Davey O'Brien Award

On the deep blue ocean there is a gigantic boat, named Titanic, up on it, there is a handsome man that holds a slim waist of a beautiful women spreading her arms to the sea at the large deck. This man was one of the most famous male actor in the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio is a man who is in his 40s that has a long beard, brown hair, and blue eyes. When he was the most famous actor in the Box Office, he was very handsome, tall, and simply the man that all female loved to watch.…

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, and spent her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She learned to speak many languages, including English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German. For example, “Throughout her life, she used multilingualism to great advantage with international press in both her careers as an actress and humanitarian”(IMDb.com). Her father was an English banker who was approximately one quarter English and three…

Claire closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, trying to exhale but her mind raged on thinking about the issues and problems at hand. She could not focus her attention to anything but the daily struggles in her life. She finally let out a breath with a sign… Has this become my life? Who did I marry? I met him when I was seventeen what was I thinking? Who have I become? How I am going to fix this? She looked back and thought about couples who said they make their relationship work, couples who…

What is happiness? How can one find happiness? Is it having a large amount of friends or having a few loyal ones? The definition of happiness is the state of being happy, showing pleasure or contentment. Many go through life searching for this pure happiness, but there are a lucky few that really find it. Some believe you can buy happiness, but if that is the case, why are some who have little to nothing so happy? Although some believe happiness comes from having a plethora of things, it is…

John Rosa claims that the title of Local Story comes from the idea that the book is an instance of “talking story” about a local story, using this style of oral transmission in written form to convey to the reader the contents of the book. This is not a book specifically about the Massie-Kahahawai case specifically, but about the effect which this case had according to the author, a look into the formation of a local identity that brought together people of different ethnicities into one…

Margaret Attwood uses her gift for fictional writing to explore the powerful theme of control. She does this through the medium of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which won the Governor-General’s award in 1985, and the first Arthur C. Clarke award in 1987. The dystopian novel portrays a current day North America being occupied by the religious extremists the Sons of Jacob. The religious leaders that are aiming to enact its idea of a perfect world heavily control the dystopia’s population. Attwood…

The word beauty has changed tremendously since it was first used in the 14th century. The saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder always rings true to me when I think of what beauty really means. Beauty comes from within not from one’s outward appearance. Being beautiful is having the qualities and attributes of being inwardly attractive such as kind, loving, humble, brave, and honest. The term beauty comes from the Anglo-French word beute meaning physical attractiveness, goodness, and…

She didn’t dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging on to her as she hauled the words in and breathed them out…For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw vision of the whistler running from the crime scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the worlds-their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on (Zusak 381). This quote was taken from the part of…

By looking at the way composers represent the intertextual connections between texts, audiences are provided with heightened understanding of humanity’s changing contexts in shaping the values and societal paradigms that transcend in time. Within William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Richard III” (1591), Shakespeare’s depiction of the Machiavellian political endeavour regarding Richard’s personal ambition in the pursuit of authority as a product of his deformed vessel of his corporeality, reflects…

2nd Essay: Responding to Poetry Poetry mainly describes love, loss, and regret. However, every writer adds his or her own twist. For example, “Last Night” by Sharon Olds and “Cherrylog Road” by James Dickey deals with the same theme but are two different pieces of writing. They explore the theme of forbidden love and use imagery to show the lust between the two characters. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two poems by presenting different examples. Titles can say a lot about a…