Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

At the start of this course, I did not know what to expect. I resolved to keep an open mind and participate to the best of my ability in hopes of broadening my understanding of the arts. Now that the course is coming to a close, I am proud to have participated in this class because it exceeded my expectations due to the passionate teachers and the comprehensive and engaging lessons they taught in music, theatre, visual art, and dance. As a result, this course has greatly…

doing random work. I was dozing when all of a sudden, I heard a roar as loud as a train would be if you were standing 1 inch away from it...not that you should try it. Back to the…

4 Vilenchik Michelle Vilenchik Professor. Popy Begum ICJ 24 September 2016 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Hayman was released on November 7, 2008. Although the setting of the film is in Nazi occupied Germany, it was actually directed within the United Kingdom. The Boy in the…

Many reality television shows including Bad Girls Club portray black women in an extremely bad light. The women on these shows are constantly cursing, get in many physical fights, and often sound uneducated (Walton, 2013). These women projected onto television for all the world to see only add to the negative stereotype that many are trying…

began to feel comfortable working with the patients and they felt comfortable with me. We broke the ice by standing in a circle and throwing a ball to each other. After a break, we gathered around a television and picked a movie to watch. It was incredibly difficult trying to pick one that wasn’t too intense for the patients, but we settled on a movie from the 1940s. The next day, I helped serve coffee and graham crackers to patients. Shortly after, a musician named Steve Thacker serenaded…

I just…” Eli closed his eyes. “I know, man. You guys were really close. You look just like her,” he paused. “How is Lydia?” “She’s going to kill herself, Andy. I don’t know what to do to save her. She needs you to protect her.” “Eli, you know I’m gonna die soon,” he coughed hard, as if to prove his point. He pointed at…

At first, two characters of vastly different circumstances may appear to bear very few similarities. This is the case for Oskar’s grandmother in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Cecilia of Yxta Maya Murray’s Locas. Oskar Schell’s grandmother grows up overseas in a rural area of Germany where kissing is scandalous and bomb threats are common. In contrast, Cecilia is raised across the ocean in Echo Park, California where the streets are unsafe and underage sex is commonplace. Upbringings…

As I write this now, I am only 19 years of age and in the middle of my second year of college. However, I’ve been through enough throughout my 19 years of living that I’ve formulated a strong idea as to what my cultural identity is and how it affects me as a person, friend, and future educator. To start off, the biggest factor that influenced my cultural identity is race. My ethnic background is what I was born with and have been associated with my entire life from the moment I was born.…

I swear to god, in that moment (and in many others to be honest) you look so incredibly sexy and my mind goes completely insane at the thought of everything I’d want to do to you (excuse this inappropriate sentence). I fall in love with you a little more each time our eyes lock together and I swear to god I wouldn’t mind drowning in…

following us to this present day. During this time period, the world has experienced some unforgettable historical events that have shaped most of the world we live in today. One of these historical events was the Cold War. The Cold War was an incredibly long war that lasted 45 years. It began on March 12, 1947 and ended on December 25, 1991. The Cold War according to The National WWII Museum was started because of the increase in “ an ideological and political rivalry between the United States…