Flamingos

The African Queen Directed by John Huston USA, 1951, 105 minutes Reviewed by Margaret Willford Student, Wynford High School, Bucyrus, OH (USA) In 1951, John Huston directed a PG film based off the novel The African Queen by C.S. Forester. John Huston has directed forty-seven other films and a total of two have won oscars, including the African Queen. The African Queen won 1952 Oscar in the category of Best Actor in Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart). Furthermore, The African Queen won 2012 OFTA…

Shanghai, China Shanghai is located on the central coast of China. It is the country’s biggest city and a global financial hub. The heart of the city is the Bund, a popular waterfront promenade that is lined with colonial-era buildings. When you take a look across the Huangpu River you can see the fantastic futuristic skyline rising high into the sky in the Pudong district. The city also has many green spaces for rest and relaxation. A most symbolic part of the city is the Bund which at one…

Sutton’s files on the numbers game and the racket that controlled it are even more extensive than they are for many of the casinos. The files are probably more extensive because policy was so widely played. One could place bets for very small amounts and therefore even those who didn’t have the funds to gamble at casinos could play policy. Because so many people played, the profits for those who controlled the racket were astronomical. In his testimony to the Kefauver Committee Sutton says that…

When I am about to drive home after my shift, I examine my face in the rear-view mirror. If I only knew how to change, to make me a protagonist again. Looking the part would at least be a starting point. I shrug, and start the motor. One day it will be too late, but not like Jan or Tessa think when they urge me to finish school, and apply to university to read a rational subject, because my ‘too late’ takes place far beyond that. Too late means to know what life is about, to have made all…

The word 'Holiday' is very favourite to all of us. That means a lot of pleasure and brings happiness to our regular life. We all are very busy in this earth with our daily works. There are many people all around who have even no time to spend a while with their friends and family because of their busyness. Those kinds of situation can bring a lot of stress and unhappiness to their life. To overcome that boring life, people need a long break from the works. Making holidays with friends or family…

The two comparative texts, The God of Small Things (TGOSM) by Arundhati Roy and The Housemaid’s Daughter (THD) by Barbara Mutch, a bildungsroman novel, explores an individual’s changing perspective upon their societal values during the 1960’s Communist era in India and the Apartheid era of the 1920’s. The God of Small Things is set in Kerala, India and revolves around traumatic childhood experiences and The Housemaid’s daughter is set in Cradock House where a young black girl is raised within a…

(National Geographic 1). Yet, SeaWorld chooses to keep twenty-three of them in their three parks in the United States (Whale and Dolphin Conservation 2). SeaWorld does not only wrongfully contain orcas, they also have beluga whales, dolphins, flamingos, manatees, sharks, sea lions, penguins, seals, otters, stingrays, sea turtles and walruses (SeaWorld 1-19). The people of SeaWorld have taken all of those animals out of their natural habitats and enclosed…

Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Nöel, Alice and H. O. in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit are outsiders who struggle to find an identity in society. Both Alice and the Batasble children go on an adventure to experiment with society in order to accept their identity. Thus, the children are outsiders because they do not fit in with the social norms, as Alice questions her surroundings as the only human…

Signature Assessment Purpose of Study Assessment is important for the teachers to do because they need to know where their students stand throughout the school year. “A formative assessment refers to focused and ongoing evaluations, like the scores on quizzes or the observation a teacher makes. A summative assessment comes at the end of a course of study, when students become accountable for their achievement.” Graves, M. & Juel, C. & Grave, B. & Dewitz, P. (2011). Teaching Reading in the 21st…

1. Introduce your play using a brief review of facts (as found in Script Analysis, pages 7-8) to explain what is happening, who is it happening to, when it is happening, where it is happening, why it is happening and how it is happening. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche visits her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley, out in New Orleans to escape from her life in Mississippi. During her stay we find that Stella and Stanley do not have a very healthy relationship. We also find that Blanche…