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5 days ago · For decades, “alienation effect” was the accepted term for Brecht’s acting and staging devices in the belief they were used to distance the spectators from the action of the drama, particularly the detachment of a strong emotional connection.
2 days ago · That military career is initially none-too-successful, as although Washington successfully completes a mission to meet with the French (Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, makes a brief appearance as a French Lieutenant here), he later helps spark the French-and-Indian war when his unit attacks a French encampment and kills an officer acting as a diplomat, and is later ...
4 days ago · The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
3 days ago · The mass killing was called the “Pavonia massacre,” and it prompted a full-scale retaliation from surrounding Algonquin tribes that utterly decimated the fledging new colony. Image from ...
4 days ago · Get an answer for 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist's portrayal of America's post-9/11 political, social, and cultural atmosphere' and find homework help for other The Reluctant Fundamentalist ...
5 days ago · NYC's slave market was once located on Wall Street and Pearl Street in the Financial District. 10 secrets of this hidden history, marked by a plaque in 2015.
5 days ago · As New York City grew and developed in its earliest years, several cemeteries became iconic public grounds. In many cases, the removal of burial sites that contained the bodies of African Americans...
