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I am going to discuss is 'Kindertransport' and my own piece 'The adoption'
Danielle Grennan May2003 Performance Evaluation
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The work I am going to discuss is 'Kindertransport' and my own piece
'The adoption'. I saw 'Kindertransport' in October 2002 at the
Redbridge Drama Centre; my own piece was devised and performed in May
2003 also at the Redbridge Drama Centre. Both pieces have very similar
themes about mother and daughter relationships and the difficulty of
giving children away. Although both pieces are set in different
periods of time. The theme of mother and daughter relationship is not
very comprehensible so it is quite hard to act.
My contribution to 'The adoption' was the part of the daughter, Clare
Andrews, I had to be very aware of what a child of 11 would of felt
like finding out she was adopted and had been lied to by the main
person in her life. It was quite a difficult part to play and I
personally feel I did not do it justice partly because of the time we
had to prepare the piece and I did not learn the part as much as I
would of liked to.
I looked for articles on the Internet about mothers who have lost
their daughters as part of my presentation. I also played a clip from
'Buffy the vampire slayer' showing this issue. I found many articles
about this subject and they helped me to understand the emotions and
anxieties of mothers who have lost their daughters. I think it did
support our piece because by giving it more realistic feelings and
emotions felt by mothers.
Our piece was set in the modern day and 'Kindertransport' was set in
the 1930s and modern day. Both pieces were about having to give your
daughters away for various reasons.
In 'Kindertransport', due to the historical background, the mother had
to give her child away for its own safety because it was the time of
the Holocaust. In our piece the mother had to give her daughter away
because of her age and her parents. But in both pieces both mothers
come back for their daughters and they chose to stay with their
adoptive mothers.
The characters in our piece were just general middle class people in
modern times dealing with this hard but common issue. The characters
in 'Kindertansport' were very different, the real mother and daughter
are Jewish German citizens trying to escape the Jewish persecutions
and the adoptive mother and the daughter's daughter are just modern
day middle class people similar to the characters in our piece. This
was shown by accents for the different nationalities.
to have her baby and went off into the trees to have her baby. Seeing how
against the man that murdered her son. All that she had left in the cold and
lived in demanded her to give up her conspirator or bear the consequences of the
"LibGuides: The Civil War: Women and the Homefront: Primary Sources Online." Primary Sources Online - The Civil War: Women and the Homefront - LibGuides at Duke University. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.
This article provided a brief biography of Clara Barton, to include, her experiences on the battlefield as a nurse during the Civil War and a brief outline of her accomplishments after the war.
Of course, it is hard for such a man to believe in extraordinary claims without being there to witness them. Especially when such events require a lot of faith. In order for an event to be deemed a miracle, it must disobey the laws of nature. However, it is these same laws that disprove almost any miracle that has ever been reported. He writes that some events that people report as miracles truly are not. For example, it is not a miracle that fire burns wood, or that a healthy man dies, because both of these are within the laws of nature. If a person does seemingly commit a miracle, they must do something that obviously defies the laws of nature and be able to do it repeatedly, as to prove that it is not a fluke.
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume, the idea of miracles is introduced. Hume’s argument is that there is no rational reason for human beings to believe in miracles, and that it is wrong to have miracles as the building blocks for religion. It is because the general notion of miracles come from the statement of others who claim to have seen them, Hume believes that there is no way to prove that those accounts are accurate, because they were not experienced first-hand. In order to believe a miracle, the evidence should be concrete, and something irrefutable. When there is any sort of doubt to a miracle, Hume says that any evidence that can be contrary to the proof of a miracle is merely evidence that the miracle did not happen, and it should be disproved. The only way a miracle can be proven is from the testimony of the person who had witnessed it, while any evidence against the miracle is something that defies the laws of nature. It falls upon the reputation of the witness to prove whether or not he or she actually observed a miracle, because a miracle can only be plausible when it is more likely than the opposing laws of nature. Hume’s reasoning in favour of miracles being insufficient events are also explanations as to why he believes miracles are not probable. First is the idea that human beings are not honest enough to be able to have possibly witnessed a miracle. Next is that human beings want to believe in the supernatural, and that desire allows us to believe in things that could never happen, simply because it would be wonderful and fantastical if that miracle actually did occur. Thirdly, the people who usually report sightings of a miracle are those who are uncivilized, or unsophisticated, so they ...
In other words, it is a gap between faith and scientific reasoning. In modern medicine, a miracle is described as any occurrence where a higher power, God, for example, takes over and intervenes benevolently in the fate of the patient.3 The doctor, along with everyone else, can only marvel. As a generality, it can be said that miracles are modern examples of the continuing contradiction between faith and reason.
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Approximately 400 women fought on the battlefront during the American Civil War. (History.com Staff) The Civil War was a war fought on American soil between the Union, the North, and the Confederacy, the South. As the War began, most people believed it would be won and over quickly. However, the Civil War was long, difficult, and the deadliest war in American History. Women, both in the North and South, played tremendously important roles in the American Civil War.
In 1848, discoveries of gold and silver sparked interest in white settlers. In order to make room for more land, the federal government seized the land of the Sioux tribes. Unfortunately, the Sioux tribes were forced to move to these “reservations.” With so many pioneers moving to the gold sites, the Native Americans’ lands were yet taken again. In turn, the government implemented more restrictions on the tribes. Their boundaries just kept shrinking. All of this tension instigated a battle between the American Indians and the whites known as the Wounded Knee Massacre. However, the major causes of the Wounded Knee Massacre were western expansion, the Ghost Dance, and Sitting Bull’s arrest.
“Adopting one child won 't change the world: but for that child, the world will change.” (Unknown)(Buzzle.com). Adoption can take place in multiple shapes, forms, and fashions. You can adopt from a local adoption agency, or adopt from an orphanage half way around the world. You can adopt a child whose parents are no longer living, or you could adopt from a young mother who is not ready to raise a child. You can adopt one child who has touched your heart from an orphanage in Uganda, or a set of triplets being moved around from house to house in foster care. There are still further motivations and reasons for adopting. What if you and your spouse are unable to become pregnant? The desire to be parents does not diminish with the lack of
There has been a heated debate over the years on whether sex education should be taught at schools instead of abstinence-only. Many believe that talking about sex in the classroom raises the initiation of such behavior, and by stressing discipline, self-control, and self-respect, advocates argue, abstinence-only programs build character in students. Others believe that ignoring the subject keeps teens in the dark which leads them to make unsafe decisions when they become sexually active. In order to fix this problem schools should teach Sex Education, but emphasize that abstinence is the only 100 percent effective way to prevent pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases.
The government likes to pretend that if high school students get taught the “abstinence-only” method they would never think of taking part in sexual activities. Statistically this is incorrect. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “56 percent of high school students are virgins”(Martin). For the 56 percent abstinence only is doing them well, but there are still 44 percent of high school students engaging in sex without knowing the precau...