On the surface David Ives’ “Sure Thing” is a play about two strangers who meet, fall in love and live happily ever after. When analyzed in more depth, the play is actually about the struggle that exists between one’s desire to be an individual and the need to conform, to a certain degree, in order to be part of a couple. The play exposes and discusses the tension that exists between the value of being an individual and value associated with being in love. Love holds the promise that you will always
are said, there is no taking them back. Imagine a world with a reset button. A world where anytime you say the wrong words, you can go back in time during the middle of a conversation and correct what was wrongly said. In the short one-act play by David Ives, a relationship between two young individuals is built and rebuilt several times on behalf of a bell. Although the play is brief, Sure Thing resembles various pathways and ideas of how human beings individually interpret love and how maybe, just
of love that is so desperately sought out. If two people cannot share these basic values, they may find it very difficult to continue dating. Then, the relationship is doomed already. This is proven brilliantly in the short play "Sure Thing" by David Ives. A bell is rung every time the conversation between the two characters say anything that ruins their odds of dating. The bell's constant ringing reveals how many things keep people apart. Throughout history there is a story is repeatedly told in
In the play, “The Philadelphia” by David Ives took place in New York at a Restaurant. The main topic of this play was Stereotypes. The type of stereotypes in this play where not the offensive ones, it is the type where there can be a group of friends and they would laugh if it was to come up in their conversations. The three main characters where Al, Mark and the waitress. All three of these characters had a huge roll in the poem. Al was the laid back one from California, he did not realize that
It is indeed a complicated concept for guys to know on how to flirt with a girl. Flirting is a behavior that does not include verbal but also non–verbal idea that can interest the opposite sex. It is more than just complimenting women by trying to impress them through dressing up, showing off the wealth or picking up a girl with those cheesy lines. It is more of your approach towards the girl. Normal conversation can enhance the bonding between the two and can develop the sexual tension that is
we all come up with one sometime in our lives. Girls make excuses constantly when they are being hit on or when a stranger starts a conversation with them. It is just our way of getting out of situations we are not necessarily comfortable in. In David Ives play, Sure Thing, we see that the main characters are struggling to hold an intriguing conversation with one another. Betty, always trying to find an easy way out of the conversation. Bill, always trying to find a way to start the conversation again
In this modern romantic play written by David Ives in 1988, the first experience with the commonly rung bell sets the mood for my perspective that the two characters Bill and Betty are very particular in what will cause the ring. Quickly, I noticed that the play seems to repeat starting from where the conversation was originally going to start if the bell had not been rung. Throughout Sure Thing, various topics in Bill or Betty’s conversations seem to slowly build with emotions from either person
Charles Ives Charles Ives is known in our day as the “Father of American Music,” but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Union’s youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Little Charles
In 1894, a young, quietly colorful Charles Ives enters Yale University. He enters with a strong musical foundation provided by his father and community and a vision of what he thinks music can be. Horatio Parker, Ives’s composition professor unashamedly informs Ives that his vision of music seems blurry, perhaps even nauseating, to the astute, cultured musician. Ives quickly develops anger towards Parker’s traditional tutelage and rarely recognizes the positive effects Parker has on his compositions
market. Apple felt the only profitable market had to be portable mp3 players, thus the iPod came to the world. Engineering Chief Jon Rubinstein formed a team, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey, and design engineer Jonathan Ive, to create the new line of iPods. Amazingly the team created the new line in less than a year! Unveiled on 23 October 2001, Jobs announced Apple’s Mac-compatible new product with a 5 GB hard drive that put "1,000 songs in your pocket." (Apple, Ipod)
techniques and idea generation of a designer, Jonathan Ive, who is the principle designer of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. Jonathan Ive was born in February 1967 in Chingford of England. When he was a child, he always interested in making things, he used to take apart radios and cassette recorders and then try to put them back again. Ive has been see as a hard working and creative person among his colleges. In one of the press interview, Ive said that he choose computer design while everybody in that
existed for centuries. Perhaps one of the most well-known “musical borrowers” was Charles Ives, who worked snippets of popular, classical songs into his many compositions. Ives began composing in his teenage years, and went on to study music at Yale University. Though his instructor wanted him to stay within the realm of “traditional classical music”, Ives’ pieces were anything but traditional (“Charles Edward Ives: Biography”, 2014). His 1906 composition, titled Central Park in the Dark, is a prime
Many moments in life, whether moments of joy, grief, awe, strength, wisdom, worship, or petition, require a means of communication that is beyond normal, day-to-day means. Poetry uses imagery, repetition, contrast, structure, and thought to become more meaningful and powerful than can be expressed any other way. Psalms, which are defined as sacred songs sung to musical accompaniment (Vines 497), are fascinating to us, and use elements of poetry to help us learn moral lessons and grow closer to God
Comparing the Three Statues of David The pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting are the three statues of David, by Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), and Bernini (Gian Lorenzo Bernini). The statues are modeled after the biblical David, who was destined to become the second king of Israel. Also most famously known as the slayer of the Philistine giant Goliath with a stone and a sling. The sculptures are all based
McKay's America 1)”America” is written in a Public voice. McKay writes this poem as though it is meant to be heard by all. However, there are some parts in “America” where it takes a more personal approach. For example, when McKay states “Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.” and also when he mentions how he gazes into the days ahead. I find in those sections of the poem McKay takes a more personal approach because of the specifics mentioned solely
The biblical King David of Israel was known for his diverse skills as both a warrior and a writer of psalms. In his 40 years as ruler, between approximately 1010 and 970 B.C.E., he united the people of Israel, led them to victory in battle, conquered land and paved the way for his son, Solomon, to build the Holy Temple. Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the books of the Prophets and Writings: Samuel I and II, Kings I and Chronicles I. David was the eighth and youngest son of Jesse from
The book of 2 Samuel tells the story of King David and his rise to power, as well as reign- the good and the bad. The focus here will be on 2 Samuel, chapters eleven through thirteen, which depict some of the darker times in David’s rule. The theme of these three chapters is God’s modeling of King David. This theme develops throughout the three chapters with the disobedience and punishment of David. God creates laws for His children not because he wants to restrict us, but because he desires a
This is precisely what happened to David Dornstein before he fell, already dead, 6 miles to the ground in Ella Ramsden’s front yard, the landing site for about 60 other individuals when the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein is a true story about David Dornstein’s life and how his brother Ken searches through his numerous letters, manuscripts, notebooks, and journals and interviews the friends of David to find out all that he can about his
president, but what people fail to realize is what else David is actually praying. This paper is going to go through Psalms 109 and unpack it verse by verse to show the true meaning of what David was praying and to give us a new look at how to pray. Psalm 109 begins with a superscription that we have seen several times before, “A Psalm of David” (Bible 873). David is believed to be the author of this Psalm. Psalms 109 though is not a usual Psalm by David; this particular Psalm is classified as an Imprecatory
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