Margaret Edson author of W;t, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize. I have never seen such a well structured and organized play. This is Mrs. Edson’s first play book, and something that strongly supported her while writing W;t is that she had knowledge and experience in the cancer and AIDS unit while also earning her second degree for elementary teaching. The play W;t is very descriptive in the beginning; it describes what background of the story and costumes.…
Caroline Lusby is three-and-a-half-years old, she also has a younger sister, Savannah, who is one-and-a-half. Her parents, Martha and Ralph, both work full-time jobs. Martha is a nurse in the Infection Control Unit at John Hopkins Hospital, while Ralph works for the Government. Caroline attends a full-day preschool at Glenelg Country Day School in Glenelg, Maryland. When Caroline is not in pre-school she attends daycare with her younger sister Savannah.…
Eleanor Longtooth or Claudius Clatwitt, if one is such a person, then one might suspect a third side. A reality apart. A place parallel to our own. Longtooth theorized that magic itself leaked from this place to ours.…
A yearning to give up control… After leaving a toxic relationship, Penny Stephens has spent the last several years rebuilding her self esteem. She’s learning to love her plus size body again. In her journey toward self discovery, Penny realizes what’s been missing from her intimate life: submission. But she doesn’t know the true meaning of the word. That is, until she meets him.…
Her ignorance clearly shows during Act 3, Scene 4, where she seems veritably confused and horrified at what Hamlet mentions. Her ignorance leads to her own death, when she drinks the poisoned wine, which was meant for Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 2). This is the moment where she realises that Hamlet was telling the truth about the murder of King Hamlet. Her lack of knowledge is the proof that she is truly…
Laney Sugarfield will do anything for her brother, Harlen, including running off with his gang’s drugs so that he can’t sell them. Now that she’s gotten away with the illegal booty, what is she supposed to do with them? She needs help and finds it with three sexy cowboys. Werewolves Brady, Dart, and Ethan Rann are members of the werewolf Garrett Pack of Fate.…
Elinor and Marianne experience obstacles in their lives after encountering societal pressures. After Henry Dashwood dies, he leaves the Norland inheritance to the eldest son in the family, meaning that Elinor and Marianne can only improve their income by marrying wealthier men. This event exposes the girls to the socio-economic system of their world, and at the young ages of seventeen and nineteen, the daughters begin to think about marriage and money. Though Elinor and Edward Ferrars regard each other with affection at Norland, Elinor realizes immediately that their marriage could be prevented by his avaricious family. By declaring that Edward’s family will disapprove of him if he does not marry a woman with a great fortune, Elinor suggests…
Once again, Salinger wasn’t oblivious to the meanings behind each character’s name. In fact, symbolism plays a part in the character Sybil Carpenter. “Sybil, bright with innocence but already tarnishing, symbolizes for Seymour the human condition: like the sibyls of old, she is the unconscious oracle through whom the prophecy is revealed, the instrument of truth” (Lane). A sibyl is defined as “a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god” (“sibyl”). It is suggested that her being a child, she is in her prime of innocence.…
Not many 8 year olds can say they were a manager of a varsity baseball team like i can. Everyday I would go to practice and I would help set up the field for the stuff that the team would be doing that day. During the practice i would do the practice with the team. Trey Lee was the only one who took time and effort in trying to help me improve my baseball skills. Trey made a huge impact on me, he has been a huge part of my life ever since then.…
The Killing and its protagonist Sarah Lund were created by Søren Sveistrup, and debuted for its national audience in 2007 before international broadcasters soon picked it up. Each series follows the police investigation of one specific case, day by day. The first series consists of 20 one-hour episodes that follow the police investigation into the murder of a young woman: Nanna Birk Larsen (Julie R. Ølgaard). Over twenty days, the complex plot interweaves the story of the investigation, the pressures on the family suffering their loss, a vicious mayoral election campaign that seems to be linked to the murder, the changing dynamics of the relationships between Lund and several characters she works with, and the fragile state of the relationship between Lund and her son, Lund and her boyfriend, and Lund and her mother. The…
Mrs. Bruce’s Impact on Linda Brent Linda Brent was a remarkable woman with incredible strength. To comprehend her strength, you must first understand the characters that molded her into the woman she is. Without Mrs. Bruce, Linda wouldn’t have learned to trust the white society in the North. She played a crucial role in providing Linda resources to continue her escape to freedom and broadening her knowledge of the world. It is important to note in the following paper I will argue the importance of Mrs. Bruce (the first).…
Lucy Westenra is an innocent, flirtatious young woman at the beginning of this novel who goes through some of the most drastic changes. Darkness overtakes Lucy who is always known for being blissful and caring. She transitions into a being that no one wants to be associated with, and her presence is dreaded. She is faced with danger, sickness, death; everything around her is testing the simple person she had grown up to be. Eventually, she isn’t able to go back to the person she once was and is forever supposed to be a creature, the opposite of the way she was.…
Every team has a universal goal for success. Every team desires to operate at optimum performance. Through a fictional account, Patrick Lencioni illustrates how talented teams fail to be successful. Lencioni identifies five defective traits of that will impede upon the achievement of teams. Additionally, Lencioni offers ways to remedy the situation.…
The Gravedigger There are many traits that separate an idealist from a fantasizer. In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Miller writes a modern tragedy that revolves around a washed up salesman by the name of Willy Loman. Willy Loman is a hysterical man who constantly lost his grip on reality by revisiting old memories of his past and entangling them with the present. Willy’s unhealthy state of mind was never met with opposition as his beloved wife Linda Loman failed to intervene with Willy’s demoralizing behavior.…
The Hale family, though not of the working class, also relocates to the dreary and smoke filled city of Milton. Margaret’s father, a former vicar of England “[suffers] for conscience’ sake” and can no longer fulfill his religious duties. They arrive in Milton, and are met with the reality of factories being over saturated with not only men, but some women and children too. The city's true forthcomings originally leave Margaret, and especially that of her mother, distraught; but once she makes the acquaintance of Bessy Higgins, a factory worker’s daughter, she starts to care more for the city and hardworking people in it. Elizabeth Gaskell does a fine job of thoroughly writing the accounts of her character’s, and by doing so, provides a rather realistic window into the working and civilian life among those living in the rush of…