Polka

Daisy Twiff lazily squinted her eyes as her small, New York terrier pranced on Daisy in excitement. The 10 year old girl was always serious, smart and polite. As usual she slowly placed her dog, Liz, down on the warm fuzzy sheets of her bed and unlocked her tiny, circular window. Then she peered out the opening and saw the sunrise stretch over the horizon. White, frozen snow lightly shuffled to the ground, covering the Earth like a large fluffy blanket. Freezing winds blew at high wind levels.…

No one came out of the gym without a new bruise to show what had happened there. By count I 'm pretty sure Alex got hit that most, soon followed by Brian, then me. I managed to get at least one bruise on my left arm, my right shoulder was turning blue, and my butt had a large red mark furiously forming. I 'd rather not talk about that one. Marcy and Damon came out basically unscathed, only getting one bruise from each other. They were the last two left , everyone else stood on the sidelines…

throughout the play there are constant reminders to the audience that Blanche’s already feeble mental state is deteriorating. For example, when Blanche recalls the death of her ‘young husband’, Tennessee Williams cleverly has the music of the ‘Vasouviana Polka’ playing in the background, which increases in pace and volume the more distressed and erratic Blanche becomes. However, Eddie’s aberration is present much more subtly than Blanche’s,; Arthur Miller gives us hints that he does not see the…

Alexis Cornelius Prof. Wood 3 December 2015 MU 2313 Critique Project Film: Scrooged The comedy Scrooged was released in 1988 and was written by Mitch Glazer, Michael O’Donagough and Charles Dickens. Twisting up the Christmas classic of a Christmas Carrol, Scrooged, follows a very successful film director named Frank Cross through a ghost filled journey to try and retrieve his Christmas spirit and fix the wrongs of his past. Throughout Franks journey though the past, present and future, he comes…

Narrative structure and literary techniques are used to help develop, and draw attention to, major themes and ideas within literature. The short stories Recitatif by Toni Morrison and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor use such devices to help their themes and ideas grow. Morrison’s use of the first person perspective and keeping information from the reader, like the races of characters, helps to develop the major theme of racism and assumptions. O’Connor, on the other hand, uses a…

THE FRIEL SISTERS - An album named among themselves consisting of Anna Friel, Sheila Friel and Clare Friel, produced by themselves, engineered by Sean Keegan, and recorded at a home in Doire Na Mainsear, County Donegal. They were born and raised in Glasgow, and recorded their first album in their mother, Sheila Coyle's hometown, Donegal. All of the tracks were arranged by Anna, Sheila and Clare with the combination of songs sung by their granny as well as themselves and tunes collected and…

Description of the child and the context The subject of our mean length utterance study is A.N., a four year old Caucasian female. A.N. is the firstborn child in a family of four, living with both of her parents and a younger sister about 8 months old. Since she lives in a dormitory, as her parents are Resident Heads, she interacts with college students on a regular basis, which may contribute to accelerated language acquisition, in terms of her increased exposure to vocabulary. On the day of…

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams makes it so the notions of brutal desire and death dance together in a vicious waltz around Blanche DuBois, the tragic main character of the play. The pair constantly haunts her from the moment she arrives in Elysian Fields in the form of two streetcars, Desire and Cemeteries, representing her inevitable downfall that stems from her unyielding wishes for intimacy and to fit into society, both created from terrible past experiences. Blanche’s…

thin, with almost an athletic body type; she has long legs and broader shoulders than most young teenage females. She is wearing blue jeans, a green t-shirt with a black scarf with a pair of grey sneakers. She carries a pink backpack with white polka dots. Her hair is a dark golden brown color and she wears her hair up in a ponytail. Participant 3 is an African American male about 13 or 14 years old. He seems to be shorter than some of the others in the class. The participant looks to be…

Feminists are ambitious beings that believe in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Gloria Steinem, an American feminist, once stated "Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It 's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It 's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It 's about baking a new pie. " Comparing feminism to "baking a new pie" suggests that women seek a drastic change in today 's society. Despite…