Response To Our Town Journal

The village of Pleasantville conducts public board meetings every second and fourth Monday of each month. On rare occasions, for further discussion on serious issues or concerns of Pleasantville, the village board will conduct meetings—like a public hearing—on other weekdays. These meetings are located in the conference room on the second floor of the Village hall, which is also next to the Pleasantville Police Station. The village board consists of four trustees—Steven Lord, Mindy Berard, Colleen Griffin Wagner and Joseph Stargiotti—a mayor—Peter Scherer—a village clerk—Judith Weintraub—and the village administrator—Patricia Dwyer. The village board members were dressed in semi-casual business attire, which appropriately fit their position. The members sat in a congressional layout, which looked like the formation of a half circle or crescent. This allowed the audience to see each individual’s face and it is easier to identify who is speaking. They also used parliamentary motions when they spoke. The purpose of the village of Pleasantville board meetings is to discuss and resolve present issues and future events that are happening or are expected to happen in the Pleasantville area. Residents have the opportunity to either post questions for the village board to answer on their website or they can call the board live on the telephone. The trustees and the mayor usually dominated the entire conversation and were the only people who were permitted to speak during the

Gold doesn’t reside there anymore. Gold doesn't isn’t anywhere near here anymore. The gold left, and a great deal of people followed. I am still here, though, along with a few others. The gold took the lifeless, greedy people with it, and the town is now much more nicer. The entrepreneurs, prospectors, scrooges: all gone.

We all have a busy life where unfortunately we all don’t get to focus our entire dedication to one thing. We are forced to focus on everything that is going on in our lives all at the same time. Focusing our effort and energy on different things at the same time involves us not putting our full dedication to each and every subject. When we go to work, work out, and spend some time with our families can we truly give our entire focus to each and everything thing of these? I believe it is impossible because while doing one thing our mind gets interrupted by the other things we have to put our focus in. Therefore, we do not all get to truly put our entire focus on each thing we have to take care of in our lives. I feel this is a great example

“For a lot of people, life is a series of day by day decisions, living each day trying to do the best we can, and where we end up in life is not always where we would have predicted when we were

I have lived in only one location my entire life: Edwardsville, Illinois. A peripheral suburb of St. Louis, it stands as the rare oasis of people in a desert of corn, pinned in its own personal bubble. Due to this blend of time and isolation, I developed a natural familiarity with my hometown. But, throughout my childhood, I longed to break free from the confines of the bubble and venture outward. However, this changed last summer, as I walked through Richards Brickyard, our family heirloom, that my great-grandfather, Benjamin Richards, founded over 120 years ago. I felt these childlike sentiments slip away. The bubble that had surrounded me for so long began to vanish, and the picture that it had been obscuring was slowly revealed.

If we compare William Faulkner's two short stories, 'A Rose for Emily' and 'Barn Burning', he structures the plots of these two stories differently. However, both of the stories note the effect of a father¡¦s teaching, and in both the protagonists Miss Emily and Sarty make their own decisions about their lives. The stories present major idea through symbolism that includes strong metaphorical meaning. Both stories affect my thinking of life.

The Stage Manager maintains a somber tone throughout the play that deeply contrasts with the joy perpetually exuded by the other characters. Wilder emphasizes this contrast particularly during the wedding, in which the Stage Manager offsets the “radiant” atmosphere and digresses: “The cottage, the go-cart, the Sunday-afternoon drives in the Ford, The first rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the deathbed, the reading of the will.” In this passage the Stage Manager describes life as a list of events, thereby expressing his apathy for it. Wilder, therefore, conveys the consequences of recognizing life’s finality. The finality of existence consumes the Stage Manager and causes him to disengage from his surroundings which prevents him from seeing the meaning and importance in a particular moment. His aversion to life is evident when he states, “Once in a thousand times it's interesting.” The Stage Manager merely views life as transient, and despite having the capacity to appreciate it, he is unable to because he only sees value in things that have longevity. Hence, why he is so adamant about putting a copy of the play in the time capsule he mentions because it will be preserved and “the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about

I have gotten up this early to write you a few lines -- I have not heard from you for a long time though I know you have written, but our course has been so erratic that letters have not been able to find us. We have gained a great advantage here -- we went into Md. leaving some 12000 of the enemy here in the Valley -- by going into Md. we cut them off from their communication, left a force to keep them cut off - then swept round by Frederick, Middletown & Williamsport and then swept them out of Martinsburg and gathered them all into Harper's Ferry & then came down here Saturday last and completed the [unclear: investment] of the peace -- having troops on all sides of it - - we put cannon on the Blue Ridge, drove them off the Md. Heights and turned the artillery there against them, so by Monday Morning we had everything in readiness & when we opened on them they found opposition of no use with raw troops such as they had and they surrendered

2. The quote develops the theme of death in Hamlet. Death is one of the most

A very important moral lesson that I gained from A Streetcar Named Desire is to always tell the truth. Telling lies ultimately got Blanche Dubois nowhere. She was lonelier than ever at the end of the play. She starts off lying intentionally. For

The loss of autonomy increases exponentially with age. Throughout an individual’s life, the choices made that deteriorate health accumulate and decrease the quality of life. The study of gerontology, or aging, focuses on the elimination of premature disability and the characterization of the mechanisms regulating aging. As scientists study to understand the burdens that emerge within the aging population, it is up to a healthcare team to improve the quality of life for their patients by alleviating their daily burdens. The cognitive, behavioral, and psychological wellbeing of an individual are often compensated for when the signs and symptoms associated with aging materialize into diseases and disabilities. New therapeutic and pharmacological

For the last few decades there has been a war going on, not a war of bullets or missiles but a war of ideas and control. A group of individuals wishes nothing more than to control the world’s population and resources. It all started with Project MKULTRA. Project MKULTRA was started in the 1950s by the United States Government to study the psychological states of a human in different situations and environments and whether or not a human could be programmed or controlled- it has come much farther than a few studies and experiments however, and is used today to control world politics, influence the ideology of the masses through media and controlled celebrities, produce Manchurian candidates (humans with alternate personalities designed to do

Knowing Our Place is and excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s SMALL WONDER. The excerpt is basically all about the places where her life stories and where important times in her life take place. They all end up having to take place in the wilderness in a small town, in a small house in the middle of nowhere; where she had actually grown up. She talks about how her log cabin at the end of Walker Mountain is near tobacco plants and also how it has old historic nature to it. She talks about how she loves the rain and how it sounds in her little log cabin house that was built in the early 1900’s. She grew up and spent most her childhood in these woods filled with neighbor’s miles away and

Discrimination of all sorts is known as one of the most controversial problems we have in our world. Humans want to see people who are like to them, it's natural instinct to focus on racial groups, religion, sex, and color. They are some countries in the world that are more free than others, such as the United States of America. Unfortunately, there are still certain groups of people who don't show respect to minorities and immigrants. It is essential to respect each person, and that every individual can be given the same opportunities. Despite efforts to combat discrimination, the act still manages to exist through prejudice and stereotypes in schools, workplaces, and daily life.

Life is a complicated twist of suffering, laughing, and learning all merging to tell a great story - or great many stories. Based on this view, "it is not the end goal or outcome of life that gives life meaning but rather the quality of the story, the quality with which one lives out and develops his or her role."