How to Watch Your Brother Die Michael Lassell portrays himself as a straight man in his poem “How to Watch your Brother Die.” In reality he is a 21st century gay poet. The poem tells the story of a man‚ this being the straight narrator‚ who is called across the country to visit his brother as he lies on his deathbed. Later in the poem we learn the dying brother is suffering from HIV‚ and had been disowned by his brother because of his homosexuality. As the poem goes on‚ the narrator creates a unique
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Lauren Professor Williams Intro to Theater October 3‚2012 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me On October 2‚ I watched a play at Ohio State-Newark. The play was called Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and was about these three men that were being held hostage. The content of the play was their life while being held captive by unseen guards. Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me is a play consisting of an adequate set‚ pleasing costumes‚ decent lighting‚ and admirable acting. When the lights came on‚ at the
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news‚ reviews‚ classified‚ current affairs‚ etc. Secondary‚ TV has many channels like sports‚ entertainment‚ news‚ exploration‚ etc. just as newspapers has segments like polities‚ sports‚ economics‚ etc. to serve people with specific purposes. The readers can ignore unexpected information in newspaper similar to the watchers can change channels on TV if the shows are playing is not interested them. Despite these similarities‚ the TV and newspaper have some very significant differences. The first
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TV: The Worst Invention Ever? Nowadays‚ TV has become a necessary part of people’s daily life. Some people believe that TV is destroying our society and is the worst invention ever. There is no denying that TV does have some drawbacks to society. For instance‚ watching too many TV shows wastes people’s time and hurts their eyes. In addition‚ broadcasting many diversions on TV can make people’s mind more superficial rather than reading books to do self-improvement. What’s worse‚ exaggerating actual
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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English II - P4 21st‚ May 2013 Reality TV: Cruel or Creative? Why do you watch reality TV? Perhaps it is interesting to see a lifestyle very different from yours. Perhaps it fills a room with your laughter to see how a person on TV can be so ignorant. Perhaps it makes you babble with all the gossip it causes. But just put down your selfish thoughts‚ and think about the possibility of lies‚ or humility the protagonist may be crushed under. Although reality TV may bring upon fame that may mean happiness
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In Stites’ article Someone To Watch Over Me she discusses the role that social networks play in her life. According to her she spends a good amount of free time on various different social networks. She says that she would rather spend her time talking to people online than in person. Stites then goes on to explain how she finds a thrill in finding new friends online. In my opinion social networks overall have a negative effect on your life. They create people afraid to talk to others in person‚
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however all reality TV shows are edited. Through the process of editing‚ bits and pieces of filmed ‘reality’ are selected to form an altered reality. Scientists also believe in a quantum theory‚ whereby observation alone influences reality. So there is scientific evidence that supports the fact that peoples’ actions are altered due to the presence of a camera‚ thus further extracting from the sense of ‘reality’. Many reality programmes do document real life events‚ however as I watch these programmes
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Manipulating Reality Surprisingly‚ reality TV lacks on one important factor that reality TV should incorporate‚ and that is reality. Many television programs full of high entertainment and creativity are full of lies and as well. Most television producers and directors edit conversations and persuade the stars to make certain decisions. Although there is no written script for the show‚ that doesn’t stop TV workers from altering reality. LifeTime’s popular reality TV program about the life of a competitive
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“How To Watch Your Brother Die” written by Micheal Lassell is an interesting poem‚ though it reads like a short story. It is written almost as a guide to several different things. The main character is a straight man seeing a different lifestyle‚ that he had shut out‚ for the first time. The first time really seeing what other people‚ though gay‚ still human beings‚ have to go through to live in our society. A society that he has helped make into what it is. He is also a man watching his brother
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