Broadway Journal

Bright Star is a musical that brings a breath of southern air to the big apple this season. The writing and staging are new and fun, the music is catchy and toe tap worthy, and the actors are flawless. With a story that remains true to the hearts, love, and pursuit of happiness, blended with an original score that highlights a rich style of vocal talent, this is one not to be missed! Everything about this musical is fantastic and I cannot wait to see it again! The story is a romantic one,…

American playwright August Wilson was born on April 27, 1945 in the poor neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was raised in a small apartment with his mother and five siblings. His mother was an African American cleaning woman, and his father was a German immigrant (“August Wilson Biography”) who became a baker. His father left shortly after Wilson’s birth. His mother remarried, and the family moved to the predominantly white Hazelwood area. At his new high school, Wilson faced bigotry…

In 1836, he married Virginia, who was fourteen years old at the time. Over the next ten years, Poe would edit a number of literary journals including the Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and Graham’s Magazine in Philadelphia and the Broadway Journal in New York City. It was during these years that he established himself as a poet, a short story writer, and an editor. He published some of his best-known stories and poems, including “The Fall…

My first love is and will always be science. One of my favorite pass times is to peruse the Internet and whatever journals I have available to me to read up on the latest scientific discoveries. My father and I are forever sending articles back and forth via e-mail for discussion! I love photography, and over the last 3 years it has developed into quite the fun diversion from life in general. Though I don’t have as much time to get out and photograph nature as much as I’d like, looking…

Virginia, who he ended up marrying in 1836 (“Edgar” 2). Edgar Allan Poe made himself known not only as an exceptional poet but also as an outstanding literary critic. In the last years of his life he supported himself by editing magazines in the Broadway Journal before he died in 1849 (“Edgar” 2). From then on, his poetry continued to inspire the deep dark emotions of the…

Edgar Allan Poe is an amazing literary influence on todays writers. Poe was famous writer and poet of his day. Even though he started out small he came a very long way. Poe had a very complicated past and started out with many bumps and rough patches but made it quite far.Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19th,1809 in Boston, Massachusetts (“Edgar Allen Poe Biography” 1). Poe’s Parents were actors and that lead to him not seeing them often (“Poets.org” 3). When his parents died he was young…

Edgar Allan Poe always had a difficult life, starting when he was a child. When Poe’s mom died Mr. and Mrs. Allan adopted Poe when he was two years old. Poe was able to grow up in good surroundings and go to good school because Mr. John Allan was a successful merchant. However, Poe soon started to become broke leading him to join the army. Poe had a very difficult time getting his short stories and poems published. Although he had several jobs as an editor, those jobs did not last long. Poe died…

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) “Annabel Lee” is a poem written by the American poet Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe lived a lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism which worsened when his wife, Virginia, died. On October 3, 1849, he was found in Baltimore in a state of semi-consciousness and died four days later of what medical practitioners later showed, through evidence, was rabies. Both Poe´s father and mother was professional actors…

with the Scottish parliament where was told that too much happiness is not good for the public. In fact, Diener’s journal Perspectives on Psychological Science states that “once a moderate level of happiness is achieved, further increases can sometimes be detrimental to income, career success, education and political participation” (Pg 455). Both Wilson and Diener…

"Gender equality in socio-environmental education." European Scientific Journal, vol. 8, no. 26, 2012, p. 216+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=tel_s_tsla&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA348453308&it=r&asid=10595dc69d140e353ee14d6c38039d61. Accessed 8 Dec. 2016. Cartwright, Mark. “The Role of Women in the Roman World…