A Girl Named Annamarie Weathers

On Thursday evening, February 9, 2017, my mother drove me to Georgia State Perimeter College Clarkston Campus which is located in Clarkston, Georgia for my second mandatory encounter for HUMN 1000. Due to the fact that I was going at night, it was quite a boring drive to Georgia State University Clarkston Campus (GSUPC); however, on the way to GSUPC, I had the anxious feeling of not knowing what to expect from the play I was going to watch, SHE. SHE is a play that was written and devised by Shirlene Holmes and Anastasia Wilson. Eventually, I would reach the Fine Arts building at GSUPC with my anxiety at full throttle. Although my mother drove me to see the play, she did not stay to watch driving away while wishing me good luck. I then

Morning brought the peace of a warm sunny day to the small town of Tributary; such a contrast to the violent events of the day before, still there was a sense of mourning in the air. The town folk spent much of the day recovering lost property. Everyone felt fortunate to have found their missing belongings. Everyone except Corvida Bratleigh! Rather than being thankful her playhouse was undamaged by the tornado, Corvida was angry that her playhouse was in Nikki Fernandez’s garden! The playhouse was hers, not Nikki’s and she was going to make sure that Nikki did not step one foot in her lovely little house.

For a time, Lucy Gayheart feels the assurance of a bright future reaffirmed daily. And then a tragedy strikes, an undreamed-of turn of events, something which happens every day, and yet which we never address, because it is unthinkable. So will Lucy allow tragedy to beat her down into an existence she has long scorned? Or will she find the mettle to not only endure, but to grow in the face of, her heartbreak? This book was published in 1935. Its syntax can be long-winded, but its imagery is unforgettable. The author conveys a deep love for her fellow man, and for the inexpressible promise of a young life. I believe there is Lucy Gayheart in all of us.

They took a sharp turn over a some railroad tracks and the back door flew open. Jeannette rolled out of the car, she rolled many yards on the embankment. When she came to a stop, she was too shocked to cry and she all bloody and scraped up. She called herself a burden, and said they could do fine without her. When her family turned around and came screeching to a halt, her dad got out of the car, knelt down, and tried to give Jeannette

The rain got harder as Tina walked alone in tears. She missed her daughter Iris. Tina thought about all the good times they had together. She wondered why Iris had done that to herself. Iris was a skinny young girl who killed herself. Iris wa bullied at school for how far she was, so Iris decided to stop eating. Tina was walking in the rain. It had been a year since Iris was gone. She thought back to that day. Tina woke up and made herself some coffee. She nibbled on a muffin that she bought from the store yesterday. She took Iris to school and then went to work. Tina went throughout her day as usual, but what she didn’t know was that soon her daughter would take her own life. Iris got home and went up into her bedroom. Tina wouldn’t get home

Without significant, strong people in the world, the earth would be no longer here. People would not survive and the world would be in chaos. Because of this, the people who do good for the world are treasured and kept close. In the biography Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom by Ann Petry and the autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, two extraordinary women are revealed in the text. While Harriet is a former slave with little experience in the real world but with a heart filled with bravery, Mrs. Flowers is petite and full of willpower to strive to success.

Eileen was startled by the sight of her mom pointing a gun to her head. Luckily her mother was sleeping. She felt dizzy, Like this wasn't happening. She didn't want to wake and scare her and potentially have the gun go off. So she gently took her fingers off the trigger and took the gun out of her hands. It was like surgery of how precise she was taking it out of her hand. Once the gun was out of her hand she put it on the bed farthest away from her and shook her awake and just started yelling at her. Some of the things she said were “ How could you be so selfish?” and “I hate you!” She walking out of her room she hid the gun in a different room. She was so upset. She couldn't believe that her own mother would take her life. Or at least attempt to. She felt that every waking moment her mother abused her. She felt that her mother made her do EVERYTHING in the house. She was so angry at her mother. She had done everything she had ever asked of her and yet she wanted to take her life. But her mom did give a lot more respect towards

Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, outlines the lives of two families realistically from 1901 to 1913. Multiple themes are presented through the lives of these families in three separate acts: “Daily Life”, “Love and Marriage”, and “Death and Eternity”. Although each act entails different commonly faced problems and themes, the play does not lack a central, universal theme. Each act contributes to a main theme about human life that, even after 81 years, is still relevant to society today. The main theme of the play, Our Town, is that human life is repetitive and temporary.

