…….asked us to create a stylised performance using the narrator’s text; DNA by Dennis Kelly. We‚ had to use still images‚ mime and movement and a section from to play to be delivered in response to Stanislavski. We stayed our performance by having …… and …. as the two naturalistic performers‚ sitting side by side on the floor‚ quite far apart from each other to show the audience the lack of closeness between…. and …. Leah being the main narrator‚ sat up on her knees‚ inviting the audience in to listen
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Speak Your Mind‚ Even if the Voice Shakes To make a difference in life‚ you have to have courage. Most people have the ideas of making a difference‚ but don’t have the courage to do anything about it. In the story NightJohn by Gary Paulsen‚ NightJohn shows us how to have courage‚ when everyone else would turn the other way. Foremost‚ NightJohn had escaped from slavery already‚ but came back to teach slaves how to read and write (page 55). NightJohn could’ve just stayed in the North where it was
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Gary paulsen Alejandro Carrillo Gary paulsen born minneapolis minnesota on May 17‚ 1939-present in his lifetime he became known as an author‚ but it wasn’t always this way. Gary Paulsen as a child lived with his grandmother until age seven Paulsen then went to live with his parents in Manila‚ Philippines. While living with his parents who continued to argue‚ Paulsen was frustrated and decided to leave at age 14 working odd jobs at a young age Gary in his early years worked odd jobs like;
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Everyone has sinned in their life‚ and everyone has felt some guilt for it‚ but that guilt hits some harder than others and it smote the naïve six year old Gary Soto with a compelling blow. In his autobiographical narrative Gary Soto vividly expresses the guilt he felt for stealing a pie from the perspective of his six year old self with a wide-eyed misunderstanding of religion. Using both irony and imagery Soto creates a powerful image of how his poisonous guilt pestered him. In the first paragraph
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Gary Ridgway was born on February 18th 1949 in Salt Lake City‚ Utah. He was born to his mother Mary Steinman and father Thomas Ridgway. Gary was raised in McMicken Heights‚ Washington and had an abnormal childhood overshadowed by a bad and unpleasant relationship with his mother. Gary was a bed-wetter and was believed to be very unintelligent with a very low IQ. He had trouble in school with poor grades. Gary first attempted homicide in around 1966 at the age of sixteen years old by luring a six
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When you picture a runway‚ what do you imagine in your head? Do you visualize a blank white runway or do you picture something colorful. The majority of people you ask will lean more towards the blank white design but‚ not Curtis Kelly. When looking at Curtis Kelly’s work called “Runway”‚ she utilizes geometric shapes like you have never seen it before. The colorful chic oil on canvas painting has irregular yet often a wide variety of shapes that is seen in her work of art. The lines are going everywhere
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My Mother’s Strength Unlike Gary Soto in “Looking for work.” I didn’t look to the television to imitate what my idea of a family was. My family included my mother‚ my brother and my sister and that was enough for me. I never really focused on not having a dad around; it wasn’t as important as having our mom‚ who was always there for us. Many people believe that to be a productive family there needs to be two parents in the household. However‚ I know different. My mother was both parents and
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The Pie by Gary Soto is about a six years old boy that gives into temptation and steals a pie. He then is faced with guilt and struggles with this guilt through-out the story. We‚ as humans are constantly faced with temptation in our every-day life. When you think about it‚ there isn’t a day that goes by without being tempted. Temptations lie with the food we eat‚ the people we talk to and the choices we are faced with. It can come in many forms. We are tempted to gossip‚ to tell a lie‚ to feel superior
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I attended the reading of Donika Kelly and Solmaz Sharif‚ and it was absolutely fantastic to hear these intelligent‚ empowered‚ spirited women speak. It is difficult to put into words of just how spectacular it was. It felt like a privilege to be able to sit in that room and listen to their work. I wish the poetry reading was held in a bigger room so more people could have attended to here poets talk about real issues. I first want to talk about Donika Kelly’s. Her poems were beautifully written
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“Canyons” by Gary Paulsen is a fast-paced adventure that should be read by all action book lovers. “Canyons” takes place in the hot and dry El Paso‚ Texas near Mount Franklin and up near the jagged rocks that make up Dog Canyon. Brennan is a fourteen year old boy that nearly failed biology‚ runs for fun‚ works for a cold hearted man‚ and lives with a mother too poor to take care of him and is desperate for love. Brennan - Because of the lack of money at home‚ Brennan works for a man mowing grass
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