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Intro: (radio station mix effect) Radio host: Your listening to Poetry radio station, coming to you live every Monday night from 5 with new, music and discussions. First up we have Hayley to talk burning poetry. Hayley: Hey guys and welcome to burning poetry, where poetry is the bonfire of discussion. Tonight’s episode is “shackled” all about depression and mental illness. Although not always easily detected or obvious, mental illness is alive and can have devastating effects on sufferers. The…

Sylvia Plath was a well-known American poet. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up to be a straight-A student in school and published her first poem at the age of eight. Sylvia was a very bright student growing up and she was very popular. “I think I would like to call myself ‘the girl who wanted to be God’” (Barnard 15). Sylvia set such high goals for herself because she wanted to accomplish the “impossible” (Barnard 15). Although Sylvia seemed like the perfect poster child, she had many…

The Devil Wears Prada’s storyline revolves around the unlikely relationship that is eventually formed between Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs, a dedicated journalism graduate who knows absolutely nothing about the fashion world, and Miranda Priestley, the cutthroat editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine, whose entire life is surrendered to Jimmy Choos, Prada purses, crushed souls, and broken dreams. After having no luck in applying for any respectable newspaper in New York City, Andy receives the…

Aging Presented in Away from Her and Driving Miss Daisy Allison Riddle U20822752 The presentation of aging in film can be presented in a multitude of ways. Each presentation telling a story about a struggle that every person will face eventually, whether scared, worried or indifferent about this process. Two films that depict the aging process quite gracefully for the elderly, ailing characters are Away from Her (2006) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Both films show how the journey of…

Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a popular book series about group of five friends named Alison, Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer. The girls began to separate after the leader of the group, Alison, went missing one summer.. They began to get threatening messages from an anonymous source a year after her disappearance. The person sending the messages went by the alias “A”. “A” threatened to expose their secrets and blackmailed them to get what she wanted. Some of the secrets were…

Sally is a woman who attends a college for taking night courses and to keep her busy. Also, she is a woman who thinks her husband, Ed is dull and stupid. However, as story goes by, she finds out an affair between Ed and her friend, Marylynn during the party. She witnessed Ed touches Marylynn's butt, and she realizes Ed is not the man she used to think. In addition, "Bluebeard's Egg" is somewhat similar to Fitcher's Bird. For example, Sally is the third wife of Ed, and she thinks she is clever.…

Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

I only wrote one novel in my life, The Bell Jar. It was consider my "modern rite-of-passage" because of how relatable it was. (Rosenberg) The Bell Jar was pretty much a spin-off my life. It featured a 19 year old college student, Esther Greenwood, taking on a month in New York on an internship. Sound familiar? Throughout the ups and downs of her…

The book my group is reading is called A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida. The book takes place in Berkeley, California around 1930. The story is told by a second generation 11 year old Japanese girl named Rinko Tsujimura along with mama, papa, her older brother Cal(short for California), her younger brother Joji, and her neighbor Ms.Sugar. So the book starts out Rinko comes home to find the kitchen a mess, then goes to papa’s Barber shop but goes the wrong way and gets yelled at by Wilbur…

The Story of an Hour is a short story by author Kate Chopin, that was published in 1984. The story was originally published in Vogue, on December 6th, titled "The Dream of an Hour”. Louise Mallard, the main character, has heart problems. Therefore, at the beginning of the text we are told that she must be informed of her husband’s death in a careful manner. Her sister Josephine delivers the news. The reader is also told that Louise’s husband’s friend, named Richards, had learned about his…