nature, we would not be able to exist in the first place, and it is through nature that we can continue to live. In “King Lear” by William Shakespeare and “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley, the authors both illustrate just how important nature, in the form of a mother, really is through actions of Goneril and Ginny. Even though “A Thousand Acres” is a modern retelling of the famous “King Lear,” both bring out the consequence of what happens when the mothers are absent, which in turn echoes the…
Strengths Ownerships/Partnerships One of the main key strengths that Zenda Farms contains is their relationship with the Thousand Island Land Trust (TILT). TILT acquired Zenda Farms through the MacFarlane gift in 1997. Ever since then, TILT has dedicated itself to preserving the local wildlife, as well as Zenda’s own buildings and infrastructure. TILT manages over 7,000 acres of land in the surrounding region and has much knowledge about land conservation, and land practices, so they are…
In the book Her Majesty’s Spymaster Stephen Budiansky who is the author shares his knowledge of how England was back in the days were being blindsided was an everyday thing. This book is well written and is given from the perspective of Queen Elizabeth's trusted spymaster Sir Walsingham who managed to get to know many enemies and friends of Queen Elizabeth. Now this book itself is full of history but does not have a clear storyline that draws the reader in to read unless the reader would like to…
of New Voices and Sexaholic. Stephen Chbosky was born on January 25th 1970, in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. He grew up Catholic living in the Upper St. Clair's with his parents Fred and Lea and younger sister Stacy. While growing up, Chbosky enjoyed classics, horror, and fantasy novels. He loved the novel The Catcher in the Rye; writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams. In 1988 Chbosky graduated from Upper St. Clair High School, while in high school, he seemed to have met Stewart Stern;…
In Shakespeare's play, King Lear, is about Lear's demise while on his journey to wisdom and humbleness. In the novel, A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley, it retells Shakespeare's play with a modern twist about a small farm family in a small town in Iowa. Just how Lear gives up his kingdom to his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, Larry plans to distribute his thousand acres betwen his three daughters, Ginny, Rose and Caroline. Although the two books are different in many ways, they are…
Connectedness Connection. This is a simple word, but it has great strength. When you think about it anything can be connected or linked to another thing. Somehow at some point two things connect, whether it be through association such as knowing someone who knows someone else or creation such as trees and wood which are connected to my desk and therefore connected to my laptop and me sitting at my desk. In Gilles Deluze and Félix Guattari’s chapter Introduction: Rhizome, along with in Judith…
For this genre based novel study, the focus is centred on two great classics, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Schindler’s List. Some of the best works, if not the best in their respective genres, sci-fi, and historical fiction, these two pieces of literary brilliance, were trailblazers for later books to come in the genres. While seemingly unrelated, sci-fi, and Historical fiction do have a lot in common. The genres are both very effective at creating realistic, but, “beefed up”, and…
The hero, one of the most famous archetypes of all time, appears in countless literatures, myths, religions, and stories of folklore. A hero, someone who is admired for their courage, achievements, or noble qualities would make an excellent archetype for educators to teach as it is extremely prevalent throughout the world. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the father exhibits heroism as one of the last humans on earth. In the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter demonstrates his heroic abilities as a…
human characters to act as a type of mirror to the audience so that his spectator asks themselves Fuchs’ question “…what has this world demanded of me?... Does it ask me to reason?”. The play is about three teenagers who have started to realize that they are at a point in life where they are obligated by circumstance to grow up, it revolves around loosing love, feeling powerless to society, or even feeling unimportant in somebody else’s eyes. Most importantly, it’s about how these characters…
‘’I felt so lonesome, all of the sudden. I almost wished I was dead,’’ a quote from the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger which relates to how some teens felt at one point in their life.The novel was published to attract adult readers and has become popular for its themes, motifs, and connections an individual has with the main character, Holden Caulfield.We tend to feel a connection to the struggles of Holden Caulfield as we put ourselves in his shoes and see life through…