Oedipus

Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes. After having been married some time without children, his parents consulted the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi about their childlessness. The Oracle prophesied that if Laius should have a son, the son would kill him and marry Jocasta. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, when Jocasta indeed bore a son, Laius had his ankles pinned together so that he could not crawl, and gave the boy to a servant to abandon ("expose") on the nearby mountain. However, rather than leave the child to die of exposure, as Laius intended, the sympathetic servant passed the baby onto a shepherd from Corinth.

URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus

NINE TEN

In this 10 minute play there are several characters which are required to serve jury duty. All of them are pretty upset which must be the most boring thing ever and they are also pretty moody. Most of the play they are discussing and arguing until the court officer comes in and asks them to follow him while they are all trying to give excuses of why they can't be there.

BEAUTY

Beauty was a drama play that involved two girls which were entirely different but bestfriends. One of the girls always use to wish she could look like the beautiful one and the beautiful one would always admire the knowledge of the other.
All of the sudden the ugly one ended up finding a genie who wished to grant three wishes. The last wish she wished was to have the beauty from her friend. It was disastrous.

I DREAM BEFORE I TAKE THE STAND

I Dream Before I Take the Stand, by Arlene Hutton, is a short one-act (roughly 20 minutes) that is at once an aburdist drama and dream play of sorts. A woman dreams about the upcoming trial of the man who sexually assaulted (and possibly raped) her in the park one not-so-typical morning on her way to work. The piece focuses on the woman's subconscious and begs the question "Is the woman responsible for the attack against her?" and throws a critical eye onto court practices that allow such personal questions as what clothing the woman was wearing to be asked within the courtroom.
URL:http://theatre.wanderingchild.org/dream.html

This was a very interesting play in which you can witness how a good lawyer and his skills can change everything around in a courtroom, everything though if the defendant is entirely wrong.

JOSE RIVERA (TAPE DRAMA)

Rivera was born in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955. He was raised in Arecibo where he lived until 1959. Rivera's family migrated from Puerto Rico when he was 4 years old, and moved to New York. They settled down in Long Island, whose small town environment would be of an influence to him in the future. His parents were very religious and he grew up in a household whose only book was the Bible. His family enjoyed telling stories and he learned a lot by hearing these stories. As a child, he also enjoyed watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits T.V. series. He received his primary and secondary education in the New York state public school system. In 1968, when Rivera was 12 years old, he saw a traveling company perform the play "Rumpelstiltskin" at his school. Witnessing the collective reaction of the audience towards the play convinced the young Rivera that someday, he too, would like to write plays.
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rivera_%28playwright%29

BOB DYLAN

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Jim Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.^[2] Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights^[3] and anti-war^[4] movements.
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

Bob Dylan had a lot of talent, because he was a singer, a songwriter, and also a musician.

Big Black Good Man

Big Black Good Man was written by Richard Wright in around 1957. Many of his stories are mainly about racial issues. In this story he shows good points of race, maleness, and also the nature of goodness. Wright grew his reputation of a outstanding American author with his mostly his first writings such as Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children. Most of them are about black people and showing the lack of freedom in both the North and the South.

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Gone With the Wind

Gone with the Wind is a romantic novel and it was the only novel written by this author, Margaret Mitchell. This novel won many awards aswell. It was written during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction.

Everything that Rises Must Converge

The author wrote this story during her last years of life which she knew was coming to an end shortly. This aspect must have made her write her stories without hiding any feelings that she had in which she didn't have a long time to express. Even in that sad situation the author ended up winning another award for this story. It explains a bus trip with a young man and his mother.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

The author of this story is Mary O'Connor and it is told by a third person point of view. This short story is very cruel and non mercy. Most of the important characters included in this story ends up dying in a brutal way. Very sad story which made me appreciate life a little more.

Doe Season

David Michael Kaplan is an associate professor of English at Loyola University of Chicago. He has written award-winning short stories, as well as a novel and a nonfiction work on how to improve your writing. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and began his writing career part time while working in Los Angeles. The book begins with the showpiece entitled "Doe Season," which was selected as one of the Best American Short Stories of 1985. A pre-teen tomboy named Andy accepts an invitation to accompany her father on a hunting trip. She wants desperately to prove she is a worthy companion even though she is a girl. However, after reluctantly killing a doe, she runs from the horrible display of the gutted deer butchered by her father and his friends. Later that night, the doe revisits Andy in her dreams displaying the wound that the girl had inflicted upon her. These experiences cause Andy to reexamine her feelings about being a girl.

URL:http://www.amyscott.com/david_michael_kaplan.htm

David Michael Kaplan is an outstanding writer, in which some of his short stories are categorized as America's best Short Stories. In Doe Season which we read in class, Kaplan describes a girl named Andrea, and shows how her feelings of how she wants to do manly activities. In the end she realizes that her female side of her takes over.

The Problem With Human Compassion

Hokget officially became a pet pooch again yesterday, cradled in the arms of her new owner at Honolulu International Airport.
The nearly 3-year-old Jack Russell terrier mix, made famous by her plight aboard a derelict ocean tanker for 24 days, began her new life with Michael and Helen Kuo after completing 120 days of quarantine.
Kuo held the dog in his arms like a baby while speaking to more than 30 people from the media and public during a press conference.Hawai'i animal-lovers learned of the abandonment and the Hawaiian Humane Society led a massive effort to find the tanker and save the dog.
Hokget, whose plight made international headlines, was rescued April 26 by the crew of a tugboat sent to tow the tanker to Honolulu from about 250 miles east of Johnston Atoll.

URL:http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Aug/31/ln/ln01a.html

Hokget was really a lucky dog, since many people helped out in funding the rescue. But keeping in mind that the theme of the story was that how come we pay more importance and help out a single dog out in the ocean, then humans dying in masses?

UNDER THE BANYAN TREE

Under the Banyan Tree, by R K Narayan involves a different group of characters, in which these days are rarely seen or spoken about. It happens in India and its about a elderly man who is very wise and considered a leader for the village. Also know as Nambi, the leader starts to forget his story while the crowd is eager to hear it. This makes him very ashamed and now he realizes he is starting to get old, in which ends up by him meditating most of the days until he believes he is ready to finish the story. After two unsuccessful tries he ends the story short and consider himself dumb.

A&P

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, is a 447-store supermarket chain with locations in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia under several banners. Its corporate and U.S. headquarters are located in Montvale, New Jersey.[3] Supermarket News ranked A&P No. 21 in the 2007 "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" based on 2006 fiscal year estimated sales of $6.9 billion.[2] Based on 2005 revenue, A&P is the 35th largest retailer in the United States.[4] It was once the dominant food retailer in the nation.

URL"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_&_Pacific_Tea_Company"

If remember correctly three summers ago i walked into an A&P in Maryland, during a soccer tournament.

The closest A&P from Boston is in 126 Stonington Rd Mystic, CT.