American plays

adaptation of Shakespeare's character Petruccio of Taming of the Shrew. It must be mentioned, that The Taming of the Shrew was written in the Elizabethan Era in England at a time when men were considered to be superior to women. Consequently characters in plays at that time reflected this idea. Thus it can be said that their are similarities between both characters such as the fact that like Petruccio, Patrick has a mysterious and somewhat mythic background; he is rumored to have eaten a live…

conception of the range of possible experience” (Lewis, 70). Reality may not have brain-infecting funguses, time-stopping orgasms, or even fathers who will willingly give up their inheritance to a frivolous son, but these conventions let deeper truths play out more freely. This doesn’t mean these narratives, or stories in general, must be allegorical parables. Tolkien himself preferred “…history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers” (Tolkien,…

The wind whistles. The owl hoots. The cricket chirps. The fan next to my bed spins on and on forever. While lying in my bed, I begin thinking about people I know and begin questioning why people talk the way they talk and act the way they act. Nevertheless, my perspective of several people, including relatives and friends, changed after reading your allegory because I began to notice that many people around me symbolize many characters in Christian’s life. Mr. Bunyan, your allegory changed my…

little I saw this very short person for his age playing in my favorite LBBVA 1(liga espanola) soccer team FC Barcelona. When I saw him play it was like magic, the moment he got the ball you could see the opponent's gang up on him because they knew if they gave him space he would score. Lionel Messi is the person who brought me back to soccer because when I saw him play in the Champions, it made me think, "look at those moves, damn, I want to be like him". Another reason I want to be like him is…

Edna Ferber, is a play about three generations of a wealthy family during the 1920s. I watched the play on December 6, 2015 at the Pierce College Arts Building. The play was directed Anita Adcock, who did great job setting the play as she intended it to be. Everything from the costumes, the lighting, to the typecasting was excellently produced. Particularly, the set design was able to greatly express the theme of the play. The setting mainly takes place in the family’s home. The play included…

weaknesses. There was never a doubt that we were going to win those matches. While we were off, I went and watched the teams we were going to play the next day. I repeated my process and wrote scouting reports for each of the possible teams we might play. The next day, we won all of our games and made it to the gold bracket. I went to watch some more teams that we could play and wrote scouting reports on…

The day that would ultimately initiate the hunger for success was a day that I believed in myself and had faith in overcoming adversity. The week began in my freshman year when my close friends convinced me to try out for the Men’s Varsity Soccer team at my school. At the time, I had never played soccer a day in my life so, of course to anyone I was guaranteed to not make the team. Well, when I went to try-outs, I was struggling to keep up but I would always give it my all. Each day, I went to…

would try teaching me for hours,we can be watching college basketball or professional basketball and he´ll say stuff like ¨did you see how he shoots or that is how I´m going to get you to shoot like¨.One of the big reasons why my dad wanted me to play basketball was because he enjoys the sport as well as I do.Basketball it isn't just a sport to me,to me basketball is a way for me and my dad to…

Since the introduction of video games, they have attracted children of all ages. The growing market of video games is a proof to its wide spread popularity among children. Recent studies have shown that video games have positive as well as negative impacts on children. However, the positive and negative aspects of playing video games cannot be ignored. Most of the video games are creative and fun intended. This offers a chance to foster the creativity potential among children. It’s a great…

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