Delia College Essays Samples For Students

Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” and Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” both feature complex relationships between spouses – particularly, that the women are victimized by their husbands to both subtle and overt extents. While Gilman’s narrator is a frustrated, confused individual who is locked up by her husband while failing to blame him, Delia in “Sweat” is a more determined, sane and vengeful individual, her constant victimization leading her to dramatic action (or inaction) that leads to disastrous consequences for her husband Sykes. What’s more, in “Sweat” we hear from Sykes’ perspective as well, learning both sides ...

Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch is a delightful comedy based in the year of 1981. A play on words, not only is the character Courtney Coleman (Jenna Morris) getting hitched that day, her ex-boyfriend shows up causing a slight hitch in the day. The dynamic between her straight-laced fiancé Harper (Conor Farrell) and her free spirited, Jack Karouac loving ex-boyfriend Ryan (Brian Heaton) as well as her straight-laced parents creates a wonderful comedy. The play group was excellent, bringing together impeccable acting, fun scenic designs and appropriate costuming to produce a thoroughly entertaining two-act play.
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A great deal happens in this section of the novel as we approach the end of the text and its climax. Chapter Twenty begins with the dramatic news that Angie has almost died by taking a drug overdose. Miles argues with his mother about Angie and then goes to her house and makes a completely ineffectual attempt to cheer her up. She clearly has mental health issues and feels suicidal. In Chapter Twenty-Three she writes Milles a letter apologizing for her behaviour when he visited her, but his happiness at receiving the letter is immediately undercut by the news that his mother ...