Cast Away

When I Cast Your Shadow is the kind of delightfully eerie book that is perfect for a gloomy fall afternoon that will quickly turn into evening. About a year ago, yours truly read another Sarah Porter book, Vassa in the Night, and reviewed it for Culturess, so this is not my first rodeo. And like Vassa, When I Cast Your Shadow (sent to yours truly by Tor Teen) goes to New York City and injects a dose of weirdness; in When I Cast Your Shadow, it's the idea of the dead getting the chance to walk…

This is a dangerous turn for schools because it transforms them from educators to greedy businessmen. Corporate sponsorships should not be involved with education systems because it casts hypocrisy on school administration, takes time away from learning, and institutes propaganda within the school. One way it casts hypocrisy is allowing businesses to advertise for things the school does not believe in. For example, in a school where students are taught not to drink soda and athletes are…

win a tender in times of war. But the ambitious Fletcher has other intentions and uses Nullah to press Lady Ashley. As Nullah is kidnapped and taken to Mission Island Lady Ashley and Drover fight to save his life and the other Indigenous half-casts. Australia is set and filmed in the town of Darwin during World War ||, Australia should be included in the International film festival as it supports the key representations and cultures of Australian Indigenous people due to the stolen…

Some people never break a bone, but other people have broken bones before. Some people might break one in their lifetime or break many. I know some friends that have broken bones, and they broke the bone by messing around. My brother has also broke his bone by trying to do the monkey bars at school, and he slipped and fell. I broke my arm when I was four years old. When I was four years old my family and I lived in the country. My grandparents came over to help my dad with a random activity…

being turned away from the polls. Yet access to the voting both has gotten more complicated because of intentional and unintentional misinformation, like previous claims that registering to vote at school could mess up your eligibility for financial aid. 18% of young American voters ages 18 to 25 lacks the identification that their states require for them to be able to vote. Also these young adults change addresses more frequently, which has a negative effect on their ability to cast their vote.…

project fun, silliness, and freedom onstage for audiences every Saturday night at midnight, backstage is a completely different story. For my part, I joined my cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show a few years ago, after being a fan and follower of the film and stage show for more than 14 years. Without getting too specific, let’s just say the cast I joined was and still is pretty high profile. We may not have worldwide fame, but everyone in the Rocky community knows who we are, so you can…

social milieu that has denied him his culture…” (Wilson 30), was during a time where black Americans were being cast as being seen and not heard or stereotyped in their role on stage. “To cast us in the role of mimics is to deny us our own competence “(Wilson 30), the idea of black Americans rarely being cast was a serious issue because as actors they were being shut out and set aside away from the spotlight. Since August Wilson’s opinions on the theater regarding black Americans, things had…

our studies of the sea, one theme connects its’ role in all stories we’ve read: the cyclical nature of its power. In Riders to the Sea, the sea brings sustenance and income to Maurya, as well takes away her husband and all of her sons. In The Sea at Dauphin, the sea brings Afa a livelihood but takes away everything else worth living for. The house in Home follows a similar pattern. There are celebrations of life and death, union and separation, and happiness and despair. Like nature, the idea of…

The Merchant of Venice that create an all around superior film than Nunn’s portrayal of the Shakespeare play, the time period, the cast, and the way the film is shot.Michael Radford kept the time period that the film takes place in the same as the original text, while Trevor Nunn did not and changed the time period in his movie to in between World War I and II. The cast in this adaptation of The Merchant of Venice are great actors and at the helm is Academy Award winner Al Pacino. The way this…

A person life’s growing up can have a major influence in their future, especially in someone’s writing. Edgar Allen Poe lost his wife and mother to a deadly disease, he had many enemies and always saw himself as a victim. In “The Cast of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe created a man who wanted revenge against his best friend Fortunato. Montresor took Fortunato to the family vault, by telling him he wanting his thought on the Amontillado wine. During the process of inclosing him, Fortunato began to…