Come to Daddy

To Sophia Grace on the day your Mommy and Daddy dedicated your life to our Lord before the congregation at Vertical Church, Sunday, 6/18/2017 – This day, was a public dedication, but know that, from your conception, you have been bathed in prayer and love, your life held up before the almighty God and our beloved Father, who planned for you from before time. Sophia, you are precious, in the eyes of God, in the eyes of your Mommy and Daddy and in the eyes all of us who love you. John and I agreed

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Richard Brooks tells the story of a southern family during the Jim Crow era. The family is in a crisis when news hit that Big Daddy, the leader of the family, is dying of cancer. The story takes place in a luxurious plantation home. Multiple technical elements make this play’s environment come to life. The plot within the home takes place over an evening where the lighting of the piece dictates the time of day. Additionally, music is underscored in key moments to

beach, my window looking out on the sand dunes. This time of year was quiet down in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. The summer tourists had left months ago and what we call the “snow birds” hadn’t arrived yet. “Snow birds” are elderly people that come down from their northern homes for months at

everything you want. I loved her for her goodness, her cleanness, her popularity. She'd walk down my street and my brothers and sisters would yell, "Here comes Helene," and I'd rub my tennis sneakers on the back of my pants and wish my hair wasn't so nappy and the white folks' shirt fit me better. I'd run out on the street. If I knew my place and didn't come too close, she'd wink at me and say hello. That was a good feeling. Sometimes I'd follow her all the way home, and shovel the snow off her

Clarence Thomas is a complex man who made his way up from a life of poverty in the segregated Deep South to become one of the nine judges of the United States Supreme Court. In his memoir, My Grandfather’s Son, Justice Thomas narrates his journey and honors the one real hero in his life - his grandfather. On June 23, 1948, a sweltering night in Pinpoint, Georgia, “when the air is so wet that you can barely draw breath,” Clarence Thomas is born to M.C. and Leola “Pigeon” Thomas. Two years later his

establish a comparison between both plays built around what I believe is their tangent point: the American Dream and how it affects the family relationships of our characters. First of all, the achievement of the American Dream is what both Willy and Big Daddy are looking for; nevertheless there are some differences in its attainment. As we saw in Miller´s work Willy was too greedy and to blind to the truth as to succeed in the same way his brother, Uncle Ben, had

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” are all poems written about children getting beaten but have differing narrators and varying times. Although these poems may be about the same topic, they are presented in different points of view by the narrators. “My Papa’s Waltz” is in the first person point of view as it’s happening, “The Whipping” is also presented as it is happening, but is presented third person, however; “Daddy” is written as a reflection in the first person. While “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Daddy” are written

learned a whole heap of things about life watching you. I done learned how to tell where the shit lies. How to tell it from the alfalfa. You done learned me a lot of things. You showed me how to not make the same mistakes . . . to take life as it comes along and keep putting one foot in front of the other. (Pause) Rose a good woman, Troy”

Mendacity is an extreme impulse to be untruthful. It is to obfuscate the reality from fantasy. People often come in contact with people who can never be trusted because of their untruthfulness. These are the ones who practice mendacity to perfection. Many people change the truth in various ways in order to fit in with the social construction of reality. Deceit is an art that can be mastered through practice, but unfortunately many people are already well versed in this art form. It leads to destroyed

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF “A drunk man’s words are an honest man’s thoughts,” as the saying goes. And in the lore of drunken family get togethers, as the loom ever closer, usually the most damning of anecdotes and artifacts come to surface to shock those into fits of anger, confusion and perhaps even out of love. The truth hurts, after all. But like anyone who’s suffered through a challenging Thanksgiving dinner or worse, a death in the family, the pains of truth can be a baptism of fire. The truth