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The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

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Author Biography

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Biography of William (Ford) Gibson
6667 words, approx. 22.2 pages
No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a series of short stories in science-fiction magazines in t...
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Biography of William Gibson
4954 words, approx. 16.5 pages
Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gathered around the globe. Inventing this fictional settin...
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Biography of William Gibson
3005 words, approx. 10 pages
When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about them, I'd go to sleep," he told the Missouri Review, as...


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Keys Summary
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KEYS. Doors held shut with bars, and bars and bolts, were common long before locks and keys became prevalent. Some of the oldest myths reflect this. In Babylonian mythology, for example, Marduk makes gates to the heavens and secures them with bolts....
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The Miracle Worker Summary
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The Miracle Worker by William Gibson William Gibson was born in the Bronx, a borough in New York City, in 1914. As an adult, he became fascinated with Anne Sullivan's famous triumph as the teacher of a deaf and blind girl named Helen Keller. Sullivan...
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The Miracle Worker Information
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The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th-century dramatic works ultimately derived from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller — a deafblind and initially almost feral child...


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TV producer Martin Manulis dies
10/1/2007: 299 words, approx. 1 pages
Martin Manulis, a television, film and stage producer who created the classic, Emmy-winning program "Playhouse 90," has died. He was 92.Manulis died Friday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, according to his son, John Bard Manulis.Manulis was best known as the creator...
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Suzanne Pleshette dies in Los Angeles
1/20/2008: 642 words, approx. 2 pages
Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age 70.Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" and in Broadway plays including "The Miracle...
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Suzanne Pleshette dies in Los Angeles
1/20/2008: 771 words, approx. 3 pages
Suzanne Pleshette, best known for her role as Bob Newhart's wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, just days before a ceremony honoring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died...
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Chavez-led alliance fails to get hostages
1/2/2008: 834 words, approx. 3 pages
It was one of the boldest initiatives yet for Latin America's emerging leftist alliance and it didn't even get off the ground.Answering a call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, political heavyweights from five governments attempted to break through a deadlock in the region's most entrenched...
 


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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein
1,006 words, approx. 3 pages
Near the conclusion of Two for the Seesaw, the rambunctious street urchin, Gittel Mosca, is gently informed that "after the verb to love, to help is the sweetest in the tongue." William Gibson, setting aside more serious concerns to anatomize the sweeter, softer virtues, has thus far dedicated his dramatic career to the definition and conjugation of these two verbs. For, like the play which preceded it, The Miracle Worker—written with the same wit …—is essentially a two-ch...
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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr
529 words, approx. 2 pages
[In "The Miracle Worker"] William Gibson has done all of the stirring, frightening, theatrically explosive things that his subject matter suggests. He has shown us the blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller at the age of five or six, and shown her to us for what she then was: an animal. He has let her claw at the family that would have bestowed tenderness on her, spit in the face of the one woman who might save her, tear a household to tatters—very, very literally—in a manner that is...
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Critical Essay by Richard Hayes
520 words, approx. 2 pages
Consider the image of the young Helen Keller that aches like a wound at the center of Mr. William Gibson's "The Miracle Worker": the child locked in the body's cage against sight, speech, sound, her skin alone a raw key to the world, the very fact of her a majestic rebuke to all easy imaginations of justice and rationality. Mr. Gibson's account of the breaking of that cage—of Anne Sullivan's forceful entry into a demonic world of lawless, feral impulse—...
 
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Miracle Worker
1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
Proves that Annie succeeds in teaching. Helen that all things have names and meanings, but is hampered by the members of the Keller family along the way. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Overcoming and Coping with Disabilities - the Miracle Worker
1,034 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay is about the theme of diabilities that is used in the play The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson. It is a thematic essay. Explores the symbolism of the play's title.
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Essay Grade: 90%
The Miracle Worker
796 words, approx. 3 pages
Conflicts Between Helen Keller and Annie and how they contribute to the play.
 


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