Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton’s Sling Blade is a brilliant Academy Award winning film that he not only directed himself, but was also the star actor. The movie was released in November of 1996 by Miramax Films, an American company known for independent and foreign films.1 Some other famous cast member includes country star Dwight Yoakam, and J.T. Walsh known from the film A Few Good Men. Sling Blade was an expansion of the short film that Billy had previously created called “Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade” featuring Molly Ringwald. Although Billy believes that the idea for this film originated from the creation of the character he created, Karl Childers. Sling Blade is about the redemption of Karl’s childhood and the social effects child abuse has on…

The story takes place in a country known as Elsweyr. The time period of this story take place in medieval times. Things like dungeons and dragons. Elsweyr is located in the southern part of a continent known as Tamriel. The people of this country are known as the Khajiiti. The Khajiiti are a feline humanoid race. They have many traits of a regular feline such as great agility, stealth, strength, and night vision. This makes them very good warriors and very good thief 's. The Khajiiti are not…

Emily Brontë claims the fame of co-author, along with her sisters Anne and Charlotte, of a volume of poetry and author of a single novel, Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1847. Emily also claims the title of the most mysterious Brontë sister, however, this perception of her stems from the lack of any thorough documentation of her life besides her published works and some vague records. She published her novel, which did not gain literary acclaim after her death, under the pseudonym…

Emily Bronte was an amazing poet. She was even more famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, but she wrote other great poems too. She had a certain writing style that reflected on her past. She wrote many poems such as “Fall, Leaves, Fall,” “Love and Friendship,” and “Remembrance,” They all are great poems, but what caused her to write these? Emily Bronte has an interesting past and wrote great poems. Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth daughter…

Algona High School’s production of “Our Town” by playwright Thornton Wilder shows that life in itself is beautiful and interesting, but that humans take it for granted every day. This is shown by the activities of everyday people living in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. This play shows that even the most mundane tasks and daily activities are still valuable and significant in life, and that though you may not see the end coming, it will come, and that this life we have is transient. The first…

e. e. cumming’s poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” and Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” share many similarities. Throughout both the poem and the play, each set their focus on time and how it passes without notice with the changing of seasons and weather until death. In an article about the poem the line “Used to tell time long before the invention of clocks and calendars, the seasons, heavenly bodies, and weather are ancient signifiers of time as it passes” (Poetry for Students) helps…

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin. In 1893, this short story was published as “The Father of Desiree’s Baby” in a magazine. Madame Valmonde and Monsieur adopted Desiree for the reason she was found abandoned when she was just a little girl. As she grew older, she found the love of her life, Armand as they had so much love for one another. They had a child, and as soon as they had the baby, the relationship turned out to be bitter and complicated. After a few months passed, Armand and Desiree…

The Stairs of Life In the first act of life, people crawl on all fours. In the second act of love and marriage, they walk on two legs. In the third act of death, people walk with a cane, and eventually meet their untimely demise. Similar to the sphinx’s riddle in Oedipus Rex, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilter, includes these major themes in each scene of the play. The first act includes the theme of small town life where the story takes place in New Hampshire in a small fictional town known…

Our Town is clearly a representation - and largely a celebration - of small-town American life. Nearly every character in the play love’s Grover's Corners, even as many of them acknowledge its small-mindedness and dullness. Its sleepy simplicity, in fact, is its major point of attraction for many characters. Dr. Gibbs, for instance, who refuses to travel, thus cultivates his ignorance of life outside of Grover's Corners in order to remain content within it; his son, too, decides not to go away…

Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder in 1938, is sometimes known as one of his best works. "Beautiful and remarkable-one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of theatre...A spiritual experience" (Burbank 151). The play deals with at least three themes. The first theme appears in the first act dealing with daily life. A second theme shows up in Act II dealing with love and marriage. The third theme appears in act III having to do with death. Set on May 7, 1901,…