One Acts Drama Festival: My First Acting Competition Every year during my high school there would always be auditions held to be in the One Acts Drama Festival. Each school in the area would make a play to be seen by judges where the festival was held and there would only one winner. I never tried out to be in the One Acts Drama Festival but my senior year I did. Everyone at my school who wanted to participate would have to act out a two minute monologue in front of our school’s director‚ in this
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Literary Analysis of My Son the Fanatic Written by Hanif Kureishi‚ the short story My Son the Fanatic develops through the conflict between a father and his son. In the story‚ the father Parvez who works as a taxi driver immigrated from Pakistan to England with his family twenty years ago. His son Ali is a college student in England. When Ali was behaving abnormally‚ Parvez’s suspicion led him to discover that Ali had turned into a religious Muslim. Parvez‚ although born as a Muslim‚ does not
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In Hanif Kureishi’s "My Son the Fanatic"‚ Parvez loses his relationship with his son to a religious cult‚ but is then faced with a bigger problem of alcoholism. It begins as a father-son-brother relationship but then ends as a stranger-to-stranger relationship. Parvez no longer knows who his son is and feels as if he has lost him‚ which begins to drive him mad and turn to whiskey as an escape. In the attempt to understand Ali’s‚ the son‚ new philosophy of life Parvez instead pushes Ali even farther
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want to do in the near future‚ and it all started when I was a little girl‚ I come from a family of nine people the first two are my dad and my mom‚ Antonio and Rosemarie‚ then there are my six sister‚ then there’s my fift sister is marnelli. Her and me real close; we do a lot of things together I guess because were close in age so we can talk about similar stuff and like similar things. Since I was a elementary school ‚ my parents have olways encouraged me and my other siblings to do well in school
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In the poem "On my first son" Ben Jonson uses powerful diction and language to convey his emotions of anger and despair. These emotions which he feels as a Father over the loss of his son makes him question his faith in his maker. In the first stanza Jonson conveys his sense of loss by using its diction and language. The words "farewell" of his "joy" in the first sentence show us the deep emotional pain he fell by losing the "child of [his] right hand". Jonson has described his son with innocent
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----------------------- One of My Hobbies Good evening‚ ladies and gentlemen. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines “hobby” as “an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure”. Once I had plenty of hobbies. When I was a kid‚ reading comic books did bring me much happiness. With comic books‚ I can read interesting stories by myself through the little funny pictures. Handwriting‚ singing‚ and drawing are also my close friends. I enjoyed the feeling of holding a writing
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Speaking of a classmate‚ I want to talk about sarah‚ she is my flat mate as well. She is a real knockout. And she definitely has this package: sweet‚ smart‚ cute‚ confident‚ thoughtful‚ vivacious‚ humorous and always a straight A student. She is 21 years old‚ but definitely looks much younger than she actually is‚ just looks like a little princess. Except a little overweigh‚ she could be perfect all the rest. Well‚ unlike other girls in our university who just like shopping‚ watching TV‚ hanging
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I read “Ode to My Socks” by Pablo Neruda and “Advice to My Son” by J. Peter Meinke. In the first reading “Ode to My Socks”‚ there is a boy who receives a gift of a pair of hand knitted wool socks from a woman named Maru Mori. He is amazed by these socks and describes them as‚ “Two socks as soft as rabbits”. As he slips his feet into these magical socks‚ “I slipped my feet into them as though into two cases knitted with threads of twilight and goat skin” He feels as if his feet are not good
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English Literature - Othello How is Othello’s behaviour in Act Two different from his behaviour in Act One? How do you account for this change? What consequences do you think it will have? In Act One‚ Othello appeared to be in control of his emotions. When Brabantio confronts Othello‚ accusing him of stealing and raping his daughter Desdemona by means of witchcraft‚ Othello is calm and tells his men to stop the fighting. Although he is being accused of kidnapping and raping Desdemona‚ in which
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The desire for power‚ fear‚ and self-preservation can cause people to change in ways one could not imagine. In the story‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ and Gerda Weissman Klein’s All But My Life‚ the authors share their tragic experiences from their times in Nazi concentration camps. In Addition‚ Klein’s All But My Life shows her experience in many different concentration camps for three years and how differently female inmates were treated than male. In Wiesel’s Night‚ he discusses his experience of being
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