Our Town

dispute of nature versus nurture. Sam states that nature helps us avoid dangerous situations explaining that our natural instinct helps us survive. Lige counter argues that caution prevents us from doing any harm. He explains stating that our knowledge or experience gives us the ability to avoid danger. Studies show that people are happier when they follow their heart; nature is based on our instincts and therefore living an organic way of life will increase the quality of life. When making a…

A school teacher, Catherine Borek, attempts the unthinkable at Dominguez High School in Compton, California. After more than twenty years she introduces the students to a classic American play by Thornton Wilder of Our Town. This is going to be an adventure of learning to work together and how stories reflect on their own lives. Within the documentary characters and individuals are experiencing the developmental period of adolescence. Characteristics that demonstrate adolescence period to…

home on Saturday night by nine PM because, of a car accident that happened ten years ago which changed our small town's like forever. We wish to be older to have privileges but, the advantage was taken away by one drunken teen years ago. Is it fair for all young adults to have to deal with the mistakes of a teen who killed the family? Ten years ago after prom night a young teen crashed into our mayor, his wife and, their two children speeding 45 miles over the speed limit. Despite the…

imperially slim” (Line 4). From that, you can imagine in your own head, what the man would look like. Creating irony because although we imagine what he may look like from our heads, can tell a different story from the man itself. That we would be as a reader, more sympathetic toward “Richard Cory” death (Burkhart 360). Which from our point of view begs to question, why? The man had everything everyone else wished they had but they didn’t, so they…

Where would our world be today if the Transcontinental Railroad simply didn’t exist? The Railroad impacted us in many ways, but I believe that we were impacted most economically. The Transcontinental Railroad impacted the United States Economically because, it transformed towns to boosting economic hotspots, lowered the general cost for shipping across hefty distances, and increased revenue from exports and imports dramatically. The railroad transformed towns like Lovelock, Nevada into economic…

different to our government today in several ways. One similarity is our democracy, a government for the people and by the people, although back then women's suffrage did not against. The Colonial government also had things similar to the 3 branches, executive, legislative, and judicial. Each of these three branches had a purpose. For example the judicial branch made decisions hand helped pass laws. They can cause the entire process of making a law restart. One difference between our government…

overlooked for years. There are no recreation centers in our town. There have not been any actively open centers for kids in Piscataway since around 2000. The most we had at one point was a pool. It was up and running years ago but was torn down. There were plans in place to build a recreation center in its place, but it was never built. There are many reasons why a recreation center will benefit our community. We desperately need a recreation center in our community. Having a center will help…

In connecting the village’s setting to a generic blueprint of any American town and then exposing how the townspeople’s conformity hides their barbaric willingness to murder, Jackson gives a dire warning that unthinkingly following tradition may cause people to relinquish their morality. Jackson depicts the village’s stubborn…

Friday nights in the small town of Odessa, Texas have always been dedicated to football, the whole town comes to a stop to support their football team. In 1988 at Permian High School, racism, education, sexism, and life have major impacts on the team’s performance and the player’s futures. The town will do whatever it takes to make the most successful team, including hindering the players future. The fathers, whose lives are a drag and unsuccessful, live vicariously through their sons and push…

it seems. To be the utopian society that it is, the town must sacrifice the happiness of a child by locking them away with no light and very little food. The story is set during the summer festival. All the people of the town are happy and we are led to believe the town is perfect. Then Le Guin tells us about the child. The child is kept naked in filth and given only a half a bowl of corn mush once a day. This changes our perspective of the town. This story is about the selfishness of man. The…