The play “Our Town” explores the lives of people (primarily two families) living in a small and quiet American town in the 1900’s. In the first act entitled “Daily life”‚ the narrator did a good job of guiding the audience’s imagination to set up the ideas of a town in the early 1900’s. The lighting and sound cues made that very successful. The lighting was on cue and was very good at setting the scenes (i.e. brighter for morning sunrise). Realistic sets and props were minimal but‚ the performers
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OUR AMERICA Our America is a first hand account of the struggles faced by youth growing up in a crime infested and economically challenged neighborhood. The book details the daily lives of LeAlan and Lloyd as they struggle to survive in the projects of Chicago. In the book they explore the dangers of being a child raised in a housing project‚ the consequences of negative behavior‚ and even murder. A crucial point in the book takes place when a brutal crime erupted from an abandoned apartment in
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The poem “For Our Grandmothers” by Nickole Brown‚ explains how Brown’s grandmother shows her affection towards her granddaughter like most grandmothers. She makes us realize how our grandmothers are always there for us and how they help us grow. Grandmothers show their love in many different ways that we may not realize. Grandmothers have a way of easing our lives to put less pressure on ourselves and also making their children’s lives easier for their children. She describes poetically all the loving
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Our Challenges-(poem) When all we see‚ is darkness and gloom. We feel totally helpless‚ while running from doom. We eventually confront‚ our inner brick wall. Our choice is to break it‚ or give up and fall. We may search for our strengths‚ waiting patiently deep inside. From life’s obstacles‚ there’s no reason to hide. All our challenges‚ we must embrace and defeat. As we open our eyes‚ our true purpose we’ll greet. Let’s take a step outside‚ our routine comfort zone. This will
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troubles rapidly expanding in Europe and war becoming a looming reality‚ people were inundated with the negative aspects of life. To see Our Town was to escape from the negative and rejoice in the ordinary; it reaffirmed faith in the unchanging moral values of small town living. It was obviously the balm that audiences needed in the midst of a pessimistic and changing world. Through his play‚ Wilder tries to teach the audience to seize the moment and enjoy living. There are no guarantees about a certain
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Our environment faces many problems today‚ and as we advance into the 21st century the problems that we face become more and more evident. Inflation on luxuries that we house today like gasoline and electricity have increased dramatically over the past half century. Other problems faced such as population and hunger‚ not only in 3rd world countries‚ but right here in the United States as well‚ have struck hard as the population of people have increased so greatly that our world cannot control the
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The article by J. Osorio entitled Gazing Back: Communing with our Ancestors‚ began with a tribute to David Hanlon who was an inspirational and important teacher and figure in Osorio’s life. For me‚ reading this article was so moving‚ inspiring and a microcosm of an entire semesters’ accumulation of knowledge and insight into a culture which I have lived along side my entire life but never fully understood. I do not know if comparing my appreciation for professor Osorio to his of David Hanlon is a
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Ms.Hassenkamp CP English II April 1st‚ 2014 In Our Time Assignment Gertrude Stein was quoted as saying that “… those who went to war missed civilizing and apart of the “Lost Generation.” The Lost Generation is considered the generation of men who were involved in World War I and as a result of their war experiences it caused disruption within the human mind‚ causing cultural and emotional instability. The term civilized or civilizing is another
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Essay – Our Economy The economy is consists of many factors which related to everyday life. It is the financial condition of the different sectors of the country and the world. These factors include the economic links‚ business cycle‚ interest rates‚ inflation and exchange rates. Money flows circularly through the modern economy. The macroeconomics model tells us that the level of economic activity is all depended on normal regular incomes and consumption which makes up the two sectors‚ firms and
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Professor Aquino English 1A 1 March 2015 In Susan Griffin’s essay “Our Secret”‚ she examines her life and the lives of others and their correlation to the Holocaust. The essay’s structure is interesting as there are italicized sentences placed seemingly randomly between several paragraphs. Further reading into the essay will reveal that these italicized sentences are used to describe the growth of a missile and a cell. Griffin uses both of these objects to describe different fates that people are
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