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Everyone has a hobby. However everyone’s is unique. My hobby has to deal with strength, balance, and memorization. My hobby is synchronized skating. Synchronized skating is where 20 girls skate in unison. It is an all around good sport. The sports main season is winter however you are always skating, you have to single skate…

Caesar held great power in Rome, with Marcus Brutus as one of his closest friends. Brutus was a loyal and patriotic man, torn between his allegiance to his friend and what he believed was best for Rome. In his devotion to Rome, Brutus chose to betray his friend and join the conspirators plotting against Caesar….

William Shakespeare one time said, “ For I have sworn thee carnival, and thought thee bright, who art every bit black as snake pit, every bit dark as night. ” Deception plays a large portion in the drama Macbeth. The drama is about a male monarch who is murdered by one of his most sure…

Dead Man’s Cell Phone On the 14th of April I saw Dead man’s cell phone at the Gordon Wilson theatre. The play whose playwright is Sarah Ruhl was directed by Dr. David Young. The protagonists of the play are Gordon played by Tyler Brown, Jean played by Kaitlyn Fouts, Mrs. Gottlieb played by Becca Trimbur,…

Last evening I was one of a select few to get a sneak preview of the completed Barbarian Days film. Principal photography of the film was done at the 2008 Howard Days; the stars of the film are Rusty Burke as the “Godfather of Howard Days,” Mark Finn as the “Guest of Honor,” Bill Cavalier as…

Over a period of time sic-if authors and composers have presented their texts and films using cautionary tales of our soon to be dyspeptic society. They use informing techniques to instill the fear of a futuristic dyspeptic society into the minds of readers and viewers. These authors and composers also bring forth the concepts of…

When you think of your identity, you may consider the choices you are able to make. This could be from what you wear, what you believe in, or your ability to express yourself. But what would happen if choice was taken away from all of us? The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel set in Gilead is…

Sophocles’ masterpiece “Oedipus the King” can be seen as a fulfilling Tragedy. The connection between this masterpiece and oxymorons or moronic phrases might seem unexpected, but they have a surprising level of similarity. Throughout the play, oxymorons are used, but the connection between the two goes beyond an inherent understanding. Both are contradictory and evoke…

The play addresses the real issues that were evident in the medieval era by employing an inversion of the Nativity story. Four character descriptions found in the play are as follows; Make: Make was a local thief who was already known by the shepherds as a sheep-thief. He denied being a thief but rather a…

In William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, Addie passed away and instructed her family to lay her to rest in Jefferson alongside her relatives. The family obediently transported her lifeless body by wagon, encountering numerous complex circumstances that pushed their boundaries of sanity. Out of all the siblings, Darl emerged as the most mentally stable….