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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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| Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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12:05 pm
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| Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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2:21 pm
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School = so much fucking stress.
Friends = my life sooooo much better than it was. =]
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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4:36 pm - Help Out Detroit!!!
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If anyone is interested at all, there is a clean-up day on Belle Isle on April 25th. It's their annual spring clean-up and I'm trying to put a large group together to go help clean. You get a certificate at the end of the day for four hours community service. It's on Saturday, April 25th, from 9am-1pm. If you can get to Wayne State I can get you the rest of the way or give you directions. Lunch will be provided. Bring your own gloves. Garbage bags and stuff will be provided. Anyone is welcome! I would really appreciate the help. It's for a school project. =] So please, let me know if you can come and help. Thanks. =]
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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5:44 pm - Hello
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Classes are almost over. That is very weird and amazing all at the same time. I'm very excited for next year. I just need to get this service learning project done and it will be all good. =]
Ian and I broke up. For good this time. And I feel like no one cares because they don't think it's real. They think what happened the previous two times is going to happen again. But trust me. It won't. It can't.
Going to see Once Upon A Mattress tomorrow night with my dad. He's dying for a daddy-daughter date night. So it'll be interesting.
Then Saturday is two Tavern trainings and then going to see Back to the 80's at the high school with my mom. That should be very interesting.
Then Sunday I'm back at the village to get fitted for my dress. Hopefully the buttons won't keep unsnapping. And my schedule got fixed so now I'm serving all of opening weekend. =/ Excited, but nervous.
Didn't get in Kiss Me, Kate. Which is totally cool. That means I don't have to drive all that way. There is still another show I might audition for. And if I get in touch with Phill I may be able to AD Gepetto. And, of course, if Holly and I do You're A Good Man Charlie Brown that's another thing to do. I figure I might as well try everything. =] I need to start new things in my life. That's for sure.
That's all for now, I have class. =[
Til we meet again.
XOXO,
Alexis
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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8:49 pm
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Okay. I feel a bit better. LOL. I studied for my economics test and my communications test. And I already took a shower. And am going to chill for a bit and then go to bed early and I don't feel bad about it all. =]
Just thought I'd share.
Good night.
=]
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11:28 am
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I'm getting so discouraged about my grades. I thought I was going to do really well in all of my classes this semester. My classes are harder this semester. I wish I had done better last semester because last semester was incredibly easy. I just never went to class and Durham basically screwed over honors. But grr....I want better grades. I just feel like if I actually do all the work I'm supposed to do I won't have any time to do anything else or spend any time with anybody else. I would like to see my friends/boyfriend occasionally. This sucks. And I know a 3.6 is good for a first semester honors student. But damn it. I want A's. Ugh. I give up.
PS Macroeconomics sucks.
current mood:  gloomy
current music: Montgomery lecturing
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| Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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8:16 pm - Someone Please
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Motivate me. I have to write a 7-9 minute speech and do research and write an audience analysis paper by 11:45 tomorrow. And of course, I signed up to be the first on to go. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. It's on Belle Isle. I just can't focus.
I just want to focus on shows. Grr...help.
That is all.
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1:51 am
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So, I'm back at school. Spring break was useless. I mean, it was nice, but I got nothing done. But on the upside, I have exactly 6 weeks until my last final. =] And only 25 of those days are spent in class. =] Including finals.
So, I'm auditioning for Kiss Me, Kate on Sunday. I need to do a show, I'm dyin' without it. And if that doesn't work out I will try for others. =] I might get to AD for a show, which would be amazing. We'll see. =]
Work is going to start up again. =] I miss everyone there, I really do. I can't wait to see everyone. I have SERVER training on March 29. So excited to not have to host. lol. I have to take in my old dress and tell them I need a new one that doesn't have every button pop open every time I lift a tray. Somehow, I just don't think that is going to work. =]
I also need to find a dress for Ian's prom. =/ Anyone have a dress? LOL. I don't want to spend $500. I already did that for my prom. I don't think that much, but still. And his prom is after I get out of school. Which is cool. Even though the prom is IN Detroit. LOL. It's at the Rooster Tail.
Well, I feel that that is a sufficient update. =]
So, in summation, does anyone have a prom dress or does anyone know of a good audition song I can use?!
XOXO,
Alexis
current mood:  good
current music: When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls
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| Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
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1:31 am
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| Thursday, December 25th, 2008
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6:27 pm - This, That, and the Other
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Well, first semester went well. I have no idea why I'm updating, but I am. My last grade for some reason is not showing up though, which is a bit disappointing, especially since the TA said the professor posted them last Friday. So, I don't know what's going on. Got some cool things for Christmas. I know have Buffy Seasons 1-3 on DVD. =] New Year's should be fun. Hopefully Kelli and Nate will be over. I have to work the next three days. But luckily tomorrow isn't a double and I bus the next two days so at least I get a little extra in cash tips which will be nice.
