Kay Drew's Views

I originally posted this blot article on this website - http://www.nuzcom.com/autism-characters . While writing it, I felt it would be perfect for this website. I hope you enjoy this piece! Until next time. The new show 'Touch' is still on my mind. Actually, it is the little boy, Jake I think his name was, who is on my mind. Supposedly, he's autistic. I believe it. His mannerisms and the innocence suggests  autism. Why does he make me think about the characters on television? Well, it seems like on every other TV program there seems to be an autistic or asperger character. Most of them are male, also. What characters am I talking about and what shows are they on? There is Jake from 'Touch'. On 'Parenthood', there is a boy with autism. Michael Emerson guest starred on that show as a man with the disability. On 'Scrubs', Dr. Cox's friend was autistic. I think Daniel Faraday on 'Lost' was autistic. On 'Glee' there is...

I originally posted this blot article on this website - http://www.nuzcom.com/autism-tv . While writing it, I felt it would be perfect for this website. I hope you enjoy this piece! Until next time. Anyways, tonight, I watched the pre-pilot of a new show called 'Touch'. It stars Kiefer Sutherland and is about a widower who's trying to raise his son, who is ‘special’. This boy is supposed to be autistic, I think. He doesn't talk, he rocks, he doesn't like touch, and he's obsessed with numbers.   It turns out that all the numbers he writes down are important. They are clues to when and where things would happen all across the world. The kid’s dad was told by this mysterious man (played by Danny Glover) that the child is one of these people who sees the numerical connections of the world. This boy sees their influence on the past, present, and future. Oh, and the kid loves phones, which plays a critical role in the events. The plot is too rich and deta...

I must take a short hiatus posting articles on here. I am terribly sorry! I truly wanted to post a new blog entry every day. However, I have 49 out of 50 blog articles about cities and their schools to finish before the 15th. I need to focus on that as much as I can. But, never fear, after that (or even before if I get finished up sooner rather than later) I will be posting more!

            I wrote this paper for a Christian Education class, but it's mostly about the parables. I hope you enjoy it. I am trying to show my writings are quite varied. Jesus Christ had many ways of teaching others about how to be good, what to do, as well as what not to do, what was right and wrong, and what was moral as well as immoral. The ways he taught included sermons, actions, and parables. Just as most rabbis in the first century A.D., “Jesus used simple word-pictures… to help people understand who God is and what his kingdom or reign is like” (Schwager par. 1).             What is a parable? In basic terms, it is a story that uses vivid imagery to teach a lesson. In a parable, items are used to represent something or someone. Similie’s, such as “…like a mustard seed” or “…like yeast” are often used.           ...

This is a bit of a history paper and a bit of a study of Alan Alda and comedy. I wrote it for a history class. I hope you enjoy it! Television, especially comedies and sitcoms, in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s “often tell us how to run our lives” (Berman, section. 1). There is a difference between a sitcom and comedy, so those terms cannot be interchanged. A comedy is very structured and has a high stature in the media. However, in sitcoms “The moral earnestness of sitcom seems to lessen its stature” (Berman, section 1) and those things are what make a comedy great. One of the greats of comedy, both physical as well as verbal, is Alan Alda.             Alan Alda was born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo on January 28, 1936. However, he would take the name Alan Alda. He is the son of Flora Martino and the legendary actor, Robert Alda. Alda learned how to act partly from his father - a star in a traveling burlesque troop. ...

I wrote this poem awhile ago. It won first place in my school's poetry contest. I thought I would share it for you. I thought it would be fun to do something different. Night The last ray of light, Fading from red to black. The last bird chirps, As it goes to its nest bed. The first flash of lightning bugs, Sprinkling the sky with light. The first bat unfolds its wings, To embrace the night.