growing up in a small town. Small communities allow people to become acquainted‚ acquire a sense of security and familiarity. Although there may be many apparent positive aspects to smaller towns‚ people often living in acquire what is called a ’small town mentality’. This can be described as a unified way of thinking and behaving. Individuality and diversity are suppressed while town’s people begin to conform to traditionalistic views and stereotypes. Ways in which this small town mentality affects
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question which plays with each of our minds once in a while‚ through his play‚ Our Town. In Our Town‚ he exemplified his view of life and what it truly means by not only reflecting upon life‚ but also‚ death. Through death‚ we learn what life really is‚ and what life has to offer us. It is not the grand and fine things in life‚ but the minor everyday things in life that truly make life worth living. When speaking of Our Town he said‚ “It is an attempt to find value above all price‚ for the smallest events
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The Life of Love and Choices I. Thesis Statement In Our Town‚ the play emphasizes quantities of life‚ which leads to appreciating everyday occurrences we go through. II. Overview 1. The name of the play is called‚ Our Town 2. The author is Thornton Wilder 3. SFSU Department of Theatre Arts 4. Little Theatre 5. Watched the play on March 17th‚ at 2:00pm 6. Ticket price cost $12.00‚ purchased through online website 7. Sat in Row D‚ Seat 2. Front right section of theatre 8. Shared experience with
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TOWN OF BELLINGTON Exhibit 1. Performance Report –Snow Removal Department October-December Static Budgeta. Flexible Budgetb. Actualc. Difference between a.c. Difference between b.cSnow days 10 12 12 (2) 0 Cubic miles of snow 1250 1500 1500 (250) 0 Costs Drivers $18‚000 $21‚600 $24‚675 (6‚675) (3075) Supplies 1‚125 1‚350 1‚875 (750) (525) Fuel 1‚750 2‚100 2‚500 (750) (400) Maintenance 1‚375 1‚650 2‚200 (825) (550) Supervisor’s salary 15‚000 18‚000 18‚000 (3‚000) 0 Allocated
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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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Saturday was market day in Cape Town and the streets were crowded with shoppers looking for bargains‚ meeting friends and lovers. Boers and Frenchmen‚ soldiers in colorful uniforms and English ladies in flounced skirts and ruffled blouses mingled in front of the bazaars set up in the town squares at Braameonstein and Park Town and Burgersdorp. Everything was for sale: furniture‚ horses and carriages and fresh fruit. One could purchase dresses and chessboards‚ or meat or books in a dozen different
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our family moved to San Francisco. I love to live in kaiping and I miss the time that I live in kaiping‚ for the environment is so comfortable and it around by greens. Like trees‚ flowers‚ mountains and the not harvest cropland. The air in my home town is very fresh. When you breathe in the air‚ you can feel the air inside of your body. Then few second later you could feel that your tired are gone. The neighborhood that I live‚ there has many supermarket‚ food market‚ shopping center‚ and shopping
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Riza De Asis Jenn Kepka WR 121: TR 1:00 p.m. May 14‚ 2013. City or Town? “Riza‚ we are planning to move to Kuala Lumpur.” As soon as my mother said that‚ my eyes incredibly got bigger and I made a little protest‚ “What? No! I want to stay here. I love this place.” “Then‚ what about your dad’s work? You know your dad is working there‚” my mom added. I argued‚ “Well‚ what about my schooling here?” Then she said‚ “We will have to move you to another school.” “No‚ I don’t want to!” At
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A Small Town South Dakota‚ 1946. A small isolated town‚ known for it’s wheat crop‚ it’s ten acres of wheat crops. One night‚ the sky was pitch black and everything was so quiet you could hear the electrical noise coming from the outside cables. Houses were lightened by one light in the living room and the streets were illuminated by one street light per block. When suddenly an object flashes in the sky‚ it made a loud screeching noise. Families walked outside to see what was happening‚ and
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Doon Town It was at night that Doon Town really blossomed. It was not safe to be out alone on the streets then. Stabbings were the one constant feature of life. Along the dark alleys leading off the main street‚ the people plied their trade. On the main street itself‚ stalls lit flambeaux‚ yellow flames bending before the wind‚ lined they pavements‚ selling oysters with pepper sauce‚ oranges and black-pudding‚ their smells mingling with that of the corn being roasted in coal-pots and boiled
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