Anyway, that's about it.
Happy Christmas everyone!
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| Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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7:30 pm
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10:12 am - Hey guys
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| Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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1:42 pm
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So, this class seriously sucks. Remind to me to never take a "theater appreciation" class ever again.
Seriously stupid.
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| Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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1:57 am
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| Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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2:05 pm
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This is all getting seriously ridiculous. Let it go people.
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| Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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11:58 pm
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| Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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12:44 am - Hey people
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So, I decided I would update. For anyone that still reads this. All like three of you. =]
Les Mis is over, quite sad about it. I'm auditioning for Beauty and the Beast tomorrow with my mom. I really really hope Eric can audition as well. Hopefully Katelyn too. It would be amazing. =] Kirsten is auditioning. I would love to work on another show with her.
Guys and Dolls auditions are this week. That should be fun too. I'm interested to see how the casting turns out with Bitchy McBitch involved. =P
Just reading over old entries. Made me smile. Even the ones where it's all like teenage angst. It makes me laugh now. Especially the ones from beginning of junior year when I was freaking out about school and life. So good. All the entries about Ian omg....I wrote his name 10 times in one entry. It's completely ridiculous.
Still needing to read Crime and Punishment.
Donated my hair. =] I feel really good about that. Now it's all short and cute.
Well, I'm going to go. I'll update again later. =]
Bye!
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| Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
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6:20 pm - Invisible Man Paper
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I have to write a paper for AP Lit on Invisible Man. I DESPERATELY need help. Please read this and be harsh. I really need to make this better and longer. This paper sucks. And it's due tomorrow. Any feedback would be AMAZING!
This is my question: In some works of literature, a character who appears briefly, or does not appear at all, is a significant presence. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and write an essay in which you show how such a character functions in the work. You may wish to discuss how the character affects ation, theme, or the development of other characters. AVOID PLOT SUMMARY.
This is my answer:
Alexis Mosley
Mrs. Hunt
2nd Hour – AP Lit. & Comp.
10 Wednesday 2007
Tod Clifton
“Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.” (Stephen Schwartz) This statement shows that in knowing a certain person, a change will inevitably take place within oneself, for better or worse. In Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the development of the nameless protagonist is catalyzed by such people. The short appearance of Brother Tod Clifton is one such presence. The character of Brother Clifton aids the narrator in achieving his ultimate realization about who he is in within the spectrum of the world.
Brother Clifton is the poster-child for the Brotherhood, in regards to his personal appearance. When the narrator first sees Clifton he states that Clifton “possessed the chiseled, black-marble features sometimes found on statues in northern museums and alive in southern towns”. (Ellison 363) As the narrator enters as a frontrunner for the Brotherhood, he is full of new hope and excitement that he will be doing something good for his people. His ultimate goal is to become a well-established community leader through this organization. This idea is the narrator’s foundation for work, as well as Clifton’s, but in the end, Clifton assists in destroying this foundation.
As the narrator is working he doesn’t realize how blindly he is following the Brotherhood and what the organization is really doing. Clifton, however, does realize. As soon as Clifton is told by Ras the Exhorter that he is selling out his people he fights with Ras in order to defend his work with the Brotherhood. However, soon after Clifton voices the idea that “sometimes a man has to plunge outside history…otherwise he might kill somebody, go nuts”. (Ellison 377) This shows the narrator’s growing disillusionment with the Brotherhood. On the other hand, the narrator, after hearing this, thinks Clifton is crazy for having these thoughts. The narrator still has full faith in the Brotherhood and in what he is doing. He believes he can be somebody in the world if he is within the Brotherhood and following their instructions.
The narrator’s development from blindly following to thinking on his own occurs only in Clifton’s last few hours alive. In Clifton selling the Sambo dolls, he is plainly saying there is no hope left in the world and there is no point to try and be inside history. In effect the narrator reacts with a feeling of contempt, which shows that he is still the same man he was when he entered the Brotherhood. However, Clifton being shot forces the narrator to reevaluate who he really is. To the narrator, Clifton was a strong man that knew what he wanted to do, same as himself. But when he sees Clifton dead, with all the inescapable dolls surrounding him, he is forced to think that if Clifton is so sure that death would be better than what he was living, what’s to say that he is any better off?
Ultimately, the narrator realizes that he is not better off than Clifton. Although, instead of essentially killing himself like Clifton, he hibernates. In his hibernation, the narrator realizes that he is invisible and has no true identity within the context of the world because of inescapable stereotypes and the white power structure. Brother Clifton already knew these things. With Clifton in his mind, the narrator then realizes these things. If not for Clifton, the narrator would have never been changed for the better.
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| Thursday, September 20th, 2007
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