Glengarry Glen Ross depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen, who are supplied with names and phone numbers of potential clients (leads) rationed out by the office manager. They are not selling well. Blake (Alec Baldwin) is sent by Mitch and Murray (the owners of the real estate office) to motivate…
Imagine that Geert Hofstede, Deborah Tannen, Herbert Paul Grice and Robin Lakoff were invited to campus to discuss instances of cultural noise causing misunderstandings in cross cultural communication as presented in the movie “Outsourced”. Watch the move and select at least three different scenes to discuss with our four guest speakers and write the conversation. Each…
Essay: Critically evaluate A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams – with reference to key themes, characterisation, structure, style, literary techniques and staging. You should make reference to the text throughout. (2500 words approximately) Further guidance notes on specific evaluation points: Key Themes: You should identify the key themes of the play and show how…
direct quotes from Norton anthology of american literature volume c 9th edition
In The Duchess of Malfi, the role Bosola plays for Ferdinand could be seen as theatrical in at least two ways: as a spy planted in the Duchess’s household, he figures both as an actor and audience. Insofar as this implies a (dark) comment on the motives and practices of theatre performers and their audiences,…
and provide a thorough analysis of the text’s handling of one of the following topics: 1. Temporal and spatial setting 2. Language—for instance, the deployment of linguistic register(s) 3. Symbolism 4. The literary form—conformity to, deviation from, transformation of 5. Constructions of culture 6. Constructions of individual and collective identities 7. Representation of postcoloniality 8….