Dramatic techniques such as role-playing and simulations are well documented in social studies and history, business and vocational, foreign language, counseling, and even science classes; but dramatic techniques are rarely used to teach. Teachers tend to relegate drama to theater courses, isolating drama techniques from most classrooms. ... Creative Drama is not learning about drama, but learning through drama. ... Language is a central tool of Creative Drama. ... Because drama requires students to organize, synthesize, and articulate their ideas, it provides an excellent opportunity for r...

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Children and Drama: Report on 2 articles Children and Drama compiled by Nellie McCaslin is a book, which encompasses works by many different authors. ... Moses is more interested in the study of the audience's reactions to pieces rather than the process that it takes to get there. In creative drama the emphasis is totally on the participants not on the audience. ... That is the main goal of creative drama. ... Growth is the ultimate goal in any creative drama process. ...

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It's rise to popularity and it's subsequent decline along with what the future holds for Radio Drama will also be examined. However, study of Radio Drama could not be complete without first tracing the origins of the radio itself. ... However, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when radio drama itself began. ... Another source states that the first to record a radio drama was Captain Peter Eckersly. ... For many radio drama "filled a cultural gap" . ...

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"Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" written by Dyan Sheldon is a story about one teenage girl, who name is Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she prefers to be called). ... They both like to be in the centre of attention, they study well and they like drama. ... I really and truly don't"); • capable - she has great drama talent ("We had ten curtain calls and standing ovation"); • eccentric - instead of her words "You got no right to touch me" (the old version of the book), she decided to make American version like this "Keep your f-in" hands of me" (of course it was a joke)....

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In this study, it examined the association of how parents handled themselves, family drama, divorce or separation, and child disruptive behaviors. ... This study was performed in one evaluation lasting one day. ... These questions helped estimate the denouement antisociality and disruptive familial drama had on the corresponding children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder symptoms. ... The numbers grew as the anxiety and drama in the family environment developed. ... There is a larger effect with the mother than the father, this study showed. ...

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India and its theatre traditions have had an enormous effect on the study and practice of theatre. ... Not surprisingly, then, does a host of drama texts and traditions also come from the Indian tradition, showing it to be important indeed in all development in the study of drama. ... Play scripts emanated from epic literature, historical (or semi-historical) legends, rural life and urban dramas. ... The structure of Indian drama has also remained fairly unchanged in the Sanskrit drama genre. ... Nevertheless, all participants in the drama must work together to present an entire pictur...

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A Doll's House - A Realistic Problem Drama A Doll's House, a realistic problem drama by Henrik Ibsen, slams the door on the static social conventions of the nineteenth century European society. ... His dramas centred on his society with its false morality and manipulation of public opinion and how individuals operated within this society. ... For an understanding of the thematic structure of the drama, Kristine Linde's declaration that she needs somebody to live for is an essential part of the whole. Her voice is admittedly muted in the drama; and it is easily drowned by Nor...

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Most English teachers consider drama to not be within their English Language Arts curriculum, drama is used more often as a teaching method in other disciplines. ... English teachers tend to leave drama to theater courses, isolating drama techniques from most English classrooms. Yet, the research on classroom drama suggests that there is considerable untapped potential for using drama as a teaching method. ... Students are learning through drama. ... Drama has many applications in the classroom. ...

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In 1607 Monteverdi produced his first musical drama titled, Orfeo. ... This musical drama also consisted of a large orchestra with alot of variety. The orchestra played throughout severak scenes and was able to set the mood of the drama. Shortly after producing Orfeo, Monteverdi began working on another musical drama, known as Arianna in 1608. ... Musicians from all over the country came to study with him. ...

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Lady Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Viscountess Falkland Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary is an important literary figure worthy of study in the 21st century because she was a rebel with a cause for women's rights, especially within marriage; because she became a rebel with a religious cause; and finally, because she was the first Englishwoman to write and publish a drama, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613). ... She is renowned as the first woman to write a tragic drama in English, The Tragedy of Mariam (printed in 1613). ... Cary's play was a Senecan-style drama intended to be spoken al...

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Myth and music are the principal roots of drama. ... Adding a second actor and reducing the chorus from 50 to 12, Aeschylus laid the foundation for an aesthetics of drama that was to influence subsequent plays for well over 2,000 years. ... Studying the plots of a number of Greek tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situation is brought about by the man's miscalculation of reality or the characters find themselves between two conflicting principles and are confronted with a choice, the results of which are always fatal. ... The mass, with its d...

