The Town

Lorena Estevez October 20, 2015 Acting II Our Town by Thornton Wilder I first heard about this play from my old drama teacher. I was telling her about one of my topics for my college essay and how I wrote about a dirt road, and she just got this play and said I would like it. To be honest I never understood how she thought I would like a play just by telling her about my college essay, but it happened. I took her book, but I never really read it anytime throughout my senior year. I would always…

The event that I had attended was ‘Race and Town Gown Policing : Perceptions? Realities ? ‘ which was held on the Friday, September 18 from 2 - 4 pm at the Sykes Union This event was attended by many; staff , faculty and students of West Chester University. There was a panel of five people , two of them were students from West Chester university itself , the head of the West Chester department of police , head of public safety and a police office serving since the past 20 years . Two…

normally passed, but not this year. It appeared as if winter would linger in Camelot, and a protracted winter tended to put the kingdom’s residents in a foul mood. Since tempers were short, there had been a large-scale fight at the mill in the Lower Town. A group of young men argued about their places in line, an altercation erupted, during which property was damaged, and a fire started thanks to a brazier that had been knocked over. Innocent bystanders had been hurt during the melee, and the…

Steamboat Springs, a small little town tucked away in the Colorado mountains. This beautiful town got its names from the natural sulfur springs that dot the mountains around Steamboat. Probably the most famous of these springs is Heart Springs, located in Old Town. Heart Springs fuels a water park called Old Town Hot Springs. The spring has been a bathhouse, a laundromat, a swimming hole, and now a water park. One great thing to do in Steamboat is to take a hike to Fish Creek Falls. It is…

Our town is act three play that discusses the meaning of birth, life, and death. It is told from the perspective of the stage manager. Stifling is a great word to describe Simon Stimson. The synonyms of stifling are very telling. Suffocating, constrained, oppressed, smothered, strangled, repressed, muzzled, curbed, and squelched. What descriptive words to describe the small town effect upon Simon. He was an artist living in an artless world. He was a musician living in a silent world. He was…

Sustainable Town Every town has its own characteristics, making it different from other town. I am living in my own town and I have a responsibility to save and protect it. As citizens in our village, we need to protect and make it grow. The necessity, we need to save right now is natural resources (water, trees, etc). Because water is a limited resource, if people continue to waste it, there wont be enough water for the town in one day, and people could die because of it. My own town is a…

Why Was Charles Town Difficult To Settle In? Have you ever moved somewhere and known nothing about nothing about the place or who was there? That's what it was like for all the Colonists, British , Americans, Spanish and etc. who moved to charles town. Everyone wanted to be in Charles Town , however it was very hard to settle here. The Spanish encountered unfavorable weather,sickness and hostility from the Natives. While the Colonists had to battle with everyone because they were trying to take…

MALAYSIA'S biggest white coffee cafe chain, Old Town White Espresso, has extended its presence in Malaysia to 200 outlets. Old Town White Coffee has established in 1958 in Ipoh,Perak, Malaysia. Old Town white history can be followed back to the incorporation of white cafe in 1999 ,with the aim to give quality white coffee to Malaysian families and the food industry, the co-founders…

Thornton Wilder, a playwright, was very influential on the world of theater. He found an artistic way to introduce the public to different ideas about theater which were not really portrayed in the plays of that time. In Our Town, the unique role of the Stage Manager displays and exhibits these ideas. Thornton Wilder’s use of the Stage Manager is one of his great concepts. Physically, there are no specific requirements of this part. He always has a hat on and may smoke a pipe (Austell 95). He…

plentiful and are enjoyed by many individuals. As they come to understand these insights, they can gain knowledge of the world around them, others and more importantly; themselves. These exact discoveries are encountered in Robert Gray’s Poems: North Coast Town and Flames and Dangling Wire and also in Shaun Tan’s and John Marsden's famous Picture Novel: The Rabbits. As they explore the themes of the Commercialisation and destruction of land, Outcasting of Communities and ethnicities and the…