...end of my eighth grade year when my music teacher, Mrs. Weirup, determined it would be fun to do a play and force everyone in the eighth grade class participate in it. At first, I didn’t see it as a big deal; I had figured I would just be a background character anyway. It took what seemed like forever for her to decide what play to put on, but she finally pronounced we were doing The Wizard of Oz. We all had tryout, but we couldn’t audition for a certain character because she knew none of us wanted to be one of the primary characters. A week after we auditioned, she gave us our roles. This had to be one of the worst moments of my entire life because I had obtained the part I absolutely did not want. She decided to make me the Lion....
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...project, I observed my little nephew, la’akea, who is 5 years old. He is the Second oldest, and is treated like the only child because his older sister is in middle school and his younger brother is just 3months. My nephew is 3’10 and around 50lbs, and is haole / Hawaiian. La’akea is very sociable and is very attentive. He loves to play games and play with all kinds of technology such as an ipod, ipad or computer, but he plays with these technology only because he has no one to play with at home because his brother is to small to do anything. My sister-in-law and brother work long shifts and are usually worn out by the time they get home. My nephew lacks attention and people to play with at home; which is why he plays on gadgets all the time. However, when he comes over to our house for the weekend, We go all over with him such as go the park, fun factory, and we go out to eat when ever he’s at my house and I love eating so it works out perfectly for the both of us right there. La’akea comes over to my house almost every weekend. This past weekend I took time aside to observe his actions and put into play what I learned while in this class. When I got home from the practice La’akea was already upstairs playing games. Friday’s are usually my family’s day to catch up. When I get home on Fridays, my mom is usually making dinner, my brothers and their girlfriends are usually watching T.V. or playing card games with La’akea in the kitchen talking story, and my mom is usually always...
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...2013 Final Play Contributions A play consists of many contributions. These contributions come from the people that make up the entire production. In our production “Kidnapped,” every person played a significant role in the overall success. As a team, we created a play that shows the serious and funny aspects of theatre. Working with everyone in my group has been absolutely amazing. Everyone put in an equal amount of effort and it made everything flow in a positive way. I believe that my contributions to the play helped the production run smoothly. The overall theme of the production revolves around a game called “kidnapped.” This game consists of someone getting picked up and dropped off in a random location to be later picked up after they have struggled to find out where they are. My brother and I came up with this concept. We wanted to do this because we really liked the game “a Game’s Afoot.” That play revolved around a murder mystery. Therefore, we decided to copy that same idea and make it our own. By taking this overall theme, we decided to use the fact that my brother and I are twins. By using this advantage, we added a background story to the theme and a little bit of organized confusion. My role in this production was to be the twin that was “kidnapped” and thrown into the woods. After I am dropped off into the woods, I realize that I do not want to play the game. When I pull out my phone to call my friends to get me out of the woods, I discover that my phone battery...
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...Racquetball is my favorite sport, so I play it two or three times a weak except for the weeks of midterms and finals. I play with two boys and one girl. We usually play at the Country Club racquetball corts. You have to pay ten dollars for the court, even if your a member. Some kids think thats awful. But I think its fair. Tuesdays I play with Joe my neighbor and classmate. He's a wild and crazy guy on the courts. Swinging wildly and forcefully he hits the ball so hard sometimes that it makes a whistling noise. As it zooms passed me to smack into the wall. Although we have played racquetball together for two years I have yet to return one of those killer balls. My other steady partner is Jaime. A friend who used to play tennis competitively....
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...explanation of teachers’ roles in children’s play stood out the most to me. I would take the message “teachers have six roles in supporting children’s play” with me in the profession of early childhood education. A teacher can be the observer, collaborator, planner, responder, role model, and mediator of play. Chapter 2 Take Away Message As I read chapter two, the explanation of teachers’ roles in children’s play stood out the most to me. I would take the message “teachers have six roles in supporting children’s play” with me in the profession of early childhood education. My take away...
