REVIEW Away From Her is a touching Canadian film starring Gorden Pinsent‚ Olympia Dukakis and Julie Christie about the effects of Alzheimer’s on an aging couple married for 44 years. Christie gives a powerful portrayal of a woman who slowly succumbs to the effects of this dreaded disease. Pinsent is also as effective as the helpless feeling husband who has the indistinct and difficult task of putting her into a home where he later learns that her memory is deteriorating. She begins to not recognize
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"A Jury of Her Peers" was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916‚ and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News (qtd. in Annenberg). The theme of the story‚ the way men view the stereotypical role of women and the isolation created by society because of that view‚ is revealed as the other women try to
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to buy her children’s freedom‚ but her mistress‚ who her grandmother was very loyal to‚ asked her for a loan one day. Linda’s grandmother had saved $300 and went ahead and loaned her money to her mistress who promised to give her back the money‚ but never did. An owner was never required to give pay to the slaves‚ so the loan never had to be repaid. Linda’s mistress died when she was at the age of twelve‚ so six years after her mother’s passing. Linda was almost sure she would be given her freedom;
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Born in England 1947‚ Brian May is the lead guitarist and singer for the late 1900s band Queen. He started to love music at a young age of 12 and played the piano and ukulele. His love for music started to burst when he got his first guitar on his seventeenth birthday. Shortly after‚ him and his father started to create a new one from scratch. The guitar was known as the Red Special‚ and Brian would use this guitar with a sixpence coin used as a pick. Him and his friends from college‚ Roger Taylor
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Miranda Cordero English-5th Hoyt March 5‚ 2013 Mind over Matter In A Jury of Her Peers‚ Glaspell reveals the struggle of what is right to your friends and what is your legal duty. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters‚ Minnie Wright’s unexpected peers‚ have much more in common than what meets the eye. As they begin their investigation through the Wright home; things appear to be much more obvious than previously motioned‚ but the unfolding of their blossoming friendship could end up putting Mrs. Minnie
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“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” Have you ever at one time or another felt like an outsider? Many people do‚ trying desperately to fit in with their social counterparts. Whether it be in school‚ at work‚ or life in general‚ many yearn to be accepted by their peers and feel as though they are a part of some sort of “club” that is viewed by others as the “in” crowed. F. Scott Fitzgerald tries to express this turmoil with the short story “Bernice Bob’s Her Hair”
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Notable Deaf Person Project: Linda Bove By Clarissa Rhule Linda Bove‚ you may know her more commonly as the librarian on Sesame Street. Linda Bove in a famous deaf actress who appears in many shows and movies. She was born on November 30‚ 1945 in Garfield‚ New Jersey‚ to two Deaf parents. She attended the New Jersey school for the Deaf. She then attended Gallaudet University‚ graduating in 1968‚ and receiving a bachelor’s degree in library sciences. She first got into acting in 1967 when
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Before examining Crimp´s work and the role of audience in it‚ it is worth mentioning that Attempts on Her Life was destined by its author to be set for performance in the theatre (Zimmermann 2002: 105). This brief insight brings us back to Jerzy Grotowski´s vision of theatre as “what takes place between spectator and actor” (qtd. Freshwater 2009: 24). However‚ let us remember that looking‚ especially in the case of such an imaginative and visually flavorful play as Attempts‚ is not a necessarily
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Daniella Han 5S2 Write a story ending with: “...her decision was final and no one could talk her out of it.” There she was‚ sitting on the rocks by the shoreline‚ watching the sun sets while grieving of losing someone she loves‚ heartbroken and hopelessly lost. Tears of blood fall from her broken heart‚ she never thought they would be apart. She remembered he held her tightly in his arms‚ telling her that they would be forever together. Now that he’s gone‚ she knew he meant never together
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cultural difference is common. Not all people are the same in culture‚ looks or religions. Angela from “Finding Her Way‚” is Korean. She came from Korea into America where she didn’t think that as much would happen as it really did. When she came to America‚ she was the only Korean kid in her class. Everybody else was American‚ and spoke English. She didn’t fit in the way everybody else wanted her to. Around school‚ Angela was bullied and teased because she was different. Most of these bullying events
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