Saturday, January 12, 2013
The Outsiders
In literature, a character often changes from the beginning to middle and to the end of a novel. In the novel The Outsiders, Ponyboy and Johnny undergo many changes. Ponyboy is an honor roll student and a good athlete in track. Pony also thought that his older brother Darry hated him because he was too strict with him. But when Pony's best friend Johnny died of injury from the church fire, Pony began to be in denial about Johnny's death. He started to drop grades and fail classes, He became scatter minded. When he read Johnny's note to him, he got over it and wrote a book for an English essay, and he found out that Darry really did love him. Johnny was a quiet, scared and abandoned teenager, yet when he was with the gang he felt happiness and forgot all his troubles. But when he saved the five children from the burning church, for the first time in his life he felt like a real hero. When he was in the hospital for his broken back and his burns he died from serious critical condition. He was made a hero to many and always remained in the memory of the gang. As you can see, change affects characters in literature in many different ways. Ponyboy got over Johnny's death and wrote an essay for English. Johnny became bolder, not scared, and lost his life do to injury.
The Catcher In the Rye discuss why holden is a phony as the
The Catcher in the Rye
Holden is just as phony and hollow as the people whom he criticizes.
Holden's main problem is that he practically does not even view himself as part of the human race. He either believes himself to be either inferior or superior to the "rest of us."
Thoughout the novel certain instances occur that lead us to believe that Holden has a serious problem in seeing himself as normal. He spends an awful lot of time reflecting upon apperances. Worrying too much about how the people around him seem to be, and yet at times not even thinking of how he is coming off.
He fabricates such personalities as Jim Steele who is 22 and has a little encounter with a hooker in the begining of chapter 13. This Jim guy was sopposed to be this highly sexually experienced nonchalant casa-nova. When he really quotes himself to be as follows: "Caufield and his magic violin, boy. It's corny I realize, but it isn't too corny. I wouldn't mind being pretty good at that stuff. Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a helluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm looking for, for God's sake, if you know what I mean."
Holden is just as phony and hollow as the people whom he criticizes.
Holden's main problem is that he practically does not even view himself as part of the human race. He either believes himself to be either inferior or superior to the "rest of us."
Thoughout the novel certain instances occur that lead us to believe that Holden has a serious problem in seeing himself as normal. He spends an awful lot of time reflecting upon apperances. Worrying too much about how the people around him seem to be, and yet at times not even thinking of how he is coming off.
He fabricates such personalities as Jim Steele who is 22 and has a little encounter with a hooker in the begining of chapter 13. This Jim guy was sopposed to be this highly sexually experienced nonchalant casa-nova. When he really quotes himself to be as follows: "Caufield and his magic violin, boy. It's corny I realize, but it isn't too corny. I wouldn't mind being pretty good at that stuff. Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a helluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm looking for, for God's sake, if you know what I mean."
Knute Rockne
Knute Rockne - Coach and Legend of Notre Dame
Knute Kenneth Rockne was born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway. He first moved to Chicago at the age of 5. Nobody liked him there, and he was in many fights. Before football or even baseball, Knute discovered skiing. He loved it, and went skiing every chance he got during the winter. Knute was a natural athlete, and excelled in all of the sports he tried. He excelled in track, making a name for himself later on.
Although he was always one of the shortest guys around, Knute was one of the toughest. The only protective gear he ever wore was adhesive tape that he stuck to his ears to prevent them from being torn off. Knute often said "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
Knute discovered the great game of football at the age of 7. He played in games against other teams his age. The team he played on was called the Tricky Tigers. All of the teams were "sandlot" teams. Knute could not get enough of the sport. He praticed every chance he got. In fact, the other boys thought him crazy for practicing so much. This obsession almost got him an education. Knute never made the starting team until he was a senior, so he played on the scrubs team.
At the same time, Knute tried playing many other sports. His school attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team. After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of 22, Rockne decided that he wanted to fulfill a dream. That dream was to become a pharmacist and to eventually own his own drug store. Two of Knute's friends gained acceptance to a small college in South Bend, Indiana called Notre Dame. Knute decided to try to get into this same school, although his high school grades were dismal. He was accepted, but his parents were not fond of the idea of him going to a Catholic school, as they themselves were practicing Lutherans. However, they did not forbid him to go. Interestingly, Notre Dame was not Rockney's first college choice. For years he had saved and planned to go to the University of Illinois. Knute had not even planned on playing football in college. That decision would have resulted in a very different future for Knute. Basically, Knute's decision to go to Notre Dame was an economic one; it was much cheaper than U.I.
While working during college to earn his way, Knute got a course in memory training, which would later become a valuable asset in his coaching career. A picture at this time revealed a cocky young man whose sparse hair made him appear more like a young professor than a college freshman. Knute made friends with the future quarter back Gus Dorais. They would be roommates through all 4 years of college, and took vacations together during school breaks.
Rockne didn't make the varsity squad until his third year. There were many theories about why this was. Some said he was too short and caused too many turnovers as a freshman. Whatever the reason, Knute palyed on the scrubs for two years. A new coach entered the picture by his junior year and gave Knute a chance at the end position. Everyone knows what he did from there. (If you don't already, you will!) In his career at Notre Dame, Knute averaged a 92 grade point average. In his senior year of college, he was still determined to become a pharmacist. He had no intention of becoming a coach!
