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    I went and saw the musical "Guys and Dolls" on May 8th, 2014. The musical was preformed at Holy cross high school. "Guys and Dolls" features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and is based off a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The book is based on Damon Runyon’s tales of Broadway, and uses characters from across his work. Three gangsters open the show singing “Fugue for Tin Horns”, as they bet on the outcome of the daily races. They are interrupted by the arrival of the Save-a-Soul Mission led

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    Guys and Dolls On April 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm, I gratefully attended the musical Guys and Dolls at Ouachita Baptist University's auditorium. Directed by Daniel Inouye, this wonderful play is based on the story and characters of Damon Runyan. These stories which were written in the 1920s and 1930s, involved gangsters, gamblers, and other characters from the New York underworld. The premiere of Guys and Dolls on Broadway was in 1950 where it ran 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical

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    Guys And Dolls Analysis

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    Guys and Dolls a charming classical musical, known for it’s catchy soundtrack, humorous dialogue and heartwarming plot, is likely to be produced at Signature Theatre in the future. An iconic musical that first opened almost sixty-five years ago, Guys and Dolls rose from humble and uncertain beginnings to becoming one of the longest running shows on Broadway and recognizable worldwide. It all began in the head of Damon Runyon, a New York newspaperman and author. Runyon is best known for his collection

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    make sense to me. However, I realized that once you really dig deep and try to understand these people and their motives, you can uncover the way they affect our society. Guys and Dolls In the documentary Guys and Dolls, we

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    shower. Ever since my first musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, seven years ago, I have been obsessed with the telling of stories through melody and verse. My heart leaps when I see that Phantom of the Opera is coming to the local theater, or when Guys and Dolls is appearing on television at one in the morning. Music is the most beautiful and powerful way to relate emotion. Thus, the entire structure of a story is enhanced by presenting action and dialogue through song. The topic of a story can deal

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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz is the director of Guys and Dolls, and the head authors of the screenplay are Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, who wrote the screenplay based upon the play Guys and Dolls. Joseph L. Mankiewicz has directed in total 22 films; he is known for All About Eve (1950), Julius Caesar (1953), Guys and Dolls (1955), The Quiet American (1958), and Cleopatra (1963). The lead screenplay author, Jo Swerling, has written in total 68 screenplays; his more well known are The Whole Town’s Talking

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    Doll and her Dancer

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    thing that stood out was her special made baby doll. “Doll” was her name. Doll was Mrs. Townsend’s daughter’s old doll. Mina was very sick and had one leg, and she never really played with toys. So, Mr. Townsend made Doll to look just like Mina so she can play with a doll that matches her. Doll was a beautiful doll but was different from most dolls; she had only one leg. The kids that came to the playhouse never played with Doll, they wanted the dolls that were regular. One special night “the magic

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    Chucky: The Real Monster

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    a combination of both. The main character in the movies Chucky is part of the “Good Guy” doll line. However, Chucky isn’t that much of a “good guy”. Chucky is a doll that originated from the movie sequel Child’s Play. The fact that Chucky is two monsters in one figure is one of the many reasons I believe he is the best monster. He has numerous amounts of traits that make him the most threatening,

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    Evil comes in many forms

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    Stephen King and The Doll directed by Dan Curtis, I will explore the reasons Why We Crave Horror written by King and confirm two of the points with examples from the movies. Additionally, I will explore the parallel relationship between the two movies. When watching the two movies, it is hard to decipher similarities initially. However if you dig into the content further you can pick out some likeness between them. For instance, the opening of the box with the doll in The Doll and the opening of the

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    Toys that Gender Stereotypes Toys describe how children should act. Adults expect girls to play with dolls like Barbie and Cabbage Patch dolls. They expect boys to play with action toys such as X-men, GI JOE dolls, and Hot Wheels. This sexually stereotypes a kid, because this is suggesting that they girls to chase after so called cute looking guys at the mall and always be interested in fashion and money. For boys they are expected to be tuff and buff and shed no tears they are the ones with