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After he travelled to Switzerland to study writing he was enrolled at the University of Toronto where he continued writing but became more interested in acting. In 1974 Allan graduated from The Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, U. of T. receiving his M.A. ... In the 1990's, Allan became head of the Drama Department at The Etobicoke School of the Arts, where he taught senior directing, acting and playwriting. He led many students to win various awards including three consecutive Best New Play Awards at the Sears Drama Festival provincial championships. ...

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Aristotle thought that actions in tragedy were not made by chance; they were made inevitable because of the actions and situations in the drama. ... Many forms of drama work around a big event, which grabs our interest and stirs up the lives of the characters involved. ... At first the dialogue between the main character (protagonist) and the chorus created the drama. ... Recent studies of Athenian comedy and Satyr plays reveal some very extraordinary connections with the modern theatre. ... This acting, (as most modern drama does), also ignored the unities of time, space and action. ...

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Robin Williams I did my report on Robin Williams. He was July 21, 1952, which makes him forty-nine years old. He was born in Chicago, Illinois., and his full name is Robin McLaurim Williams. His parents are Robert and Laurie Williams. He moved frequently with his family, and when he was a senior in...

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"Drama can be defined as an experience that creates emotion. Drama is a collaborative group art form where people transform, act and reflect upon the human condition. In drama, people are the instruments of inquiry." ... Bruce Burton, playwright, director, teacher and drama consultant views drama as a very important learning area. Burton states that, "the study of drama is about learning life skills, not just acting skills" and that the techniques learnt "can be extremely valuable, not just for performance, but for your own personal development." ...

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As a young girl I was always labeled the "drama queen". ... But when I really become a drama queen is when it counts, in Theatre class. ... As I continue to love and pursue this carrier I hope children will understand how great it is to accually take the time to study arts and realize that its not just acting its learning about other people and thier environment as well. ...

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The third son of Senator William Rupert Davies, Robertson Davies participated in drama productions as a child and developed a lifelong interest in drama. He attended Upper Canada Coll during 1926-1932 and went on to Queen's University duing 1932-1935 as a special student, who was not studying for a degree. ... Robertson moved from the though of acting outlined in Shakespeare for Young Players (1947) to the writing of plays with Eros at Breakfast, a one-act play which won the 1948 Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play. ... Robertson found his good are neither in drama nor in...

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"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" (1.1.31) with this one sentence it is inevitable that the theme of this novel is dramatic drama. ... As we proceed through the novel, we realise this text is based upon a family drama, and what family drama is complete without a reconciliation. ...

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Back in my country, I usually used the television media to watch drama serials and news. ... I preferred watching Chinese serial dramas than to English serial dramas. ... Using the internet to chat with my friends and played online games caused me to slack in my studies. ...

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The reality of violence and violent crimes committed by mentally ill people is being unfairly depicted in the media, and now medical dramas are emhasizing this. ... In a study carried out by the New England Journal of Medicine in May 1997, cardiac patients were shown to have a disproportionately high survival rate-67% of cardiac patients in ER survive as opposed to 6.5-15% in reality. The chance of successful defibrillation also been shown to be greater in all television medical dramas on several occasions. To conclude with, subconsciously we are all affected by the issues raised in these ...

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There are people who love the hard core action and there are some who prefer the slow paced drama. ... A fourth main genre is drama, which are films that deal with strong human emotions. ... Drama is probably the largest film genre and is usually serious with realistic characters and real life situations. ... One example of a drama film is The Godfather (1972), which shows the corruption of the Italian Mafia and the endangers of the family involved. ... Another example of a western movie is Dances With Wolves (1990), which is about a Civil War soldier, John Dunbar, who studies the lifestyle ...

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It was during the time young Ibsen "briefly assisted an apothecary and began medical studies before beginning a lifetime association with the theatre" that he began writing satire and elegant poems according to the style prevalent during that period. ... When Ibsen appeared on the literary screen, drama was almost non-existent in Norway. In his hands Norwegian drama developed which brought its founder international fame. ... "In his plays Ibsen focused his attention on character rather than situations and created realistic dramas on psychological conflict." ... Hedda ...

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In the article, "Why I Wrote The Crucible,- originally published in The New Yorker, Miller explained how he came to write the drama: "The Crucible- was an act of desperation. ... But by 1950, when I began to think of writing about the hunt for Reds in America, I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitor's violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly The Red hunt, led by th...

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This study discusses the varied cultural reactions in the United States and Sierra Leone created by the slave ship revolt in 1839. ... She studies the Amistad story to show us the historic and modern significance of the slave ship revolt and its following trials. ... In "Remembering the Past," Iyunolu Osagie studies the Amistad story as a literary trope in African American prose, poetry, and drama, and as an historical event that influenced the political and racial landscape of the United States. ... In "Reinventing the Present," Iyunolu Osagie connects the collective literary and cultural mem...

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