Vachel Lindsay

Target is a term taken from “The Queen Bee and Her Court” by Rosalind Wiseman, and is heavily applicable to high school sophomore, Alex. Unfortunately, she has been in this position since the beginning of her 6th grade year. Landing at the bottom of the social totem-pole, she is continually bullied and picked on by her peers. Nevertheless, she remains a warm-hearted, funny, and considerate member of the golf team. Furthermore, she has many talents, including painting, writing, and musical…

High School is a period in adolescence where identities are found within the self by figuring out where they belong in this world. That can be hard especially for teens like Cady Heron in the 2004 movie Mean Girls directed by Mark Waters based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes which encompasses females in high school cliques and how damaging it can be for development to girls. Cady Heron is a 16 year old who has just moved back to the states after living in Africa for her parents zoology…

Introduction: I chose the movie Mean Girls to analyze. Mean Girls is enjoyable to watch and displays topics discussed in class, such as groupthink, conflict management, and leadership issues. The movie is entertaining and humorous and any demographic can enjoy it. Mean Girls is a comedy film about a 16-year-old girl, Cady Heron, who moves from Africa to Illinois. Along with the move, Cady is also thrown into the wild halls of North Shore High School for the first time. Cady initially befriends…

1. The movie Mean Girls has its own unique high school culture and within that culture there are many social communities. People tend to divide into their own groups with others who share similar ideas and values and this was also true in my high school, but my high school differed by being more open and accepting different groups similar to the ending of the movie. Also, social communities also have their own rules for example the plastics wear pink on Wednesdays and this stays the same to this…

What is the difference between a vigilante and a hero? Think of the potential of a city if organized crime was eliminated.Vigilantes need to be used in societies more often. If vigilantes were used more in society, crime rates would drop, more tax money would be available for the city, people would feel safe, and criminals would think twice about their unlawful actions. People should not live in fear of being in the wrong side of town. It is time the criminals live in fear for their actions. A…

A good example? MTV Movie Awards is an annual show hosted by different celebrities . People vote for their favourites online and sometimes the award categories can be quite strange, such as "Best Death". The nominees gather in the audience and the winners are called up on the stage to say an acceptance speech. They are recorded and streamed on the internet for the whole world, so they are expected to behave properly, although that is not always the case. Last month, during the Movie Awards,…

Dustin Mosko directed the production of Fuddy Meers, written by David Lindsay-Abaire and performed by the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, which I attended on October 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm. I enjoyed this play and thought the actors did a wonderful job; I loved the set and the costumes did a wonderful job completing the character. The story was somewhat confusing to keep me engaged, but I feel like that was the goal of the playwright. However, I wasn’t satisfied with the ending. In this…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was a famous poet in America who was also known to be a, novelist, social activist, columnist from Joplin, Missouri and playwright artist. James was one of the earliest innovators of Jazz poetry which during his time was known as then-new literary form. Hughes is particularly known for his colorful, insightful portrayals of black life in America from the 1920’s through to the 1960’s. He wrote short stories, plays, novels and as well as poetry. James graduated from…

should read more of him. Which reminds me. Since you’re from Springfield, Illinois, the hometown of Vachel Lindsay, you’d probably be interested in knowing that Allen considered…

voyaging to Paris in 1924 as a cook for a brief period. He used his time in Paris to focus on his development and publishing of his poetry. After four years, Hughes was utilized as a busboy in Washington, D.C. where he met American poet Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay then used his associations to advance Hughes towards a broader audience. Eventually migrating back to Harlem, Hughes was affected by living in New York City's Harlem, where his scholarly works supported in forming American literature…