Real-life superhero

A story is only as good as the way it is told. The way a writer uses his or her words to say something is just as important as what they don’t say. Charles Baxter, author of plethora of books and university teacher, writes a craft book that goes deeper than the surface of writing and deeper than the words written down. In Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext, he discusses how authors can use the words they do write just as much to express what they don’t write. The first chapter, “The Art of Staging”

I try very hard to teach my children that social skills are very important in the world. You have to be able to communicate and speak your mind. Those who hide in the background and don’t say anything are the people that don’t get very far in real life situations. My oldest daughter has this down to a science in the fact that she deals with customers on a daily basis and has to be able to be people friendly at her job. My second daughter is all bundled up and shy and won’t speak out for the things

Deciding what is most important in life is often a struggle, especially during high school. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film loosely based on the self-help book titled Queen Bees and Wannabes. The main character is a high school student named Cady that just moved from Africa and has been homeschooled her whole life. The American culture and society she is introduced to is embodied by the Plastics, who are the most popular girls at North Shore High: Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. The pressure put on

would happen in the real world with characters who behave like real people. It began in the late 19th century, but has prevailed through history (Styan). Naturalism shapes the way people watch theater today, and these two plays are excellent examples of this movement. By utilizing dialogue, stage directions,

as a villain in her plot and by forcing him to be a villain in real life has different outcomes than a story. Briony loses her innocence mentally as she still holds on to the fact everything is okay as if she rewrites Robbie’s and Cecilia’s relationship a happy ending versus a tragic ending “the lovers survive and flourish”(371). By changing the ending Briony tries to extinguish her grief that she affected Robbie’s and Cecilia’s life and torn apart the Tallis family. Briony is learning how to survive

media and my personal account is that my account does portray a type of person that I aspire to be. Online, I am in some unconscious way making a name for myself, but the problem arises when there are no differences between my social media self and my real self. Online I portray myself as a chill, relaxed person and my Facebook reflects that very well. I am not here to impress anybody and I do not share anything for any other reason besides the fact that I enjoyed that thing. I post when I feel I need

Rapunzel and she raise her up in the castle. Rapunzel think that the Gothel is her real mother. The castle that is so lonely place for the girl, Rapunzel. When Rapunzel tell her mother “Mom, I want to go outside”. At that time, the Gothel said that “this place is save for you, do not go outside”. When we see this two conversations, Rapunzel is a naïve girl. She do not even touch the ground from outside of the castle. Her life is gone in the castle. She is so simple and innocent girl. She do not know the

without involving some sort of device. Not only are people becoming too reliant, but also addicted to a point in which they no longer feel a need to interact with others in real life. Daily, intellectuals are finding and creating new advancements in technology. Ignorant people may say that the advancements in technology are improving life, but the truth is that they are staging the world for disaster. The world has become far

Anthropology on the Internet I’d like to think online communities are just live-action communities on Adderall, bound by the same constraints but evolving at a breakneck pace. You see, on the internet every nook and cranny has its own culture. As in real life, the larger the community, the less peculiar the customs. This is both an advantage and a drawback. If small forum lend themselves to cliques, large ones lend themselves to atomization. I find the culture of the internet as fascinating as any, maybe

The Outsiders In the Novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton the teenagers are categorized into two groups and classify themselves as either the “Greasers.” or the “Socials.” The Greasers all grew up relying on only each other to survive because their parents weren’t in the picture very much if at all, so their loyalty was extremely important. As for the Socials, they always believed they were better than the Greasers due to their wealth class, and because of society constantly assuming if