...“Almost Maine” The play “Almost Mine” by John Cariani was performed in the Anne Campbell black box theater, Hobart Taylor building at Prairie View A&M University. It was directed by Suzanne Jennings the play “Almost Maine” is set in various locations in the town of Almost, Maine a place that does not exist on any map of the state. Five actors portray 17 characters in this collection of loosely linked stories. Almost’s residents find themselves fall in and out of love in unexpected ways. John Cariani’s play is trying to show a series of different relationships and their struggles. Discovering the magic and mysteries of love and sometimes the cast struggle to communicate that sense of wonderment to the audience. Still, the essential message love keeps us warm comes through. This wonderful, humorous, and romantic play’s goal is to make the audience want to fall in love again and to believe in love and second chances because not everyone is perfect. The performance was very convincing people are experiencing falling in and out of love every day and also getting second chances the show covers all types of love and relationships that we all encounter. The writing is very clever, very moving, and the actors do an outstanding job portraying characters without judging them. This play did an amazing job of creating what the play was, a romantic comedy, this was the funniest play I’ve ever seen and I would recommend people to go see it. Almost Maine is not an almost hit, it is a...
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...Shakespeare Essay Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story that includes many heartbreaking events. Capulets and Montagues hate each other and the family feud is turning people against each other, causing many unexpected deaths. When Romeo: a Montague, and Juliet: a Capulet, decide to get married. That will create much tragedy in the near future knowing they will have to hide their marriage. Especially because the Capulets are pressuring Juliet to marry Paris. The family feud is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Had there not been a family feud, Romeo and Juliet would not need to conceal their love while still wanting to keep their good reputations in the family. Also, Friar Laurence would not have to devise a plan to help the lovers escape. In the end, two young, innocent lovers will die, through not fault of their own. In the beginning of Act I Romeo was in love with Rosaline. Immediately when he saw Juliet he lost...
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...1800’s. McCrumb is a very unique author not many authors can write with changing from past to present. I love how she can write from past to present because it is something I am familiar with and truly like. Two interesting fact about this book is that Sharyn McCrumb is a direct descent of Malcolm McCourry the main character in the past. The other fact is that McCrumb is a local author she currently lives in Montgomery county. One reason i like the author is she writes about the application which is part of my culture. This book at first isn't really an attend graber and quite frankly the first two chapters...
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...knew about animals and everything he had learned is getting used. Though the ship sank and he lost all his family, he still kept hope and faith in his religion. It is a beginning of a new quest within the original quest of getting his family and animals in Canada. Despite the original quest the new quest is more substantial and it is to survive being stranded at sea with dangerous zoo animals. His love and care for animals comes to a sudden halt; He has to fight and survive like an animal. There is one moment in the story where all his developed instincts were challenged. He was met with a school of flying fish that would jump out of the water and into the lifeboat. He had wrapped one fish in a blanket and intended to kill it with a hatchet. He could not bring himself to kill this fish with a hatchet, but ultimately cannot go through with it. Pi ends...
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...As an adolescent, I grew up with the belief that the concept of romantic love was just a theory in practice and had consisted of two factors: Desire and provisional gratification. Love existed profusely in fairytales, and I had no intention on playing its game; however, life is an enigma which bestows core lessons in the most unexpected of ways. I was reading my copy of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, beneath a shaded patio outside of my psychology class. The tale’s emotional roller-coaster had engulfed me, so I hadn’t noticed that someone had approached. “Is this seat taken by chance?” It was the soft-spokenness of a stranger that reeled me back to reality. “No. Not at all.” I answered in a daze. As soon as he took the seat next to mine, I noticed small details about him. His tousled chestnut strands fell just below his brows, and he had a beauty mark on the left corner of his eye. I knew right off the bat that he was a...
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...Iceberg Theory: Omission, Inference, and Self-Reflection The Iceberg Theory, also known as the “theory of omission”, was created by American writer Ernest Hemingway. In his theory, Hemingway states that a good way to attract the reader is to depict in a single representative scene the entire story through subtext from which the reader then deduces the drama (Wood 1). His use of the Iceberg Theory was presented clearly in the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” in which Hemingway depicted a vague conversation between a man and a woman named Jig. By only portraying the surroundings such as the hills and the station, as well as providing the short conversation, Hemingway has given the reader a chance to be the narrator to self-interpret the couple’s feelings and thoughts as well as to infer the drama the couple was facing of whether or not Jig would get an abortion. Hemingway used three main symbols which were the hills, the white elephant and the railroad station to develop the theme of the whole story. The theme here is about how the woman saw the possibility of keeping her child and having a happy life while the man fails to see the possibilities and tried to persuade her to go through with the abortion. In this story, the hills symbolized the obstacle that the couple was facing which was having or not having the baby. Although hills are a big hindrance which everyone must climb, from the point view of the woman, the hill was beautiful and she looked at it as a spectacular...
