Like You

If you are like me, you have a difficult time learning to balance life in general. My hardest thing is using my time efficiently and learning when to say “no” to people. I have realized that I spend more than eight hours of my week sitting on my butt watching television. That time could be much more productive and I could actually get ahead in my day-to-day duties as a mother and housewife. With better time management skills, I would be able to get a lot more done during the day. It would also…

upcoming Hallmark film Love you Like Christmas, and I immediately contacted her for an interview. Quite ecstaticly, she agreed and shared a bit about how she got started as an actress, her current and upcoming roles, and her outlook and perspective on this business into which she has been jubilantly thrust. RH: Madison, I am so happy we get to chat today. MB: So am I. Madison, how old are you? I am twelve years old. As I was looking up your works, I noticed that you have done some…

William Shakespeare excelled in the art of juxtaposing opposites. His brilliancy in presenting opposites together can be seen in both his literary styles as well as thematic depictions. The same style is evident in his pastoral drama As You Like It. Woven in elements of comedy and romance, the play presents a clash between the life of “the painted pomp”, the “envious court”; and the simple ways of the forest. The play upholds the theme of love and presents it in its varied forms. The love made…

on school grades regardless of material. This is admirable considering only one lifetime ago, women weren’t allowed to vote. Even before that, in the Elizabethan period, women were restricted in their lifestyle choices. In Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It, Jacques says to the Duke, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.” However, even those women would be played by men. Due to the differences in the gender roles, women were generally not allowed to act in plays…

My exposure to Shakespeare’s works has been to the extent of school mandated assigned readings, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Consequently, I am not familiar with his other works. While watching As You Like It, I found myself expecting tragedy instead of humor and was pleasantly surprised when presented with the latter. My experience had been a thoroughly enjoyable one as I was able to see Shakespeare’s play as he had originally intended, a story told through acting rather than…

option to note their wishes to determine what will be done with their remains, say if they were to get into a fatal accident. This specific question often causes one to scratch their head but it is important to think about. The question reads: “Would you like to be a donor? Check yes or no.” There are some new drivers who are fully aware of what being an organ donor means, but others are less knowledgeable. Some parents and professionals even go as far to say that their child or the teenager…

Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It follows members of an exiled court as they flee to safety in the Forest of Arden. The characters experience an open and free space, very unlike the confines and corruption that accompanies court life. Jean E. Howard describes the importance of their refuge in the forest in “As You Like It”: “The play thus participates in the rich tradition of Renaissance pastoral literature in which the rustic world of forest and field offer an alternative to and a sanctuary…

be late,” Lisa called to me, pulling a cap onto her head. I was currently trying to look more like a guy who had grown up in a respectable home, instead of living in a shelter for the last few years. “Lisa doesn’t rush me, I almost ready.” I pulled my own green cap onto my brown ponytail. I looked at my right-hand man or woman. She was dressed like I was, in a simple t-shirt and jeans. “We still look like thieves, don’t we?” I asked, trying out an innocent look in the mirror. Oh god, that was…

The song Live Like You are Dying by Tim McGraw meant a lot to me in the summer of 2014. That was the summer that I seemed to struggle a lot with deaths, injuries and hospital visits. It seemed as if everywhere I went something bad would happen. I felt like I could not escape what was happening. I Wanted out of this bad dream, but I knew that it was far from a dream. I just hoped that things would not get worse.That year I thought I cried so much that year that I felt like I could not shed one…

used and referred to in a condescending way, for example to claim that someone is a bad runner: ”you run like a girl” or a bad driver ”you drive like a woman”. The use of female pronouns to critize someone makes these words diminishing, marginalizing and in some occasions offensive. Languages are one of the most powerful forces in the world and can be used for good or for bad. When the phrase ”like a girl” is used, it is, in nine out of ten times, used to disempower, critize and debase. Within…