This is a reflection on the hierarchy of society, with God at the top, then the Monarchy, going to minor aristocracy the list goes all the way down to the working class "scum" at the bottom who comprised the majority of society. ... The inspector is a tool used by Priestley, used to literally question the position of the characters and what they represent. ... He is central to getting the characters to examine themselves and their actions and indirectly getting the audience to look at themselves make them think what they have done wrong and whether they can correct it. He moves from character ...

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The next minor theatre style to emerge, more of a theory, was Naturalism. ... Instead of identifying with their roles, actors were instructed merely to demonstrate the actions of the characters they portrayed. ... The characters have senseless conversations. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

David Novak, a Jewish theologian, once said "The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it." The Holocaust has been described as the largest, most inhumane genocide of all-time. Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the rise of the Nazi party ...

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Authority: the sound of it brings back memories of the teacher that everyone had; this teacher constantly thought they were better than their students, since they had gone to college and the students obviously have not yet. In these experiments, authority figures took over and used their power for m...

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The Guns of August In her novel, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman reviews the strategic planning, misfortune, and pure luck that shaped the opening days of World War I. Most historians trace the origins of World War I to January 18, 1871. On that date, at the palace of Versailles#, diplomats...

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• Grade Level: High School