The most impactful books are those that bring world inside of them to life in vivid detail. In Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl,” the world brought to life is our own. However, rather than conveying a human-centric story, Jahren focuses on an often-forgotten character: plants. Jahren is a geochemist and geobiologist, and “Lab Girl” is a cross between a memoir and a textbook explaining the intricacies of plant life. The most memorable excerpts are those where plants are personified, from the stories ingrained in wood to the miracles of the resurrection plant.…
There are many organelles in the animal cell. There is the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, cell membrane, vacuoles, lysosomes, mitochondria, cytoplasm, ribosomes, & golgi apparatus. The nucleus directs all the cells activities,including reproduction. Endoplasmic Reticulum is a network of membranous tubules within the cytoplasm continuous with the nuclear membrane;It usually has ribosomes attached The cell membrane protects the cell and regulates what substances can enter and leave. Some animal cells have vacuoles that store food, water, & waste.…
Comparisons can be made regarding the plot, the characterization, and the narration of the novel versus the staging of the play. In general, the plot development of…
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play packed with mischief and mayhem. It is often referred to by modern-day scholars as the Elizabethan Inception, as there are multiple examples of “play within a play” devices, each embodying several themes and concepts. Among these are examples of the contrast of tragedy and comedy, the dynamics of the written and spoken word, and imagination vs. reality.…
In writing a play, one gets to see the unfolding of events as they happen. There is the opportunity to understand why certain actions happened and even why some words were uttered. The drama in plays takes more into account than the written narratives are they are reproducible through actions. In summary, plays are a means to narrate…
Hope Jahren has spent the majority of her life becoming one of the world’s leading specialists in geobiology. The extent of her knowledge makes her research extremely difficult to understand for most people. In order for her memoir, Lab Girl, to be compatible with a large audience, she describes her work in a way that a non-specialized reader can connect with. Jahren’s two objectives in her memoir are to make her academic work and thoughts accessible to a non-specialized audience as well as to make that popular audience invested in her work. The rhetorical devices in Lab Girl are used with these objectives in mind.…
The title “DNA” caught me attention and my expectations of this stage play grew with a lot of excitement. So going into this play I took some of my screenwriting chops, character development complex story plot and each character’s goals and wants. Also, performance from each actor. This lead me to ask myself a few questions. What does each character have in common, how every actor is going to execute their character’s traits to make it believable and will I walk away from this stage production learning anything.…
Scene G was chosen because it was thought to be an easier and less-people model. This scene is after Juliet proposes to Romeo, Juliet sends the Nurse out to get Romeo’s reply. After receiving the answer, when the Nurse gets back, she sees a way of teasing Juliet and not letting Juliet know the news. Using hyperbole, the Nurse exaggerates how tired she is, until Juliet is full of rage. By comparing or using imagery to the text, the setting is placed in the Capulet’s orchard, putting the characters where they were possibly in, compared to the text.…
The way the actors acted and portrayed the characters helps us understand the characters more in the film than in the play. The movie and the play both excel each other in their own categories but the movie triumphs…
Shakespeare’s writing can be identified by many different characteristics. One of these characteristics is his use of green worlds, specifically in his comedies. Shakespeare uses green worlds to introduce a deviation of society to his characters. In these spaces, the rules and obligations of the other world do not apply, his characters are allowed play with different identities in the green world. Two plays that particularly highlight…
Elinor Fuchs is a university professor whose work has revolved around the analysis of theater and comprehension of the world inside a play. She released an article with the intention of helping her readers create a better analysis of whichever play in hand by creating a series of questions that removes the reader from looking inside the world of the play into the outside. Questions such as “What changes in this world?” (Fuchs, p.7) help place the reader from the first page to the last sentence in order to understand what happened from an outside perspective. On the other hand, she also makes her reader analyze with her question “what has this world demanded of me?”…
Hidden or obvious realities cause reactions in the play. One of the things we can talk about is deceptive acts. We see that a lot in characters decisions which makes them kaleidoscopical. Also we have mysterious characters. If we want to understand these characters, we must figure out the mystery that they left behind them.…
Intricate details on the scenery made the buildings feel authentic and inviting, grabbing my attention from the moment I walked in the theatre. The costuming was also fantastic, portraying the time period well and adding even more authenticity to the production. All of these individual aspects of a play production acted as an important role, but none of them caught my attention as much as the storyline. I was entwined in the story from the moment the stage lights came on, engulfing myself in the man-made atmosphere presented in front of me. The story went on to tell a tale of a greedy…
In the very last sentence of the play it says that, “ The door opens and she comes, back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time.” The plant holds a key concept to mama, to her the plant is a symbol of the family’s life. This developes the idea that mama does care and wants what is the best for her family. In novels the main ideas are revealed, but through plays the little pieces of information and the dialogue is what develops the story line. Readers are able to interpret a play more in depth than a novel, because of the added benefits a play holds to a story line.…
While often regarded as an Elizabethan playwright, Shakespeare’s career straddled two epochs: the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1562 to 1603) and the reign of King James (1603 to 1625). While it is notoriously difficult to find details about Shakespeare’s personal life, he taps into what was happening around him in his writing. This was the year in which two of Shakespeare’s best-known plays were crafted: Macbeth and, the subject of this notebook, King Lear. The latter play tells the story of the titular King Lear, who at the start of the play demands declarations of love from his three daughters (Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia), that he might divide the kingdom among them based on their devotion to him.…