Rockne did not invent the forward pass - he revolutionized it! During a summer break form school, Gus and Knute decided to fool around with The forward pass. Knute got an idea telling Gus "What if you hold the football closer to this end?" Gus tried it and was astonished by the outcome. He could actually control the speed and accuracy of the ball! After that, Gus discovered something he wanted Knute to do. Instead of letting the ball come to him and hit him in the chest, he instructed Knute to catch it with his hands in full stride. Gus then proceeded to deliver the ball to Knute in this fashion, and the idea worked. Sure enough, Knute caught the ball without missing a step. Knute Rockne had perfected the art of relaxing your hands to catch the ball. He also invented pass patterns. Notre Dame brought this new arsenal to their playbook in the biggest game of the year against Army. Army was heavily favored in this game. The "fighting Irish" came out with their usual ground attack for 7 plays, with Rockne out with a leg injury. Rockne came out to the huddle and told Gus it was time. Rockne went in, hitting the OB and ran a beautiful pattern. Gus delivered the ball right on target and Rockne scored on a 25 yard toss. Everyone was awed by this sequence of events. Notre Dame went into halftime leading 14-13. They came out in the 2nd half and boom, boom, one pass after another they marched down the field like a steam roller. Seven completions went to Knute. The Irish trounced Army with a 35-13 victory, in what would become known as the game that revolutionized football. In his autobiography, Rockne said that this victory inspired the development of Notre Dame spirit.
After the game, Gus and Knute held clinics to teach the forward pass, and many came to learn a spectacular art form. Football was no longer a sport of physical being, but more of a science which anyone could master. After the victory against Army, Knute decided to stay at N.D. and become a teacher. This was because he loved all the people so much. He would not stay long though, for he still grasps on dream of becoming a pharmacist. In Rockne's deal he would be teaching chemistry and take the job of assistant coach of the football team. His salary was $2,400 per year.
From the first practice Rockne displayed a skill as a strategist. He found many new ways to run plays and confuse the opposition. When Harper(the head coach) retired, Rockne took the prestigious job of head coach of ND. His salary was increased to $5,000 a year. It was at this time that he loosened his grip on becoming a pharmacist and decided to devote his life to football.
From day one Rockne's goal was to establish ND as a national sports power. Rockne once said about coaching, "We can all be geniuses, because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Perfection in petty detail is most essential".
George Gipp was a freshman thinking of dropping out of school. Rockne foud him drop-kicking 52 yard field goals on the campus's practice grounds. Knute invited him to tryout for the team. In his first season the Gipper' kicked a 62 yard field goal, scored three game clinching touchdowns, and had a total of 480 yards in one game versus Army. He was considered to be the best player that Rockne had ever recruited. Gipp was a notorious fellow for gambling and cutting class. Still, the team team and Knute immortilized him. Gipp died of complications from pneumonia during the 1920 season. In his final game, althuogh very ill, he remarkably threw two touchdowns versus NW.
"Eight years later, as the Irish battled a seemingly invincible Army team, Rockne shook his team with quiet locker room speech that was immortalized by sport writer Grantland Rice. "I've got to go, Rock," said Rockne, Imitating the dying man's gestures. "It's alright. I'm not afraid. Sometimes, Rock, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win one just for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it. And I'll be happy."
The Irish ran out of the room and played hardnosed football. The final score was 12-6 in Notre Dame's favor, and the New York daily News ran perhaps its most famous headline: Gipp's Ghost Beat Army."
He never used the same speech twice on his lads. He had a showman's instinct for when to say what to get his troops fired up. His motto was "Practice, Practice, Practice! Practice makes perfect and perfect practice makes a winning team."
One of his most innovative ideas was the Notre Dame Shift'. This was when the entire backfield would move all to oneside of the ball before the ball was snapped. This really screwed up the defenders and it worked a lot for ND.
"Knute was the most innovative and charismic coaches of his era."
The Cleavland Press called him "the Buffalo Bill of his generation." In his last game as coach he defied his doctors orders and went to the field. The players looked on in horror when the man they thought might die in front of them told them to win or watch him die. Rockne ended his career with the greatest all time % of .881: 105 wins,12 losses, 5 ties, 6 national championships and 5 undefeated seasons. Rokne tragically died in a plane crash a the age of 43. Studebaker named a car after him and the U.S. government named a ship after him. Will Rogers put it best when he said, " It takes a big calamity to shock a country all at once, but Knute, you did it. You died one of our national heroes. Notre Dame was your address, but every gridiron in america was your home."(needs to be proofread)
Knute Kenneth Rockne was born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway. He first moved to Chicago at the age of 5. Nobody liked him there, and he was in many fights. Before football or even baseball, Knute discovered skiing. He loved it, and went skiing every chance he got during the winter. Knute was a natural athlete, and excelled in all of the sports he tried. He excelled in track, making a name for himself later on.
Although he was always one of the shortest guys around, Knute was one of the toughest. The only protective gear he ever wore was adhesive tape that he stuck to his ears to prevent them from being torn off. Knute often said "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
Knute discovered the great game of football at the age of 7. He played in games against other teams his age. The team he played on was called the Tricky Tigers. All of the teams were "sandlot" teams. Knute could not get enough of the sport. He praticed every chance he got. In fact, the other boys thought him crazy for practicing so much. This obsession almost got him an education. Knute never made the starting team until he was a senior, so he played on the scrubs team.
At the same time, Knute tried playing many other sports. His school attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team. After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of 22, Rockne decided that he wanted to fulfill a dream. That dream was to become a pharmacist and to eventually own his own drug store. Two of Knute's friends gained acceptance to a small college in South Bend, Indiana called Notre Dame. Knute decided to try to get into this same school, although his high school grades were dismal. He was accepted, but his parents were not fond of the idea of him going to a Catholic school, as they themselves were practicing Lutherans. However, they did not forbid him to go. Interestingly, Notre Dame was not Rockney's first college choice. For years he had saved and planned to go to the University of Illinois. Knute had not even planned on playing football in college. That decision would have resulted in a very different future for Knute. Basically, Knute's decision to go to Notre Dame was an economic one; it was much cheaper than U.I.
While working during college to earn his way, Knute got a course in memory training, which would later become a valuable asset in his coaching career. A picture at this time revealed a cocky young man whose sparse hair made him appear more like a young professor than a college freshman. Knute made friends with the future quarter back Gus Dorais. They would be roommates through all 4 years of college, and took vacations together during school breaks.
