Open Door Policy

all the players in the U.S. open at a dinner held at the club. This tests Francis because most of them don’t like armatures and don’t think he should be able to play in the open. They look below him because he is in the working class and doesn’t have much money. Francis does try to put on a fake personification of him to others but they can see right though him and they know the truth. This is a test for Francis to see if he can handle the pressure. He meets one girl Sara who he tries to impress…

Without the setting in “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there would be no plot in the story. For instance, with an isolated island there is no liberation, and there is no rescue. The island is surrounded by water with no other places located within swimming range. There are sharp, jagged rocks deep within the vast ocean surrounding Rainsford, therefore, swimming anywhere has a high risk of injury. “Ship Trap Island” got it’s name from stories of boats hitting the large rocks and…

This exhibition features paintings of people straining to complete arduous tasks as part of their professions. Despite immense physical separation, these works share similar emotions of despair yet hope despite grueling circumstances. An initial impression of Winslow Homer’s oil painting The Herring Net evokes extreme empathy and despair for the two sailors in a rowboat who are straining to haul in their ample catch of herring during rough chop and gloomy weather, cramped in a rowboat, in the…

The Australian Open is a tennis sporting tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. It is an iconic Australian tennis event that attracted 729,000 visitors in 2017 (Ausleisure.com.au, 2017). The Australian Open holds an international profile and is highly regarded in the sport of tennis. The tournament attracts internationally renowned tennis players such as Roger Federer and Serena Williams and consists of a men’s and women’s tournament. The Australian Open has been…

Nature is indifferent as well as uncaring. In the short story “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, we embark on the journey of four men, whose ship has crashed and are now adrift. They fight for survival throughout the whole story, trying to withstand nature. At the beginning of the story, they believe that nature will actually care for them, or at least an unnatural force will come and save them. They even begin to question the existence of God. In the end, they understand that nature does not…

Most people have heard of Pretty Little Liars before, and if not, a brief summary of the book is a girl disappears and then her friends start getting text messages from somebody named A, that threatens to tell all of their secrets basically. But a book that people probably don’t recognize as much is Ali’s Pretty Little Lies, is the prequel to Pretty Little Liars. It’s about what happened before Alison Dilaurentis(girl who disappears) was murdered in the first PLL book. Ali’s Pretty Little…

distract him, she gestured to the garden they were walking through. ‘Look at the pretty plants.’ Harry scrunched up his nose, but indulged her by looking around. Amarante shook her head; he was too sensitive for his six years. When she came to the back door, a man in a servant’s…

It immediately grabbed my attention when Ishiguro brought Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth to this boat not long before Ruth’s “completion”. This beached boat is symbolizing mortality and a journey threw life. Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth are realizing their time is becoming short and must go see this boat the other donors have been speaking of. Even with Ruth being very weak they search threw the woods to find it. “Then we gazed at the beached boat. I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the…

The experience of reading Crane’s The Open Boat, isn’t distinctly adrenaline pumping nor is it overwhelmingly emotional. The reader, as well as the men in the boat, do end in a starkly different scenario than when they began their journey, but the movement is often hard to pin point. In fact, the narrative is contrasted so that there are gaps, physical and literary as well as tonally. Shawn Michelle Smith investigates a similar scenario in her analysis of Muybridge’s photo framing. In a series…

turning professional in 1998, he was continuously ranked in the top ten from October 2002 to November 2016. He re-entered the top ten following his victory at the 2017 Australian Open. Federer has won a record eight Wimbledon titles, a record six Australian Open titles, a record five consecutive US Open titles, and one French Open…