Samsung Town

Thursday, October, 8, 2015, I was privileged with the opportunity to see the production, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, and directed by Rose Riordan. Our Town takes place in a small town called Grover’s Corner in the early 1900’s. Our Town is presented in a much different manor than most plays today. Instead of changing sets and meticulously hand painted backdrops, the actors use nothing but some chairs and a pair of ladders. The storyline of the play is intriguing, but not so much as the…

Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, has much to say on the subject of life and the thought we put into our living. The play is packed with characters making you see a more three dimensional town. Seeing a vast assortment of characters throughout time makes the production feel real to the audience. The main character Emily who we constantly see throughout the production grow and develop not only as a charter but as a person. Emily goes through her teenage years along with George her lifelong…

in his play Our Town. Unlike most plays, Wilder strips the scenery, set, and props bare in Our Town to elevate the greatness of the simple and ordinary life while presenting “no curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half light” (Wilder act 1). The playwright invites the audience to use their imagination to fill in the lack of detail. He makes the story personal by creating a simple plot, ordinary characters, and using the word “our” in the title Our Town,…

One person can have a profound effect on another person’s life. In John Green’s Paper Towns, Quentin Jacobsen has lived most of his life loving Margo Roth Spiegelman, from a distance. Margo is the kind of person that seems too good to be true, a wonder who spends her life in constant excitement and adventure. So when one night she crawls in through his window late at night summoning him out on an eleven part plot of revenge, he follows. Throughout the book, Margo becomes responsible for pulling…

After the Civil War the Southern economy which relied on slavery was destroyed. New South boosters came in during the industrial era and worked to improve the South by building railroads and factories. Southerners also began shipping out raw materials such and timber and coal. Just as before the war a majority of the South was poor. In books such as Rick Bragg’s Ava’s Man and Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls by Victoria Byerly the lives of the working class poor in the New South were described in…

Paper Towns is a coming of age novel set in Orlando, Florida. It was written by John Green in 2008 and features high school students as they coming to terms with growing up and learning about the diversity and complexity of humans. By exploring how the characters learn the book connects to its audience and gives them the chance to reflect on their own lives. The novel begins in a subdivision called Jefferson Park. The narrator Quentin “Q” Jacobson and his neighbour Margo Roth Spieglman, both…

Quentin Jacobsen has loved Margo Spiegelman from childhood. They both had discovered a dead body together during their childhood. As they grew up they, both had gradually lost connect with each other. After years they are now in the senior year at high school. Margo and Quentin had lost contact with each other a long time ago, while Margo now belongs to the popular cycle; Quentin hangs out the band boys even when doesn’t exactly play the band. He spent his lifetime admiring and loving the very…

The house ages the cost of the prices very expense since the downtown convenience and little backyard comparing to lowery town center and most of the time the apartment property, a lot of activity at the wash park they have big and known park that places and people they do a lot of activity through the Park, the people they are from there or not enjoy the park exercises,…

According to Freie, community is an important concept when considering sociology. He states that a community “is continually changing and adapting to challenges in the environment and is created over time as people form connections with each other, develop trust and respect for each other, and create a sense of common purpose” (Freie,1998, p. 21). Therefore, genuine communities involve human relationships where people are actively participating and cooperating with each other to create self…

advertise for the town and bring in more people because they can see the town taking new actions towards improvement. Personally, I think what he said was right, but does not really mean it will actually happen.…