Isabella Colucci

Four larger-than-life lessons from soap operas "And we can use those lessons to craft our own life stories. Soap operas teach us to push away doubt and believe in our capacity for bravery, vulnerability, adaptability and resilience. And most importantly, they show us it's never too late to change your story." - Kate Adams Summary: Kate Adams, a former assistant soap opera casting director for "As the World Turns," explains how soap operas can reflect problems in real life.  She tells four major take aways from reoccurring themes in soap opera series and pulls them out in order to tell a bigger theme to live by.  Each takeaway she presents she follows with a story of a character portraying the takeaway in the form of a overdramatic soap opera form, then explains the takeaway bigger, and then lastly explains the takeaway by explaining how a role model figure or CEO has used this theme in their own lives.  Her first takeaway is "surrender is not an ...

Part 1: In chapter 1 the excerpt "He is not easy to describe" portrays Hyde in a despicable way from the very beginning.  Hyde is introduced in a way that puts his character in the dark side before even meeting the character for him to introduce himself to the audience in his own way.  The audience is automatically suspicious and put off by Hyde based off of the description Enfield tells, and for some reason the audience will trust Enfield with this description because he portrayed himself as worthy of truth from the beginning of the chapter with a description, all relaying trustworthy, good, shy friend characteristics.  However, Enfield is a minor character in the book but Hyde's mysteriousness continues on and this can be brought back to chapter one setting the tone with Hyde's character. In chapter 6 the excerpt "Now that that evil influence" portrays Jekyll as someone who is the friendly man on the street that everybody likes.  He is described to be ...

1. Vampire Diaries  Lady Macbeth became very sensitive to blood which is seen through her sleepwalking.  The vampires in Vampire Diaries are also very sensitive to the smell of blood and can not stand when someone is bleeding out because they just want to drink it.  Lady Macbeth would be able to relate to Elena who is scared when she first becomes a vampire and hates that she wants blood and panics when she drinks too much of it.  2. Reign Lady Macbeth would enjoy seeing how a woman would run Scotland as she aspires to be her and be able to be powerful over the kingdom.  She would be able to be brave and courageous to rule just like Queen Mary in the tv show Reign.  Queen Mary who became in control of Scotland and has to figure out the ruling and battles to fight which can relate to the Macbeth's.   3. The Returned The show is about how people who were pronounced dead are reappearing.  Lady Macbeth during her sleepwalking...

1. Why do people who are not "evil" take the first step into evil? What, for instance, is involved in taking that first step "down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire" (Macbeth, 2.3)? What are the consequences of the individual choosing evil (particularly the internal consequences)? A person chooses to become evil. People are not born evil, due to their wants, desires, ambition they may take the step to becoming evil. A person decides to become evil or not. Their wants, desires, and ambitions may drive them to the place of evil but they are making the actions theirselves, therefore they are responsible for their evil actions. In this state of the world where a lot of evil has taken place with mass shootings, bombs, etc. people ask why do they do it? It is because of their own wants, they do not consider the other people, they only consider themselves which makes them selfish and selfish may tend to lean them towards the evil spectrum. Their wants to becom...

Double-Sided Ivory Liturgical Comb with Scenes of Henry II and Thomas Becket Information and Context Knowledge from: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1988.279/ and, https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/euwb.html#/Works-of-Art and, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466161 1:Identify artist, title, date, medium, and size The item was made between 1200-1210 in Canterbury, England. The medium of the comb is ivory and is 8.6 x 8.6 x 1.2 cm. The credit of the piece in the MET Museum is the Rogers Fund and Schimmel Foundation Inc. who purchased the comb. Credit also goes to Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, Lila Acheson Wallace, Nathaniel Spear Jr., Mrs. Katherine S. Rorimer, William Kelly Simpson, Alastair B. Martine and Anonymous Gifts, 1988. 2: Stylistic period/culture/context The comb was made in between 1200-1210 in England. This time period in the British culture art style was strongly influenced with Celtic art and society, then with the arrival of the Norma...

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