Rockne didn't make the varsity squad until his third year. There were many theories about why this was. Some said he was too short and caused too many turnovers as a freshman. Whatever the reason, Knute palyed on the scrubs for two years. A new coach entered the picture by his junior year and gave Knute a chance at the end position. Everyone knows what he did from there. (If you don't already, you will!) In his career at Notre Dame, Knute averaged a 92 grade point average. In his senior year of college, he was still determined to become a pharmacist. He had no intention of becoming a coach!
Rockne did not invent the forward pass - he revolutionized it! During a summer break form school, Gus and Knute decided to fool around with The forward pass. Knute got an idea telling Gus "What if you hold the football closer to this end?" Gus tried it and was astonished by the outcome. He could actually control the speed and accuracy of the ball! After that, Gus discovered something he wanted Knute to do. Instead of letting the ball come to him and hit him in the chest, he instructed Knute to catch it with his hands in full stride. Gus then proceeded to deliver the ball to Knute in this fashion, and the idea worked. Sure enough, Knute caught the ball without missing a step. Knute Rockne had perfected the art of relaxing your hands to catch the ball. He also invented pass patterns. Notre Dame brought this new arsenal to their playbook in the biggest game of the year against Army. Army was heavily favored in this game. The "fighting Irish" came out with their usual ground attack for 7 plays, with Rockne out with a leg injury. Rockne came out to the huddle and told Gus it was time. Rockne went in, hitting the OB and ran a beautiful pattern. Gus delivered the ball right on target and Rockne scored on a 25 yard toss. Everyone was awed by this sequence of events. Notre Dame went into halftime leading 14-13. They came out in the 2nd half and boom, boom, one pass after another they marched down the field like a steam roller. Seven completions went to Knute. The Irish trounced Army with a 35-13 victory, in what would become known as the game that revolutionized football. In his autobiography, Rockne said that this victory inspired the development of Notre Dame spirit.
After the game, Gus and Knute held clinics to teach the forward pass, and many came to learn a spectacular art form. Football was no longer a sport of physical being, but more of a science which anyone could master. After the victory against Army, Knute decided to stay at N.D. and become a teacher. This was because he loved all the people so much. He would not stay long though, for he still grasps on dream of becoming a pharmacist. In Rockne's deal he would be teaching chemistry and take the job of assistant coach of the football team. His salary was $2,400 per year.
From the first practice Rockne displayed a skill as a strategist. He found many new ways to run plays and confuse the opposition. When Harper(the head coach) retired, Rockne took the prestigious job of head coach of ND. His salary was increased to $5,000 a year. It was at this time that he loosened his grip on becoming a pharmacist and decided to devote his life to football.
From day one Rockne's goal was to establish ND as a national sports power. Rockne once said about coaching, "We can all be geniuses, because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Perfection in petty detail is most essential".
George Gipp was a freshman thinking of dropping out of school. Rockne foud him drop-kicking 52 yard field goals on the campus's practice grounds. Knute invited him to tryout for the team. In his first season the Gipper' kicked a 62 yard field goal, scored three game clinching touchdowns, and had a total of 480 yards in one game versus Army. He was considered to be the best player that Rockne had ever recruited. Gipp was a notorious fellow for gambling and cutting class. Still, the team team and Knute immortilized him. Gipp died of complications from pneumonia during the 1920 season. In his final game, althuogh very ill, he remarkably threw two touchdowns versus NW.
"Eight years later, as the Irish battled a seemingly invincible Army team, Rockne shook his team with quiet locker room speech that was immortalized by sport writer Grantland Rice. "I've got to go, Rock," said Rockne, Imitating the dying man's gestures. "It's alright. I'm not afraid. Sometimes, Rock, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win one just for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it. And I'll be happy."
The Irish ran out of the room and played hardnosed football. The final score was 12-6 in Notre Dame's favor, and the New York daily News ran perhaps its most famous headline: Gipp's Ghost Beat Army."
He never used the same speech twice on his lads. He had a showman's instinct for when to say what to get his troops fired up. His motto was "Practice, Practice, Practice! Practice makes perfect and perfect practice makes a winning team."
One of his most innovative ideas was the Notre Dame Shift'. This was when the entire backfield would move all to oneside of the ball before the ball was snapped. This really screwed up the defenders and it worked a lot for ND.
"Knute was the most innovative and charismic coaches of his era."
The Cleavland Press called him "the Buffalo Bill of his generation." In his last game as coach he defied his doctors orders and went to the field. The players looked on in horror when the man they thought might die in front of them told them to win or watch him die. Rockne ended his career with the greatest all time % of .881: 105 wins,12 losses, 5 ties, 6 national championships and 5 undefeated seasons. Rokne tragically died in a plane crash a the age of 43. Studebaker named a car after him and the U.S. government named a ship after him. Will Rogers put it best when he said, " It takes a big calamity to shock a country all at once, but Knute, you did it. You died one of our national heroes. Notre Dame was your address, but every gridiron in america was your home."(needs to be proofread)
Knute Rockne 4
Knute Rockne - Coach and Legend of Notre Dame
Knute Kenneth Rockne was born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway. He first moved to Chicago at the age of 5. Nobody liked him there, and he was in many fights. Before football or even baseball, Knute discovered skiing. He loved it, and went skiing every chance he got during the winter. Knute was a natural athlete, and excelled in all of the sports he tried. He excelled in track, making a name for himself later on.
Although he was always one of the shortest guys around, Knute was one of the toughest. The only protective gear he ever wore was adhesive tape that he stuck to his ears to prevent them from being torn off. Knute often said "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
Knute discovered the great game of football at the age of 7. He played in games against other teams his age. The team he played on was called the Tricky Tigers. All of the teams were "sandlot" teams. Knute could not get enough of the sport. He praticed every chance he got. In fact, the other boys thought him crazy for practicing so much. This obsession almost got him an education. Knute never made the starting team until he was a senior, so he played on the scrubs team.
