Playwright and director David Mamet would suggest that maybe the world is not entirely men's anymore, but the business world certainly is. Moreover, when women enter the male domain of business, they do not understand the basic rules of this male-dominated area of American existence. ... Mamet's theme of women being the monkey wrench in the works of American business appears in Glengarry Glen Ross, though in a more subdued form than in either Speed-the-Plow or Oleanna. ... Indeed, at Oleanna's premiere a female student accused the playwright of creating a play that is "politi...

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She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. ... Tupac is a symbol of black resistance, of anger, violence and bitterness, a voice that speaks out against some of the things wrong in America in the 1990's There are so many questions I had to answer to defend my position. First of all, the subject matter of my topic is not strange to any American since women and blacks have faced discrimination for a long period of time. ... My arguments I chose in this research paper make sense to me by helping me picture myself in their situations ...

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In 1916, Glaspell moved with the company, now called the Playwright's Theatre, to Greenwich Village in New York, where for two seasons as writer, director, and actor, she played an important role in a group that came to have a major influence on the development of American drama. ...

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Before going to bed with an American woman, he outlines certain fears he has whenever having sexual intercourse. ... Maria Josephine Barrios an associate professor at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature of the University of the Philippines quotes Singaporean playwright Stella Kohn as saying that a Feminine Female is someone who has yielded to a society which tells her that "Your life is meaningless, you have no value, except as you are a wife and mother; then be the very devil of a wife and mother" (31). ...

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