My Qualities

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Faithful

     Faithful is the woman in the all white cloak with the blinding rock on her left ring finger. Every piece of clothing she owns is white, not a single drop of color. Her wardrobe shows her innocence and her pure genuine spirit. The ring she cherishes over everything is from her beloved husband Commitment. They’ve been married for over 30 years and have never grown tired of eachother. Since she was a young teenager Faithful was always loyal to her close friends and family and in her young love relationships. Something in her made her do right by everyone she trusted, and she always had their backs. She had met Commitment through their mutual friend, Devoted, and from then on they knew they were each other’s soul mates. 

Passionate

Passionate has a strong emotion for everything she does, and gets into all of her hobbies. She sits on the bench and glides her wrinkled and worn out hands across the black and white keys. She closes her eyes as she strikes a loud, harmonious chord. The notes ring off the piano and fill the room. Her hands shake with rage as she plays but also prance with delicacy. As she gets into her favorite part of the piece her head rolls back and she goes to a new world. The music rushes through her veins and her whole body falls numb to the instruments sound.

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Artistic

         Artistic sits beneath the tall oak tree and looks out at the bright open sky. She holds her pad and pen close to her body as her hand begins to free draw. She is very quiet, usually the silent one of the group, because she’d much rather express her voice through art. Her words write across the canvas and flow from side to side with ease. Her unique paintings and abstract sculptures make here even more mysterious. Nobody quite understands Artistic, not even her aunt Creativity. Everybody interprets her differently and makes their own judgments. She is one of a kind.

 

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Inspiration

     Inspiration radiates the entire neighborhood. She steps outside to get the morning paper and the neighbors applaud and gawk in amazement. Her story and transformation attract everyone to her, and make her almost a local celebrity. People look at Inspiration and say they want to be just like her, or hope to be a pivoting figure one day just like she. Some even call her an idol.

     She wears bright colors, neon pink, lime green, and sunny yellow. Emitting her light and aura to anyone in her reach. She touches people’s hearts with her words of wisdom and her knowledge of overcoming. Her best friend Perseverance, is her everything. Without her she would not be the person that she is today, or be in the state she’s in.

Inspiration is in anything and everything. She is hidden beneath the cracks and concrete of this here world. Look at anything and you will find her, just waiting to get inside of your mind and entangle into your thoughts. She rests in the places some people would never think of, but waits there anyway for the right person to discover her.

Inspiration has been through it all, and to this day still struggles a little through life. She continues to shed light on a few of her friends, including Depression, Sorrow and Guilt. Everyday she has that huge smile that nobody could miss planted on her face, and those glistening bright hazel eyes. If you ever do see her stop and talk to her, engage in a conversation with her; understand all that was said to you and think back on your life.

Qualities

A quality is a characteristic or attribute you have that sets you apart from other people, and makes you unique and original.
Qualities I have:

• Has a good sense of humor
• Gets along with mostly everybody
• Smart
• Nice to everyone
• Genuine
• Different
• Creative
• Honest
• Trustworthy
• Fun
• Has a big imagination

Personification
To me personification is giving human like qualities or traits to inanimate objects or things that aren't alive

Dandelion Wine Discussion Questions

1. The Dandelion wine symbolizes how Douglas is alive and taking in everything around him, and it symbolizes that beauty. And he thought of memories as the dandelions as his memories.

2. Leo Auffman's wife was upset by the Happiness Machine because the joy was all an allusion. She wasn't really in Paris or indulging in her wishes, hopes or dreams, it was all a fantasy.

3. The concept of the ravine symbolizes a darkness, and even death. it also could represent the darkness within themselves, or the town.

4. I can see why Mrs. Bentley decided to deny her past, but it wasn't necessarily the right thing to do. Because your past makes you the person you are and shapes you into the being you are. We all make choices that we aren't proud of in our life but you have to learn from your mistakes and make you a better person.

5. As the boys documented they learned about how valuable time was, and how it gets wasted so easily but it sort of contradicts itself because during this process of reflecting their to busy counting instead of just enjoying it.

