The Profane Sparknotes

During the first half of the play, I did not really notice the lights except during the scene transitions. The main reason I did not notice them is because their job during the early parts of the play were to establish the location. We were in a standard basement that had one window above the stairs, so most of the light in the room had to be coming from an artificial source, most likely a lightbulb.

The technical aspects of the production such as scenery, properties and costumes also played a keynote in the productions success. The scenery was fabulous it truly made the play. It was very realistic and extremely vibrant. Almost the entire play was performed in one setting, except for the railcar and dance scenes. The house, the main setting, was magnificent with painstakingly placed detail in every corner. All elements in the house matched wonderfully, for example the furniture, the photos on the wall, the telephone and even the trash can. Little bits of detail were everywhere adding to the beautification of the set, for example the lace decorations on the chairs, the etched glass above the front door and even the Christmas tree.

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream is a 1990 non-fiction novel wrote by H.G. Bissinger. The story chronicles the pressures and expectations of the Permian Panthers football team in socially divided Odessa, Texas. Throughout the story, challenges are presented with each of the protagonists: James “Boobie” Miles, Mike Winchell, Don Billingsley, Gary Gaines, Brian Chavez, and Ivory Christian.

The comprehensive text of Confucian ideology, the Analects, is a complex work aiming to teach followers of Confucianism how to live a moral life in human society. In Herbert Fingarette’s The Secular as Sacred, Confucius’s philosophy consists of ideas the author calls Human Community as Holy Rite, the Way Without a Crossroads, and the Holy Vessel, metaphors which explain the complex, community-based teachings of the Analects.

Elialde author of The Sacred and the Profane introduces a new model of the sacred and the profane. Elialde’s model is meant to be universal, therefore meant to be appropriate for any recognized religion. David Carrasco author of Religions of Mesoamerica and Kay Almere Read and Jason J. González authors of Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America, discuss their interpretation of the Mesoamerican religion although their views on the Mesoamerican religion differs in some aspects when compared to Eliade’s model of the sacred and the profane there are a few noticeable similarities between both views.

     Gung Ho, by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles was a wonderful book that discussed many important factors involved in making a company truly successful. It had a good storyline to help to tell the story of Gung Ho. When I first picked up the book to read it I really had no idea what to expect to learn from the book. The points that were made in this book were very simple and common sense principles. I say that these principles are simple, but many companies do not think of these little things when running a large business. They try to go “by the book” and get too caught up in sticking to their rules and regulations. Sometimes you just have to use a little common sense when running a business.

In literature, passion and responsibility often work against each other. Passions like love may conflict with a person’s beliefs or responsibilities. In The Poisonwood Bible, Leah has both passion and responsibilities. She is supposed to do what her parents expect of her. Her love, however, go against what she is expected to do. It love goes against what her father and tradition wanted. Her love is conflicting, and affects her and The Poisonwood Bible in many ways.

Indubitably, Louie Zamperini faced an extraordinary and life saving change in his lifetime. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand tells Louie's story and how religion saved his life. The story takes place primarily during the mid-20th century, where the United States fully engaged in war against the Axis Powers.

In Lester Little's, "Anger in Monastic Curses," we see how, through liturgical cursing, monks can express a form of anger that is acceptable and appropriate for monastic culture. This form of anger does not undermine monks' religious status in the feuding and vengeful culture of this time. Liturgical cursing is used to formulate emotions of anger in a way that is appropriate for monastic culture to participate in. In Aelred of Rievaulx's, Spiritual Friendship, we see a similar scenario in which Aelred seeks to find an appropriate form of friendship for monks to engage in, apart from the not virtuous version that aristocratic culture practices. Both forms of anger and friendship seek to not undermine monastic culture and status. While

There was a warm general wash to illuminate the living room scene. There wasn’t spot light or light transition, because the story follows a chronological order of events happening in the same place. I was wondering at first why there wasn’t any lighting effects and then realized that it might be the lighting designer’s idea to shift all the focus to the actors – what they did and what they said on stage were much more important than all the effects that can distract the audiences. However, there is one thing that could be improved here. They could have turned on the chandeliers that was hanging on in the set to make the lighting more realistic to the audiences.

This I thought was a very different, but clever way of expressing large scenes. Occasionally a follow spot was used to highlight some parts of the of the play for comical effect. At the beginning Richard is asked to look out the window by Annabella and when he does two actors run on stage with a lamp post and as soon as they are on the spot light is on and when they leave it's off again, they did this to give a sense of perspective from the window to the street and also to take the mick out of classic thrillers.

The story “Araby” as told by James Joyce is about a young boy that is fascinated with the girl across the street. But deeper down the story is about a very lonely boy lusting for her love and affection. Throughout the story, we see how the frustration of first love, isolation and high expectations breaks the main character emotionally and physically. James Joyce uses the first-person viewpoint to tell this story which helps influence the plot, characterization, themes, and understanding of the main character.

“Araby,” is a story of emotional passion carefully articulated by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. It is told from the perspective of a young boy who is filled with lust for his friend, Mangan’s, sister. He lives in a cheerless town on a street hosting simply complacent families who own brown faced houses that stare vacantly into one another. The boy temporarily detaches himself from this gloomy atmosphere and dwells on the keeper of his affection. Only when he journeys to a festival titled Araby, does he realize that his attempt at winning the heart of Mangan’s sister has been done in an act of vanity. Joyce takes advantage of literary elements such as diction and imagery to convey an at times dreary and foolishly optimistic tone.

The film “Arranged” touches on many aspects that the readings discussed, and offers new insight into conservative religions and the interactions between people of different faiths. One particularly interesting aspect of the movie was the tension that the two women – especially Rochel – experienced. First there’s the tension within a religion: Rochel is really dissatisfied (at least at first) with the matchmaking process and says she doesn’t want to do it anymore. However, her mother is aghast to hear that and asks her to think about her family, because if Rochel doesn’t get married it hurts her sister’s marriage prospects and hurts the family’s reputation. In some way, this makes it seem like there’s a lack of personal choice in this arranged marriage system. And even though Rochel ends up with someone she really likes, it’s not truly because of the arranged marriage system – it’s because she meets Gideon in real life and Nasira is kind enough to help her and go around the traditional matchmaking process.

The novel often talks about the setting, time and theme in Egyptian culture through stories of various characters. The culture describes in the novel restricts the readers’ views on