At the same time, Knute tried playing many other sports. His school attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team. After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of 22, Rockne decided that he wanted to fulfill a dream. That dream was to become a pharmacist and to eventually own his own drug store. Two of Knute's friends gained acceptance to a small college in South Bend, Indiana called Notre Dame. Knute decided to try to get into this same school, although his high school grades were dismal. He was accepted, but his parents were not fond of the idea of him going to a Catholic school, as they themselves were practicing Lutherans. However, they did not forbid him to go. Interestingly, Notre Dame was not Rockney's first college choice. For years he had saved and planned to go to the University of Illinois. Knute had not even planned on playing football in college. That decision would have resulted in a very different future for Knute. Basically, Knute's decision to go to Notre Dame was an economic one; it was much cheaper than U.I.
While working during college to earn his way, Knute got a course in memory training, which would later become a valuable asset in his coaching career. A picture at this time revealed a cocky young man whose sparse hair made him appear more like a young professor than a college freshman. Knute made friends with the future quarter back Gus Dorais. They would be roommates through all 4 years of college, and took vacations together during school breaks.
Rockne didn't make the varsity squad until his third year. There were many theories about why this was. Some said he was too short and caused too many turnovers as a freshman. Whatever the reason, Knute palyed on the scrubs for two years. A new coach entered the picture by his junior year and gave Knute a chance at the end position. Everyone knows what he did from there. (If you don't already, you will!) In his career at Notre Dame, Knute averaged a 92 grade point average. In his senior year of college, he was still determined to become a pharmacist. He had no intention of becoming a coach!
Rockne did not invent the forward pass - he revolutionized it! During a summer break form school, Gus and Knute decided to fool around with The forward pass. Knute got an idea telling Gus "What if you hold the football closer to this end?" Gus tried it and was astonished by the outcome. He could actually control the speed and accuracy of the ball! After that, Gus discovered something he wanted Knute to do. Instead of letting the ball come to him and hit him in the chest, he instructed Knute to catch it with his hands in full stride. Gus then proceeded to deliver the ball to Knute in this fashion, and the idea worked. Sure enough, Knute caught the ball without missing a step. Knute Rockne had perfected the art of relaxing your hands to catch the ball. He also invented pass patterns. Notre Dame brought this new arsenal to their playbook in the biggest game of the year against Army. Army was heavily favored in this game. The "fighting Irish" came out with their usual ground attack for 7 plays, with Rockne out with a leg injury. Rockne came out to the huddle and told Gus it was time. Rockne went in, hitting the OB and ran a beautiful pattern. Gus delivered the ball right on target and Rockne scored on a 25 yard toss. Everyone was awed by this sequence of events. Notre Dame went into halftime leading 14-13. They came out in the 2nd half and boom, boom, one pass after another they marched down the field like a steam roller. Seven completions went to Knute. The Irish trounced Army with a 35-13 victory, in what would become known as the game that revolutionized football. In his autobiography, Rockne said that this victory inspired the development of Notre Dame spirit.
After the game, Gus and Knute held clinics to teach the forward pass, and many came to learn a spectacular art form. Football was no longer a sport of physical being, but more of a science which anyone could master. After the victory against Army, Knute decided to stay at N.D. and become a teacher. This was because he loved all the people so much. He would not stay long though, for he still grasps on dream of becoming a pharmacist. In Rockne's deal he would be teaching chemistry and take the job of assistant coach of the football team. His salary was $2,400 per year.
From the first practice Rockne displayed a skill as a strategist. He found many new ways to run plays and confuse the opposition. When Harper(the head coach) retired, Rockne took the prestigious job of head coach of ND. His salary was increased to $5,000 a year. It was at this time that he loosened his grip on becoming a pharmacist and decided to devote his life to football.
From day one Rockne's goal was to establish ND as a national sports power. Rockne once said about coaching, "We can all be geniuses, because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Perfection in petty detail is most essential".
George Gipp was a freshman thinking of dropping out of school. Rockne foud him drop-kicking 52 yard field goals on the campus's practice grounds. Knute invited him to tryout for the team. In his first season the Gipper' kicked a 62 yard field goal, scored three game clinching touchdowns, and had a total of 480 yards in one game versus Army. He was considered to be the best player that Rockne had ever recruited. Gipp was a notorious fellow for gambling and cutting class. Still, the team team and Knute immortilized him. Gipp died of complications from pneumonia during the 1920 season. In his final game, althuogh very ill, he remarkably threw two touchdowns versus NW.
"Eight years later, as the Irish battled a seemingly invincible Army team, Rockne shook his team with quiet locker room speech that was immortalized by sport writer Grantland Rice. "I've got to go, Rock," said Rockne, Imitating the dying man's gestures. "It's alright. I'm not afraid. Sometimes, Rock, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win one just for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it. And I'll be happy."
The Irish ran out of the room and played hardnosed football. The final score was 12-6 in Notre Dame's favor, and the New York daily News ran perhaps its most famous headline: Gipp's Ghost Beat Army."
He never used the same speech twice on his lads. He had a showman's instinct for when to say what to get his troops fired up. His motto was "Practice, Practice, Practice! Practice makes perfect and perfect practice makes a winning team."
One of his most innovative ideas was the Notre Dame Shift'. This was when the entire backfield would move all to oneside of the ball before the ball was snapped. This really screwed up the defenders and it worked a lot for ND.
"Knute was the most innovative and charismic coaches of his era."