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    In David Barry's article, Guys vs. Men, he discussed the differences between "guys" and "men". This article made several valid points, including that guys will try and out perform each other where sports are concerned and that the space shuttle is the ultimate guy toy. My question is why do only guys play with all the neat toys? Part of the answer to this question might be that men are encouraged to play with hi-tech toys while girls are given a Barbi doll or a toy oven. The best time to

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    Guys are supposed to be like rocks inside and out, but they are also made of bone and flesh. Everyone has their own expectations, but everyone seems to have the same expectations for how men and women should act. Julie Zeilinger implies that although women suffer from gender roles, “guys suffer from oppressive gender roles” as well. She states that “guys do have emotions” but are forced to hide them because society expects men to be strong. I agree that “men feel as much competition and pressure

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    Disney Stereotypes Essay

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    seemed to be reversed that what would be considered normal. His songs depict the girls being the heartbreakers and the guys being the emotional ones, “Take, take, take it all, but you never give/Should have known you was trouble from the first kiss/Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash.” It is thought in today’s society that the women are the emotional ones and the guys are the heartbreakers. In USA Today’s article An American role-reversal: Women

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    451, the troubled main character, Guy Montag, gets taken on a unique journey to discover himself and save the people in his dystopian society by reintroducing them to books. Along the way his struggles in certain situations and often makes destructive decisions. While Guy's intention to save society seem heroic, his conflicting actions portray him as an antihero; he does not think of his peers' feelings when he acts out, he ruins people's lives, and ends others. Guy Montag proves that he is oblivious

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    and button ups? Do you ever see girls with caked on makeup and crowns on their hats? Or maybe you have seen guys who have dirty clothes on, who kind of have a sway to their walk, or are wearing beaten up cowboy hats? If you are nodding your head yes then you have seen rodeo people, and you may already know the three most common types of rodeo people: Ropers, Roughies, and Barbie Dolls. The Ropers are the most serious out of the three types. They have to have the most gear, and they are usually

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    “Learning by Observation”, watching “the Bobo doll experiment by Bandura in YouTube”, and witnessing the movie “I’m Not Ashamed” my opinion changed because of the evidence. In our textbook, Exploring Psychology, “Albert Bandura was the pioneering researcher of observational learning.” (Myers 2014, p. 261). He creates a scenario of an adult beating up a Bobo doll while small children witness this scene. The adult hits, kicks, beats with a hammer and tosses the doll in the air repeatedly. The child is taken

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    they inhabit. Throughout history, there have been occurrences of spiritual possessions of mostly toys or humans. Due to the media's over exaggeration of these "true stories", our minds are warped into believing that we are paranoid over toys, mainly dolls and humans who act abnormally. These spirits still linger in our world because of their refusal to “crossover” to the otherworld. They are an enigma beyond our capability of controlling. We cannot see them, we can only feel their presence. Popular

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    Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who made a significant impact on psychology. He proposed that each person goes through four stages of cognitive development, which are the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. In the series Dollhouse, when the characters have their mind wiped, they are in Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development. While watching season one, episode four “Grey Hour”, this fact is evident. Throughout

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    thoughts ran through my head as I sat in my room crying wondering why I couldn’t go out and play boxing with the boys that day. I called out to my mom hoping she would give me a clear answer, but the only thing I got was “stay in and play with your dolls honey”. I believe that was the moment when Gender socialization affected me. Gender Socialization is the process of learning the social expectations and attitudes with one’s sex. Gender socialization is how we learn to act like girls and act like boys

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    Chucky Movie Analysis

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    “Puchungi, can I please watch the movie?” A petite five-year-old with a mop of curled golden hair, brown doe eyes, and a stuffed Mickey Mouse doll clutched tightly to her chest innocently asked, with a tilt of her head as she stared at her elder sister and cousin. The older sister and cousin glanced at each other before the toddler’s cousin quirked her lips in what the child would later remember being a mischievous, wicked, smirk. “Sure Puchungi.” Her cousin finally answered as she hauled the child

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