Esther Wallace

Wrinkle in Time Movie Review For those who have no idea what the story is about, Meg Murry's father tessered off planet Earth four years ago. Then three ladies appear (Mrs. Whatsit, Who, and Which), charging Meg, along with her brother and a friend from school, the task of leaving Earth themselves to find the Murry's long lost father. Eventually, their travels lead them to the planet of evil itself, Camazotz, where they are tested beyond all they ever imagined. In a society filled with the wrong ideas about self-worth, it is nice that this film does some things right. Meg starts out in the film as a girl constantly wishing to be other than she is. She is someone who feels ugly, misplaced, and completely alone. As far as she is concerned, she has too many faults and hardly any strengths at all. As she travels outside the world, she slowly comes to realize that she was made with purpose. As Mrs. Which so eloquently says, "Do you realize how many events, choices, tha...

Why the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Hawkeye deserves more attention When most people talk about the latest Marvel films, very rarely is Hawkeye listed as a favorite or even mentioned at all. Iron man, Thor, the Hulk, and Captain America are the highlights, with extras such as the most recent Black Panther added to them. A large group of “supporters for woman rights” will also discuss Black Widow and why they think she is misused and should receive her own stand-alone film. Whatever the case, the greatest Marvel hero among them remains in the background, in people’s imagination and quite literally. One thing must be remembered or it won’t matter: regardless of religion or beliefs, everyone knows that when trouble comes, it is not the best fighter or the flashiest that makes a hero. Marvel itself states that when they make Captain America a sick kid from a very large city—quite frankly a small nobody. Here’s where they forget that knowledge: Captain America must go through radical ...

Synopsis for the Savage War I'd like a little help. Which one draws attention more? Would you make any changes to the preferred one? Please put any suggestions in the comment box below. Synopsis 1 Arnacin of Enchantress Island, runaway from home, finds himself in the midst of a foreign war over Mira. Owning the Mirans his life, he agrees to help, slowly gaining more of the king and princess’ respect and trust. However, as the war remains unabated, and he continues to rise in rank and favor, the promise he gave his sister to return home plagues him. Will his two promises clash? Will he live to keep the one? Will he be allowed to return home or will he be persuaded to become the next king of Mira, and forget his beloved family, forever? Synopsis 2 In his search for heroism, Arnacin of Enchantress Island sets sail alone. Before he does, his sister voices her bitter concern of his danger, and he promises her he will return. Yet, after a storm wrecks his ship on the shores ...

December 15, 2016  The End of the Beginning Despite unrealistic plans before I started this semester, I feel that I have finished this card deck well. I have a professional looking playing card deck that I am comfortable selling and I had enough fun during the process that I am contemplating making other card decks to sell on the Etsy shop I and my sister have set up, WallaceOfAllTrades . The professionalism has only happened due to lots of pre-planning and self-appraisal. I prepared well enough that difficulties were rare. Now, that wasn’t all because of my planning. Painting is not ruled by a computer chip or clicking codes beneath the surface. All in all, it’s very straight forward. Brushes, paper, acrylics, watercolors, and the like do not possess glitches, freeze suddenly, or corrupt. On thick paper, capable of holding a certain amount of water, one draws an image to their satisfaction, dips their brush in the appropriate colored paint, and draws that paint along t...

December 12, 2016 Beta Test Results I was much more pleased with this critique than with the Alpha Tests’ critique. Having more people with many different opinions is so very helpful, and although various opinions must always be taken with a grain of salt, everything everyone says is at least worth thinking about. For instance, it was suggested to me by several people that I should duplicate the numbers and flip them opposite directions so that the card is face up either way. I am not going to do this because one of the problems I had originally is that the cards were over crowded. If I do as suggested, the number cards will go back to their state of having too much on them. Other than that, I am taking the suggestions that were made in class about the breaks in a few of the numbers and the random dots. I am cleaning up the edges and fixing the lines in Photoshop. Of the smallness of the text, I am deleting the quotes and just moving the characters’ names to the quotes places...

December 5, 2016 Beta Test Reviews Jeffrey Chen: The art was amazing, it felt like a real deck of playing cards in my hands. The only things I saw were a few inconsistencies in the numbers in the center of the cards where some of the numbers cut off from each other. John MacLeod: I was extremely impressed that you already had physical examples of the cards to pass around. The borders looked very nice, and having a new one for every suit was really cool. The artwork looked like it was from an old story-book or something. For the negatives, I think it might be tough to tell a suit at first glance without knowing where to look. The numbers are dead center too, making holding them a little weird. A number on the top left might help a bit for that. The cards are also harder to read when not rightside-up. All that said, I would love to play a game of solitaire with these. Stephani Flanigan: I feel that the best way to maybe fix the number bit that John mentioned could be to push...

November 14,  2016 Forced Alterations to Plans Since last week, I have had several more people look at my project. Overall, I think I am content with the work. I am now in the phase of wrapping up, adding minute details, trying to make sure it prints in high quality, and that everything is clear and legible. It means a lot of tedious work, and going back in to change back what was just changed. That said, the largest alteration to my plans is in the box and booklet area. As I continue to contemplate pricing, I realize that anything added to the deck will make the end result too expensive for future buyers and that the best thing to do is to purchase it at its shrink-wrapped default price. This changes more in my proposal than in my timeline, although there was a week I was going to design a box and now, I am not going to, because it is my opinion that anything over 20 dollars is too expensive a price for any card deck. At first, I considered designing a booklet instead, wh...