"I am a sort of collector of religions‚" remarks Adolphus Cusins‚ Major Barbara Undershaft ’s fiancé‚ midway through the second act of George Bernard Shaw ’s morality play‚ Major Barbara. And thus‚ the play can be seen as collection of varying religious‚ moral‚ and social ideals. The play centers on Barbara Undershaft and her father Andrew Undershaft‚ a Salvation Army Major and a millionaire arms dealer respectively‚ and there conflicting ideological beliefs. However‚ Shaw also creates the character
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Samantha Belew Professor Marc Muneal English 1102 27 September 2011 Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw illustrating the effect language has on each character‚ from how others perceive them to what they are capable or incapable of doing in their lives. In society during that time‚ just as now‚ your accent and the way you speak can tell a great deal about your background and where you are from. But more so in the story of Pygmalion does the accent and the way they speak‚ grammatically
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References: J. Sterling Livingston in the September/October‚ (1988) Harvard Business Review George Bernard Shaw‚ (1912) Play‚ Pygmalion Robert Rosenthal & Lenore Jacobson (1968) Pygmalion in the classroom New York: Holt‚ Rinehart & Winston
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When you watch the movie The Makeover‚ featuring famous actress Julia Stiles‚ you may notice that it resembles something that you might have read in your English 1104 class. The movie might remind you of the play‚ Pygmalion‚ written by George Bernard Shaw. It is the story of a phonetics professor who trains an ordinary flower girl to act like a sophisticated young lady. It is based off a Greek legend where a man named Pygmalion wanted to create the perfect statue. He made her so perfect that he fell
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On Growth/Fixed Mindsets Mindsets are beliefs about yourself‚ your characteristics‚ or how you use your basic ability. Based on new psychological studies about mindsets‚ there are two categories of mindsets‚ Fixed Mindsets and Growth Mindsets. A fixed mindset is a belief that abilities and intelligence are set and cannot be changed. On the other hand‚ a growth mindset would be one that abilities and intelligence can grow through effort and perseverance. My mindset has been changing throughout my
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101 – code 4328) Assignment on Essay Writing K to 12 Curriculum : A Change for the Better or for Worse? “Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”‚ is a quote from George Bernard Shaw that seems to support the implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum. K to 12 Curriculum was proposed last 2011 and implemented a year after. It seeks to develop 21st century skills among its learners that require 21st century skilled-teachers
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Today I will be commenting on an excerpt from Pygmallion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. This play was first presented in 1912. Pygmalion is a play that focuses on Eliza Doolittle the main character and Higgins‚ the teacher. The storyline basically tells how Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak a proper English. The reason behind this was because the way someone spoke during the time Shaw wrote this play allowed people to define from what social class a person came from. B/c Eliza was from a lower class
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Pygmalion vs. My Fair LadyThe Academy Award-winning musical film My Fair Lady produced by George Cukor in 1964‚ was based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. Although‚ the basic story line and underlying themes are the same‚ there are a number of differences between the two famous works. The most pronounced difference is that My Fair Lady had songs added to the dialogue. Furthermore‚ Pygmalion deals with many of the social issues that were occurring during the Victorian
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Besides‚ marrying late also provides an opportunity to get to know your future companion better. We may often see in the news that many young people get married on impulse‚ which is‚ they don’t really get to know each other more. As George Bernard Shaw said‚ “Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” When two people first met‚ and they had a crush on each other. In order to show the best of themselves‚ they tend to hide their
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A Farewell to Arms: Alcohol “Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life” (George Bernard Shaw). Throughout the young adult novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway‚ Frederick Henry‚ the protagonist‚ goes through numerous struggles‚ be it physical aches that he retains from the war‚ or troubles with his mind that are caused by his complicated relationship with Catherine Barkley. However‚ despite all of his struggles‚ Henry finds consolation in alcohol‚ consuming copious
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