The Glass Wall

Mid-Term Project (Philip Glass) For my mid-term project I chose to do topic Four and that was to select an artist and give some brief history about him and incorporate his music and how it connects to our class. The famous classical composer I chose to select was Philip Morris Glass. I feel as though he is an artist that caught my eye and really wanted to talk about. Philip Glass was born January 31st, 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland. That’s one main reason he stood out to me because he comes…

This quote examines an internal conflict. Laura’s choice of completely devoting herself to her work made her sacrifice other joys in life. It reveals that Laura is a hardworking and successful person, but still isn’t satisfied. This conflict repeats itself throughout the book.Laura’s conflict here reminds me of a similar conflict this dude from Disney's Princess and the Frog. They both were so devoted to their jobs that they neglected their love life and friendships. This quote shows a change…

In O’Connor’s article, Confinement and Isolation in Menagerie, she claims that confinement is one of the main themes in The Glass Menagerie. She does so by highlighting Tom and Laura’s experiences. She first addresses Tom’s situation and how he is both physically and emotionally confined to the apartment and his family. He is confined to his dead-end warehouse job because he has to support Amanda and Laura. “This confinement keeps him from fulfilling his dreams” (O’Connor). When it comes to…

die in the company of the Melting Man. This one, the latest, only nineteen, has wriggled and writhed and rocked herself from screams to silence. Her white silk top has been ripped at the shoulder — a happy accident. Behind her, an exposed brick wall is scrawled over in lettering, smears of 11 lipstick red. It’s a list of names, all crossed out except for one, hers: Heidi. It isn’t her real name but the name he has given her. He thinks she looks like a Heidi. Don’t think of the workshop…

The submissions for this assignment are posts in the assignment's discussion. Below are the discussion posts for Lesli Robles, or you can view the full discussion. from Discussion #1 - The Glass Menagerie Aug 31, 2017 1:01pm Click to change profile picture for Lesli Robles Characters Amanda Wingfield(Mother) While she doesn’t intentionally mean to hurt her children, she does with her sense of not being able to come to terms with reality. She very clearly lives in a…

Tom Wingfield - The protagonist of the play, was abandoned with his mother and older sister by their father a very long time ago. He works with his family in a warehouse but hates his future of having to work there for the rest of his life. Tom is more interested in becoming a poet and frequently uses writing to escape his current situation. Laura Wingfield - Older sister to Tom, Laura who has become overly afraid of her appearance to the public due to her injured leg that causes her to…

In Tennessee Williams’s play “The Glass Menagerie”, the characters’ perspectives of reality are mixed with those of appearance. Amanda, the mother, tries to make the lives of her children perfect, but in doing so, only causes them grief and anguish. Amanda still lives in the past and sees no reason why her two children should live anything but perfect lives. However, her children, Laura, a crippled and unsociable girl; and Tom, an ambitious young man, believe they should be able to choose their…

Dance is an art form consisting of individuals or groups moving in patterns, either practiced or impromptu, to the rhythm of music. Dance and music go hand in hand, allowing the music to set a tone for the dance, creating different styles of dance. Dance is likely to have begun as a ritual to appeal to a culture’s worshipped being or included in ones “rite of passage” (Histoy of Dance, n.d.). Evidence has been found in India showing the existence of dance in the form of paintings made in caves…

The Gender Wage Gap In 1963 the Federal government passed the Equal Pay Act to prohibit employers from discriminating based on the way employees of opposite sexes are compensated. The Act required employers to compensate employees of equal skill, effort, and responsibility, equally. While the gender wage gap has closed significantly since then, women are still making less than men at the same jobs. A portion of the pay gap for working young college graduates can be attributed to their individual…

Despite the fact that over the last fifty years women significantly improved their social position in America and drastically changed the economic situation, by taking over almost half of today’s professions, they are still facing wage discrimination based on gender. According to the Labor Department, the wage gap over the last few years was continuously narrowing; however, the monetary expansion that happened in the last few months greatly improved the economic position of men. As a result of…