East Village

A setting of a story must be colorful, descriptive and inquisitive. Shirley Jackson did a tremendous job of creating such a setting in the story “The Lottery.” The setting of the village is that of what a reader might see in an old British film Starting the story as if the reader was already present within the village, Shirley Jackson began to play with the readers imaginations. For example the author gave a vibrant…

Background & Thesis The movie The Village directed by Shyamalan was released in 2004. The storyline creates a setting placed in the middle of the woods during the 19th century. To give some background to the plot—there is a community of people, hence the name The Village, that have formed their own government and way of living. In this town there is evident fear and angst regarding creatures that attack the village resulting in bloodshed. This fear drives them to not go near the woods that…

This journal will include many topics and connections to real life. This is the third book of the Asylum series by Madeleine Roux. A quick summary of the book would be that there are 3 characters who are spending their senior year on the road and things don’t go as planned. They start to get weird text messages from someone who had died a long time ago. They now have to find out why that’s happening and stop it. One of the three characters are named Dan and he is a very important character. He…

Village of Obses Today is Wednesday normally I would be at the training center to improve my swordsmanship, but Father has called a meeting which I am required to attend. Normally I would be dreading the meeting, but today I hope for information about my brother. Bryn left two weeks ago for a trade errand for our Father and has yet to return. I am starting to worry. Today’s meeting isn’t starting until 11 o’clock so I have decided to visit my friend Arian. I head out into the village right…

On the morning of June 28, 1969, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street. This soon turned violent when police forces roughly dragged out the patrons and employees out of the bar. The police arrested the employees for serving liquor without a license, which was their reason for disturbing the peace, and forced multiple patrons into a police van. This unnecessary act sparked a riot, bringing together residents and bystanders as they…

Draco is a constellation that is seen in the Northern Skies. He was first documented by a Greek astronomer by the name of Ptolemy in the second century. In Latin Draco means Dragon and the constellation is a presentation of the dragon Ladon that is the guardian of a garden with the help of the Hesperides in Greek Mythology (http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/draco-constellation/). The constellation is also said to flip as the year goes on. During the summer seasons it will…

MILLERSBURG — For her role in removing a change machine from a Millersburg area business, a local woman on Thursday was sentenced to local jail time. Kimberly Foster, 27, of 625 Kenton Alley, Apt. A, Millersburg, previously pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to an amended charge of attempted burglary. In exchange for her guilty plea, a related charge of theft was dismissed. The state also agreed to dismiss an unrelated charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs (meth). She'd faced…

The novel, “Girl at War” written by Sara Nović, is a book about the life of a girl named Ana who is 10 years old that lives in Zagreb, Yugoslavia during a time of war. Ana and her family are constantly in fear of losing their lives and so they do everything they can to survive. Ana eventually escapes the war by going to America, but the events of the war did affect her and molded her personality as she got older. Ana eventually goes back to Zagreb to get closure and in a way she does. She…

everything is taken in a scene where is in an Italian village. The setting is filmed around that area, never film in elsewhere. The cinematography of this short film is Darius Khondji, who got many international awards and nominations. There are a lot of repeating camera movement and camera position are used in the film for example the pan and the eye level shots. The whole film has a rich color of red and yellow, the setting is taken in an Italian village, where the place is not that grand and…

Trade/Communication, and Political/Social. In the first part of the book it shows the system of Hierarchy because it goes through all the different social classes and how each of them work. Also, how the people do their own way of running their village. Plus, in this village they have a leader and the leader tells the people what rules to follow and what to believe in. As the book, it says "And to the Master turned; and he made sign That I should quiet stand, and bow before him. Ah! How…