Samsung Town

play entitled Our Town, the Stage Manager argues that everyday life has more importance than the major events historians remember and the archaeologist dig up. Clearly, the Stage Manager made strong, yet an argumentative claim. In this essay, Our Town will be addressed, along with evidence proving the Stage Manager's claim accurate, and counterclaims from many different resources. First, “Our Town” is a 1938 three-act play that tells the story of the fictional American small town of…

region as they large expanses of fertile soil made it possible for the new settlements to be chosen in a more random fashion in comparison to the positioning of New England colonies. The role of education was taking seriously in New England, with towns with more than fifty families being required to provided elementary education, and Massachusettes’ Harvard College was established only six years after the colony was founded. The South was not as focused on education due to the fact that farming…

Due to the nature of this trial as a civil suit, the plaintiff had the burden of proof, meaning the burden to prove by the greater weight of the credible evidence. On the night of October 5, 2012, Taylor Hamilton was driving his mother’s Lincoln Town car to P-Cubed. As he was driving down Nash Street, the plaintiff, Alex Cooper dashed from the woods, without looking, wearing a dark hoodie and jeans. He ran into the first lane of traffic before running in front of Taylor Hamilton’s car and…

Early in the film, Mick Haller pops out of his lincoln town car, with an expensive black suit, walking into the courthouse with his head held high. You can see the swagger on Haller’s face when he utters the line to his client “Rule one, I get paid or I don’t work”. Haller pulls a stunt to extend trial in order…

implications. This view is seen in the angry dance scene and from the dialogue between Billy’s family and dance teacher. The mise-en-scene where Mrs Wilkinson and Tony argue and with Billy on the table, reveals the dancing is viewed feminine in this mining town.…

The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by…

Sports preserve an idea of perfect innocence when in reality, the business is corrupt. In H.G. Bissinger’s book, Friday Night Lights, there is no doubt that the passion of Odessa is football, where players, “held the town on their shoulders” (xiv). It is clear that in Texas, the fans, parents, coaches, and teachers were willing to do anything to secure as many wins as possible. At Carter High School, Gary Edward’s grade in Algebra II caused chaos in…

conforming to social norms. Likewise, there have always been individuals, throughout history, who have ventured outside of those norms, many times to the dismay or even apathy of their respectively societies. E.E. Cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” is perfect example of how individualism is viewed in a conformist society, as well as sheds light on the poet’s own views of conformity. Although conforming to social norms is how people understand the world around them, it is so import to…

Poets use various poetic devices in their pieces to express more meaning than the words do alone. Each poem is different in the way it uses these poetic devices and illustrates an idea. Alfred Lord Tennyson and Edgar Allen Poe are two great poets with very different styles of poetry. Despite using some of the same literary techniques, they each incorporate poetic devices to express meaning in their poems. Both Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” and Poe’s “The Raven” use narrative,…

character’s shoes, allowing them to picture themselves in E.E. Cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town.” The ambiguous pronouns allow Cummings’ reader to place themselves in the characters’ shoes, thereby allowing them to realize that they, too, are on the same path of life as anyone and noone. Cummings describes anyone as living “in a pretty how town” (Cummings 1). This seemingly generic town is brought to a more intensified version, with Cummings’ implementation of the word how. Cummings…