Like You

masculinity. Films like The Mask You Live In, written, produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, depict the way men are pressured by the media, their friends, religion, and parents. Society needs to change painting the way a man should act. Men are brought up to fear showing emotion, visibility and love, as a result parents especially fathers hold back from hugging and physically showing love to their kids. Boys are also physically criticized, and trained to be a man you have to be…

Today’s poems were very interesting, I was very excited to hear my colleagues poems. Starting with the Family Photo poem. To be honest, I was totally sympathized with Einal’s poem. Even though it wasn’t a rhymed poem, and didn’t have many metaphoric it touched me deep inside. Since I know that she lost her father when she was in the 9th grade, so it just touched my feelings. The second poem was English as a Second language, only three of us read this poem. Shadi, Nour and I. actually, I liked…

I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around by Ann Garvin is an interesting and creative story about a therapist whose life goes awry. The story is a hilarious yet accurate depiction of the rollercoaster life that everyone goes through. It is the character and the imagery that gives the story a fuller and richer experience. To begin with, the story is about a therapist whose life goes off the rails when she must put her mother into assisted living due to her mother’s Alzheimer’s. In addition,…

Furthermore, Branagh's decision to obscure obvious homoerotic scenes, but lighten less-obvious homoerotic scenes within the play gives his film an overall balance of contrast to Shakespeare's As You Like It. Shakespeare's plays are completely open for interpretation, and everyone perceives different ideas at a time, but for Branagh to perceive that Jacques represents Shakespeare's emotion as socially antagonistic, his film does not deserve a 6.3…

foundations of friendship that are supported by “Do Your Friends Actually Like You?” by Kate Murphy, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and my own personal experience. According to Murphy’s article, friendship is based off of understanding and trust. The article describes friends as “people you take the time to understand allow to understand you” (Murphy 3). Allowing someone to understand you requires trust because without trust, you would not want to be vulnerable to the other person. After…

The song “Live like you were dying” by Tim Mcgraw shows listeners that there is always going to be a time in life dreams need to come true and life will be like it is in fast motion. Life is always going to throw tough obstacles at you and a person only gets stronger from them. I live life to the fullest because it is only lived once. If I was living my life as I was, dying there is a bucket list I would like to complete, and family I would like to spend this time with during this time. The…

When it comes to influencing people and making friends, I believe that it is important to know how to deal with people. Taking a close look at the other topics, Six Ways to Make People Like You—this is already a misguiding topic, because it is virtually teaching something that is impossible. We cannot make people like us, though we can project our sincerest qualities before then, in hopes of their returning the same to us. The next topic is better, but still not a first choice—Twelve Ways to Win…

Summary: The Novel, “Someone Like You”, by Sarah Dessen shows an experience of a sixteen year old. In the novel the main character, Halley, comes to a turn in her life that she never expected. This turn consisted of her best friend Scarlett getting pregnant with a person that no longer lived, Micheal Sherwood. Halley will have to learn how to be strong for best friend. During junior high, Halley got to know someone named Macon Faulkner, who she started to adore and admire. Halley broke all her…

There are many different themes and ways to look at William Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It. These themes are like looking at a story or in this case a play through different lenses. As You Like It shows that there are different ways to look at gender roles and how they are represented in Shakespearian time (during the Elizabethan Era). Views of gender affected the character’s role, how they behave, and are expected to behave in Elizabethan society. Unlike sexual roles (male and female),…

Do you like the American education system? Is America superior to other countries when it comes to the level of education we have as opposed to theirs? The answer is no. Statistically speaking, there are other countries that are far more intelligent than the American society. For example, South Korea, a country that has harsher testing techniques to make kids challenge and apply themselves more. The American education system is flawed. To enhance and/or advance this in the near future, teachers…