Trivia

Elizabethan England: Fashion, Crime, and Theatre “’O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?’” This quote from the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet is well known to essentially everyone. But this common phrase may never have been repeated if Shakespeare was not taught in schools ubiquitously. While studying Shakespeare, it is vital to contemplate the life he lived in the Elizabethan era. Three notable components of daily life in Elizabethan England include fashion, crime and punishment,…

On the way to the campsite in South Grand Canyon, loud, pleasant music turned to static. I walked from the front of the RV to the end and elevated my phone to detect a signal. Even the navigation showed blank. It was close to midnight and we had been rolling down the bumpy road for almost four hours. Endless. There were no reflecting signboards, no streetlights. We were the only light source during these hours of driving. Two beams of headlights broke dauntlessly around the curve of ghat. The…

Background On Sunday, November 7, 2010 the cruise ship, Carnival Splendor, departed Long Beach, California for seven-day, six-night cruise touring the Mexican Riviera; with stops in Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Carnival Splendor was to arrive back in Long Beach with its 3,200 guests and 1,167 crew members on Saturday, November 13. On Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:00a.m., a fire erupted in the aft engine room. The Splendor operates on six diesel engines, three in the…

present either. Speaking of stars, the director focuses on the anonymity of a few people, without revealing their names most of the time. And if you expect to watch a war film like Saving Private Ryan you will be disappointed. According to the IMDb trivia, Nolan himself has said that he didn’t wish Dunkirk to have the tension he felt when watching Spielberg’s film. Of course, some of Nolan’s themes are still there, like the repetition of time. The film starts in the middle of the action, with…

In the TV show Parenthood, one of the characters, Max Braverman, is a child with Asperger Syndrome. Max displayed many of the classic autism traits, including obsessing over specific topics. One of his strong areas of interest was pirates. Max loved to dress up like a pirate and act out his made-up stories. His TV father, Adam, was struggling to find those connection points with Max that he so desperately longed for, so he decided to dress up like a pirate and enter Max's imaginary pirate world.…

I chose to attend the Cultural Center Open House for the purpose of this assignment. The event proved to be a very interesting experience that gave me a sense of belonging. This event helped me realize the importance of cultural centers, especially in schools as large as the University of Connecticut, containing over 30,000 students. Often, it is easy to feel lost due to the size of both the campus and the student population. However, going to the Cultural Center Open House, made me realize that…

music swells over sand dunes like you would expect from any other film. He filmed in Morocco sets standing in for the Middle East. So yes, atypical for Herzog, a letdown, not one of his high marks. Others fret in comments about Herzog not getting the trivia right, right to left writing and such. What's really the trouble for me is that it dulls the edge of dangerous discovery that set him apart. We're in the Lawrence of Arabia timeline anyway and the film is cut from that Hollywood cloth. We're…

would be Wednesday again and I would have to go to one of the church classrooms and go over Bible passages or whatever it was we did. I can only remember a few things about Sunday school: 1. At the end of each semester we would have a “fun” Bible trivia competition in which we would wait in lines to compete against rival teams. I hated getting to the front of the line because it was almost guaranteed I would get the question wrong so I would always let others cut in front of me, hoping that…

Motivational CQ: Clearly, Hassan has the highest motivation to learn and get the knowledge he needs to adjust to the new country and situation. He takes extra time to learn from books and from Marguerite and he is willing to ask questions even if they seem trivia. Marguerite has also a very good motivations CQ, as without thinking he is willing to help and tries to understand by questioning Hassan about his motivation, his passion for cooking. As the story develops, we see an improvement in…

commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. "Political Animal," yet many today view the goings on in the government with an comprehension level caught somewhere between casual knowledge of trivia and full blown confusion. Politics holds an important role for the everyday citizen in a democratic society, most crucially when the country faces an election cycle as eventful as 2016 's. However, it is easy to become bogged down with the…