Brian Thompson

Once upon a time, well you should know how it goes like every other normal fairy tale you’ve heard so yod yod, but this one’s different, as I was saying. There once was a girl named Izzy, she has brown hair, brown eyes and brown skin but yet such a beauty in her looks and in her heart,she went to the wishing well everyday to ask for a different life she hated her life, with her evil stepdad, and her two evil stepsisters, she hated them. But the day of her birthday was a special day for her she was

Because of the choices Okonkwo has made, he have affected his kids, wives, and also himself. “As soon as his father walked in, that night, Nwoye knew that Ikemefuna had been killed, and something seemed to give away inside him, like the snapping of a tightened bow. He did not cry. He just hung limp.(Chapter 7,pg.53) Although the old man told Okonkwo not to help kill his “son,” he still did and he listened to the ancestors who told him to kill Ikemefuna. If it was really his son, would he have really

That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt. In Indianapolis, poor Hazel Grace Lancaster has to go through that every day. Hazel has Thyroid cancer and it affects her everyday life. However, when Gus came into her life, her view on the world changed forever. John Green, the author of The Fault In Our Stars, uses dialogue to elaborate on the theme of being there for someone through the good and bad moments. Throughout the book, Hazel and Gus show that sometimes just being there for each other

Out of all the amazing things I saw in the Pearls on a String, the one that I found the most interesting was Akbar and ‘Abd al-Rahim, from the Akabarmana (Book of Akabr, 1586-1589). It is amazing to see how many different scenes can all occur in one piece. Overall, The Book of Akbar had multiple outstanding pieces but the emotion in this particular page is what caught my attention. Although I did not study the other pages as intensely as this one, it is clear to see that Abul Fazlt’s technique is

The Emergence of Surf Music Many different music styles emerged during the early 1960's. One of these music styles that was perhaps the most prominent music style to ever come out of Southern California was Surf Music. Surf music was a short-lived phenomenon that occurred from 1961 to 1965 (Nostalgia, 2002). Along with the surf music craze, Hollywood also started producing numerous movies about surfing, including Gidget, and Endless Summer (St. James Encyclopedia, 2003

There are Canadian citizens who thought that the Canadian government we have is perfect, citizens who believed that every aspect of the government was truly democratic, and citizens who believe that government could do no wrong. Truly this group of believers has been living a lie. In our Canadian system of government, large aspects within are far from democratic and need to be changed. Liberal-minded people will cry out for a change in order for government to serve the people better, and on the other

Regulatory Review Commission Inefficiencies in Operating the Operations Centre Executive Summary Overview The Regulatory Review Commission's (R.R.C.) operations centre has recently run into issues with handling an employee, Brian Coffey. Coffey's manager, Monique Ricard, is contemplating how to handle Coffey's behaviour, who has been consistently late to work, is missing deadlines, and even not showing up to work. Ricard is looking for an answer as to how she can possibly terminate or

Brian Friel's "Translations" 'Translations', by Brian Friel, presents us with an idyllic rural community turned on its head as the result of the recording and translation of place names into English; an action which is at first sight purely administrative. In Act 1 of the play, Friel brings together the inhabitants of this quaint Irish village in what can only be described as a gathering of minds - minds which study the classics, yet minds which study dead languages. In the same way, while

The play ‘Translations’ is set in a Gaelic-speaking, Hedge school in Northern Ireland, 1833. Brian Friel explores the modernization affect individuals and communities that occurred as a result of the conquering English language. He examines how language shapes reality, whilst questioning the assumption that any two people can share the same reality; ideas can be translated between cultures without necessarily being altered. The play offers a parable about the fate of a parochial attitude for those

I remember my parents calling me up an hour before midnight telling me that they would be coming home late from work. That was how I grew up my entire life until I entered high school. As an immigrant family, my parents had to run the extra mile to provide for our family. I was the oldest of my family. Therefore, I had to step up as the mother figure and to take care of my younger brother. Sometimes, my friends would ask me to hang out with them or to come over my house. My answer was no most of