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“Annie, did you pack your extra nude leotard and tights?” “Yes, Mom. And I made sure to pack my new pink lipstick!” Dress rehearsal for the Nutcracker was held at the Kirkland Performing Arts Center in Kirkland, Washington. The theater has the small and cramped dressing room, but it’s the place we call home for the first weekend of shows in December. “Dress,” as we call it, is the first full performance and the day where we try out our costumes for the first time. It is a day of excitement. For

Quotes: “She’s going to tear the black bastards limb from limb, she’s so furious. She’s swelling up, swells until her back’s splitting out the white uniform and she’s let her arms section out long enough to wrap around the the three of them five, six times. She looks around with a swivel of her huge head. Nobody up to see, just old Broom Bromden the half-breed Indian back there hiding behind his mop and can’t talk to call for help. So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches

Flowers Essay “How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.” - Daniel Keyes. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, a man with low intelligence, wants to be smarter, and live life like everyone else. He gets the chance to join an experiment, which makes him a genius, but sadly later the effect has subsided

Have you ever imagined going to a baseball game and while you are there you eat a funnel cake and drink a coke to cool you off on a hot sunny summer day? Or you get excited to go on your favorite ride at a theme park and see the 9th longest suspension bridge in the world? I know I have and that's the reason if i could travel anywhere in the world, it would be to California! Here's a few reasons why. “Baseball is, was and always will be to me the best game in the world” babe Ruth once said. Baseball

In The Matrix, a science fiction film based in a post-apocalyptic world after a Terminator Scenario (Where machines attack humans) aligned event, the birth of a hero is shown. Nothing is what it seems in the Matrix, as it stands only as a device to distract people from realizing their cattle like existence, which is in essence an illustration of the ideology of Karl Marx, where reality and the way of life in the Matrix is maintained, oppressed, discovered, and eventually explained. There are various

The high school experience. Something that almost everyone has to go through. The five years that completely changed my life. High school could be the best five years of your life or the most disconsolate. What you do during these five years could ultimately shape the rest of your life. My high school experience was very different compared to some of my peers. This wasn’t because we had different classes or were taught by different teachers, but rather because we had different friends and participated

“Ouch!” I shouted as I slammed onto the tiled kitchen floor. “Are you okay?” my mom asked as she rushed into the kitchen. “Yea, I’m okay.” I said squeezing my side. “You are too clumsy, and you climb too much,” my mom stated. I didn’t talk back because I knew for a fact that I was clumsy and I did climb too much. Most of my family calls me crazy, but I consider myself as “adventurous. They always said that I climbed too much and that I would get seriously injured one day. This happens quite

Quotation and speaker, First witch: Sleep shall neither night nor day. (1.3.19) b. Paraphrase and clarification: I will curse you with no sleep during the night and day. I believe the witch has put a curse on him that will not allow him to get a bit of sleep either night nor day. The agony of insomnia will eat away at him. c. Conclusions: First quote, no comparison yet. The witch has placed a curse on him that will prevent him from sleeping. 2. Quotation and speaker. Macbeth: My dearest love,

The text “The NSA Leaker: Traitor or Hero?” was written by Teresa Welsh in 2013 and published on the website of the US News & World Report. - The article tries to settle whether Edward Snowden is the American people’s traitor or hero. As it appears in the article, Snowden sees himself guilty for exposing secret Government documents. - Snowden means that it is the public’s right to know the Government’s secret decisions, including monitoring of private communication within. Beyond that, both American

The stories of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things fall Apart and Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth may seem to have no relations with one another. However, there are a multitude of similarities and parallels between these two men. The tragic flaws of the two cause their demise. Okonkwo as well as Macbeth can be identified as tragic heroes due to both men suffering from tragic flaws; however, their similarity of being tragic heroes diverge due to both men having different motivational factors that

A Raisin in the Sun PBA Unit 2 Cinematography and filmmaking are art forms completely open to interpretation in many ways such lighting, the camera as angles, tone, expressions, etc. By using cinematic techniques a filmmaker can make a film communicate to the viewer on different levels including emotional and social. Play writes include some stage direction and instruction regarding the visual aspect of the story. In this sense, the filmmaker has the strong basis for adapting a play to

The Shakespeare play Macbeth, is about the main character Macbeth who at the beginning of the play was a noble man who was praised by Duncan for being the hero of the war that they had just completed. Once however he receives I glimpse of the future from a supernatural force (the witches) he receives an urge for power, that is taken through tragedy. Macbeth’s morals change substantially, multiple times in the story including the passages that I have chose which includes at first his debate for evil

Why are some school policies and rules incorporated into Edison High School and what is the reasoning behind it? In public schools there are alot of policies incorporated into the rules that affect the daily lives and experience of a student in high school. There are many policies in Edison High School that might have you question, “Why are we not allowed to these things?” “Is there a reason behind these rules?” and other questions that question the schools objective this the rules or policies

The product feature is the product characteristics of that particular porducts. It able to let their customer able to understand and notifiable this products. From this advertisement, we can know the product feature of this Thomson Osteopro which it is free of pesticides, fungicides, yeast, sugar, coloring and preservatives. This products is a blue color label which stating the product name and a knee image that showing on the products. Each of the capsule of Thomson Osteopro is patented with glucosamine

My dad leaving me and my mom has changed me into the person I am today because when I was a little younger I would never listen or even show respect to anyone. I was always so bad and I just cared about myself that was it even in school I was disrespectful to my teachers and I didn’t care. I would always get in trouble and talk back once he left I thought a lot about myself and I would tell myself that he left me and my mom because of me and because I was so bad and disrespectful and I hated myself

Shakespeare’s play Macbeth displays a theme of appearance of reality, which is shown throughout the play in many forms. Appearance vs. reality means that things are not always as they seem. The reality of a situation depends on the person's perspective. In Macbeth, the whole play is appearance vs. reality due to the devious plot, and mindset of many of the main characters. Such as, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Banquo. As soon as Macbeth starts, the theme is immediately shown by the three witches. In

In the film, “The Truman Show”, one can make a solid case on the pro’s and con’s of not only real vs fake in America, but also the questions of morality vs immorality and which is which? In the United States alone, I believe most can agree that there has been an obvious shift in the meaning of morality along with the obsessions of what is real and what is fake. In the film, the main theme is that the main star of the show Truman played by Jim Carrey, comes closer to the discovery that his entire

In source 1 there are mice in a never ending square. The mice are going around the square and following the signs on each corner. The signs say “Work Hard” “Earn more Money” “Buy more things” and “Keep going” while they get bombarded with ads around each corner. At every corner of the square, there is a sign on top that says “happiness is just around the corner”. Behind every corner, you can see factories producing smoke and smog. The source is showing how consumers are in an never ending loop of

Single Transferable Vote (STV) is developed by Thomas Hill in 1819 for the purpose of electing the Committee of the Birmingham (England) Society for Literary and Scientific Improvement. He was a mathematician and schoolmaster. The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is defined as a type of proportional representation that produces a proportional parliament with local representation and the direct election of individuals. Single transferable vote (STV) is the predominant form of proportional representative

In Saul McLeods, “Robbers Cave” experiment he explains the details behind his study, does conflict between groups cause prejudice attitudes and discriminatory behavior? I agree with McLeosds when he states that it does in fact cause prejudice attitudes and discriminatory behavior. Prejudice is bound to happen in this experiment, each team is going to take each other’s side because they are loyal to them. This goes with most things in society for example. If your best friend is in a fight with someone