The Cleavland Press called him "the Buffalo Bill of his generation." In his last game as coach he defied his doctors orders and went to the field. The players looked on in horror when the man they thought might die in front of them told them to win or watch him die. Rockne ended his career with the greatest all time % of .881: 105 wins,12 losses, 5 ties, 6 national championships and 5 undefeated seasons. Rokne tragically died in a plane crash a the age of 43. Studebaker named a car after him and the U.S. government named a ship after him. Will Rogers put it best when he said, " It takes a big calamity to shock a country all at once, but Knute, you did it. You died one of our national heroes. Notre Dame was your address, but every gridiron in america was your home."(needs to be proofread)
Knute Kenneth Rockne was born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway. He first moved to Chicago at the age of 5. Nobody liked him there, and he was in many fights. Before football or even baseball, Knute discovered skiing. He loved it, and went skiing every chance he got during the winter. Knute was a natural athlete, and excelled in all of the sports he tried. He excelled in track, making a name for himself later on.
Although he was always one of the shortest guys around, Knute was one of the toughest. The only protective gear he ever wore was adhesive tape that he stuck to his ears to prevent them from being torn off. Knute often said "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
Knute discovered the great game of football at the age of 7. He played in games against other teams his age. The team he played on was called the Tricky Tigers. All of the teams were "sandlot" teams. Knute could not get enough of the sport. He praticed every chance he got. In fact, the other boys thought him crazy for practicing so much. This obsession almost got him an education. Knute never made the starting team until he was a senior, so he played on the scrubs team.
At the same time, Knute tried playing many other sports. His school attendance slipped and his grades became mediocre. Persistence paid off, and after 3 years on the scrubs, Knute finally made it to the starting football team. After this successful senior football season, it was time for him to leave high school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of 22, Rockne decided that he wanted to fulfill a dream. That dream was to become a pharmacist and to eventually own his own drug store. Two of Knute's friends gained acceptance to a small college in South Bend, Indiana called Notre Dame. Knute decided to try to get into this same school, although his high school grades were dismal. He was accepted, but his parents were not fond of the idea of him going to a Catholic school, as they themselves were practicing Lutherans. However, they did not forbid him to go. Interestingly, Notre Dame was not Rockney's first college choice. For years he had saved and planned to go to the University of Illinois. Knute had not even planned on playing football in college. That decision would have resulted in a very different future for Knute. Basically, Knute's decision to go to Notre Dame was an economic one; it was much cheaper than U.I.
While working during college to earn his way, Knute got a course in memory training, which would later become a valuable asset in his coaching career. A picture at this time revealed a cocky young man whose sparse hair made him appear more like a young professor than a college freshman. Knute made friends with the future quarter back Gus Dorais. They would be roommates through all 4 years of college, and took vacations together during school breaks.
Rockne didn't make the varsity squad until his third year. There were many theories about why this was. Some said he was too short and caused too many turnovers as a freshman. Whatever the reason, Knute palyed on the scrubs for two years. A new coach entered the picture by his junior year and gave Knute a chance at the end position. Everyone knows what he did from there. (If you don't already, you will!) In his career at Notre Dame, Knute averaged a 92 grade point average. In his senior year of college, he was still determined to become a pharmacist. He had no intention of becoming a coach!
Rockne did not invent the forward pass - he revolutionized it! During a summer break form school, Gus and Knute decided to fool around with The forward pass. Knute got an idea telling Gus "What if you hold the football closer to this end?" Gus tried it and was astonished by the outcome. He could actually control the speed and accuracy of the ball! After that, Gus discovered something he wanted Knute to do. Instead of letting the ball come to him and hit him in the chest, he instructed Knute to catch it with his hands in full stride. Gus then proceeded to deliver the ball to Knute in this fashion, and the idea worked. Sure enough, Knute caught the ball without missing a step. Knute Rockne had perfected the art of relaxing your hands to catch the ball. He also invented pass patterns. Notre Dame brought this new arsenal to their playbook in the biggest game of the year against Army. Army was heavily favored in this game. The "fighting Irish" came out with their usual ground attack for 7 plays, with Rockne out with a leg injury. Rockne came out to the huddle and told Gus it was time. Rockne went in, hitting the OB and ran a beautiful pattern. Gus delivered the ball right on target and Rockne scored on a 25 yard toss. Everyone was awed by this sequence of events. Notre Dame went into halftime leading 14-13. They came out in the 2nd half and boom, boom, one pass after another they marched down the field like a steam roller. Seven completions went to Knute. The Irish trounced Army with a 35-13 victory, in what would become known as the game that revolutionized football. In his autobiography, Rockne said that this victory inspired the development of Notre Dame spirit.
After the game, Gus and Knute held clinics to teach the forward pass, and many came to learn a spectacular art form. Football was no longer a sport of physical being, but more of a science which anyone could master. After the victory against Army, Knute decided to stay at N.D. and become a teacher. This was because he loved all the people so much. He would not stay long though, for he still grasps on dream of becoming a pharmacist. In Rockne's deal he would be teaching chemistry and take the job of assistant coach of the football team. His salary was $2,400 per year.
From the first practice Rockne displayed a skill as a strategist. He found many new ways to run plays and confuse the opposition. When Harper(the head coach) retired, Rockne took the prestigious job of head coach of ND. His salary was increased to $5,000 a year. It was at this time that he loosened his grip on becoming a pharmacist and decided to devote his life to football.
From day one Rockne's goal was to establish ND as a national sports power. Rockne once said about coaching, "We can all be geniuses, because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Perfection in petty detail is most essential".
George Gipp was a freshman thinking of dropping out of school. Rockne foud him drop-kicking 52 yard field goals on the campus's practice grounds. Knute invited him to tryout for the team. In his first season the Gipper' kicked a 62 yard field goal, scored three game clinching touchdowns, and had a total of 480 yards in one game versus Army. He was considered to be the best player that Rockne had ever recruited. Gipp was a notorious fellow for gambling and cutting class. Still, the team team and Knute immortilized him. Gipp died of complications from pneumonia during the 1920 season. In his final game, althuogh very ill, he remarkably threw two touchdowns versus NW.
