Cast Away

would a couple more occasions where the fish would explode out of the water and land back in with a splash, and then dart away. However, it wouldn't be much longer before I could reel the fish in close enough for my grandfather to dip in the metallic net and scoop the fish out. But when the fish did get close enough, it was massive and much larger than it looked from far away when it first jumped out of the glistening water. We pulled the fish in the boat and took a good amount of pictures…

“Shakespeare must be a black girl,” voiced Maya Angelou as she spoke to a crowd of students and professors during a 2013 visit to Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia (Curtis). As a child growing up in rural Arkansas, Angelou became a victim of racism, rape, and abuse at a young age. One of the few places she found solace from these traumas was at her local public library, a safe haven where she read every piece of literature that she could get her hands on. This is how she first discovered…

intervention’. Despite such terms being used in programs that seemingly address health, economic and social needs, the assumption of deficit and a stereotyped perspective has taken control away from Aboriginal people.…

School of San Diego. In the beginning of my junior year in high school I suffered a broken wrist injury in a football game which caused two surgeries on my dominant hand and a full arm cast for two years which inhibited my ability to write, making high and stable GPA a big challenge for me. I still haven’t got the cast removed but I believe in, “ what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.” Struggles will end leaving us only the experiences to learn…

character. The central idea of Once Upon a Time is that the characters of the enchanted forest have been cursed to live in the town of Storybrooke, without knowing who they were in the enchanted forest. The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs cast the curse. However, unlike the classic story the audience finds out why the Evil Queen became the Evil…

rendition of “A Christmas Carol – The Musical” (The Holly Cast)…

life in his film, Welles also had to pioneer the idea of having a cast of characters that could age over the course of a film. From Kane to Thatcher to Susan, we can see clear physical changes in each character that helps the audience to orient themselves chronologically since the storyline does not move linearly. And Welles doesn’t stop at physical appearance; he allows the aging and forgetful conditions of these characters to cast a shadow on their accounts of Kane’s life with just a touch of…

It was Friday in fall of 2017. I was with my friends and classmates in school. The friends that were in a group were, Lucas, Max, me (Gurkrish), and Joshua. I was playing on my phone at the end of the day before lunch. I went to go put my phone away, and I did. After that, I saw a chair, so I wanted to practice doing parkour. I gripped my hand on the chair and my other hand on a table. What I didn’t know that the table was super wobbly so when I went to go jump over the chair, the table moved…

its availability and resources. The biggest entity on television surely has to be entertainment. Entertaining sit-coms like That 70’s Show, exemplifies qualities of good television that include: cast of likeable characters, comical relief, and a relatable plot. Pump up the volume on the 8-track…

Housewives] exists not because of its particular take on either class or gender relationships but at an intersection of cultural presumptions about class and gender simultaneously” (Lee & Moscowitz, 2012, p. 67). The Real Housewives has an all-female cast that focuses on telling women’s stories from their point of view. Yes, it focuses on a select group of wealthy women whose life experiences are not those of most women in western society, but themes of female entrepreneurship, motherhood, the…