Ellen Terry

to their weigh ins and have not eaten any food in a while. Another is that wrestlers sacrifice maybe too much when it comes to weight cutting, according to Weight Loss Behavior in High School Wrestling: Wrestler and Parent Perceptions by Ellen Weissinger, Terry J. Housh, Glen O. Johnson, and Sharon A. Evans they go into detail by stating, “ Wrestlers reported use of extreme weight loss techniques (fasting, vomiting, diuretics) in higher proportions than the general adolescent male population,…

Kurt Vonnegut could twist the world like M.C. Esher on acid. His controversial humor and style shattered my twelve year-old world of He-Man and arcade games, only to replace it with dick jokes and a new world of literature that liberated my mind and influenced my own writing. One day in the spring of 1995 I attended a physics demonstration at my middle school that would change how I viewed literature. What does physics have to do with literature? Well, the physics provoked but the…

Regarding Shakespeare, Dame Ellen Terry is quoted saying “Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?” While it’s certainly true that Shakespeare’s plays offer a wealth of strong female characters, most of his female characters still exist in a male-centric, male-dominated plots. This can pose an interesting challenge for a director who wants to reimagine a…

On the Great River Shakespeare Festival website, it reads, “Teenagers make bad choices. It was true in Verona in the 1400s; it is true today. For more than 400 hundred years we’ve been telling this story, and we don’t appear to have any desire to stop.” Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, where there is a violent feud between the Montague and Capulet families. In the prologue, the Chorus foreshadows the plot of the play. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…What here shall miss, our toil…

It worked as a PR mechanism that also engaged celebrities and influencers such as Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah, News Channels and many more. The campaign generated more than 1.4 billion unpaid impressions in 6 months: “practically every marketing and tech blogger, and almost every media and news outlet in the country, covered the story”. Isaiah…

Jed Coppock/4923182 EDMT902 - What is Learning? 10 April 2015 Tutorial no. 4 Critical literature Review – Digital Natives "The arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decade of the 20th century has changed the way students think and process information” (Prensky 1).This notion is at the heart of what has become the ‘digital native debate’ – i.e. should education systems be changed in order to accommodate a new generation of technologically savvy learners? The term…

We all have our heroes, our idols, we could even call them our gods; their influence to us is superficial, their greatness creates some of the best moments of our lives, we feel an emotional connection with them even though we have never met them. These are celebrities, media personalities, politicians, athletes and even fictional characters whom through the different forms of media collectively create and become the foundations of our pop culture that heavily influence our lives from fashion,…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…