Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Play Review on West Side Story essays

Play Review on West Side Story essays Drama Play Review on The musical Play that I did my review on was West Side Story by Jerome Robbins. I saw this play at the Woodland High School with my family. We went to see it because my older brother, Nick was in it. Thinking about the overall production, I liked that it was about two gangs fighting over their turf as they called it. It was cool because it showed me what simple lives they had but ending up in a tragic ending. I also liked how they seemed to have an accurate perception of what each of the gangs whore and what they acted like. The setting of the background stood for all the scenes and purposes of they play and it was like a real place in a city. I thought that was pretty cool. Thinking about the overall production, I disliked how they had so many singing scenes and that sort of got boring so I wouldnt come back and see it again. I also thought that some of they parts should have been played by the other characters (not naming any names). If I were to do things differently as the director I would have watched the movie and made a better selection who could fit the character better and who would better as a different part in the play. Overall it turned out to be really good but those would have been the changes that I would have made. A character that I did not like was Maria. She did well as the character but she didnt really fit the part. I dont want to be mean but that is just my opinion. Another person that I didnt like was Riff. He seemed to over act a little too much but he still did a good job (better than I could have done) playing the part. A person that I did like was Action. He played a good part because he acted wild and gave me the feeling that he was really that sort of person. He would always go wild when something came up and never calm down except when Tony or Riff order ...

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Nothosaurus - Facts and Figures

Nothosaurus - Facts and Figures Name: Nothosaurus (Greek for false lizard); pronounced NO-tho-SORE-us Habitat: Oceans worldwide Historical Period: Triassic (250-200 million years ago) Size and Weight: About 10 feet long and 150-200 pounds Diet: Fish and crustaceans Distinguishing Characteristics: Long, tapered body; narrow head with numerous teeth; semi-aquatic lifestyle About Nothosaurus With its webbed front and back feet, flexible knees and ankles, and long neck and tapered bodynot to mention its numerous teethNothosaurus was a formidable marine reptile that prospered across the nearly 50 million years of the Triassic period. Because it bears a superficial resemblance to modern seals, paleontologists speculate that Nothosaurus may have spent at least some of its time on land; its clear that this vertebrate breathed air, as evidenced by the two nostrils on the top end of its snout, and although it was undoubtedly a sleek swimmer, it wasnt as well adapted to a full-time aquatic lifestyle as later pliosaurs and plesiosaurs like Cryptoclidus and Elasmosaurus. (Nothosaurus is the best known of the family of marine reptiles known as nothosaurs; another well-attested genus is Lariosaurus.) Although its not widely known to the general public, Nothosaurus is one of the most important marine reptiles in the fossil record. There are over a dozen named species of this deep-sea predator, ranging from the type species (N. mirabilis, erected in 1834) to N. zhangi, erected in 2014, and it apparently had a worldwide distribution during the Triassic period, with fossil specimens discovered as far afield as western Europe, northern Africa and eastern Asia. There is also speculation that Nothosaurus, or a closely related genus of nothosaur, was the distant ancestor of the giant plesiosaurs Liopleurodon and Cryptoclidus, which were an order of magnitude bigger and more dangerous!