J. Robert Oppenheimer

KiKi Petrosino’s Fort Red Border speaks volumes as both a creative outlook on the imagined relationship between the speaker, an Italian African-American and her beloved Robert Redford, an iconic American actor. With her unique perspective on the world in which she lives, Kiki takes her readers on a fantasy between the natural and unnatural, and the real and unreal; questioning the validity of everyday life. Fort Red Border also explores the ideologies behind class, ethnicity, and inheritance,…

Every once in awhile, you get the opportunity to attend something special, emotional and lasting. Last week I attended the 19th Annual Music Master Awards/ Conference/Tribute Concert for The Everly Brothers. I will cherish and remember the conference but especially the concert forever. When I think about it today I have two distinct emotions, joy and a tear. At the conference we saw some very rare footage of The Everly Brothers, film clips from Germany and England not seen by my many until…

In society, there is always the desire to be “loyal to your sex” (Glaspell), to protect those that one relates to the most. In Susan Glaspell’s short story, A Jury of Her Peers, the characters personify that exact constant by protecting their peers, respectively, as a result of the historical gender segregation. To begin, the women in the short story are not friends, with the narrator of the story stating “She [Martha Hale] had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair… she remembered……

Teenage years are one of the most memorable times in an individual’s life. Screenwriters (or whoever else) creates stories that attract adolescents... Teenage love has been a classic story for movies from generation to generation. In this era, Twilight puts a sci-fi twist in the traditional teenage love story which makes it one of the first of its kind to shift the popular teenage movie culture. Twilight has inspired many movies and shows including, “The Vampire Diaries”, “Teen Wolf”, “Warm…

Setting: Nana and Papa’s house, it is a natural setting that the child is comfortable being in. He has a routine when he comes to the house. He has his own toy area and knows where his toys are. He has his own chair that he brings out when he comes over. There is a large room that is full of plants that he likes to play in, but isn’t allowed to touch the plants. He does anyways. He likes to play in the dirt. I imagine that he thinks it’s like a jungle. The house is a walk through house,…

The Road Not Taken v. The Armful Robert Lee Frost created poetry with mysterious yet clear, heartfelt lessons of choices and struggle, two of which are well shown in The Road Not Taken and The Armful. The two poems perfectly depict some of Frost 's own triumphs, despite the hardships endured, the inspirations channeled from Frost 's wife, Elinor White, and the scenery of the England 's countryside. The moods perceived throughout the works of literature brings mysterious feelings of failure…

Did you know that John Steinbeck is a Nobel Prize winner? The book Of Mice and Men was based on a well-known poem called “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. The book Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie who have a dream to own a ranch one day. How does Steinbeck use foreshadowing in his book? Foreshadowing is shown in Steinbeck’s book through these four things. He relates his book to the poem “To a Mouse”, explaining Lennie’s obsession with soft things, the idea of the…

Throughout the story Of Mice and Men express themes of hope and loneliness. All the characters throughout the story express and show these themes in one way or another. Lennie and George and Lennie seem to be the sunshine peering through the droopy, bleak clouds of the other farmhands. Many characters have given up their hopes and dreams in the past and live in the now. We must have hope. If we don’t have hope we have loneliness. Loneliness can make us feel depressed, and with depression comes…

Lennie’s Sympathy Of Mice and Men features Lennie Small, a strong, large, not so smart man and George Milton who is much smaller and serious. The two men set off to work at a ranch and live in a bunkhouse with several other ranchers, after having to leave their previous town because of an incident involving Lennie touching a soft girl’s dress. Their dream is to live on a farm and supply for themselves. Lennie is portrayed as a sympathetic character because of his character traits such as…

Silence can be just like passing wind. Sometimes silence can leave people feeling awkward and trying to make up their own conclusions from silence. Potok, in his novel the chosen uses silence to convey his message. The importance of the silence is not understood until the novel comes to an end. The characters in the novel try to debate the meaning of silence. The silence moments used in this novel are many ranging from the painful moments to casual and comfortable moments. Silence brings a lot…