Circus

Luke Starr was sound asleep, his arm draped lovingly over his girlfriend’s small frame. Luke was, mentally, far from his soft bed and loving girlfriend. For in his dreams he was reliving one of the worst days of his young life an event that occurred about ten years earlier. A day he would never forget, no matter how hard he tried, no matter how long he slumbered. He was a teenager, living an admittedly dull life with his family, parents and two sisters in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He had a good…

Vacation Gone Wrong It was the summer of 2014, My parents, my brother, and I decided that we were going to spend our summer vacation out west. Our destinations were to be Las Vegas for fireworks, Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, and The Grand Canyon. We were going to fly from Saint Louis into Vegas, rent a car, drive to all of our destinations and return to Las Vegas to fly back home to St. Louis. This was to be a seven day trip. Our trip started off without a hitch, we arrived at the airport on…

under whose direction was the first production of the play performed. Littlewood is also the reason Delaney is listed here, among authors whose work was influenced by Brecht. A Taste of Honey is a great example of how theatrical styles can coincide even within one piece of art, and take inspiration and features from one another. Nadine Holdsworth described how this theory is imprinted in A Taste of Honey, saying that Joan Littlewood together with the actors would make several changes and…

Court is a circus of emotions. I sit through trials to observe people. Honestly, I prefer it more than dealing with my clients. The rape trials have presented to me an entire spectrum of human nature. And frighteningly enough, guilt is the rarest of them all. A steady intense stare one of the rapists had as if he was searching for yet another target right there in the court room, while another broke down completely as if his tears meant anything to the raped girl sitting beside me. I cringe…

The people in Rome started believing in a new God. This faith in this new God was known as Christianity and it spread rapidly throughout the Roman Empire. It caused suffering and problems, but also gave many people a new hope. This faith came to the roman Empire through a new teacher known as Jesus who was born to preach and teach about God. This faith also spread through Judea and Galilee. Christianity affected the rulers of Rome, it went against the rule of Rome saying that you must worship…

Walt Disney World Catastrophe By:Maddy (https://pixabay.com/en/disneyland-castle-1180954/) It was a nice summer day and me, my grandma, my grandpa, my sisters, my brother, my mom, and my dad was at Walt Disney World, Florida early in the morning. I personally love Disney World, all the rides,all the food, and last of all, all the people! Everything is so cool. Everything was ay okay until my mom confidently said, “Let's get into separate groups! Yai, Yai (Grandma) you go with Desi, Kayla, and…

Society normally dictates how we subconsciously feel about people or things that are different from how we appear or normally do things. This now falls in line with the themes of connection, change, control and choice. In, Fat by Raymond Carver the narrator retells the tale of her meeting with a fat man. That meeting then impacted her relationship with her boyfriend negatively in the long run and gave the narrator a new point of view. The narrator has developed a connection with the fat man, as…

Augustine’s Confessions demonstrates the conversion of a man from sin to piety. While Augustine credits God’s hand for his transformation, another man guides Augustine’s conversion as well. Though unknowingly, Alypius’ influence on the life of Augustine prompts him to better himself, inciting purpose in his search for truth which in turn leads to his conversion. Despite Augustine’s many claims of interactions and signals from God, Alypius’ youth and innocence, his more modest sin, and his…

role in society and are not seen as individuals but as something less than human. Woman in the plot are often subjected to basic stereotypes of how they should appear in society. To start off, the battle royal scene depicts the woman dancer as a “circus kewpie doll with a face heavily powdered and rouged, as though to form an abstract mask” (Ellison 19). This example of the dancer parallels with the theme of not being recognized as an individual and being invisible. In this scene the dancer…

colorful block font, using all capital letters. The dedication page features Rene Magritte’s famous painting The Treachery of Images, which leads the reader to anticipate a heavy surrealistic theme, in the illustrations. Eric Carle puts the reader into a circus of inverses, using creative humor, to give the reader a charmed experience inspired by familiar scenarios and idioms. The book…