGOROT TRADITIONS * MONEY ON THE MOUNTAIN IGOROT TRADITIONS IGOROT TRADITIONS When we talk about Igorot identity and culture, we also have to consider the time. My point is that: what I am going to share in this article concerning the Igorot culture might not be the same practiced by the Igorots of today. It has made variations by the passing of time, which is also normally happening to many other cultures, but the main core of respect and reverence to ancestors and to those who had just passed is still there. The Igorot culture that I like to share is about our practices and beliefs during the "time of Death". Death is part of the cycle of life. Igorots practice this part of life cycle with a great meaning and importance. Before the advent of Christianity in the Igorotlandia, the Igorots or the people of the Cordilleran region in the Philippines were animist or pagans. Our reverence or the importance of giving honor to our ancestors is a part of our daily activities. We consider our ancestors still to be with us, only that they exist in another world or dimension. Whenever we have some special feasts (e.g., occasions during death, wedding, family gathering, etc.), when we undertake something special (like going somewhere to look for a job or during thanksgiving), we perform some special offer. We call this "Menpalti/ Menkanyaw", an act of butchering and offering animals. During these times we call them...
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...HUE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ------***------ NGUYEN VAN TUAN TRANSLATION 5 HUE - 2006 1 INTRODUCTION TRANSLATION 5 is a basic course book written for the second-year students of the Department of English, College of Foreign Languages, Hue University. It is intended to equip the students with an overview of translating Vietnamese and English scientific texts. It also helps the students get familiar with the terms related to science and technology as well as the typical structures frequently used in scientific and technological texts. Since the course book has been written for the students to learn either by themselves or in class with a teacher, there will be a course book and assignments. The course book contains the Vietnamese and English socio-politic texts with notes and suggested translations. The assignments contain the Vietnamese and English socio-politic texts that will be translated into either English or Vietnamese by the students. By the end of the course, the students will be able to: - obtain general knowledge of the Vietnamese and English scientific and technological documents. - get familiar with and effectively use scientific and technological terms and typical structures of scientific and technological texts in their translations. - accurately translate scientific and technological texts into English and Vietnamese. On the completion of this course book, I would like to express...
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...Physical Chemistry Understanding our Chemical World Physical Chemistry Understanding our Chemical World Paul Monk Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@wiley.co.uk Visit our Home Page on www.wileyeurope.com or www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England, or emailed to permreq@wiley.co.uk, or faxed to (+44) 1243 770620. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold on the understanding that the Publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Other Wiley...
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