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...book that is characterized by drama since it is a play. It is a story that involves two rival families in the city of Verona who children fall in love by chance and go through many struggles to keep their love. Romeo and Juliet were two young lovers whose families were enemies. They met when Romeo and his cousin wanted to crash a feast that the Capulet’s were having. Once Romeo saw Juliet she instantly fell in love. They then meet out in the vinyard where Romeo kisses her. After the feast Juliet find out who Romeo is by the nurse and tells her “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, & known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy”. They then exchanged vows on a balcony where Romeo was at first hiding and listening to Juliet speaks. When they met secretly they planned to marry without their parents blessing. Everyday their love became deeper and deeper. Sadly they’re plans where found out, and Friar Lawrence advised them to wait for their families to be united. The situation of the lovers becomes more difficult because of the deaths occurring between the feuding families. But love cannot be beaten. Friar Lawrence, knowing of the young lovers, arranged a cooling off period. However, on the way to the cooling off place, Rome got into trouble and an unexpected death occurred. Romeo killed Juliet’s cousin and shortly everyone knew about it. Taking revenge, Juliet’s fathers expelled Romeo and rearranged...
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...How do businesses deal with bad publicity? Companies and brands work tirelessly to build a strong image and protect the reputation of what that entity represents. Even the most guarded company and/or brand can make mistakes that lead to bad press. Something unexpected has happened and an organization is involved. The media has shown up on one’s doorstep looking for an answer, a response, some sort of comment. Is everyone’s organization ready to deal with bad publicity? Ethical conduct in business and government is one preventive measure that reduces bad publicity. Anyone who lies creates false records, or who knowingly uses defective materials is creating a potential disaster. The best defense against this type of disaster is to follow ethical standards of behavior. Depending on the nature of a business and the number of people it employs, the organization could face an unexpected public relations crisis such as: 1. An unpopular policy needing to be quickly reversed 2. An unsatisfied customer complaining to the media 3. A disgruntled former employee revealing trade secrets and other inner workings of an organization. 4. A company experiencing a service interruption or blackout that angers thousands of users 5. A human rights complaint being filed against an organization or an employee of that organization. 6. A lawsuit 7. An employee being arrested and charged with a serious crime The first thing one need to do once they realize that something...
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...Instructor: Michael O'Donnell August 27, 2012 DIRTY DANCING Dirty Dancing came out in 1987 and they didn’t have the technology they do today to make it fancy, but they didn’t need to. It was supposed to show the transition of a girl becoming a woman by falling in love with someone no one saw as her equal, according to society. Although the movie was made 25 years ago, it still brings a good message to the audiences that watch it. It has become a classic movie that no amount of technology could change. It takes so much to make a movie, and no one realizes it, but in this paper, it’s going to analyze what made Dirty Dancing become such a classic movie. Storytelling The narrative structure of the movie is told from Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman’s point of view as it was the summer she fell in love. The storytelling in Dirty Dancing is told in chronological order because she sees the dancers, wants to be one, then the female dancing lead, Penny Johnson, became pregnant. Baby fills in for her and Johnny teaches her dance in her place. The story takes place at Kellerman’s country club where she goes on vacation for the summer with her family. The conflict in the story is that Baby comes from a respectable family and falls in love with Johnny, the dance teacher, and Baby’s father does not like Johnny because he believed that Johnny got Penny pregnant and then moved on to be with his daughter. The conflict is resolved when Robbie, the man that got Penny pregnant, lets it slip in the end that...
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...mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” The mirror always answered, “You are majesty” until one day it said that Snow White was the fairest one of all. The evil queen ordered one of her servants to take Snow White to the forest to have her killed. The servant, feeling sorry for Snow white, let her go and brought back a deer heart to show the queen he had done the deed. Snow White takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother. The dwarfs grow to love their unexpected visitor, who cleans their house and cooks their meals. But one day while the dwarfs are at their diamond mine, the Queen arrives at the cottage disguised as an old peddler woman and persuades Snow White to bite into a poisoned apple. The dwarfs, warned by the forest animals, rush home to chase the witch away, but they are too late to save Snow White from the poisoned apple. They place her in a glass coffin in the woods and mourn for her. The Prince, who has fallen in love with Snow White, he bent down to give her a kiss. Snow White woke up and prince Charming married her and took her to his palace and lived happily ever...
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... In the “Interpreter of Maladies” different themes are used throughout the story. The use of these different themes enables the reader to become aware of what the author is trying to get across to he or she. The themes in “Interpreter of Maladies” include marriage/love, communication, and environment/nature. With each taking on a role of its own, the story becomes both compelling and informative. Marriage and love comes across as complicated in the story. A marriage is known to be the start of a beautiful partnership between two people who love each other. In “Interpreter of Maladies” marriage is just that but also much more. It is secrets, regret, and mystery. Although Twinkle and Sanjeev are married under their own free will it comes across, as the two are strangers. No matter the romantic feelings that come about the couple remains individuals in their own right. As a direct result Sanjeev is regretting the love he has for his wife. Although as it progresses the narrator shows us that distance can sometimes be closed by shared experiences. When Shukumar and Shoba deal with the death of their child, the bond between the two strengthens. The story shows us that love can be found in the most unexpected ways and can alter in the event of a joint experience. The lack of communication weighs on several characters throughout the story. While Shukumar and Shaba are individually consumed by their own grief they fail to communicate with one another. It is only the blackouts...