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...referred to as a play because it tells a story and is also performed on stage. In addition, drama is similar to plays in that it has a theme, a plot and is often narrated by a persona (Ghent, 2012, 629). Also, drama is also known as a play in that it evokes emotions and has a tone just like a play. During my high school days, the school invited a group of people who performed a play on HIV/AIDs. This was my initial time to timepiece a live stage performance. The characters perfectly represented their roles in that the audience felt as if the characters were real. For example, those characters representing HIV patients appeared weak and sad; the sounds were full of sympathy as they spoke. Every scene had its own sounds that paralleled the theme and purpose of the act (Meyer, 2011, p111). There were cries, mourns and even sounds of desperation. Throughout the drama, the audience was full of sad mood. HIV/AIDs infection was presented as something that people should be afraid of. The audience was also filled with pity and sympathy for the infected characters. Since it was my first encounter to see a live stage drama, the theme, scenes and characters were a great impact to my life and my understanding of what entails a drama. For a elongated time I had wished to be involved in a dramatic act until one day, my literature teacher appointed me and other colleagues to practice for a drama known as 'A Doll's House' that would be presented during the school’s parents day. My character was...
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...Researchers have found that kids who play football have many benefits. Football provides physical benefits including strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility. Football helps them improve their speed, strength, hand-eye coordination and overall cardiovascular endurance. Football provides physical benefits including flexibility, lower the body fat and progressives muscle tones. This sport will also help them with showing them discipline, gives them many opportunities, and helps them with leadership. One reason why I would let my son play football is because football is a great resource that helps players with leadership. “For much of my playing career, most parents with young children who played football were most interested in my workout regimen and what supplements I was taking.” (Fujita) Playing football provides players with opportunities to develop skills in communication. “I found myself receiving e-mail after e-mail from people presumably motivated by keyword searches for “football, concussion, trauma, disease.” (Fujita) These abilities allow people to operate productively as leaders. Playing or coaching sports such as football, soccer and any other types of sport activities...
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...In my life I have played many sports, including soccer, basketball, baseball, football, and last and my personal favorite lacrosse. All of these sports were good at the time, but I never stuck with them. That is except for lacrosse. Lacrosse and soccer are the only sports I still play today. Lacrosse is by far my favorite sport. I liked the other sports but not as much as I love lacrosse. I have been playing lacrosse for 3 years. I started because a few of my friends played and I went with to a tournament to watch them play and wanted to try it out. My cousin was also the girls lacrosse coach at UMD. He had given me lacrosse sticks when I was younger and me and my brother Aaron would play catch with them every now and then. I never really...
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...March 25, 2015 Website Review My daughter is turning twelve years old this year and she wants to celebrate it at a restaurant called American Girl located at the Grove mall. I’ve heard before about this specific store because my wife always buys her Christmas present from this place but didn’t know they had a restaurant. So, I went online to plan my budget for her birthday. The website I visited was www.americangirl.com. When you go to the website, it’s all pink with a mixture of purple and something that really called my attention is that as a title is has “American girl, follow your inner star” and I think that this gives a very nice messages to little girls who are growing up to be a well rounded ladies. In the front pages it is decorated for Spring advertisement and it is very interactive. I can tell that girls from different ethnic groups are being represented and this makes me think that the little girls who visit this pages to play feel somehow identified or connected to the dolls. The website offers three categories for the visitors: Shop, Play and Stores. Under the shop section, you find all the dolls the company has created and there are a lot of dolls that girls can choose from. I think that all ethnic groups are represented and something very unique about this company is that they have dolls with disabilities as well. Aside from the dolls, the have clothing and dolls are girls outfits and every accessory necessary for this dolls; they even have a hospital for...
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...the only entrance… The yard is a small dirt yard, partially fenced, except for the last scene…” (0.1-0.3). Throughout the play Wilson uses the description and placement of the fence to change the mood in the scene or the attitudes of the characters. “Much of the conflict… arises because the characters are at odds with the way they see the past and what they want to do in the future”(sparknotes.com). Whether the fence is too keep people in or out, there is always a struggle to know what is on the other side. Corresponding to the text, August Wilson’s own life is exemplified. Wilson uses “the settings of all but one of the plays [in] the Pittsburgh ‘hill district’” (Edgar 1328). During the early part of his life was spent living in poverty. Wilson’s father soon left the family by the time he was five leaving his mother, Daisy, to care for the six children. She later remarried and moved to the Hill District. Wilson felt the pressure of being one of the only African-American students and dropped out of school to teach himself in the library. “He educated himself so well that eventually the Library granted him a degree”(Edgar 1328). When writing Fences, Wilson pulled from the 1950s and the Civil Rights Movement. Wilson also gives reference to the 1940s Negro Baseball League by having Troy argue “about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don’t care what color you were.”(1.1). Wilson portrays the anger of segregation through the characters almost as if he felt...
