Being and Nothingness

I believe my participation grade should be an A, or somewhere in the 90’s range. When I filled out the rubric for myself I circled the exemplary box for five out of six of the categories. I circled the exemplary box for these categories because I strongly feel that I am a respectful and engaged student much more often than not. Obviously I am not perfect and I do not always display perfect behavior but I believe I display good behavior almost always. The only category I circled proficient for…

plays an important role in both books. One more thing that we will get into later is Loyalty, but that one characteristic is probably the main one in both stories. Now, in the research that I conducted I had come across six different elements into being an epic. I also have to add in that these elements…

days of being in captivity, it shows Ivan is very observant. By observing others, he was able to learn the English…

National Junior Honors Society is a society for kids who exceed in the four categories: leadership, service, character, and citizenship. Being in NJHS would be an amazing opportunity that I hope I can be a part of. I believe that I excell in all of the four categories in many different ways and I am definitely someone that you should consider for the part. One of the categories is leadership and I feel that I am a very good leader that would be great for NJHS. For example, I play competitive…

Jack and Algernon, two significant characters in Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest, are characterized by similarities and differences that drive the main plot of the play. For example, both characters are well versed in the art of deception, because they have used fictional names and characters in their lives. The “Bunburying” causes the most comic aspect of the play: the mistaken identities. Although the two characters take parallel actions, such as when they developed imaginary…

Comedy can be created with varying methods. In both Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the characters carry on with regular social engagements without knowledge; that is only available to the audience, relevant to the play. Both stories, effectively, use dramatic irony in a similar fashion to create humour. Through the conversations involving mistaken identity, foolish behaviour caused by the unfavourable situations, and dishonesty in love,…

Prince put on by Missoula Children’s Theatre. Though I still knew virtually nothing about theatre, there was no doubt in my mind that I had to do it more. And that I did. I have chosen to write about Oscar Wilde’s famous play The Importance of Being Earnest. This play is near and dear to my heart because I was in a production of the show in 2014 at my community theatre, the Barrow-Civic…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower… A Challenged Book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a challenged book about a teenage boy named Charlie who overcomes his struggles to survive throughout High School. Charlie is not like other boys and girls. He talks to people, listens to music and studies for school like no other ordinary teenager would ever do. He comes across making new friends and tells his story of all the chaos and unusual things happening during his young life. While…

Satire is a literary genre, categorised by the ridiculing of different faucets of society, as well as society as a whole. This ridicule is different to simple mockery, in that the core purpose of satire is to show the shortcomings of the subject through thinly-veiled metaphors and ironic humour. Satirical writing draws on sarcasm and wit to criticise it's subject in an intelligent and thought-provoking way. Jonathan Swift, author of 'Gulliver's Travels' is one of the best known and most widely…

Shaw uses the two main characters Eliza and Higgins to highlight the differences between their social class and gender equality. Higgins uses Eliza as a personal assistant, having her complete numerous tasks. Eliza being who she is does as she is told because this is all she knows, being a woman in a male dominant society and of the lower class. This abuse of Higgins speaks to the discrimination of not only Eliza but women in that…