"Eight years later, as the Irish battled a seemingly invincible Army team, Rockne shook his team with quiet locker room speech that was immortalized by sport writer Grantland Rice. "I've got to go, Rock," said Rockne, Imitating the dying man's gestures. "It's alright. I'm not afraid. Sometimes, Rock, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win one just for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it. And I'll be happy."
The Irish ran out of the room and played hardnosed football. The final score was 12-6 in Notre Dame's favor, and the New York daily News ran perhaps its most famous headline: Gipp's Ghost Beat Army."
He never used the same speech twice on his lads. He had a showman's instinct for when to say what to get his troops fired up. His motto was "Practice, Practice, Practice! Practice makes perfect and perfect practice makes a winning team."
One of his most innovative ideas was the Notre Dame Shift'. This was when the entire backfield would move all to oneside of the ball before the ball was snapped. This really screwed up the defenders and it worked a lot for ND.
"Knute was the most innovative and charismic coaches of his era."
The Cleavland Press called him "the Buffalo Bill of his generation." In his last game as coach he defied his doctors orders and went to the field. The players looked on in horror when the man they thought might die in front of them told them to win or watch him die. Rockne ended his career with the greatest all time % of .881: 105 wins,12 losses, 5 ties, 6 national championships and 5 undefeated seasons. Rokne tragically died in a plane crash a the age of 43. Studebaker named a car after him and the U.S. government named a ship after him. Will Rogers put it best when he said, " It takes a big calamity to shock a country all at once, but Knute, you did it. You died one of our national heroes. Notre Dame was your address, but every gridiron in america was your home."(needs to be proofread)
jurassic Park 2
The story Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton takes place on a small island
near Costa Rica, it's about a park full of dinosaurs created by Dr. Hammond. The
dinosaurs are locked in large cages with electric fences. But as the mathematician
Ian Malcolm predicted, nature cannot be controlled. They find this out when the
security system goes out. They soon lost the electric fence and the dinosaurs started
to escape. They try to restore the power and are successful but it did not matter
since the dinosaurs were already loose.
The dinosaurs start to cause a lot of trouble, even with the power restored.
They determine that there is nothing they can do. They decide to leave the island by
helicopter.
The book is much different then the movie. The book goes in more detail
about the genetic engineering of the dinosaurs. The book also makes Ian Malcolm's
theory that nature can't be controlled nor predicted more valid. In the end of the
book version the island actually survives for a while after the power goes out.
I liked the movie more because I saw that first and it made the book seem
strange. I would recommend reading Jurassic Park. It starts right in the beginning
with suspense and action.
near Costa Rica, it's about a park full of dinosaurs created by Dr. Hammond. The
dinosaurs are locked in large cages with electric fences. But as the mathematician
Ian Malcolm predicted, nature cannot be controlled. They find this out when the
security system goes out. They soon lost the electric fence and the dinosaurs started
to escape. They try to restore the power and are successful but it did not matter
since the dinosaurs were already loose.
The dinosaurs start to cause a lot of trouble, even with the power restored.
They determine that there is nothing they can do. They decide to leave the island by
helicopter.
The book is much different then the movie. The book goes in more detail
about the genetic engineering of the dinosaurs. The book also makes Ian Malcolm's
theory that nature can't be controlled nor predicted more valid. In the end of the
book version the island actually survives for a while after the power goes out.
I liked the movie more because I saw that first and it made the book seem
strange. I would recommend reading Jurassic Park. It starts right in the beginning
with suspense and action.
Great Expectations 3 again
Charles Dickens¹s Great expectations is a story about a boy, Philip Pirrip, who comes to a point in his life where his life changes drastically from the way it was when he was growing up. Whenever this change occurs, he does his best not to let people know about his past life where he was just a ³common² boy. Throughout the novel, Dickens points out how people sometimes lead two lives that they want to keep separate.
The change in Pip¹s life is characterized in several ways. First of all, there is a physical change, when he moves to London. That just accentuates the difference between the two ³lives.² Before, he lived in a small town that was near some marshes, both of which reflect the ³common² side of his life. London is seen by Pip as a great and wonderful city which symbolizes his expectations of what is to come in his future. Another change in his life is that he is treated better by others. Mr. Trabb, the tailor, takes exception to Pip after he hears that he has come into a fortune. He measures Pip very quickly, and gets angry at his son for not showing the same respect of Pip¹s wealth. Then, when he next sees Pumblechook, he repeatedly asks Pip if he may shake his hand, as if it is some great honor. Before the news, he hardly treated Pip any differently than any other common boy. Pip also looks to the way his new acquaintances are treated, most notably Mr. Jaggers. He is treated with a great deal of resp
ect by everyone, and even invokes fear in some. Pip had never seen this level of respect for someone that was his direct acquaintance before, except for Miss Havisham, who he knew had great wealth.
This dual lifestyle is paralleled in Mr. Wemmick, the clerk for Mr. Jaggers. Mr. Wemmick, when at work, only thinks about his work, and doesn¹t let his personal life affect how he goes about his business. The flip side of the coin is also true, as when he goes home, he forgets about anything that happened at work, and concentrates on making his deaf father happy. The scene when he takes Pip to work shows the change that he goes through on his way to work: ³By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.² Just like Pip, he changes how he acts according to which role he is playing.
Whenever the two lives come together, it is hard for Pip to determine what to do about it. He seems not to want his two lives to mix, but is helpless to prevent it. Whenever Joe says he is coming to London, Pip doesn¹t like he idea, but he ends up coming anyway. Also, when he finds that Orlick is working for Miss Havisham, he is apparently shocked. He remembers him working for Joe, and doesn¹t think it¹s right that he¹s now working as Miss Havisham¹s watchman.
