last visited Glen Ellen Farm, but it is as fresh in my mind as if I was there yesterday. I always referred to Glen Ellen as my Aunt Debbie’s farm, but I eventually learned there is a long history with this place. An engineer for the B&O Railroad line originally built and owned the property in the 1850s. In 1874, the property was sold to Professor Herbert Thompson and his wife, Lady Ellen Thompson, who were from London. It was four years later when he and his wife opened Glen Ellen Academy at the…
Ellen DeGeneres Georges Braque once said, “art is a wound turned into light.” Art, more generally known as creativity, is a tool that is used for many different reasons. Ellen DeGeneres has used creativity as a tool of expression and healing throughout her life. The way that she has integrated creativity into her daily life has fabricated who she is, shaped a way to heal, and ultimately allowed her to build a solid community of followers that see her to be a genius in our society. Ellen…
From what I read of C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra, it was primarily uneventful. Lewis tells the story of Elwin Ransom’s recent trip to the planet Perelandra or Venus. Lewis, the first-person narrator, portrays himself as one of Ransom’s closest friends. He tells the story from Ransom’s memory of Ransom’s experience on Perelandra. Ransom describes the planet to be very beautiful and different from earth. The planet is covered with a “roof” preventing the inhabitants of seeing the sky clearly. On…
In Finding Nemo, the ordinary world is the sea anemone. They are waking up for Nemo’s first day of school. While Nemo is excited for school and making new friends. But, Marlin is not as excited. He is worried about Nemo being out in the world. Away from his protection and safety. This is only because, Nemo is all Marlin has. He lost his wife and all of his other unborn kids, so he protects Nemo with all he has. Nemo has a bad fin but, that doesn’t stop him from having an adventurous personality.…
Chapters 9-11: In chapter 9 the people post signs in the elevator: 1) Sydelle wants her copy of the will returned. 2) Grace will offer a reward for her lost cross. 3) Someone stole Turtle's Mickey Mouse clock 4) Flora lost a pearl necklace, 5) go to the Hoos' restaurant, 6) six more "clues" have been found and Turtle's a brat 6) Judge Ford's having a party that night, and 7) Turtle should be home by 7:30 and 8) that anyone who wants to share clues should meet in the coffee shop. When Turtle…
The film I’m reviewing is “Finding Nemo”. This movie is about the adventures of two fishes named Marlin and Dory looking for Marlin’s son Nemo. In the beginning Marlin was ready to have a family with his wife named Coral because their eggs were a few days away from hatching. Marlin got a new home, which is an anemone by the deep ocean. One thing led to another, and a barracuda shows up to attack Marlin and his family. Marlin tries to defend his wife and eggs, but to no avail he gets knocked out…
The recent sequel to “Finding Nemo”, “Finding Dory”, which was released in 2016, takes the Disney Pixar classic from a new perspective as Dory searches for her parents. Dory is a blue tang fish with a memory that lasts for a brief ten seconds at a time and remembers nothing outside of the current ten seconds. Except in this movie, Dory remembers something, she has a memory of her parents, which shocks Nemo, Marlin, and all of Dory’s friends, ultimately inspiring Dory to go on a quest in search…
Finding Nemo is about the adventure of a clownfish named Nemo. Before Nemo was born, his parents lived in an anemone deep in the ocean. Their names were Marlin and Coral, and they had a very fun and happy life. First, they had many fish eggs that they were keeping safe in their reef. One day, a barracuda came and attacked them. Then the beast managed to take the mom and all the baby fish except for one. His name was Nemo. It was difficult for Marlin, the father clownfish, to take care of Nemo…
Laverne Cox is a well know actress and activism in the Transgender community, I have personally been impacted by this figure because of her strength, dedication and perseverance that has led to her success in her career and personal life as she has shared in a detailed manner, in many interviews and magazine’s articles. As she has described herself: a member of a minority within another minority group, as she is African American and also a transgender woman. She had to deal with a lot of…
Introduction The film I’m reviewing is “Finding Nemo”. This movie is about the journey of an overprotective father named Marlin trying to rescue the last remaining child named Nemo, who has been taken from his home by divers to Sydney to become pet for the niece of a dentist, who us known to kill fishes accidentally. Throughout, the movie, the main characters had to go through many problems, like the fact that Marlin has to be overprotective of Nemo due to the past when he lost his wife, and he…