Broadway Journal

needed to be awake at a certain time and possibly forget what I was dreaming about. Before going to bed Monday night, I placed my dream journal and a pen right beside me on my nightstand that way I was ready and able to jot down notes from my dream when I woke up in the morning. When I woke up the next morning, I immediately wrote down in my dream journal what occurred in my dream. This included the face of my grandma, where we were at, what we were both wearing, and even what we were doing…

Many sophisticated scientific journals are being published each year, presenting abstract information unknown to a lay audience, because of this, journalists are given the task to accommodate these journals for an audience unknown to science, some doing better than others. In Jeanne Fahnestock’s article “Accommodating Sciences: The Rhetorical Life of Science Facts, she describes accommodation as “…present a rather abstract scientific subject in a popular manner…” (Fahnestock 332). Before writing…

Lucid Dreaming: The Start of Great Possibility Baku, a dream eater in Japanese Legend, is a spirit animal that visits people’s homes and eats their nightmares. In Greek mythology, Morpheus is a messenger who has the ability to enter someone’s dream and deliver messages from the gods. His brother Phobetor, who is a shape shifter and is often found in the form of a snake, is the bringer of nightmares. The origin of the English word “nightmare,” is Mara, who is also an evil spirit that changes…

models of scholarship and to make materials open to the public, or open access. The UIC Library is facilitating changes in scholarly communication through an institutional repository (INIDIGO), an open access publishing fund, and an open access journal publishing platform. More information can be found at http://researchguides.uic.edu/content.php?pid=43156…

My interest in communications dates back to elementary school, though I didn’t recognize it as such at the time. I had always been fascinated with sharing ideas and opinions. I spent years on the debate team, and found joy in typing key points across countless index cards. Any possible argument and counter-argument was concisely outlined and neatly filed in an old brown recipe box festooned with sparkly stickers. I was equally happy being ‘pro’ or ‘con’, much to the chagrin of my family when I…

of immigration. And so, I used various sources from journals, books, blogs and T.V. interviews to get information from a broad range and an insight of different perspectives about the subject of the impact immigration causes. Card, David. "Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?" The Economic Journal 115.507 (2005): F300-323. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Blackwell Publishers. 13 Nov. 2016. David Card writing for The Economic Journal acknowledges how in the recent times the public…

techniques to trick their brain into lucid dreaming. The first is to stay in control; “Once someone loses a grip on what’s going on the dreamer will lose their ability to control the dream” (Tuccillo, Dylan, et al.). The second is to keep a dream journal; once someone starts to write down their dreams it helps the brain realize the difference between fantasy and reality. This is very important, once the dreamer starts to question reality it will soon become a habit and sooner or later the…

ARTHUR MILLER: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS Arthur Miller was one of the main American playwrights of the twentieth century. Miller was conceived in Harlem on October 17, 1915, the child of Polish outsiders, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Miller's dad had set up a fruitful clothing store after coming to America, so the family appreciated riches; in any case, this thriving finished with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Depression showed to the writer the delicacy and vulnerability of human…

fertile Long Acre Square. In the early 1900’s the city of New York added subways and many other forms of transportation around the numerous theatres that were being built. The streets then became busy because people were able to go see performances on Broadway. 8. Who was Fanny Brice, and how did she break the mold as to what a leading lady should be like? Describe her act, and why it made her such a success. Fanny Brice or (Fannie Borach) was a female comedian. Brice was a native of…

Manhattan Theatre Club is an extremely prestigious acting company that works both on and off Broadway in New York City. In my interview conducted over the phone with the Assistant Education Director, Amy Harris, I was able to gather a substantial amount of information about the company, like how it functions and how to get a job with the company. The Manhattan Theatre Club started as an Off-Off Broadway company and since 1970 has grown into one of the most acclaimed theatre organizations in the…