Free Essays on If I Were A Clown

  1. My 5th Birthday

    the kids were happy,and the music was wow! It was time to choose the singer for the birthday song her, Aunt Sally, she sang and every one else joined in. Ten minutes later, I ask my mom, “ Where’s the entertainment where’s the clown I want it. I want it now”! My mom replied,” The clown is missing...

  2. A Look at the Dark Side

    Ever since I can remember I have had a fascination with aliens, werewolves, vampires, ghosts and of course zombies. I remember watching R. L. Stine’s ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’ every weekday after coming home from school. My fascination has not changed in the least bit. As I mentioned in my introduction...

  3. Dark Knight Review

    Last night I went to the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight” and to be honest with you, I expected a little more. Let’s be honest folks with the unfortunate death of Heath Ledger there how’s been a lot hype about ‘The Dark knight.” This movie is a good movie, but to say it’s the best movie of 2008...

  4. Unusual Museums

    about the history of the medical treatment of teeth. Visitors can see some frightening devices that once were used to remove infected teeth. They also can see sets of teeth made of animal bone. They were made for a famous American -- the first President, George Washington. Most people do not consider a...

  5. Cruel and Unusual Punishment or Justice

    Wisconsin. The United States used to set executions out in the public as a warning for other offenders. But people protested that the executions were to cruel and bloody, so in order to make the executions more humane legislators passed for lethal injection to be used. Methods of execution have varied...

  6. Downfall

    with two soldiers on guard at a palace platform. These two, Barnardo and Francisco, were stiff and untrusting, which already shows us that the plot had already spun even before the play had started. In end of Act I, scene i, we learn of the death of the previous King, which we can allude to the tense atmosphere...

  7. Theatre of the 21st century

    with reference to its original performance conditions. The play we saw was twelfth night and there were many modern aspects to the play that moved the play into the 21st century. However there were also elements of the play that remained in original performance conditions. Although it is important...

  8. Humour in Tragedy

    is first introduced in an exchange with Claudius in Act 1, Scene 2. King: How is that the clouds still hang on you? Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much I’ the sun. Hamlet makes a pun on the words “sun” and “son”, yet Claudius does not seem to catch on ; “Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off...

  9. Swirl of Colors

    the young tree, waiting to mature and be cultivated. She too will eventually get to show brighter colors. "They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. Four who do not belong here but are here" (Cisneros...

  10. Work-22222

    specially I mean youngsters, who have just finished school and starting their career life, who say that they won't even go outside for less then fifteen thousand for month. It's wrong attitude, because if you don't have any practical experience, then how can you demand that much. When I started my career...

  11. Anti-Semitism in the U.S.A.

    Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Hindus hate the Muslims, and everybody hates the Jews.1 I can scarcely fathom, living in the 21st century of the Common Era, the notion that anti-Semitism is alive and well in the USA. Sue & Sue (2008) offer scathing...

  12. Revelations

    REVELATIONS <i> "Dark future ahead of me, that's what they said, I'd be starvin' if I ate all the lies they fed, `cuz I've been redeemed from your anguish and pain, a miracle child I'm floatin' on a cloud. `Cuz the words that come from your mouth you're the first to hear. Speak words of...

  13. Australian Playwrights Use the Stage as a Mirror to Reflect the Social and Personal Insecurities of Their Time.

    live performances and real footage of the Australian plays, ‘Ruby Moon’ by Matt Cameron and ‘A Beautiful Life’ by Michael Futcher and Helen Howard, I have recognized that Australian playwrights use the stage as a mirror to reflect the social and personal insecurities of their time. The playwrights have...

  14. Just Live

    now back, the same sparkle that I hadn’t seen in years, yet was so easy to recognize. I had endured a very mean, nasty, and not to mention juvenile divorce between my abusive sperm donor (I don’t even give him the pleasure of calling him my father) and my mom. The day I found out that my dad, Sam, had...

  15. The New Land

    summer sun, I trudged home unenthusiastically. As the bell rang on the last day of school, the others were excited to start their summer vacations that would be filled with excitement. For me, it was just going to be another summer, waiting nearly three months to see my friends again. I finally reached...

