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Henry Sweet, on whom
Professor Higgins is modeled, but warns us that Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet. Shaw
says that he wrote the play in order to make the English aware of the importance of
phonetics, and he is grateful that the play has been
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Higgins' home in a state of
distraction because Eliza has run away. They are interrupted by Alfred Doolittle, who
enters resplendently dressed, as if he were the bridegroom of a very fashionable wedding.
He has come to take issue with Henry Higgins
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from a full morning of
discussion when Eliza Doolittle shows up at the door, to the tremendous doubt of the
discerning housekeeper Mrs. Pearce, and the surprise of the two gentlemen. Prompted by
his careless brag about making her into a duchess
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displeased when Henry Higgins shows
up suddenly, for she knows from experience that he is too eccentric to be presentable in
front of the sort of respectable company she is expecting. He explains to her that he wants
to bring the experiment subject
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exhausted from the night's
happenings. They talk about the evening and their great success, though Higgins seems
rather bored, more concerned with his inability to find slippers. While he talks
absentmindedly with Pickering, Eliza slips out, returns
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the character and philosophy of Alfred Doolittle. He is strangely individualistic personally and very eloquent. He is representative of the social class of the "undeserving poor", which, means that he is not entitled to receive financial support
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World's Snow Capital. Quebec City held its first winter carnival in
1894. It was an elaborate celebration that provided people with relief from the cold harsh winter. In the sixty years that followed these winter carnivals were organized periodically
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many things. People let things stand in the way of marrying the person they love. Circumstances sometimes determine whether marriage is appropriate or even possible. The same is true with Queen Elizabeth. She did was she thought was best for herself
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is promoting racism. It is the fact that a lot of people believe, and try to make themselves believe, that racism no longer exists. Many people today live their lives oblivious to what is happening in the world around them, often trying to convince
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were major cultural and social changes. The cutural changes were from the creations of unions to the moving picture industry to the creation of a middle class. The development of unions was moving the lower class of society up into an undevoped middle
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