There have been some big milestones since moving home; sometimes they feel like they’re coming so fast that I can’t catch my breath and write about them, but I’m going to try and post shorter, more often. Here’s a snapshot since the last post in November: February –took the...
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Games Learnt and Evaluated
2. What does the woman think of the movie? A. It’s amusing. B. It’s exciting. C. It’s disappointing. 3. What did the woman do yesterday? A. She went cycling. B. She did some running. C. She photographed a sunrise. 4. Where does this conversation take place? A. In a cl...
In an allegory, everything is symbolic. But how does that differ from symbolism as a literary device? Symbolism uses images, places, people, colors, or abstract concepts to represent something beyond the thing’s literal meaning; for example, a rose to represent love, or a jack-o-lantern ...
Now you have a balance. The life of the bush is protected frommost, but its life is extended tosomeas a food source. No one can know why God works the way God does, but this theory is the best we can come up with using our very limited human minds. ...
We know Silva does indeed want to box Jones, a contest that might be considered a very painful form of hero worship. We know the UFC is not about to dull the shine of its product by allowing a champion to get knocked around in a boxing ring. We know this peeved Silva to some extent...
In search of an emissary to represent the American theater at an arts expo in Paris, a State Department bureaucrat (Ray Bolger) invites Ethel Barrymore to appear -- too bad her invitation is sent to chorus girl Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson (Doris Day) instead! Not one to look a gift horse ...
What DOES touch the very depths of your being, however, is exploring your Shadow. What is the Human Shadow? What is the human Shadow? In short, the Shadow is our dark side, our lost and forgotten disowned self. Would you like to save this?
This reinterpretation of The Four Seasons does not supplant James’ Kudelka’s more literary reading of the Vivaldi classic; rather Dawson’s piece with its dramatic lighting and moving geometric shapes on stage to represent the rise and fall of the light, of the associations with the seasonal ...