Picnic

In a Year of 13 Moons captures the impossibility of the queer to exist within the space of the heterosexual symbolic. This reading of the film is best understood by analyzing Elvira’s final visit with her family when she abruptly arrives to their picnic. This scene occurs near the end of the film and marks a rapid escalation of Elvira’s downward spiral. In fact, it appears that this encounter drives Elvira to suicide. The scene is especially noteworthy for the way it connects to past moments…

“Paul’s Case” narrates a story of a boy, Paul, who suffers from an incurable psychological illness. His lack of maternal love, along with his father’s indifference towards Paul’s struggles, fuel Paul’s “imperative desire to show himself different” from the people around him. He desires to prove to his neighbors that he deserves more respect and attention. Therefore, Paul strives to assert a sense of superiority whenever he interacts with other people. At school, he wears a red carnation on his…

doctor’s office. Instead, I took her to the park, which remained closer to the doctor’s office than my house. Before we left, I knew I needed to take a picture. While we headed back to my truck, I noticed the two foot cobblestone wall while we passed the picnic gazebo. I noticed how good a tree by the cobblestone wall would look good with the open background. I quickly snapped a picture of her giving the cheesiest smile, while she held her chocolate…

There has been a perception that long-distance result to break-up of relationships. Nevertheless, it is not automatic that a relationship will break due to long-distance. In the past there are relationships that have thrived very well despite the distance. In most cases, long-distance enables couples to know one another better before getting into a more tight relationship in future. It is apparent that long-distance relationships are subject to numerous challenges. Nevertheless, there are…

when I graduated high school, I am astonished by how much has changed. In August, I had to make a decision unlike any I’d ever faced. It was one of those moments you knew would have a major impact on your future. I was sitting in Fort Yargo Park at a picnic table across from my mother, and we were talking about my college plans. I had worked all year to find that right school for me and decide what I wanted to study. Now, I was running over the numbers with my mom to make sure we knew exactly…

Open campus lunches allow students to leave school during their lunch period and buy food from restaurants or go home to eat. According a study performed by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 1 in 3 high school campuses across the country allow students to leave campuses during lunch. Some countries have allowed open campus to be widely accepted. According to mlive.com, French students have a two-hour lunch break from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This implements…

Author Willa Cather in her short story, “Paul’s Case”, suggests that the main character Paul is unhappy with his lifestyle, and therefor he devotes himself towards living a life of luxury. She supports this by first showing Paul in his disciplinary meeting at school, then Paul goes to the theater, then he returns after the theater to the dullness and darkness of Cordelia Street. Cather’s purpose is to demonstrate that nothing good comes out of hoping for something that you don't have, and be…

Inception, the dreamy movie that’ll keep you so excited you’ll never be able to sleep through it, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Michael Cane. Inception is a complicated thriller-like movie, that was first intended to be a horror movie, but the director changed it into a Sci-Fi/Thriller movie. I must say, for a once intended horror movie, the movie extremely lacked scares, and I’m 12. The movie however, is thrilling and intense at times.…

Pricing: pricing is one of the most important components in marketing strategy as its creating revenue and ultimate profit for the company. Success in pricing strategy comes from understanding the customer desire, needs and how much they are willing to pay, market conditions, competitor actions, trade margins and input costs, amongst others. It is targeted at the defined customers and against competitors. Pricing is what company is looking forward to get so that choosing the price is a sensitive…

their neighbor, Mrs. Brown, was baking Elijah would trade her a couple of fish for a pie. His dad disliked Elijah’s mother’s baking but pretended to like it. He was secretly happy when Elijah would bring home a pie. One time when they went for a picnic on the beach, Elijah’s mom placed…