  16. Self Paper

    was the end of the school year, and Doug and I were in the gym, with the rest of the school. I was not sure why they were having everyone meet in the gym, according to Doug, “they were having some awards and reception for the geeks,” and by this I think he meant the school band and some of the...

  17. Childhood Monsters

    deep frown set in his face. He looks into the crowd of parents, staring at an unsettling man in a tan, neutral, and black clown suit, with the big red nose and worn down red clown shoes.   A little girl in a school uniform sits in a booth, a princess balloon tied to a backpack, peering out of the cafe...

  18. My Philosphy of Education

    Philosophy of Education I believe the goal of education is to enable students to grow into productive and compassionate members of society. I want my students to become people who can contribute their skills and ideas towards improving the world in which they participate. I want my students to understand...

  19. The Wig

    [pic] The Hair piece The results were shocking. Monica's hair stuck straight out in all directions. “What am I going to do?” cried Monica. “I can't go to school like this. I look like a clown!” “Maybe a haircut will help,” suggested her mother. Monica cried all the way to the beauty...

  20. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

    himself. Huck is amazed by how brilliant Tom is. What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyers head I wouldnt trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of (p. 236). It isn't simply that Tom is smarter. It is that Tom often makes...

  21. A Cask of Amontillado

    Cask of Amontillado” 1. Bricking someone up for an unspecified insult is shocking, yet by today’s standards, how shocking is the story? How shocked were you? "The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story basically about revenge. Montresor came up with a revenge upon Fortunato for an insult. Montresor...

  22. A work of fiction (work in progress)

    Where do I start with how many things are wrong with this particular scene? I’m running for my life with these two clowns, who I somehow got mixed up with. My life has always been a bit of a joke, leading to the same punch line, every day, and yet I feel that today might be the final joke in...

  23. Tomorrow when the war began

    A theme that I found important in the extended text Tomorrow, When the War Began, by John Marsden was change. Change is when people have things happen to their circumstances and are forced to think or believe differently. Change was important because it was a dominant theme in the novel as the characters...

  24. Biography john wayne gacy

    parents were Danish and Polish. He had a normal childhood with the exception of a violent relationship between and his father that had left him with a desire for his father’s approval. He was an abusive child; Gacy’s father was a drunk. His father would beat him and his siblings if they were believed...

  25. The Monstrosity of Adolf Hitler

    blossoming career as a German Politian, as a member of the Nazi’s party, Hitler proposed the Nazi party program which consisted of twenty-five points which “[were] presented at a public meeting on February 24th, 1920, with over two thousand eager participants.” (Grobman) “Revoking the Versailles Treaty, confiscating...

  26. Born to Be a Killer

    they come from and how can they be identified so they can be stopped and controlled? Are you a serial Killer. Can you answer this question correctly. I girl goes to her mother funeral. While attending the funeral she sees the man of her dreams. She was not able to get his phone number or give him her...

  27. Edgar Allan Poe - 1

    thinking. From the very beginning of the story, the first line starts off by saying, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge,” the theme of revenge is clearly visible. Montresor, who is also the narrator of the story, wants to plot...

  28. Bertolt Brecht Life and Influences

    important materialist writer of our time." As Jameson among others has stressed, "Brecht is also ‘Brecht’"—collective and collaborative working methods were inherent to his approach. This 'Brecht' was a collective subject that "certainly seemed to have a distinctive style (the one we now call 'Brechtian')...

  29. Four Days: a Close Analysis

    minimized to the narrator by using the first person perspective, reducing the vastness of the tragedy yet simplifying the moment. In this essay I will analyze a passage from the story in detail and go over the themes of equality, death, anti-war statements, and religion. One of the most...

  30. Letter to My Love

    the Lady Olivia, friends? {text:bookmark-end} {text:bookmark-start} Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings. {text:bookmark-end} {text:bookmark-start} I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow? {text:bookmark-end} {text:bookmark-start} Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse {text:bookmark-end}...

