A Son of the Circus

Once I was watching ‘’The Voice’’ and this girl is up stage to sing. She was little, and seemed to be really nervous about it and she was carrying a little teddy bear on her pocket. Right away I was like ‘’oh she’s too nervous which will make her sing bad and get disqualified’’. As she was getting ready I was leaving the room because I ‘’knew’’ what was going to happen. When I’m on the hallway she starts to sing a really hard song but she completely hits every note so well and I turned around…

One of the most profound writer in United States and Armenia was William Saroyan, who left more than fifty writings to our generation and more than fifty writings unpublished.He was son of emigrant Armenak Saroyan. He was fourth child in his family and only one who was born in United States of America in 1908. He and his family had poor life, and it was very difficult for him as he was the youngest and breadwinner in his family. William left school at age fifteen and started reading and writing…

as we know he is the best at what he does really helps us pave the way for the rest of the story. As Henry is accompanied by his last jump, he sees something he sees an act that has never been done before, in the story it explains “It looked like a circus act. No exaggeration. Two half gainers and a backflip, and every second of it caught in the spotlights. (Shea 17) Hearing the description of how this man jumped really opens a picture in the readers head of these events actually happening.…

expect them to have really different backgrounds than be musicians. The first musician in the group Anton Schwartz plays tenor saxophone and plays it until his heart stops. According to Wiki, “Anton Schwartz was born and raised in New York City, the son of Tony Schwartz, the audio documentarian and media theorist, and Reenah Lurie Schwartz. He attended The Dalton School, during which time he studied jazz privately with Warne Marsh and Eddie Daniels, and studied advanced mathematics at New York…

park. This impacts Pecola’s personality because she feels controlled of her skin colour. Also, Geraldine, a woman that lives near Pecola’s house kicks her out because of the way she looks and getting accused of something she did not do. Geraldine’s son Louis blames Pecola for harassing her…

Pablo Picasso was the greatest painter of the 20th century because of his aid in the creation of Cubism. Picasso was a very influential artist not only in his time period but also decades after he died. When Picasso was a young boy, his mother said to him, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” So Picasso became one of the greatest painters in history. Picasso had a very unusual interest in art at a young age. His father noticed his…

I chose to watch an Argentinian film called Wild Tales by Damian Szifron because it was labeled as a comedy and a thriller. I’ve never seen a movie that fits the genre of both comedy and thriller because to me these are completely different genres. Thus, I wanted to see how this can be in both genre. I decided to not read the description of the film because I wanted the film to bring me into its world without having any prior interference. This really affected my reaction for the film. Since I…

Thousands of eyes burn into the back of my head, like I am an act at a circus. “Sir you’re right nasty to that man there, he was there first I think you, should move and give him his seat.” “I should what?” the man’s his face reddened. “Give him back his seat, Atticus Finch is my friend and he is a real good lawyer and he defended…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story, which was published in 1968, tells of the appearance of an angel in a couple’s courtyard. This story shows that there can be good and evil as well as not judging a book by its’ cover. Marquez shows that the appearance of the angel is not what many think of when thinking of angels. Many have the picture in their mind that angels are beautiful, white and feathery creatures. The angel in this story is anything but the images of angels that we typically see. This…

Solomon Northrup the main character in the movie was a normal free man, living with his wife and children in Saratoga, life was good for him since he had been set free years ago. One day he met Brown and Hamilton they told him they were part of a circus act, and that is when everything changed for Solomon. Brown and Hamilton took Solomon out to dinner accomplishing their main goal that night, to get Solomon drunk so they could kidnap him and ship him off as a slave. No one should be able to take…