Monica Mason

In The Royal Ballet’s video, “The Sleeping Beauty: The Challenges of technically demanding roles,” principal dancers Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae as well repetiteur Alexander Agadzhanov and former director and producer Dame Monica Mason discuss the technical challenges of the lead roles in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty and how dancers must balance the technical difficulty of the roles with their artistry. Ballerina Sarah Lamb notes that one of the most difficult aspects of dancing the role of Aurora

Transitioning from one phase to another can be complex, and inevitably involves the overcoming of obstacles to experience new phases of life and social situations. An individual must reevaluate their social environment and society’s viewpoints on matters, such as gender roles and the expectations of others, to be subjected to a change in lifestyle. Stephen Daldry’s 2000 film, ‘Billy Elliot’, showcases the struggle of a young boy as he develops in his Northern England town and experiences a new love

Sunday Night This past Sunday night me and a few of the other freshman football players made the stupid decision to drink. There are many lessons learned from that night that I will keep locked in my head for the rest of my career on the Randolph Macon football team and in my life after I graduate. Everything that I do off the field will affect how I perform, how I am viewed as a person, and most importantly the team. My bad decision has already caused a distraction in the middle of the season

annoying, but yes, it is a fun, upbeat song, created by Mason City’s Meredith Willson. Who is Meredith Willson? How did someone from Mason City get so famous? These questions, and more unanswered questions will be revealed in this essay. All famous people had humble beginnings, Meredith’s just happened to start in Mason City. A simple, quick overview of his life goes a little something like this. Meredith Wilson was born on May 18, 1902, In Mason City, IA. In high school, he learned how to play the

In the film of The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a psychiatric doctor who eats the organs of his patients and others. Clarice Starling interviewed Dr. Hannibal Lecter to help her capture Buffalo Bill who is known for skinning young women. Film devices and techniques are important because it helps build suspense. The film techniques in The Silence of the Lambs help contribute to the element of suspense and horror. First, film devices and techniques in the scene where Buffalo Bill tortures

In chapter one, page fifteen, I was intrigued by the quote, "I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty."(Wiesel 15) This passage really caught my attention because, in the quote it shows how affected they really were. in this quote he's saying that, as hard as he tried to have faith in his god and pursue to the future of freedom, it gets harder

Jonathan Demme’s 1991 blockbuster, The Silence of the Lambs commanded movie theatres, proving a popular film with vast audiences from around the world. The horror narrative unstitches at the complex notions of gender and sexuality with skin becoming the signpost for these topics. ‘Skin … becomes a kind of metonym for the human and its colour, its pallor, its shape mean everything within a semiotic of monstrosity.’ (Halberstam, 1995, p6) The Silence of the Lambs is a tale of the young, female, FBI

“men’s job”. As a young girl who became a slave Biddy Mason can certainly relate to the definition of slave. At a young age for a long time Biddy was considered as a Black slave woman who was illiterate. In other words she could not read or write. She worked as a nurse and a midwife and traveled from Mississippi to California to be able to become a successful businesswoman and a generous contributor to social causes. Bridgett "Biddy" Mason was born a slave, August 15, 1818. No one knows the location

Homeschool First time I heard about homeschooling, I had tons of question about it. I was wondering. What are some requirement that parents have go through to be able to teach their children? Why parents choose homeschool rather then let’s their children go to compound school, and how they manage their schedule? What are some approach that parents use to teach? However, after question myself; the image of homeschooling have refresh on my childhood’s school. During my childhood, my family used to

When discussing feminist characters, it’s easy to get caught up on the more overtly feminine personalities, such as Elle Woods from “Legally Blond” or perhaps Dorothy Gale from “The Wizard of Oz”. However, the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs”, an “...intense, gritty crime odyssey,”(Grow, 2016) supplies a strong, feminist character who isn’t afraid to get down to business. Throughout the film, Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, silently breaks gender roles in order to compete with the male