Ava’s decision to stay in Idlewild was not a choice she consciously made at a single point in time. Rather, several factors over the summer went into convincing her that it was the place she should be. Involvement with her sister Joyce and the Sewing Circus was one of those factors. Working with the sewing circus gave the two women a hand in restoring the community that had once been a thriving place to live that its citizens were proud of. Helping the woman in the Sewing Circus gave the women a purpose and made them feel good about helping those that might otherwise have no means to better themselves. This served as a way for Ava to take her mind off of her disease and not let herself feel sorry about it.

With the narrator being the woman, the reader gets a unique view of the events of the story. This story is an insightful look into the mind of woman confined by her environment and by her own self. It explores the expectations placed on women during the time period and how it impacted them.

I walked to the room at the end of the hall that led to the attic. I slowly placed my foot on the first step, calling out for Nancy. When I finally reached the top, I saw a long haired woman standing by the window with her backed turned to me. "Chelsea? What the hell are you doing here?" She was holding an axe in her hand and I started backing up, with no intention on going any further. She turned around and to my surprise, it was not Chelsea at all, but Nancy. She had blood rolling down her forehead, from the scalp that was ripped from Chelsea's head. "Oh, Dear," she said. "You gave me quite a fright." She started walked toward me. "What do you think?" She asked, running her fingers through the

The play discussed a 16-year old girl who joined a girl gang after witnessing so much in her life. She was mentally and physically abused and taken advantage of. She experienced being raped at the age of five and her mother being beat everyday by that same person which was her stepfather. As a result, she turned her life to the streets as a way of escape because she had no one to depend on.

“It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder, that life might be long.” (Chopin 17). “"Poof!"… gave a revealing look at the victims of domestic abuse and how they wrestle with overcoming their fear and their doubts after suffering years of abusive treatment.” (Toomer 5) Loureen unlike Mrs. Mallard, witnesses her husband’s death first hand during a marital argument. Loureen goes through denial questioning whether her husband’s death. She is happy her husband is dead but also feels guilty, because she knows how a mourning wife should react, but the joy of his demise is greater,” I should be praying, I should be thinking of the burial, but all that keeps popping into my mind is what will I wear on television when I share my horrible and wonderful story with a studio audience…”, Loureen’s husband, Samuel, was physically abusive, as revealed by Florence, Loureen’s best friend and neighbor. “Did that mother***** hit you again?” (Nottage 1563) This abuse, physical by Samuel and mental by Brently, is what allows Loureen in the drama “Poof!” and Mrs. Mallard in the short story “The Story of an Hour” to have the shared freedom they feel in the release from their respective abusive relationships.

In the play of Pride’s Crossing, Mabel Tidings Bigelow, a 91-year-old woman dependent upon a walker. In a series of occurring with no delay of flashbacks, Mabel at ages, 10, to age 91 between each transformation was such a terrible one for her. Mabel Tidings Bigelow was at age ninety and expecting her daughter and grandchild annual visit from Paris so she insist to throw croquet party for them on their arrival. When it comes to an excellence stage, she relives pieces from the past fifty years that precisely enclose past and current to reveal the complete moment of chance lost and her forbidden love that described her life. A lively view of Mabel clearly define her when she was getting old, her flashes of mental ability and her quality of being funny, irritated young-looking spirit and elderly malice.

In the next morning Annabeth mom asked her why she had killed and drunk the human blood. Annabeth was confused she told her mother that she went hunting with them, and that is pretty much everything she remembered. They started to ask themselves questions on how Annabeth could not remember anything of what had happen last night so they decided to ignore it all and pretend like it had never happened. Weeks passed and every night Annabeth would hunt human guys and her parents would ask her why she had changed and turned evil, but Annabeth did not understand why they were treating her that way. U till one day she was at home and it was night she saw herself in the mirror and asked herself why did she not know what was happening to her.