Glass transition

“In the design of the building itself it is often difficult to draw a line between practical necessity and deliberate intention, since Iktinos seems subtly to have exploited the former in the latter.” This quote about the Greek Parthenon, taken from Pollitt’s work on ancient Greek art and separated from its context, could almost be applied to a description of a much later, almost millennia later, Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral. While separated both by time and location, each ‘temple’ was created…

I chose to read “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. I chose to read this because I had read it before but I wanted to catch up and reread it. This play is a memory play told by Tom Wingfield, the son of an overbearing mother, who is torn between leaving to follow his dreams and staying because he deeply cares for his “crippled” sister. The play in my opinion is really a story full of false hopes, illusion of the mind, abandonment, lost youth, and escape. The main symbols in the play…

How much did you depend on your parents growing up? The guidance and assistance-or lack thereof-provided by parents for their child can affect the child’s morals, values, and what they do with their life. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her siblings grew up surrounded by alcoholism, poverty, and abuse-physical, sexual, and emotional-while their parents were unhelpful when it came to providing for the needs of their children. The way a child thinks and acts depends greatly on how well…

Tennessee William’s play “The Glass Menagerie” gives readers a look into the everyday strife of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. At first glance, it seems that their lives are quite abnormal, but Amanda’s “impulse to preserve her single parent family seems as familiar as the morning newspaper” (Presley 53). In reality, the Wingfields are the archetypal family doing whatever it takes to get by. The Wingfields complications, however, arise from their inability to properly converse with each…

Carrie Underwood joined James Corden on "The Late Late Show" on Wednesday, December 2, which can only mean one thing: another edition of Carpool Karaoke! She has joined the likes of rapper-songwriter Iggy Azalea, singer-songwriter Justin Bieber, record producer Mariah Carey, singer Rod Stewart and multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder, all of whom sat in the passenger seat as comedian actor James Corden's drove them around L.A. as part of "The Late Late Show's." The country singer was just the…

The stained glass windows are extremely large and colorful with dark edge lead framing another indication of the Gothic style which allows more light to enter than the previous Romanesque churches which had relatively small windows and the interiors were dark. While…

with 2. First Variable: We first started off by inserting a funnel into one of the balloons’ hole and pouring in 8.1 ml of yeast and 25 ml of baking soda with the 1 teaspoon measuring spoon. With the other funnel, we placed it onto the top of a glass bottle and poured in 4.8 teaspoons of vinegar, using the 1 teaspoon measurement. After, we removed both funnel, got the balloon and inserted its hole to the top of the bottle securely and let the substances fall into the…

In Fences by August Wilson and in The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, fathers play a very large role, along with their relationships being affecting and what they want for their children. In Fences the main character, Troy Maxson and one of his family members, Cory are always head to head with one another. Cory and Troy seem to go head to head starting from how Troy’s father would treat him when he was younger. In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Amanda Wingfield is a single…

and aerial views of the Glass Castle. He had diagramed the wiring and the plumbing. He had drawn the interior of the rooms and labeled them and specified their dimensions, down to the inches, in his precise blocky handwriting. I stared at his plans. ‘Dad,’ I said ‘you’ll never build the Glass Castle,’” (Walls 238). Walls uses her father’s dream of building the Glass Castle as a symbol for the American Dream, the dream of a better life. As the title of the memoir, the Glass Castle acts as a…

In the final instants of The Glass Menagerie, Tom leaves his mother, Amanda, then his sister, Laura, for a new lifetime. The cause for his departure is Amanda's continuous criticism of his egoism. In truth, Tom feels unrewarding and wicked. He works hard to support his little family, but his efforts often go unrecognized by Amanda. Tom desires for a measure of freedom and harbors a sense of hopelessness concerning his life. The atmosphere at home is made extremely tough by Amanda's dominant…