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...grandparents, parents, or a sibling. For me that person is my grandpa. My grandpa is one of the hardest working people I have ever known. People always say that my grandpa and I are very similar. One thing that stands out about our similarities is that we both played baseball in college. My grandpa grew up on the west side of Chicago in a neighborhood called Garfield Park. He grew up in a lower class family that often couldn’t afford nice things. Since he loved the game of baseball, situations would sometimes come down to if he wanted a new baseball glove or new cloths. My grandpa no brainer would pick the baseball glove. After high school, my grandpa went on to attend Western Illinois University on a full baseball scholarship. During his baseball career at Western Illinois, a lot of pro scouts would come to see him play. Teams would send him letters and even visit with him to talk about his future. My grandpa was never interested in playing professional baseball though. It always was hard for me to understand why he never took up the chance to be a professional baseball player. I mean let's be honest, who doesn’t want to be a professional athlete when you’re a kid? Whenever I would ask him, my grandpa would always tell me “Matt there are way more important things than playing a game that involves hitting a ball with a stick in life”. Being young and dumb, I would also ask too, what can be more important than that? My grandpa would look at me and say, Family first. As I grew...
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... _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 2. What is the importance of the porter’s role in this play? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 3. How is symbolism used in the play, Florence? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 4. How does the plot develop the theme in the play, Florence? _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ 5. How does the character develop the theme in the play, Florence? (Marge, Mrs. Whitney, Florence, Mr. Brown the porter, Mrs. Carter) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________...
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...that they trust me with what they are telling me made me feel accepted, and happy to go there. My supervisor assigned me to do numerous tasks during my time there. On Tuesday and Wednesday I had to put together different games for the patients, staff, and also for myself to enjoy playing. We played hop scotch outside, checkers, mancala, bingo, and played dominoes. It was hard in the beginning, but my supervisor wanted me to explain how to play, and I didn’t know how to explain myself and make sense. I wasn;t sure I could get through the day, but I did and had a wonderful time. We played hop scotch outside in the backyard. We were in groups of three. My team was Lori, Mari-Ann, and Cheryl we were called “The Power Crew” a name that we had all agreed on, and thought it fit us perfectly. During the activity, I learned how to play as a team player with the other woman. Even when it is a small game, I always want to be on my own winning. I realized that there was no I in TEAM. It wasn’t only me, I had three wonderful woman beside me playing the game. I know they had a wonderful time, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them smile as much as they did in one day. I was happy that, that day was spent with me. Just know, game day was a success. The best part was having them to teach me how to play mancala. I had completely forgotten how to play, and I couldn’t believe it because that was my childhood favorite game. Cheryl, and Mari-Ann guided me throughtout the game until I understood it...
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...excited than I am for a normal game as not only is it the championship, but it is my first game back since I dislocated my throwing shoulder ten weeks before. It is an early chilly December afternoon, but my adrenaline is so high that I don’t feel the cold. The game of catch helps me calm down somewhat. After every throw, I look to the field to see how the defense is doing, eagerly awaiting a punt or turnover which will give us the ball. I have spent the last three months replaying the first snap in my head over and over, and I am growing restless on the sideline. The stands are already packed with people and more are arriving every play. Finally, after what seems like thirty-five plays, the defense recovers a fumble and I lock in my chin strap as I head over to my coach to receive the...
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...To me, play is enjoyable activity and is of much benefits to both children and adults. Obviously, play is an essential part of every child's life and is vital for the enjoyment of childhood as well as for social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. For adults, play is one of the ways to keep work and life balanced. When playing, we leave stress, worries and pressures behind and just enjoy the moment. In this busy life, play seems to be no longer an important thing and people seems quite busy to play. How can we make time to play if we have a full time job or we are full time students? For me, play does not need to be expensive or take a lot of time. Joking with my friends, singing a song while I am cleaning the house, doing puzzles with my children, enjoying a “movie night” at home with family on a Friday, doing yoga, or taking a walk are activities that can be considered to be enjoyable. Spending time to play with family and friends on the weekend is my most favorite thing to do. Gathering together, we have a chance to meet each other, sing together, share our interesting stories or experiences and enjoy delicious foods. By playing, we can improve our relationships and connection with others. We all feel relaxed and more productive and happier to prepare for the new coming week. When I was young and single, I would listen to music or sing every time I drive, do laundry, cook, or clean my house. I did not feel tired or bored when I was doing this and it...
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