The musical I did my review on was "West Side Story" by Jerome Robbins. I saw this play at the Woodland High School with my family. We went to see it because my older brother, Nick, was in it. Thinking about the overall production, I liked that it was about two gangs fighting over their "turf...

First off, let me just say, that getting pregnant in high school just isn't a good idea. Probably most people agree on that. Clear enough, a accidental baby is the worst thing that can happen, but what if a girl really wanted a child of her own? The common result in giving birth at a young a...

Human Sexuality Written Assignment I can not think of a proper age to engage in sexual intercourse because to me it should be experienced when one has matured enough and has the ability to make choices on their own, which would normally would be later a young adults life. But as where some peop...

"A&P" In this story we are talking about a teenager who is coming of age. The character seems to be in his mid teens and happens to be a boy. Boys of that age tend to have a queer behavior when it comes to sexual attraction and their attempts at chivalry are charming, but preconceived. ...

Dd714205 Macro Economics December 12, 2000 401k Programs and Strategies. This article offers a solid approach to building a 401k portfolio in sixty minutes or less. While this is a very short time to spend to setup a retirement plan it seems to be very affective. There are many ways to go abo...

Orwell's essay entitled "Shooting an Elephant" is a recollection of a rather poignant event in Orwell's life. He describes in detail an event that happened while he was living in Moulmein, a part of Burma. Orwell was forced to shoot a domesticated elephant that had broken loose during an attack ...

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?" This quote from the movie Stand by Me, directed by Rob Reiner, was said by the character Gordie (Wil Wheaton), a boy who was just about to enter Junior High. When he typed up those words on his computer,...

In 1973, an American Supreme Court decision made it possible for a woman to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners and therefore led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death. The policy proposal has been done to close up abortion clinics. I am against th...

Throughout American Psycho, I found myself wanting to get up and leave, because it was so graphically disturbing and degrading to women. Now that I have thought about it, maybe it was so disturbing because it was something I could relate to. What do I mean by this? The jealousy, the greed, and th...

"Personal Experience: Women's Sexual Repression" It is obvious that society has shaped us to belief that women's freedom should be limited. Our patriarchal society teaches us that women need to be protected by men because they don't have the strength and independence to fu...

Critical analysis A & P An examination of critical styles represented in John Updike's A & P. John Updike's A & P provides numerous perspectives for critical interpretation. His descriptive metaphors and underly...

Picture this; you're sitting on the back of the 52, you look down at your watch and see that it's half past nine. You see your bus stop approaching quickly. You pull the cord, and glance around to see if anyone is getting off also. Being satisfied that no one is, you jump off, and crack ...

Beowulf Beowulf, which is a popular high school piece of literature, surprisingly has no author. Beowulf was written around the 700AD time period, and the author is thought to have been a monk or poet of some type. I think that the story of Beowulf was written with...

The above two statements could be supported to a certain extent from a study of the play by analysing Iago's character during soliloquies and his interaction with fellow characters, along with the outcome of his actions. From the offset, we realise that Iago is indeed not a pleasant character-...

Plato's "Myth of the Cave" and Carver's Cathedral provide insight into parallel words. The protagonists in each story are trapped in a world of ignorance because each is comfortable in the dark, and fearful of what knowledge a light might bring. They are reluctant to venture i...

In both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Rochester is portrayed as a selfish man, doing things that would benefit himself emotionally and physically, rather than for the good of the others. During the time period in which Wide Sargasso Sea took place, the concept that wives are nothing without their...

What Fits is an extremely personal and candid hypertext novella authored by Adrienne Eisen. The novella is an intimate account of a period of hard times in a young woman's life. As the main characters' struggles with life, careers, and relationships are laid out the audience gets a bette...

Why do we say it? Cradled in its warmth, protected from the surroundings of the world, visions shattered. People know in their hearts this is what they want, this is what they need, but can they handle the weight? What's the first thing you hear in movies before a teenage girl and guy are a...

Stereotypes Stereotypes are things that everyone in this day in age has to deal with. Everywhere we look we find ideas that one thought to be typical of a certain race, ethnic group or age ranges. Pop-culture has its share of stereotypes. From mass media to pub...

Cons of Cloning Many people think that cloning is pretty cool. However some think this without really thinking about the consequences. People against cloning have their thoughts too, but, nevertheless, still don't know about the risk of cloning humans and animals. So what is really involv...

Doing Time by Rob Thomas is an unusual piece of adolescent literature that may be too controversial to study in a classroom. It is unusual in the way that each paragraph is its own story-line about a different student's experiences during community service hours. At first it is ha...

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Newbery Award winner, was and is unfairly banned from many elementary schools because this book provokes thoughts which people are not ready to deal with. Imagine living in a world of delusion with nothing to set you apart from any other person. Where weather does not...

I very much enjoyed this story, almost hard to believe that it was written in 1899! I can imagine that it was very shocking to read of a woman's sexual awakening. I found the opening imagery very interesting, could this beautiful bird in the cage symbolize Edna? Very interesting that in the...

Baudelaire published his first poem book in 1839. This date is encounters the first movements of modernist period. The philosophy of the time affected Baudelaire's style. People was tired of the strict, disciplined, and excessively reason based rules of the time and the acceptation of the re...

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is a novel about a family and it travels through four generations. The setting of this story is in Chile and it describes the life of the Trueba family. The Truebas are a high family in the Latin American government. The story begins on a Holy Thursday. ...