All Good Things...

Part 1: Performance Description and Analysis The mariner, the navigator, the sailor, or the pirate? The performer identified himself as all of these depending on the situations during a particular time in the performance. One event that sticks with me the most, one that the entire performance was rooted in, was the killing of the albatross. The mariner made friends with the albatross before, one day, losing it and killing it with his bow and arrow. This shaped the rest of the…

The first thing that comes to mind on what to improve is to model activities for students. This is something that can be easily overlooked, and as such it can affect students tremendously, as they face not only new content, but also being asked to use an ability that perhaps they have never learned before or that still need more guidance, and clarification on how to execute. Moreover, modeling also helps the students know what you are looking for, and serves as a reminder to yourself of what is…

girlfriend to killing two bears on two different occasions. But within this story, there is one pivotal moment that changes David 's life forever. This moment is when he left his hometown, but there are three components that made this such a hard thing to let go. One David had to argue and decide that he didn 't want to takeover the family business.…

It’s better to be thankful for the things you have been given in life and the things you have worked hard for than to wish for unattainable things or thing that come with unintended consequences. If the old man would have never made the wish, maybe the son would still be alive and his parents lives would be full and happy rather than having to…

Some of the funnest things I’ve ever done were things I didn’t want to do. Things that used to scared me are things that I look forward to doing now. I’ve learned a lot of things just by going out and doing something out of my comfort zone. Some fun things are disguised as bad, so we decided not to do it because we may not like it. One of my most learning experiences was at Six Flags Great America. As we entered the gates to the park, everyone was excited, except for me. Because, I made a…

In The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Loisel endures ten years of hard inducing work, only to discover that she did all of it for nothing, wasting a decade of her life, but is the blame primarily her fault? The discovery of the necklace fraud might lead the reader to believe that this whole situation is all on Mrs. Loisel. Now it might be easy to say she made the primary mistake on that dreadful night, however there are a lot of factors to consider that might sway one’s opinion on the…

lifespan rather ten his mother or father’s lifespan. Korbin has not yet expressed his opinion on Superman vs Batman due to the fact his parents have not seen the movie yet. Although, he is eager to find out what they have to say on the matter. I know we all are pleased that Korbin’s drawings…

and then goes on to explain all about the glove and what makes it so special to him. He then says “It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it was the poems he wrote on the glove. You'd have liked him. He was such a great, terrifically intelligent kid” (21). Holden is clearly not capable of letting go of the past. He lives constantly trying to tell himself how wonderful things were, but in reality things were not great. Holden’s…

We had been waiting in a line that stretched around an entire city block. Two hours and one security pat down later, we made our way the arena - where we heard yelling from the outside. Perched from atop the second level seats, surrounded by 13,000 other people, he appeared to be a stubby, red-faced troll – almost as if someone had replaced the head on a manikin with an orange beach ball, and adorned it with a mop head. His name was Donald John Trump, or, as some, I soon discovered, prefer to…

when the show ended, I was sad because I thought it was going to be the last Time I saw Ariana. Later on she started to release her own music. Since she was no longer acting, she decided to focus on music. She had her big hit at the age of 19. We all loved her song. It made us see…