Brick

My character’s name is Brick Romano. He is a short, muscular, nineteen-year-old kid growing up in the Bloomfield, a mostly Italian neighborhood of Pittsburgh in the 1920s. He lives in a cramped apartment with two younger brothers and younger sister. His dad works long, hot hours for Carnegie Steel and is rarely ever home because of it. His mother is an alcoholic and stay-at-home mom. Brick’s father’s absence and his mother’s near-constant intoxication leaves him in a parental role and often…

The simple innovation of Drop-A-Brick 2.0 will encourage consumers to save water through its straightforward method to reduce their water usage. The Drop-A-Brick 2.0 was created in hopes of reducing the current severity of the drought in California. The Drop-A-Brick 2.0 is a hand-made brick made of rubber that can be put into the tank of a toilet. The rubber material can let the brick bend to not hinder the function of the toilet, be filled with water, and sink to the bottom of the tank. With…

how you use your imagination and learn who you really are as a person. In the beginning of “School of Rock” the students only focused on school and their grades instead of enjoying school and finding out who they were as individuals. In “Another Brick in the Wall- Part Two”, by Pink Floyd, it is about telling the teachers to “leave the kids alone because they do not need an education.” School should not be a prison where students are told how to act and what they need to learn without being…

Twelve Drops on a Brick Before the expansion of modern agribusiness, family farms dominated American agriculture and commercially viable communities provided merchandise and services within a convenient travel distance for the local farmers. On the farms, work filled the daylight hours. Therefore, as a convenience for their patrons, businesses in towns stayed open late into the evening to allow shopping after the completion of the daily farm routine. Even though each town set their own…

know today as LEGO, and I think it is safe to say that we have all seen a Lego brick at some point in our lives. These popular toys are plastic bricks that connect together to create characters, buildings, and cars. In recent years, Lego sets have morphed into complex models that require hours of work to build. They are no longer exclusively children’s toys; now, they are intended for all ages. These small, plastic bricks are not merely toys, though. They teach us an excellent lesson in…

No movie is more famous for creating a world of wonder than the Wizard of Oz. Beyond the 124 little people and it’s ten leading roles, this film broke the mold of how children’s stories could be adapted onto the big screen. The Wizard of Oz truly inspired fantasy and excitement in its era. Some believe that its inspiration was through the recent children’s novels that had been successfully adapted into Disney movies. Some of the original producers actually believed that the audience might reject…

The film brick mansions can correlate too many aesthetic elements of film style. One of the film styles that brick mansions can relate to is editing. The movie brick mansion is based in the future in 2018 in the city of Detroit. In Detroit there is a place called brick mansions which contained many dangerous criminals, drug addicts, and more. In the movie the police are unable to control the crime so there was a barrier built to separate brick mansions from the rest of the city. Throughout the…

covers the red brick house. Feet tamper the worn out muddy welcome sign. Warm fog from the chimney travels through the air. Crackling coal ignites the warmness of the fire. Glistening twinkling lights hung gracefully on the tree. Peppermint aroma fills the air. The oven alerts the baker to open a passageway to warm chewy chocolate chip cookies. Mugs collide together making clinks. Lukewarm milk kisses the oven baked chocolate chip cookies. Driving hours away I arrive at the red brick…

Tips for Brick and Mortar Businesses By: Rachel Lions Tips for Brick and All Rights Reserved Cover photo by Andresk8, available under a Public Domain license Copyright © 2015 By: Rachel Lions All Rights Reserved. This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Booktango books…

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road, follow the Yellow Brick Road.” The film The Wizard of Oz is not only a beloved classic of motion picture, but also a model of Buddhist ideas, values, and ethics. The story begins on a farm in Kansas in the early 1900’s. Dorothy lives with her Aunt and Uncle. Miss Gulch, her neighbor, hits Dorothy’s dog Toto resulting in Toto biting her. Miss Gulch takes Toto on her bike to be euthanized by the sheriff. Toto jumps out of the basket and runs back to Dorothy…