A Son of the Circus

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cook he would never admit it but she was probably better than his mother. Robert places his brief case on the table and his suit coat over the back of one of the four chairs seated around the oak wood table. He hears the laughter of his 6 year old son and Maria trying on Halloween costumes. Harvey looks at Robert and runs to give him a hug. Life was good for this family but nobody had any idea what was going to happen the next week with the market. The…

him with questions in their broken English as he worked. A “Quadricycle” was also on display at the next exhibit and Stanislaus asked the exhibit owner if he could try it out and the man said, “Yes”. He rode it around the exposition grounds while his sons and their older cousin followed him laughing and shouting. The boys played for hours on the exhibits as their parents walked the exposition grounds marveling at the artistic and technical wonders of their new country while waiting for Franz…

The myth is told that if you eat the tongue you will have verbal brilliance. Lalla made her son Noel eat it and he choked on it. Michael refers to his first memory. Sweet Like a Crow: A poem that lists gross and unpleasant things and sounds. The Karapothas: Michael talks about how he is the foreigner. Reference to the prodigal son. Later talks about the Sinhalese alphabet. High Flowers: Describes the simple but crucial role of the toddy tapper and the women…

of a person. In time of crisis one must be able to think quickly, but also make the best choice. I Louise Erdrich's’ “The Leap” , she tells of a woman who was once an acrobat, during her blindfolded double act with her husband lightning stuck the circus tent. Louise wrote “ When her hands did not meet her husbands, My mother tore her blindfold away. As she swept past her husband on the wrong side, she could have grasped his ankle … and gone down clutching him. Instead she changed direction. Her…

piece of architecture was built on the private lake of the former Emperor, Nero, in the hopes of conveying a message of selflessness, as he wanted to please his Roman people. Although Vespasian did not live to see the completion of the coliseum, his son Titus finished construction and opened it to the public for the commencement of the first gladiatorial games held in the Coliseum in 80 AD, with the games running for 100 days. The occurrence of having long lasting games was very common and they…

The history of the South has suffered various blows throughout its trajectory. One finds a similar depiction of Southern history in works of Faulkner. The sense of history in Faulkner’s novels is acute, to say the least. In On the Prejudices, Predilections and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner, Cleanth Brooks observes that “Faulkner’s novels are drenched in history and his most thoughtful characters frequently speculate about its meaning . . . Faulkner’s historical concern is much more than an…

book 12 Years a Slave is written my Solomon Northrup, and he discusses how his life changes from living as a free man in New York to being a slave in Louisiana. While Northrup was in the north, he was tricked into slavery by two men impersonating circus actors. The first night of their journey involved heavy drinking and Northrup eventually passed out only to wake up in chains in a beat down shack outside of the capital. After a brief spurt with smallpox and a name change to Platt, he gets sold…

Waukegan, Illinois, United States. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a lineman for telephone and power utilities as well as a technician; His mother, Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury (nee Moberg) was a swedish immigrant. Ray Bradbury was the third son of the family (Shelokhonov). His middle name, Douglas, was given to him by his parents after Douglas Fairbanks (an american actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who lived from May 23, 1883 to December 12, 1939). His grandfather and…

Icarus and Daedalus. According to the myth, Daedalus angers King Minos, the ruler of the island Crete. As punishment, he imprisons him and Icarus in a tower. Determined to escape from the island, Daedalus uses wax and builds wings for himself and his son, Icarus. He warns Icarus to fly at middle height because flying too high will…