In society today, people often lead these dual lives. I have known many people who, when at school, take it very seriously and work hard at it, but when the weekend comes, they take their partying just as seriously. Another way that people lead separate lives is when they hide who they really are and pretend they are someone else. Mostly this happens because that person is afraid that they will not ³fit in² with the rest of the crowd. Ok, I'll come clean. At one time I was one of these people that tried to fit in. I later realized that I was just denying who I really am. I have a feeling that, by the end of the novel, Pip will have a better standing of who he really is.
The change in Pip¹s life is characterized in several ways. First of all, there is a physical change, when he moves to London. That just accentuates the difference between the two ³lives.² Before, he lived in a small town that was near some marshes, both of which reflect the ³common² side of his life. London is seen by Pip as a great and wonderful city which symbolizes his expectations of what is to come in his future. Another change in his life is that he is treated better by others. Mr. Trabb, the tailor, takes exception to Pip after he hears that he has come into a fortune. He measures Pip very quickly, and gets angry at his son for not showing the same respect of Pip¹s wealth. Then, when he next sees Pumblechook, he repeatedly asks Pip if he may shake his hand, as if it is some great honor. Before the news, he hardly treated Pip any differently than any other common boy. Pip also looks to the way his new acquaintances are treated, most notably Mr. Jaggers. He is treated with a great deal of resp
ect by everyone, and even invokes fear in some. Pip had never seen this level of respect for someone that was his direct acquaintance before, except for Miss Havisham, who he knew had great wealth.
This dual lifestyle is paralleled in Mr. Wemmick, the clerk for Mr. Jaggers. Mr. Wemmick, when at work, only thinks about his work, and doesn¹t let his personal life affect how he goes about his business. The flip side of the coin is also true, as when he goes home, he forgets about anything that happened at work, and concentrates on making his deaf father happy. The scene when he takes Pip to work shows the change that he goes through on his way to work: ³By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.² Just like Pip, he changes how he acts according to which role he is playing.
Whenever the two lives come together, it is hard for Pip to determine what to do about it. He seems not to want his two lives to mix, but is helpless to prevent it. Whenever Joe says he is coming to London, Pip doesn¹t like he idea, but he ends up coming anyway. Also, when he finds that Orlick is working for Miss Havisham, he is apparently shocked. He remembers him working for Joe, and doesn¹t think it¹s right that he¹s now working as Miss Havisham¹s watchman.
In society today, people often lead these dual lives. I have known many people who, when at school, take it very seriously and work hard at it, but when the weekend comes, they take their partying just as seriously. Another way that people lead separate lives is when they hide who they really are and pretend they are someone else. Mostly this happens because that person is afraid that they will not ³fit in² with the rest of the crowd. Ok, I'll come clean. At one time I was one of these people that tried to fit in. I later realized that I was just denying who I really am. I have a feeling that, by the end of the novel, Pip will have a better standing of who he really is.
Dr Alexandre Manette
A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Dr. Alexandre Manette
Dr. Alexandre Manette the great survivor of the Bastille and father to Lucie Manette.
Dr.Manette is the most important character in the book. Throughout the book he is the stories
backbone. Few subplots ignore Manette.
Dr. Manette loves his daughter. She is the world to him, without her he would still be a
crazed old man. Dr. Manette's love for his daughter is clear throughout the story he expresses
his thought verbally. When his daughter Lucie is married he tells her "Consider how natural
and how plain it is, my dear, that it should be so. You, devoted and young, cannot fully
appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted."1 Dr.Manette is a very
caring man. Caring, that is the one adjective I would use to describe Dr.Manette.
As I said before Dr.Manette loves his daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force.
Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be
a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to
Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says "Take her, Charles. She is yours."2 He
does so with a quite sadness.
A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille.
The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things
such as "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have
had a pattern in my hand."3 Outbursts such as that show that he is not nor may he ever heal
his scars. Though the book starts after his imprisonment, his Bastille time contains his
actions that effects the stories plot the most. The action that truly stands out is his writing
and hiding of the letter that later convicts Charles Darnay. The exposure of the letter during
the trail is in my opinion the most interesting twist in A Tale Of Two Cities.
Dr.Manette has few contacts with the Defarges however in my opinion the doctors main
conflict is with them. In the Defarge's quest for vengeance against the Evermondes they
come upon apposing paths with the doctor. The Defarges want Darnay dead. The doctor can
not let Darnay die for he has become a large part of his daughters life. The death of Darnay
would bare heavily on Lucie's shoulders. We see this when Lucie pleas with Madam Defarge
commanding "You will be good to my poor husband. You will do him no harm. You will
help me to see him if you can?"4
I did not really like the character Dr.Manette. Not because he was a bad person, I just
didn't think he was that interesting. I found him dull. I think the fact that I have grown up
seeing characters like the Doctor on TV and in movies may have caused my feelings. I need
characters that are more original (Dr.Manette of course is one of the originals). I think the
books opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."5 sums up my feelings
about reading this book.
1Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.188
2Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.194
3Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.49
4Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.265
5Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.13
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities. Signet Classic, 1859.
Dr. Alexandre Manette
Dr. Alexandre Manette the great survivor of the Bastille and father to Lucie Manette.
Dr.Manette is the most important character in the book. Throughout the book he is the stories
backbone. Few subplots ignore Manette.
Dr. Manette loves his daughter. She is the world to him, without her he would still be a
crazed old man. Dr. Manette's love for his daughter is clear throughout the story he expresses
his thought verbally. When his daughter Lucie is married he tells her "Consider how natural
and how plain it is, my dear, that it should be so. You, devoted and young, cannot fully
appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted."1 Dr.Manette is a very
caring man. Caring, that is the one adjective I would use to describe Dr.Manette.
As I said before Dr.Manette loves his daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force.
Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be
a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to
Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says "Take her, Charles. She is yours."2 He
does so with a quite sadness.
A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille.
