MAJOR BARBARA by George Bernard Shaw THE AUTHOR George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born into a lower-middle class Protestant family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an alcoholic failed merchant, while his mother was a professional singer. When Shaw was sixteen, his mother ran off with her voice teacher, leaving him at home to complete school, which he despised. In 1876, he joined his mother in London and took up a career in journalism and writing, beginning with a string of five unsuccessful
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Students who are expected to perform well usually do so. Those students of whom teachers have lower expectations will generally perform less well. However, this approach has clear application in the corporate world. This effect is named after George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion", which is the basis of the film and stage musical "My Fair Lady". Shaw summarizes the effect by character Professor Higgins' observation that: ...the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how
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What Would be The Two Most Valuable Skills? You Could Ever Learn or Teach? by Anthony Gabriel As many of us are apt to do , either by custom or habit, the beginning of the new year marks a time in our lives we generally look to make bold or well intentioned proclamations of how we want to change or improve ourselves . If many of us are honest, by mid-year those proclamations have been replaced by the
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....As George Bernard Shaw rightly quoted "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” Ancient Romans understood the concept of personal responsibility.After a Roman arch was completed, the engineer who built it had to stand underneath it when the scaffolding was removed. While you might not get crushed by a giant arch if you make mistakes, you still have personal responsibility for your actions.What is personal responsibility?It is taking conscious control of your responses
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The Man of Destiny Audition Notice Summary: The Man of Destiny, written in 1897 by George Bernard Shaw, is a one act play, with two leads (one male one female) and two smaller roles (both male). The play depicts a fictional meeting between a young Napoleon and a mysterious lady, where the evenly matched intellects take part in a savage battle of wits with liberty, honour and reputation at stake. It's Shaw on War, Patriotism, Loyalty and Class: clever, funny and incisive. Characters: Napoleon
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George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion and Gary Marshall’s film Pretty Woman both explore the theme of change and transformation based upon the myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who disenchanted with women of his own time and decided to sculpt his ideal woman out of ivory. The social and cultural background of the two leading female characters Eliza Doolittle and Vivian Ward play a role in their desire to change their lives. Even though conforming to society’s expectations proves difficult for Vivian
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9…15…20…95…100 9 yrs. old - Daisy Ashford wrote her first novel, sold over 200,000 copies. 15 yrs. old - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison became manager of a telegraph office. 20 yrs. old - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft. 95 yrs. old - Nola Ochs became the oldest person to receive a college diploma, a degree in general studies 100 yrs. old – Fred Mack decided he would mark this major milestone by skydiving! Age is just a number… To begin with
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INTRODUCTION The plays and prefaces of Bernard Shaw deal with many and diverse themes. At least four, however, concern themselves with evolutionary themes and ideas: Man and Superman, Back to Methusalah, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, and Far-fetched Fables. In Man and Superman, especially the third act, the preface, and The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, Shaw touches on two main themes: the pursuit of man by woman and the direction of evolution, which Shaw sees as leading
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Saint Joan is a historical play in the sense that this drama is based on the facts of history and its chief characters and events are taken from history. But as ‘Saint Joan’ is a drama, it is not a mere transcript of history, but an imaginative treatment of the facts of history blended with fiction. In spite of much authenticity, there is much modification in details and minor matters, much shifting, ordering, condensening and compressing of material. In this way this historic play is a blend of
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way to succeed. This bakery is just one of the Foundation’s enterprises in which its program is capable of reaching 2,200 community members annually. The Greyston Bakery was founded in 1982 by a Zen Buddhist meditation group that was led by Bernard Tetsugen Glassman. Glassman who was a former aerospace engineer had an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold vision. He borrowed $300,000 and opened the small bakery in the Bronx. His original goal had been to produce quality, locally made products
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