(www) In "From A Letter to an Actor" (Brecht, 1964: 235) Brecht speaks of the dangers of the extensive fusion of the actor with his role, leading to the character becoming so natural it becomes impossible for the audience to envision the character in any other way. ... As Brecht himself says, "The actor himself does not become completely transformed on the stage into the character he is portraying." ... The projection of slides onto a screen behind the actor, adds a silent visual comment to the dialogue. ... Fugard aim with this was making audiences aware of degradation and dehumanising of pe...

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In this case it is crucial to the actors' continuance that every word they say comes off the page. ... The scene is both a bit neurotic and conspicuous, utilizing the high spirited aliases and cheery music as the ultimate mask for their fatal conspiracy....

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Henry Kissinger's quote, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" has been depicted throughout history. ... The strategies of hard power actors are geared towards threatening other actors into compliance. ... " Hard and soft powers must work together to form the ultimate tactic. ...

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According to Greenberg, there are three "fundamental attributes of democracy: popular sovereignty, which requires that the ultimate source of authority rests with the people and that government functions in the interest and deliberative will of a majority of citizens who are active and participate in the political process armed with accurate political information; political equality, which refers to decision-making where each person carries the same weight in voting and other political decision making; and political liberty, which refers to basic freedoms essential to the formation and express...

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In yet another corner, he is harassed by two cliques representing everything materialistic: stockbrokers attempting to conquer the monetary market and Jewish mystics who believe a 216 digit number stumbled upon by Maximilian is the true name of God, leading to ultimate divinity. ... He devised a harness to attach a camera directly to the actor while he is running, called the snozzi-cam. This feature mobilizes the actor while the environment around him twirls frantically, further putting the viewer into the characters point of view. ...

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Comparative political scientists have always worked to develop methods to examine why countries develop and act in the way they do. These methods often times are similar to previous methods, but often times are different in their approach and reasoning. The trick is to develop a new and different approach to study. The grand theories of comparative politics are structural functionalism, modernization, dependency, and the NIC theory. These grand theories are causal arguments - they make specific arguments about what exactly is needed in order for a country to develop and progress. ...

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Despite these developments, Zhao Ziyang--who as Party secretary held ultimate responsibility for managing the problem-believed that once Hu's funeral was over, the students would feel they had made their point and would disperse. ... On the one side, Zhao Ziyang felt that the crowds were not challenging the ultimate leadership of the Communist Party, that their central demands were for dialogue and for the Party itself to solve the problems the students had raised, and that to get to work on these goals, which the Party shared, the Party should withdraw the April 26 turmoil verdict. ... T...

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He generally moves the camera further away from the actors as the violence grows more intense, and shows the sexual scene at several times normal speed, but the effect is not as strong as Burgess' narrative device. ... Although Alex's ultimate transformation is not certain, in the last few pages of the novel, Burgess gives the reader hope that Alex will have a different kind of future. ...

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"That gives peace when people feel that they are living the symbolic life, that they are actors in the divine drama. ... Meditation on the other hand, is the ultimate form of consciousness, but also leads us to a greater awareness of ourselves, and enhances our creativity. ...

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For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. ... This line of the play that tells about the dragons, which are creatures of massive power that come from Teutonic mythology, spells doom for those who come into contact with Faustus, thus indicating him as an ultimate villain in the play. ...

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Plato views art as an ultimate threat to society not only because it attempts to shape a character and take away society's role, but also because he believes that artists have the ability to evoke emotions through art and eventually creates action. ... Between the wall and the fire is a group of actors holding stick puppets. ...

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History The first European explorer to encounter Costa Rica was the Great Navigator himself, Christopher Columbus. The day was September 18, 1502, and Columbus was making his fourth and final voyage to the New World. As he was setting anchor off shore, a crowd of local Carib Indians paddled out in canoes and greeted his crew warmly. Later, the golden bands that the region's inhabitants wore in their noses and ears would inspire the Spaniard Gil Gonzalez Davila to name the country Costa Rica, or Rich Coast. Many people give the credit of naming Costa Rica to Christopher Columbus because ...

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As Barro and Gordon (1983) stated "the time inconsistency arguments were combined with rational expectations to show that discretionary monetary policy was ineffective for raising real output, as private actors factored inflation into their expectations creating an inflationary bias in society". ...

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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM levitt (1983) in discussing the globalisation of markets state that "We live in a rapid globalising world and certain national identifiers like taste, technology, market and finance are no longer constrained by national boundaries. They operate on a global basis. The defining features of globalisation are the interdependence and connectedness of the economics, politics and culture of nations and not uniformity of markets and taste of a single country...

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