  31. Should Batman Kill the Joker? - Summary

    reason being, that they are still a human and no one is a perfect person. I would think many of those criminals are like the Joker, killing for fun or the joy of doing harm to innocent people like you and me. Why do they do it? I don’t really know why, but like them many, of us have different reasons on...

  32. Life's Impact on Motivation

    Throughout my life I have been driven by both and I will tell you about some small motivations but also a big circumstance that has motivated me. I was born in Baltimore Maryland on July 7th, 1994. My family and I lived outside of Baltimore in a small town. We would move to Maine when I was five years...

  33. Never Say Never

    STORY I never dared to say a word or speak at them. I had no choice and didn't know what to do. The first day of high school was like the first day of my life maybe my situation would have stopped, But no it didn’t it became worse and worser . I could remember the first day of school in primary I was...

  34. Mcdonaldization

    Ul Nurkhanov ENGU 111 Lana Cook McDonaldization of America and I. As I scroll through of my short existence, I recall my first experience in the “contact zone” (501) which, Pratt explains in “Arts of the Contact Zone”, as the interaction through which "peoples geographically...

  35. Whatever

    ------------------------------------------------- I have wrestled since I was in middle school. My parents have always been hesitant with me on any type of contact sport, they would rather have me play soccer or run in the cross county team like my relatives did. I wanted to be different than them I wanted to be a wrestler. ...

  36. The Joker Is King-Batman

    Nolan Watching The Dark Knight on a big screen is an experience comparable to few other pleasures one can think of immediately. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this satisfied coming out of a film. What's genius about director Christopher Nolan's latest Batman installment is that it's...

  37. The Fighter Analysis

    class American families. The charm of the movie is due to the directing and performances, as I do not think the screenplay was the highlight of the movie, as the story seemed predictable. However, there were scenes that did stand out and others that bothered me. When they see the title of the film...

  38. Farhrenheit 451: an Examination of Right vs Wrong

    anytime they could use this hound as a weapon or hunting tool. The media in their world uses cheap violent images to entertain such as “ three white clowns chopped off each other’s limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter” In their world, there is much entertainment to be had from...

  39. School Uniforms and Viloence

    In material terms, the clothes that children wore to school were predicated upon their class status (Brunsma n. pag.) . Late in 1980, Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry began discussing with his administration the possibility of a proposal of a standardized dress code for D.C.'s public schools....

  40. The Red Room vs the Monkeys Paw

    middle of nowhere it provides a feeling of isolation from civilisation, and also when it I at night it provides an aspect of fright and scariness. this makes the story better because it means that if something were to go wrong then the have no way of getting help. This is why the setting is so important...

  41. Act 1 of Twelfth night review

    this essay, I will be writing on four of the main characters in Act 1 of the play twelfth night or what you will. They are: Orsino, Olivia, Viola, and Sir Toby Belch. I will try to show how they interact with other characters how they are displayed themselves. 
 I will start with Orsino. I do that mainly...

  42. Hip Hop Industry History

    Hop Industry History As promised a week ago, I am fulfilling my promise to write about a hip hop industry, in which major labels and independent labels compete for the deep pockets and hungry imaginations of hip hop fans around the world. Now, I could have written a whole book on this topic, but...

  43. Willow Weeping

    quick! As I think back, I can still feel the sting from the branch of the weeping willow tree those times she had to impart her point on me, the backs of my legs to be exact. My cousins and I always referred to the tears that followed as willow weeping. Was this detrimental to me? No, I don’t think...

  44. history

    empire through several routes. D) taught to the Chinese by Byzantine monks. E) none of the above. Feedback: Correct. Procopius believed silk worms were brought to the Byzantine Empire by two Christian monks. 2 INCORRECT Throughout most of its history the capital of the Byzantine empire was A)...

  45. John Wayne Gacy

    Wayne Gacy Jr.? Well some people may say that John is a family man, a caring person, and a hardworking business man. He would even dress up as a clown and go to the local hospital to cheer up the kids in there. And these statements about John are probably true because he was a nice and caring person...

  46. Story Osan Hour

                  I remember strange details from that day. I remember wearing a pink Strawberry Shortcake shirt and denim overalls. I remember that my white-blond hair was pulled into two pigtails. I remember the smell of wood chips and the hot steel of the monkey bars on the playground. I remember the looks...

