Color Your World employee of the month Donna Lukas made the impression on her bosses and co-workers as the "paint lady." Donna will add yet another piece of her work this month to the Toronto Gallery of Art. She has earned the reputation of being the lady to go to when in doubt of colo...

Great Expectations Let desire be your destiny ... Director: Alfonso Cuarón Producer: Art Linson Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki Production Designer: Tony Burrough Music (score & soundtrack): Patrick Doyle Artworks: Francesco Clemente Writing Credits: Mitch Gl...

The relationship between sex and love has changed and evolved from ancient to modern times. In the Old Testament sex in itself was not considered a sin. There is nothing in Hebrew scripture that condemns sexuality. Even from the very "beginning" we see with Adam Eve that they weren&apos...

As an enjoyable play, "Dinner With Friends" delivers to audiences a very prevalent situation in relationships during this decade - divorce. Set in an area of New England, "Dinner With Friends" shows a difficult period in two fourty-year-old married couples and long-time friends' lives. The ch...

Love and hate, such small words for the amount of power that they possess. Both have the capacity to change individuals as well as the capability to ruin lives. It can be shown that William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, is attempting to point out the intensity of both love and hate alike. ...

What is love? What does it feel like to fall in love or to be in love or to love somebody? These questions are pondered by many people for many centuries. There are obviously many types of love, the love that a person has for his or her parents, siblings, relatives, and pets, would be different t...

" I am a man more sinned against than sinning," this is Lear's evaluation of himself when he is at his weakest. To sin is to contravene the rules of God, as this play is set in times before the church played an active role in running the state the king was the only one who could say what is wrong or...

The Hopeless Romantic Hopeless romantics are people who find romance in every situation, who love being in love, or even only a resemblance of that overwhelming feeling. Frances, wife of the mindless nitwit Michael, is just another victim to the hopeless romantic list. In Irwin Shaw's short s...

Hadrian and Antinous There were many relationships that changed the course of history forever. Most have one thing in common, one in a high position being influenced by their significant other. The effect of Cleopatra on Antony, Josephine on Napoleon, and Ann Boleyn on Henry the Eighth changed ...

Ballads are poems, usually expressed through musical stanzas that tell a story. Readers and listeners from children to adults, all socioeconomic classes and education levels enjoy ballads from the Middle Ages to the present day. Ballads tell stories of a time in which the composer lived. They may be...

"For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes/ This vault a feasting presence full of light"(V, iii, 85-86). "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,/Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty"(V, iii, 92-93). These are the words of Romeo as he stands beside of his beloved J...