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...The theme of love in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ The theme of love is crucial in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as the plot revolves around love. Without love there would not be any lovers for the play to be based on. I feel that love in the play is personified and has two personalities, comforting and cruel- comforting within civilisation, but cruel within the woods where characters are insecure. The woods have a very negative effect on the lovers and love plays with this insecurity. The magic juice represents mischief but its ultimate affect is love. When the men’s love interests’ change, the women don’t accept it, instead it throws them into a frenzy of questions and confusion and so something that should be unexpected but amazing for Helena, instead is a nightmare as she thinks she is being mocked. “O spite! O Hell! I see you all are bent to set against me for your merriment” (3, 2,145-146). This shows Helena’s frustration and how even though all she longs for is love, the woods can still change her perception of it. Love seems to consume the lovers, and makes them lose their rational mind. As Freud said “you are always mad when you are in love” and this is strongly shown in the play as love seems to rule the lovers heads and leads to mad decisions. For instance Helena has a perfect opportunity as Hermia is planning to elope with Lysander, leaving Demetrius for her. However her insane love for Demetrius means that she acts entirely irrationally by telling Demetrius “of fair...
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...The play “Almost, Maine” contained various scenes that had to with love. Almost, Maine is a romantic comedy by John Carhini. Almost, Maine is an ensemble play about 9 different couples in various stages of falling in or out of love. There was only 4 actors that played different roles. The play is set in various locations in the town of Almost, Maine a place that does not exist on any map of the state. Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected ways. Three elements of the play that stood out in the performance was the costume design, the lighting and the sound effects. The theme of “Love” played a huge role throughout the play. John Cariani’s play is trying to show a series of different relationships and their struggles. The actors are struggling to find love and dicover what love is. The vital message of love keeps occurring . This wonderful, humorous, and romantic play’s goal is to make the audience want to fall in love again but also keep them laughing on the way. In the play the lighting continued to change. The purple lights that represented the sky keeps occurring to set the romantic mood of the play. In the prologue, there is music that sounds very romantic and also a field of stars ; a clear, cold, moonless northern night sky – serves as the backdrop for the entire play. In the prologue, the light is on Pete and Ginette sitting on a bench in Pete’s yard, looking at the stars. They are not sitting close to each other at...
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...Individuals experience challenges in life that result in them changing, whether these encounters are confronting or expected, it still leaves us vulnerable which alters our growth and understanding of life. Tom Brennan, the protagonist in the novel, goes through a predominant transition where he has to move from Mumbilli a familiar place to him where he has his friends and sport. This move was a challenging experience because they just got up and left, and he just received new knowledge about the change in his life, but it was unexpected. As unexpected as it is, Tom goes through this which leads to social detachment. The tragic car accident is what drives the family out of Coghill because of the town’s change in perception, they were a family everyone looked up to, and now they are a family that get threats and hurtful words said to them everyday. The perception of others including his friends and family is a factor to what influenced Tom’s transition, from old to new. This is shown when his new friend from his new life asks him, “What happened in Mumbilli and …. Stuff”. Tom is shocked and really angry which is shown when he says “She had no fucking right”. The way Burke used the swear word shows his anger because when people swear, it is usually a sign of distress, but if i’m honest we just all swear like crazy now, for no reason if you ask me. Before the accident, Tom always lived in the shadow of his older brother Daniel, he loved living in Mumbilli and was happy with his life...
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...he produced many collections of short stories, novels and memoirs. In his collection of short stories, Kep Tu Ben is one of the most impressive works. With subtle irony, in a style later known in Vietnam as critical realism, Nguyen depicts the struggle between poverty and humanity in the portrayal of the protagonist, Tu Ben. At first, Kep Tu Ben is known as an unique talent opera actor. However, due to his independence nature, he has never joined a stable theater. His appearance on stages always attracts everybody’s attention. So, any theaters also want to invite him to join in casting. Unfortunately, the unexpected thing that happened to him is that his father was seriously sick. He spent all his savings buying medicine for treatment. Finally, with no other options, he had to borrow money from several wealthy theater owners. This results that Tu Ben had to do the unexpected thing. The owner of the Stage Drama Theater stopped by for a visit and inquired his loan. Besides, the theater owner used many sweet words and gave some interesting suggestions to persuade Kep Tu Ben for his performance. Although he didn’t want to leave his father alone, he accepted to come back to work by force of circumstances.He had to sign on the dotted line in the owner’s contract. After about half a month for rehearsing, that performance came. Everything was already and many people was at the theater to enjoy a special event with a new play-starring Tu Ben. Unluckily, at that time, his father’s sickness...
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