Isabella Colucci

The "American Dream" is what everyone that comes to America believes in, possibly even Americans believe in it too.  However, I feel that born Americans know the truth of America then people coming to America to hope for the "American Dream."  The "America Dream" is what people believe in when they want America to let their dreams come true.  A dream for their family, wealth, and happiness.  The dream can go for people who are coming to America in order to have a better job or life.  I believe that the "American Dream" is surrounded with the thoughts of success and happiness, but I believe it can not be that unless the one wanting it works hard for it.  The "American Dream" can only come to those who takes risks and works hard for it.  There can be failures and successes all around the "American Dream," and it only truly can come to those who really want it and work for it even if they fail once or twice. While I believe ...

Audio :  Self grading: Criteria A:  6 - I showed adequate knowledge by connecting to themes and knowledge of the whole novel Criteria B:  5 - I did not talk much about the effect on the reader Criteria C:  3 - started with thesis and went into my points but was not able to finish - did not get to my conclusion Criteria D:  3 - paused a bit and said um as I looked for the sentence from the passage to read

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 (1) This cover is able to show who Kathy continues to be in the book, lonely.  Kathy is alone in a field with nobody around which is able to show that Kathy always felt alone in her feelings about remembering and highlighting her life in Hailsham.  The clothing she wears is a long sleeve shirt along with a skirt to below her knees.  The clothing she wears contrasts with the bright lighting in the picture and the sun reflecting off her golden hair.  The clothing she wears along with the fact that she looks pale emphasizes how Kathy has been separated from the outside world because she was in Hailsham which separated the clones from other humans.  The way that her head is looking down can put emphasize on her observant ways throughout the book because she is looking at the grass around her, which could also relate to her being separated from everything around her and the grass in a field is "new."  The text is very light and easily bendable with the ...

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...