6. "The Lonely One" is the antagonist of the novel and he's the figure whom all the kids fear. He's connected to the ravine because the ravine resembles darkness and "The Lonely One" is looked as the figure who lurks in the dark and can never be killed. Lavinia did kill "The Lonely One" but the boys refuse to believe that because they think that he can never be killed, and the man who was killed looking nothing like him.

7. It was a very hot morning and Douglas had a fever and suffered from a heat stroke. The junk man Jonas helps him by giving him two bottles of cool air and tells him too drink it through his nose and that cures his fever.

8.The summer of 1928 never truly ended for Douglas, because what he learned over the summer he will never truly forget and will stay with him forever. And Bradbury portrayed summer to be a magical time and a little boys favorite time, but in this case it was a time of new beginnings and a ton of new discoveries.

Dandelion Wine paragraph response

"Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury is a very confusing novel to me. Sometimes I don't understand what's happening in the novel at times. One key thing I did understand in this section that I read though was time. It kept reoccurring in the text and seemed to be very prevalent. Doug was reminiscing on times he had spent with John because John was going to leave to live with his father, and Doug was sad because they had grown to become such good friends. And Doug was talking about how he just wanted time to stop and not go by so fast. He also noticed how the world was and how it was changing as time went on, and he promised his brother that they needed to stick around for a long time, and they would never leave each others side.

Rules for Formatting Screenplay

• Always have a cover page
• Every character that has a speaking role is in capital letters
• Capitalize any sound that is important to the narrative
• Dialogue is formatted in the center
• Use master headers for location 
• Put the action or what is taking place under the master header
• Put o.s if it's off screen, put o.c if it's off camera and put v.o if it's a voice over
• Use a sub heading when it is in the same location but in a new part of the location
• When action interrupts dialogue make a new indentation
• Write out all numbers because each page has to be a minute long
• If something needs emphasis underline
• Indicate who you are talking to

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Edward Scissorhands Discussion Questions

1A. The entire neighborhood is constructed, describe the colors used in the neighborhood scenes?
They're all bright colors and neonny.
1B. What could be the desired effect in this use of color?
That they're all happy and in sync as a community, and also partly wealthy.

2. As the woman drives up to the haunted house there is background music playing. What is the desired effect of this music? Describe two other places in the film where the soundtrack or film score affected your viewing of that scene.
To show the aura of the house and to also give it emotion and feel. Another place the music is used in the movie that affected my viewing was when he was cutting the hedges. They used playful music and made it sharp and jumpy. Also when Edward was mad after getting framed for breaking into the house he was very upset so they played raging music as he stormed through the neighborhood.

3. How does the costuming set the main character, Edward apart from the other community members and why do you think Edward is meant to be so visually different? How does this help the actor portray his role?
Him being so different makes him stand out as a unique individual so it makes sense he's the main character. And everyone in the community dresses alike with wild colors while Edward just wears black.

4. What is Tim Burton (Director) saying about the nature of conformity in this film? How does he use color and visual imagery to driveome this point?Edward tried to fit in and wear nor hmal clothes and interact with the people in the community but it ended up not working out for him and driving him even more crazy. The colors tie into this because Edward didn't look like everybody else with the way he dressed which means he was trying to be different.

5. Is Edward a tragic figure? Why or why not based on the outcome of the film.
Edward to me is a tragic figure because he can never fit in wherever he is and he also struggles with his hands each and everyday. And the outcome is him returning home because he can't take the community anymore which is tragic.

6. What are some of the highlights, twists and turns of the story?
One of the twists is when Edward is being framed for breaking in because i didn't think that they were going to do that to him, but then that resulted in another twist which was the fact that Kim started to like Edward and I didn't think she would come around and like him too.

7. Research online what people Tim Burton consistently works with for his productions and list three here. Discuss why creatively this might be important for a Director.
One person he's worked with multiple times is Johnny Depp, who was the star of this film Edward Scissorhands. And two other people are Helena Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman. This might be a smart choice because they know how the actors work and their specialties.