The Pavilion

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012) was born to Leonard Bradbury and Ester Bradbury in the small town of Waukegan, Illinois. There Ray Bradbury had enjoyed “A relatively idyllic childhood.” (Ray Bradbury 1) And at a young age was introduced to motion pictures, due to his mother Ester being a “Great film buff” (Johnson 1). Even Bradbury himself had said: “My mother took me to see everything…” (Johnson 1) “I’m a child of motion pictures.” (Johnson 1) And often his Aunt Neva read…

but I heard an anguished, sad cry of a tortured lion and its message rang clear to those who would listen. Help. I quickly picked up my bags and followed the rest of the class out into the hall which led to the courtyard. Making my way through the pavilion, I met up with my 3 friends, Elizabeth (Lizzie for short) , Greyson, and Brandon. They smiled and waved as I joined them then started to head through the nearby gate to the list telling what bus took you to your stop. “Still that stupid roar,…

As fair as the fabulous asphodels; And flow 'rets which, drooping as day drooped too, Fell into pavilions, white, purple, and blue, To roof the glow-worm from the evening dew. – From The Sensitive Plant by Percy Shelly, March 1820 The Township of Asphodel, named by the Deputy Land Surveyor Richard Birdsall in 1820 from the recently penned poem of Shelly, was full of Irish Immigrants, the so called Peter Robinson Settlers. Like the Harrisons some had been bankrupt and others became unemployed or…

Jim Jones was born in rural Randolph county Indiana to James Thurman Jones and Lynetta Putnam. Lynetta was said to believe that she had given birth to the messiah. During the great depression, in 1934 the Jones family moved to Lynn Indiana. Jones was said to have studied on Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. He concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of each. Jones also developed a great interest in the idea of religion. Early on in his adulthood he…

Have you ever divinely connected with a particular landscape that associated with your current feelings? In Willa Cather memoir, “My Antonia” the setting and landscape throughout the story mirrors the characters feelings, foreshadows events changes, and past memories. Jim, just one particular character made many connections with the Nebraska landscape. Willa Cather the first child of a farm family was in born Virginia in 1873. At the age of nine, Cather moved to a farm in Nebraska, and then…

From Muse to Poet: The Liberation of the Female Protagonist from a Traditional Romantic Gender Role in Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz Introduction Modern young adult fantasy fiction has commonly inscribed its females in their ancillary roles of due to its preference to a gendered, conventional hero. Cornelia Funke’s German fantastical fiction for young adults, Tintenherz (2003), subverts the prevalent patriarchal gender representations, specifically concerning the models in German Romantic fiction.…

nguyena829@ritenourschools.org An Angel’s Wellbeing by Anh Nguyen On Sundays, mom talked about what she’ll cook for dinner and Angel played in her little swings in the middle of the park. Dad has always been taciturn and would sit on a pavilion bench talking to mom as they watched over Angel. There’s a gentle breeze as Angel and I walked hand-in-hand along the cobblestone path. “How is Teddy?” I decided to ask Angel. Teddy is Angel’s beloved pillow. They’ve been pretty…

Therefore, the emperor of Han increasingly realized the importance of Confucianism towards the feudal country, realizing that Confucianism’s ideology of hierarchy, the thought of supreme monarch and the benevolent governing thought were the necessary theories for the feudal dynasty to consolidate its rule and national stability. Also, the ideology of Confucianism was such political ideas that were especially suitable for the need of restoring the economy at the beginning of the Han Dynasty.…

In one story, Peony Pavilion, tells of a girl who dreamed of a young scholar who she was forbidden to see; she dies and appears to him in his dreams asking him to go to her grave and open her coffin, when he does she is alive and the story ends with the scholar coming first…

3.1 Appellations translation The appellations in the imperial palace are special titles of ancient history and only are used in the palace. Empresses in the Palace depict a story of ancient women in the palace where happened. There are many special appellations, which are different from foreign countries that don’t have the word than can express the same meaning. Therefore, the special appellations must be translated by using a variety of translation strategies. Table 1: culture-loaded words…