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    pounds. He was so large that P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud sound as “a sound like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.” Chesterton once remarked to George Bernard Shaw, his friendly enemy in many a debate and exchanged essay, “To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England.” Shaw responded, “To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it.” Chesterton originally attended the Slade School of Art to become an illustrator, but he dropped out before receiving

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    Carol Burnett once stated, "Only I can change my life, no one can change it for me." Many people struggle to accept the fact that our lives are based on the decisions and actions we make. As humans, we tend to blame those around us on how our life turns out. In high school, students believe that changing your life will take too long and that everything will be okay. In fact, it is best to change your life in high school. If a student from St. Teresa was asked about what they were gonna change this

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    working-class person, working with class." - Karl Lagerfeld A working-class person, struggling to climb up the soaring social ladder. This is exactly one of the main aspects Cheese, written by Willem Elsschot and Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw. Both being written in the 1910s and 1930s respectively, it’s inevitable to find connections between the novels themselves and the general society of those periods. We are presented with main characters Frans Laarmans in Cheese and Eliza Doolittle

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    Pygmalion was a mythological character who liked to sculpture. He made a statue of his ideal woman - Galatea. The statue was so beautiful that he prayed to the gods it would be brung to life , his wish was granted. Have you ever had to learn how to speak fluently, in a brand new language that you are not used to ? This is one of many problems for a flower girl Eliza Doolittle. In this story Professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he would get her to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party

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    Glory, By Edward Zwick

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    Civil War journey of the first colored regiment under the control of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw played by Matthew Broderick. The movie takes place in 1862, after the Battle Of Antietam. Colonel Shaw is offered a position as commander of the first “African-American” regiment including Private Trip (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Major John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman) by the governor of Massachusetts. When Col. Shaw decides to command the regiment, he was unsure of what the 54th Massachusetts Regiment could

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    Pygmalion Movie Vs Play

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    compared to one or the other. Additionally, however both the play and the film mostly shared similar actions rather than being unalike. For example, Eliza says in the final act of the play that Pickering “treats a flower girl as if she was a duchess” (Shaw, 1916, PYGMALION AND MY FAIR LADY COMPARISON 4 p.g. 83). Therefore, throughout both Pickering was always very respectful to Eliza and treated her how any woman would want to be treated. On the other hand, Higgins did not treat Eliza with the respect

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    The Treacherous Follies of Society Desdemona from Othello by William Shakespeare (1969) and Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (2003) are characters who struggle with the repercussions of prejudice created by society and who defy social norms. Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. Although both theater pieces are based on different eras, both characters have similar characteristics and ideologies on how to

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    Robert Gould Shaw, who leads the war's first all-black volunteer regiment the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry into battles and discovers along the way he has to confront the moral question of racial prejudice inside and outside of his regimen. Colonel Shaw was the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Massachusetts “Fighting” Fifty-fourth, which was a position he has been thrown into and felt that he may not be fit for the job. At first Shaw was a little

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    The Power of Getting Started Procrastination: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you don’t want to do it because you are lazy, etc. (Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary). First off I’d like to give this book a thumbs up on calling out on every excuse we make or everything we say to talk ourselves out of doing something we need to get done right now. I also loved the comics throughout the chapters. At first when I

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    the changes he made do not take away from the historical accuracy of the plot as a whole. Glory expressed the challenging journey of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-black infantry, headed by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. The movie displayed the prejudice and trials the regiment faced as they prepared to fight in the Civil War. At first they were only used for menial labor, but they later were remembered as brave and courageous for their valiant

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