The Outsiders
The world of Ponyboy Curtis consists of two kinds of people: The greasers and the Socs. Who is this boy with a weird name? He is the narrator of the book ‘The Outsiders’, written by S.E.Hinton in the year 1967. The book is about two teenage rival gangs, as told …
Reasonable Doubt
They have twelve scraps of paper… Twelve chances to kill! Thus reads the tagline of one of the greatest movies of all time – 12 Angry Men. 12 Angry Men is a 1957 American drama film written by Reginald Rose. It follows the story of a jury of 12 men as they …
Teaching: A noble profession
When my friend told her parents that she wanted to be a teacher, they nodded hesitatingly, a little saddened perhaps that she did not want to be an engineer or a doctor. When she further told them that she wanted to teach kindergarten or elementary school, they laughed out loud. …
Of Eggs and Jewels
“Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.” This is Wikipedia’s definition of art. Sounds horribly complicated, …
With strings attached
They say that magic doesn’t exist. It only means that ‘they’ have not heard truly great music, for who could argue that magic is not real, after listening to the lilting tunes of the violin? As Dumbledore rightly said, “Music! A magic beyond all that we do here!” There are …