In Our Time

In Thornton Wilder's play entitled Our Town, the Stage Manager argues that everyday life has more importance than the major events historians remember and the archaeologist dig up. Clearly, the Stage Manager made strong, yet an argumentative claim. In this essay, Our Town will be addressed, along with evidence proving the Stage Manager's claim accurate, and counterclaims from many different resources. First, “Our Town” is a 1938 three-act play that tells the story of the fictional American…

Our Town by Thorton Wilder is a play that revolves around the modern lives of certain families that live in Grover's Corner. Toward the end of the play one of the main characters whose name is Emily, passes away and this leads to the discussion of what the living does and does not understand. When Emily visits the graveyard, she is greeted by Simon and Mrs. Gibbs. Emily is then transported back in time. Emily and Simon believe that the living do not understand what to cherish about life and how…

In Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, the ghost of a young woman relives a day of her own life. She chose a day that was cheerful and somewhat unimportant, expecting to smile at memories of her childhood, but is only depressed by the lack of appreciation for life of all the people in this reconstructed past. “They don’t understand much, do they?” (III.83) If she had chosen another, more important, more joyous day, then would it have been any better? If anything, it likely would have been worse; more…

Manager Thornton Wilder was a very famous writer in the twentieth century. His works contain writing about the daily routine of life and he uses a Stage Manager. In his play Our Town, he uses these ideas about the Stage Manager and the daily routine of life. The Stage Manager is a big and meaningful role in the play Our Town (Papajewski 4). He is almost like the town of Grover's Corner, beautiful in a unique way, but not amazing (Austell 96). This actor should seem to be laid back and relaxed…

How has our atmosphere changed over time? Our atmosphere has changed vigorously over time. Anyway, for the past 200 million years, the atmosphere has remained the same generally. Scientists theorize that Earth’s early atmosphere was mostly created by the volcanic activity back then; they say that the volcanic activity was very intense for the first billion years on Earth. They also think that the composition of the early atmosphere was as the following: - Mainly carbon dioxide gas - Very…

born on December 12, which is the day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of the biggest feast in Mexico, where I grew up. Naturally, Guadalupe…

Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a film that is successful in portraying both a Native American and white soldiers as humans. Not only was Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American, one of the main characters, he was also a character with as much depth and humanity as his white counterparts. Although there are several moments of racial dialogues towards Ira from his superiors, it seems as though director Clint Eastwood is pointing to these scenes as flawed instead of simply leaving…

and prepared to pay the ultimate price for any of them. This was exactly the case for the thousands among thousands of Marines that showed themselves in the historic Battle of Iwo Jima. The book Flags of Our Fathers describes this brutal thirty-six day battle, and takes us in depth with 6 of our nation's heroes; “The Flag Raisers:” Cpl. Harlon Block, Navy Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley, Cpl. Rene Gagnon, PFC Franklin Sousley, Sgt. Michael Strank, and Cpl. Ira Hayes.…

took an image of La Virgen and unified the troops through the chant “Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe.” As well, Miguel Hidalgo created what can be considered the first Mexican flag. This flag is known as Estandarte de a Virgen de Guadalupe (The Banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe.) The estandarte was made of linen and it depicts la virgin in the middle surrounded by the words “Viva Maria Sma. De Guadaluple.” Hidalgos’ decision to select La Virgen a central image of the independence movement caused…

present throughout most of our lives. From our homes to the murals in our communities. Growing up in a Hispanic/ Latino community it’s the norm to see her image either in tattoos, candles, shirts, posters, cars as well as in our churches and grocery stores. Historically, speaking her image has been used politically for instance, Cesar Chavez used her image, during the Mexican War for Independence her image was used as well. The image of La Virgen has evolved throughout time racing religious,…