  47. The Most Shameful Day

    not a thing I can do about it. A monster, a bully, a thug. I can't believe that only this morning when we left the house looking for firewood, I looked up to this man. I was so proud that he was taking me with him to do a man's work. I felt important to be invited onto the demesne. We were there with...

  48. Discrimination and Society

    works that I have chosen the settings and the culture were written in the text and you had to read into it to find the clues and put them together. I chose three works of literature for their cultural settings and for the imagery that is laid out well as you piece the clues together. First I will give...

  49. My Country Invented

    My Country Invented I do not want to give the impression that we have only defects, also we include some virtues. Aver, leave me to think about some... For example, we are a town with soul of poet. Is not our fault, but of the landscape. Nobody that is born and he lives in a nature as ours can...

  50. Symbiosis

    sets for and expects his son, Ctesipho, to follow: I spare no pains, let slip no chance, and give him a sound training; in fact I’m always telling him to look at other men’s lives as in a mirror, and choose from then an example for himself. “Do this” I say- (Terrance 45) Demea expects these rules and...

  51. Macbeth

    some special features in order to be considered as a tragic hero. But first of all let me present Aristotle's definition of a "Tragic hero" and then I will elaborate on each element in relation to the tragedy of "Dr. Faustus".      The action makes Hero Tragic. So, there should be a mistake or fault...

  52. Hard Times - Fact and Fancy

    impression of experience. He was raised only on the experts of giving direct facts and specifics. On the other side, Sissy Jupe, the daughter of a clown from the circus, has never been exposed to the world of Fact. Her education started with love and compassion, which fostered the emotional and fanciful...

  53. Zain Ahmed

    remembrance; pray, love, remember’ (she gives this to Hamlet whom she feels has forgotten her), but where this becomes a deathly image is in the line ‘I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died’. The violets symbolise faithfulness, which she feels has been destroyed since...

  54. Fahrenheit 451 Paper

    walls all day. Mildred said, “This is my family,” (Bradbury 49). Mildred is very involved with her parlor, as reflected in her quote, “Ann! The white clown is on tonight!” (Bradbury 74). We later find out that she actually turns Montag in and leaves him to have his books burned. Mildred does not have...

  55. Remembered Event

    of getting? A car, of course! I was so excited when my sixteenth birthday finally came. I had completed and passed all of the driving classes necessary and I had plenty of practice driving my mom’s car around the neighborhood and main streets. Now that I was sixteen, I was finally ready to get my driver’s...

  56. Narrative Essay on Choices

    It was Saturday afternoon I could not tell you the time, as I laid on the cemented floor besides a wooden bench. The cell had a very strong urine-scent to it and the temperature was an estimated 90 degrees. I thought to myself “why the hell is the heat on in April”. The floor had its own odor to it,...

  57. camp bourndale

    Grade 6 Camp Bournedale I was just touching up my packing this morning. Then I was off to the best 4 days of my life! When I arrived at school I say three desks. One was for homerooms 1, 2 and 3. Then there was another desk for chaperons. Then behind the first desk I talked about there was another...

  58. Aborigine, Yoruba, and Native American Religions

    and customs. In my quest to not repeat this senseless extinction of culture and religion, I have felt it my duty to learn and reflect upon the diverse religions and cultures of the world. Concerning this quest, I have found it to be a reliable and viable idea to evaluate the personal lessons learned from...

  59. King Lear: the Role of the Fool

    and delay Lear's insanity as much as he can. The fool, however, does not tell Lear directly that he is going insane, "Then I prithee be merry. Thy will shalt not go slipshod"(I. IV. 11-12). The fool uses riddles and jokes to convey his message to Lear. Even when Lear's insanity was causing the fool discomfort...

  60. Globalization

    companies that do expand do show an increase in revenue, mine definitely have. I invested in McDonalds, Best Buy, and Walgreens before expansion, my earnings from these companies have sky rocketed ever since expansion internationally and I don’t expect anything less. McDonalds, before globalization, was only...