John Ames Mitchell

Most singer/ songwriters find inspiration to write a new song in the strangest places. It is no different with Michael Jackson’s hit Smooth Criminal. Michael found his inspiration for this song at a C.P.R. class where they addressed the C.P.R. doll as Annie. They were told to ask the doll, “Annie, are you okay?” as part of the class. Michael had originally planned the song and music video to have a western theme in 1984, but scrapped the idea and changed it to, a quote on quote, “gangster…

The memoir Buck: A Memoir is a coming of age book written by the Zimbabwe born man, MK Asante. The setting of the first 12 chapters of the book is a community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or otherwise known as "Killadelphia, Pistolvania," where young MK was raised after leaving his birthplace in Zimbabwe. During this point in his life, MK faces many obstacles academically and in his family life, which his decisions can be a direct result of. The downwards spiral of his home situation…

After reading The Yellow Wallpaper and the narrator’s description of her final day in the house, I viewed her conclusion as more of a tragedy, but also a kind of triumph over John and Jenny. In the beginning of the story, the narrator and her husband visit a mansion for the summer. She finds it unusual that they are able to afford a fancy place like this (Levine 486). Meanwhile, the narrator mentions that she believes she is sick and with her husband being a physician, she tells him how she is…

The squinted eyes gawked at me through the thick shrubs. In a flash of shock and terror, I swiftly turned around, only to be greeted with the rough surface of a pine tree. I had nowhere to go. In the grip of panic, fear shivered down my spine as my heart began to beat wildly. I have lost any sense of my surrounding as all the tension flooded my mind, turning my brain into a mental soup of conflicting instructions. Dread creeped down my spine like an ominous spider leaving a trail of silk. I feel…

The second half of the cinema veriteﹶ TheWrong Man (1956) slides from Manny’s (Henry Fonda) physical enclosure to the world of mental enclosure of his wife Rose (Vera Miles), whose paranoia results in her total emotional collapse. This happens after attorney O’Connor (Anthony Quayle) is hired. The tone grows bleaker in the film’s second half. In order to testify on his behalf Manny and Rose travel to find the witness either dead or relocated. Steeped in despair she finally becomes unstable…

Act IV Act IV, Scene i: Elsinore. A room in the Castle. “Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier.” 1. Immediately after the bedroom conversation Gertrude doesn’t believe in Hamlet and this reveals whether or not she believes in Hamlet. 2. King Claudius’ reaction is that of joy feeling happy that gertrude may still be on his side. Act IV, Scene ii: Elsinore. A passage in the Castle. “My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to the King.” 1.…

The Struggle to Develop Stage #1 The Introduction sentence: what was going on in stage 1, Claudette was not adapted to the human lifestyle at st.Lucy's. For example “Sister Josephine tasted like sweat and freckles. Sister Josephine smelled easy to kill.” Regular people don’t make inferences like that and base it off of smelling and the description they gave her was a little unhuman like: For example “We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles…

The two pieces from the Point Loma High School art gallery I picked to compare were by Nicole Soriano and Lainey Reynolds. The first piece, by Soriano, is a drawing with many celebrities such as Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus along with shoes, a television, a rocketship, etc. Everything in the drawing seems to be melting like a popsicle as well. The second piece, a painting by Lainey Reynolds, shows a girl sitting upside down with her legs up and crossed. She is staring directly forward and little…

The theme of obsession and addiction is evident throughout Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market. Goblin Market can be interpreted as a storyline unfolding the symptoms, signs, treatment, and the overall dangers of drug addiction. From the beginning lines, the goblins are identified as drug dealing creatures. Rossetti creates a drug-dealing setting where the male creatures are the sellers, and the young unmarried women are the customers. The robotic crying of the goblins, ‘Come buy, come buy’…

Gilman, we are introduced to the narrator, a wife and mother who is experiencing several types of conflict within her life. First, we see she is experiencing a physical conflict when she becomes exhausted easily and must rest frequently. Her husband, John who is a respected physician diagnosis her with a nervous condition and says part of her treatment requires her to rest. Her brother, another respected physician, agrees with her husband. I believe she was not suffering from a nervous condition…