Ed Sullivan

John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row chronicles the daily lives, hardships, and successes of the inhabitants of this working-class town. Steadfast, admiring, and proud, he gives a voice to these unrepresented citizens despite their low income and seemingly insignificant paths in life. By employing purposeful craft choices Steinbeck challenges the expected to establish the great worth of the drifters, lowlifes, and “bums” of Cannery Row, articulating the essential role of these “least ones.” Although…

The Giver and Truman Show Imagine being pulled into a life with zero privacy. And then you find out that your friends aren’t really your friends. They’re just acting like they are your friends. And then see someone you love and care about taken away. Or to see one of your parents taken by death. Or never get to meet them. In The Giver and in The Truman Show the main character’s have to deal with these type of problems. The main character for the Giver is Jonas. In the Truman show the main…

The Truman Show focuses on Truman Burbank, a man who was adopted by a TV company after his birth. He lives in a large TV set, unknowingly filmed at every moment in a live broadcast to the public. Living in a world of lies, Truman begins to discover the truth of his life and acts upon it. Christof, the director of the TV show, controls Burbanks’ life.His main goal is to get the TV show to be a success, however, by doing so he neglects all ethical guidelines to an experiment but particularly the…

In the movie there were four different newspaper headlines. One read "The Best Place on Earth Seahaven Voted Planets Top Town", they used that title so that Truman would feel safe. He was planning on leaving, but they make the rest of the world seem so horrible so that he won't want to leave his little town that protects him from all of the evil. If he leaves then the entire show is ruined so they are using the media to influence him to stay. Another newspaper headline was "who needs Europe"…

determined to change. It is often said that the blind see with their ears, and the deaf hear with their eyes. However, this did not apply to Keller. She had many limitations, and learned slower than any other girl her age. Keller’s teacher Annie Sullivan had to find alternative ways of learning that helped Helen understand. She also had a lack of knowledge, so when she was young and still learning people accused her of plagiarism. Based on this information, the reader understands that…

‘Chicago’ Carl Sandburg The poem ‘Chicago’ by Carl Sandburg describes the city of Chicago in the United States of America, presumably at the time of writing, 1914. Sandburg is first speaking to the city, then speaking to the people who is reading the poem. Sandburg has described Chicago as a city of the big shoulders, busy and brawling. Sandburg’s deep affection for his city arises, in spite of the outsiders staring at the hard working people who colonise the city. He makes us imagine Chicago…

August 4, 1892 the two bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden were found slain with what appeared to be an axe in their Massachusetts home located in the town of Fall River. The town was a buzz with the thought of who could possibly commit such heinous crime? Speculation focused on the youngest daughter of the two Borden girls, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Andrew Borden a Sunday school teacher and the head of the local hospital’s Fruit and Flower Mission. A seemingly unfit candidate for the axe-wielding…

One of Musical Theatre’s most loved productions, Pirates of Penzance, has delighted and enthralled audiences all around the world since its first production in 1879. In Opera Australia’s 2006 performance of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic they showed that even after a century, this production was timeless, a true testament to the genius of her creators. Pirates of Penzance is about a young man named Frederic (David Hobson) who has been wrongly apprenticed to a band of pirates, led by the…

Thinking of high school plays and musicals, not much thought goes into the similarities and differences between the two people tend to think they are pretty much the same thing. Although in reality they are not, even when I start a play or a musical the audition process is different. Being part of the cast and crew can also be different depending on if a play or a musical. In the end, the performances are pretty much the same with slight differences in the preparation for the show. Auditioning…

How boring would life be without musical theatre entertainment? I can answer that—boring. Entertainment in this industry has proved the world that musical theatre is just as amusing as a football event played on the weekends. Acquiring a job in this field can be difficult, but with hard work it can be done. Musical theatre has been around for a long time and has changed over decades. Entertainment in this industry started in the nineteenth century and still thrives today. It started off…