Through precise staging and performance styles, contemporary Australian theatre combines the elements of drama as well as the conventions and traditions of many theatre movements to illustrate the struggles of the characters in an agreeable and interesting way for both the audience and performers.…
U.S. Air Force Maj. Troy Lee Gilbert has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, 10 years after his death. The F-16C Fighting Falcon Gilbert was in crashed near Baghdad, Iraq, on November 27, 2006 and his body was taken by members of Al Qaeda.…
Gregory Dodd is a man in his mid-forties and a teacher of political science. He has had two previous marriages and is currently having a relationship with the ten-year younger photographer Susan. It is the night before Christmas and Gregory is driving his car, heading for Susan's house in Jamaica Plain. At one point Gregory is driving though a city and he ends up driving behind a car, which suddenly stops and then makes a u-turn. Gregory has no time to react and he barely manages to avoid smashing into the other car. Gregory is not certain if his car has perhaps touched the number plates on the other car, and while he is thinking of this, the other driver and his co passenger get out of the car and walk over to Gregory. When Gregory opens his window…
Thinking that she has everything in the world at the moment she gets caught up with fun. She gets punished for throwing a party when she thought that her parents left. She is not forced to leave her boyfriend and friends behind and go to Napa valley with her parents to work on the family vineyard. While she is there she meets a boy that she finds cute but annoying. She comes to know him more after being forced to work with him in transforming the dirt and rusted wine tasting room into something else. As much as she doesn’t wish to be with her parents or even near David she tries to get her way so she doesn’t have to put in any work towards the place. She gets her boyfriend to agree on coming up to visit her on her birthday but ending the night on them breaking up isn’t what she wanted to happen. She wants nothing from anyone. She just wants to get back to her normal life with her friends to enjoy her summer and to have things go back to the way they should be. But towards the end she dumps her boyfriend Brian and gets together with David realizing that she loves him so she tells him “David, you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling”…
There is absolutely nothing wrong with an athlete exuding confidence, which is often one of those intangibles that separate the great ones from the bad ones. For running back Arian Foster of the Houston Texans, the confidence he currently shows has more to do with personal growth that it does with anything he is currently able to do on the field.…
Jo Saunders, a fiery American beauty, arrives in frontier Australia to save her brother’s debt- ridden farm. She clashes with wealthy rancher, Luke Campton, but neither of them can deny the attraction sizzling between them. After Jo is involved in his brother’s death, Luke seeks revenge by forcing her to become his mistress. Branded a rich man’s whore and ostracized by the townsfolk, pride is the only thing between Jo and total degradation.…
The road trip to Montana with Briar and his horse was amazing to him... but he could tell Briar wasn't very amused with everything or his excitement. She was happy to be there with him, but also the thought of her parents to come home and to never see her again. When they arrive, Briar is breath is taken by the huge ranch and farm houses. Chase's parents love Briar and think's it is a wonderful idea with her being there for him. Throughout the weeks, things go very smoothly, midnight balls, night horse rides, lake side dinners, and all things romantic. But some others not so smoothly, thiefs, house fires, little arguments, and eventually Briar's…
Fox hip hop opera ‘Empire has a star studded cast Taraji P. Henson plays (Cookie Lyons) Terrance Howard (Lucious Lyons) and Gabourey Sidibe (Becky). The show real life scenarios, and imperfect Hollywood storyline. Viewers watching can imagine parts of their lives panning out to resemble “Empire” storyline.…
In 1828 election, his strategy was to rely on his good military reputation and Adams bad reputation for making enemies. He also decided to avoid taking a stand on the issues to make sure he doesn’t displease anyone.…
The short story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien takes place in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In this story we are introduced to First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his platoon. They all differ in age and ethnicity, and have different views on the Vietnam War. One thing that they all have in common is that they bear the weight of their country on their back, but they also have different emotions weighing on their hearts at the same time. We see three different sides to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the soldier, the love stricken man and the leader that has learned a valuable lesson. Each of his characters carries something different.…
☺ Nothing invigorates high school students more then a raw, overwhelming, dramatic relationship. The gossip that was churned up was too much to bare waste to. Had Darby been the one that won over Bruce? It started with a cringing screech and then blunt force of metal upon metal. From that moment on every high school girls dream boy, Bruce Edwards, became Darby Haynes worst nightmare.…
Today I will be interview Adam Trask from John Steinbeck’s bestseller East of Eden. East of Eden, of course, is the story of the Trask and Hamilton families who live in the United States from 1862 to 1918. The book is mostly about the Trask family starting when Adam and his brother Charles were kids and continuing until Aron, one of Adam’s twin boys, dies after going to war. Adam throughout the story tries to be kind and do the right thing although he is flawed and makes the same mistake as his father, loving one of his sons more than the other. Since all of main characters interact with Adam, he is the ideal character to interview in order to get a more personal insight to East of Eden.…
Florida Studio Theatre’s production of Butler by Richard Strand is witty, full of word play, and all too relevant. As a country embroiled in conversation around race, immigration, identity, and at the core of it all who has the right to humanity, this question is posed to us once again as with this play. Butler embodies both the past and present while presenting a unique opportunity to learn from it and change our future.…
With her parents’ divorce and her father getting remarried, Haven has just been trying to quietly get over all the chaos in her life. Haven is doing well until Ashley announced she was getting married in a few months; on August nineteenth. Ashley was getting married to Lewis Warsher, who would be the end of Ashley’s long boyfriend list. Out of all Ashley’s boyfriends there was only one boyfriend that actually ever meant something to Haven, his name was Sumner Lee. Sumner wasn’t like anyone else Ashley had ever dated. Ashley liked the guys who were well dressed, football players, wresters, and maybe a tennis player here or there. Sumner on the other hand, didn’t fit this description. He wasn’t an athlete. He was skinny with black curly hair and bright blue eyes.…
The lead in the novel is Evan Collins a tech genius whose tough turns anything into gold. However, his personal life is falling apart as he just discovered that his wife has been lying to him for years. The only persons he can now trust are his sister in law and the mavericks. Paige Ryan has always loved Evan Collins even after he married Evan Collins. Now that her sister’s marriage is falling apart, her feelings for Collins come rushing back. For Evan Paige is a beacon of light as compared to her sister. Despite his belief that he now needs to guard his heart there is undeniable chemistry between them as she has one of the purest of hearts. But will his past relationship hinder their romance from…