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, incest, and everything in between. It gives the viewer an interesting way to look at the many problems that American families go through in their lives today. The story is about the dysfunctional Weston family brought together by the tragedy of a lost family member. The family has to deal with the loss of a loved one, and on top of that, an alcoholic, a drug abuser, a troubled young girl, and a very lost couple who doesn’t know what to do. This play is extremely unpredictable and by George Judy, who is plastered drunk. It opens up the play with a funny sense of humor and right when you think it’s going to slow down, Violet Weston, played by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis walks in. She is stumbling down the stairs cursing and talking about how many pills she’s on. The story starts with showing the dysfunctions of the family and gets more dysfunctional as the story goes on. It is an amazing play that is as dramatic as it is hilarious. The Acting in this play is really great, and Cristine McMurdo-Wallis leads the cast with a very realistic and convincing character. She plays an eccentric drug abuser that loses her husband, Beverly. You can feel her pain and can empathize how one would feel if they were to lose a family member. In one scene she is extremely wasted, dancing obnoxiously to happy, upbeat music by herself. She is acting like she doesn’t care what happened to her husband. A second later she slams her record player shut and starts bawling crying. This scene shows her amazing acting skills by being able to express her

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In chapter four the topic was health and illness. In the first part of the chapter it talked about how do you define health. The book described health basically as a when a person can do functions or tasks that they want to do without any issues. While reading this I thought to myself how much I take this for granted. My description of health prior to this would have been exercising and eating healthy daily. Before this chapter I only thought that being healthy encompassed the lifestyle that comes…

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"Marigolds" and "Thank You Ma’am" are two short stories, written both by African American authors in the 20th century. They were both written around the same time, Marigolds in 1969 by Eugenia Collier and "Thank You Ma’am" in 1959 by Langston Hughes. The main theme of both stories is integrity, we see how the main characters change from not knowing integrity to having integrity. Some things like the setting of the story, symbols, and the empathy can be used to compare these two short stories.…

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closed on him. 'You know what I could do?' Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. 'Yes, ma'am.' 'Well, you keep your place then, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny.' Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego--nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, 'Yes, ma'am,' and his voice was toneless. For a moment she stood over him [like a victorous prize fighter] as though waiting for him to…

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to see what was going on. She looked closely. “Is everything alright miss General?” Jenna asked. “No, they are coming.”Marina said. She pointed at one of the troops. “You, fire a warning shot. We must prepare for bloodshed.”commanded Marina. “Ma'am yes ma'am” shouted the soldier. The warning shot was fired, but that didn't keep them from…

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