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Napping Princess at Luna Theater Our class went to the Luna Theater at Mill No. 5 to go see a documentary called Don't Think I've Forgotten, which was about the Cambodian genocide and its effect on the music of Cambodia through the eyes of music stars. Unfortunately, I could not attend because I had to study for an upcoming Psych exam, so I had to go a different night, and since it wasn't for the class, I actually had to pay for it this time. My teacher sent us a schedule for the theater in case we couldn't attend, so it was up to me to decide when to go and what to go see. I looked at the schedule, and saw that they had an anime on the list called Napping Princess . I used to watch a little anime from time to time, but I haven't done so for a long time. Either way, I still wanted to know what I was getting into before I went in, so I saw the trailer on the Luna Theater's website, and it looked very interesting, so I decided to go see that. I had w...

Free Viewing of The Royale When I looked through the syllabus and saw that we were going to have free student tickets to go to the Merrimack Repertory Theater to see a play, I thought it would be interesting to say the least. It had been years since I had seen a play actually performed professionally at a theater, not just for school. I had no idea what The Royale, written by Marco Ramirez, was about, until my roommate John summarized it quickly as "a play about boxing". Obviously, there's more to it than that, I thought to myself, but the boxing alone intrigued me about it. So for class the next day, instead of heading to the O'Leary Library where our class normally is, we went to the Cotton Museum & the Mill Girls exhibit, then we went to the Theater later that night. It was around 7:15 when I got to the theater. On the way there, I initially thought that we would actually meet in front of the theater or actually in the theater as a group. When I actual...

Story of the Ladies of Lowell I remember visiting the Boott Cotton Mills Museum and the Mill Girls Exhibit like it was yesterday, mainly because by the time I started writing this post, it was yesterday. I was amazed with the mills because for how dangerous they were and how awful the conditions were working there, this was the place where the industrial revolution took place in the U.S. The way they made textiles back in the 1800s is severely outdated now, but it was still very interesting to see the machines that the mill girls worked to make the textiles. Actually seeing them up close, I could only just hear how loud they were, but since they didn't actually have any cotton in them to weave, I could only imagine the horrible life-threatening conditions the weave room created for the mill girls. After I saw these, I thought back to The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott, and I realized; day in and day out, Alice, Lovey, and all of the other mill girls, some of whic...