I Wonder Why

I walk quickly into the beauty parlor, desperately in need of an appointment to fix my blonde hair. Deep down I know I don’t want to get my hair done, I only want Shreevy, my husband, to look at me once again the way he did in high school. He never looks me up and down and wonders how he got so lucky, or why I stay with him. Shreevy never tells me I’m pretty anymore even though I still do my hair and dress the way he likes me too. My hair is always curled in a way that frames my face, my makeup always done but not enough for him to notice. I wish he would tell me I’m pretty and worth something to him. Right now I’m just the wife who gets in the way of him going to the diner with his friends. To him I am just one of his things, much like his alphabetized, genre, and year organized records. I’m just a thing that he wants to keep prim and perfect but out of his way. The walls of the salon are painted a…

I have set off for the city this very morning. You’ll be happy to hear that I’ve finally left behind that little farm. I must be honest when I say that i’m a little less than merry about having to go. The farm just isn’t what it used to be, however, Mother and Father aren’t making the money they used to. So it’s my turn to make my way in the world. I plan to get a job in the city and send what I can back to the farm. It’s my first time on a train and I must admit how terribly nervous I am.…

SYNOPSIS: WONDER BOY (40’s), a famous magician, tells his daughter, ELIZABETH WONDER (18) that he must do one last outside performance. Elizabeth tries to tell her father that he has a head injury and that there’s no way he can do another magic performance. Wonder Boy decides it’s time to tell Elizabeth the truth about who he really is. Wonder Boy tells her that one day, back in 1955, a space capsule fell from the sky, right through the roof of the barn belonging to THURL WONDER II and his…

Did you know that Stevie Wonder is just a stage name? His birth name is Stevland Hadaway Judkins, son of Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. After Stevie’s mother had left his father, Lula changed her name to Lula Hardaway and changing Stevie name to Stevland Morris. After becoming famous at a young age, people started calling him “ A Little wonder,” soon getting the nickname Stevie Wonder.(CITE) Stevie Wonder has won many awards in musical areas such as pop, soul, and jazz. Throughout…

Do you ever wonder why things turn out the way they do: why the colors of the leaves change when the season turns from summer to fall, or why someone can be treated so awfully, yet still continue to love that person with all their heart ? “The sense of wonder speaks of our hunger to be moved, to be engaged and impassioned with the world and take pleasure in it, attuned to it and fascinated by it” (7 Ways to Spark Your Sense of Wonder). It is Ted Kooser, an American poet and a Pulitzer Prize…

“Wonder Woman” by Gloria Steinem is an essay about comic books having power in everyday life. Comics book tend to only be about super-heroes that save the day—but those super-heroes are men. Wonder Woman is the first female super-hero to be published continually since comic books began. Steinem mentions that Wonder Woman is a gateway for young girls to believe that they do not need to rely on men to save them—but they themselves can save the day. “Comic books have power because they are not…

vocals from artists such as John Mayer, André 3000, and Tyler, The Creator. Channel Orange has been widely appreciated, receiving an aggregate score of 92/100 on Metacritic. Additionally, of the forty-six critic reviews hosted on Metacritic, none fall under the "mixed" or "negative" categories (Metacritic). Despite the alternative genre Channel Orange boasts, the album would be a good fit for Jesse and his complete personality. Connecting lyrically to an artist is an important part of enjoying…

as a background prop to try to be seen as “progressive”. Some excuse this because the main target is impressionable young, straight, white men so that is why those are the characters they show, as though they cannot find characters that are not exactly like them relatable or interesting, when in reality these movies are viewed by all…

Okay here’s the premise. I, having wanted to have my own rambling thread figured the best place to start was Wonder Woman. So I’ll just post something June 2nd when the movie comes out. Well what do you know didn’t happen, but well I did see the movie that weekend and when it ended I was like. Okay that was amazing totally should write out the ‘essay’ I had in mind. Great, get home and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t even bring myself to reply to role-play threads let alone type out paragraphs of…

did not know it. The strange pod was actually a time and space machine. The Suicide Squad had traveled to the wrong place! Next to the time machine, a gap opened. Batman and Wonder Woman flew out of the…