The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things
such as "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have
had a pattern in my hand."3 Outbursts such as that show that he is not nor may he ever heal
his scars. Though the book starts after his imprisonment, his Bastille time contains his
actions that effects the stories plot the most. The action that truly stands out is his writing
and hiding of the letter that later convicts Charles Darnay. The exposure of the letter during
the trail is in my opinion the most interesting twist in A Tale Of Two Cities.
Dr.Manette has few contacts with the Defarges however in my opinion the doctors main
conflict is with them. In the Defarge's quest for vengeance against the Evermondes they
come upon apposing paths with the doctor. The Defarges want Darnay dead. The doctor can
not let Darnay die for he has become a large part of his daughters life. The death of Darnay
would bare heavily on Lucie's shoulders. We see this when Lucie pleas with Madam Defarge
commanding "You will be good to my poor husband. You will do him no harm. You will
help me to see him if you can?"4
I did not really like the character Dr.Manette. Not because he was a bad person, I just
didn't think he was that interesting. I found him dull. I think the fact that I have grown up
seeing characters like the Doctor on TV and in movies may have caused my feelings. I need
characters that are more original (Dr.Manette of course is one of the originals). I think the
books opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."5 sums up my feelings
about reading this book.
1Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.188
2Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.194
3Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.49
4Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.265
5Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.13
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities. Signet Classic, 1859.
Dr Alexandre Manette again
A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Dr. Alexandre Manette
Dr. Alexandre Manette the great survivor of the Bastille and father to Lucie Manette.
Dr.Manette is the most important character in the book. Throughout the book he is the stories
backbone. Few subplots ignore Manette.
Dr. Manette loves his daughter. She is the world to him, without her he would still be a
crazed old man. Dr. Manette's love for his daughter is clear throughout the story he expresses
his thought verbally. When his daughter Lucie is married he tells her "Consider how natural
and how plain it is, my dear, that it should be so. You, devoted and young, cannot fully
appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted."1 Dr.Manette is a very
caring man. Caring, that is the one adjective I would use to describe Dr.Manette.
As I said before Dr.Manette loves his daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force.
Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be
a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to
Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says "Take her, Charles. She is yours."2 He
does so with a quite sadness.
A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille.
The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things
such as "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have
had a pattern in my hand."3 Outbursts such as that show that he is not nor may he ever heal
his scars. Though the book starts after his imprisonment, his Bastille time contains his
actions that effects the stories plot the most. The action that truly stands out is his writing
and hiding of the letter that later convicts Charles Darnay. The exposure of the letter during
the trail is in my opinion the most interesting twist in A Tale Of Two Cities.
Dr.Manette has few contacts with the Defarges however in my opinion the doctors main
conflict is with them. In the Defarge's quest for vengeance against the Evermondes they
come upon apposing paths with the doctor. The Defarges want Darnay dead. The doctor can
not let Darnay die for he has become a large part of his daughters life. The death of Darnay
would bare heavily on Lucie's shoulders. We see this when Lucie pleas with Madam Defarge
commanding "You will be good to my poor husband. You will do him no harm. You will
help me to see him if you can?"4
I did not really like the character Dr.Manette. Not because he was a bad person, I just
didn't think he was that interesting. I found him dull. I think the fact that I have grown up
seeing characters like the Doctor on TV and in movies may have caused my feelings. I need
characters that are more original (Dr.Manette of course is one of the originals). I think the
books opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."5 sums up my feelings
about reading this book.
1Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.188
2Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.194
3Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.49
4Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.265
5Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.13
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities. Signet Classic, 1859.
Dr. Alexandre Manette
Dr. Alexandre Manette the great survivor of the Bastille and father to Lucie Manette.
Dr.Manette is the most important character in the book. Throughout the book he is the stories
backbone. Few subplots ignore Manette.
Dr. Manette loves his daughter. She is the world to him, without her he would still be a
crazed old man. Dr. Manette's love for his daughter is clear throughout the story he expresses
his thought verbally. When his daughter Lucie is married he tells her "Consider how natural
and how plain it is, my dear, that it should be so. You, devoted and young, cannot fully
appreciate the anxiety I have felt that your life should not be wasted."1 Dr.Manette is a very
caring man. Caring, that is the one adjective I would use to describe Dr.Manette.
As I said before Dr.Manette loves his daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force.
Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be
a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to
Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says "Take her, Charles. She is yours."2 He
does so with a quite sadness.
A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille.
The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things
such as "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have
had a pattern in my hand."3 Outbursts such as that show that he is not nor may he ever heal
his scars. Though the book starts after his imprisonment, his Bastille time contains his
actions that effects the stories plot the most. The action that truly stands out is his writing
and hiding of the letter that later convicts Charles Darnay. The exposure of the letter during
the trail is in my opinion the most interesting twist in A Tale Of Two Cities.
Dr.Manette has few contacts with the Defarges however in my opinion the doctors main
conflict is with them. In the Defarge's quest for vengeance against the Evermondes they
come upon apposing paths with the doctor. The Defarges want Darnay dead. The doctor can
not let Darnay die for he has become a large part of his daughters life. The death of Darnay
would bare heavily on Lucie's shoulders. We see this when Lucie pleas with Madam Defarge
commanding "You will be good to my poor husband. You will do him no harm. You will
help me to see him if you can?"4
I did not really like the character Dr.Manette. Not because he was a bad person, I just
didn't think he was that interesting. I found him dull. I think the fact that I have grown up
seeing characters like the Doctor on TV and in movies may have caused my feelings. I need
characters that are more original (Dr.Manette of course is one of the originals). I think the
books opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."5 sums up my feelings
about reading this book.
1Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.188
2Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.194
3Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.49
4Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.265
5Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities, 1859, p.13
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. A Tale Of Two Cities. Signet Classic, 1859.
A Portrait Of Duke Ellington
A Portrait of Duke Ellington
By Tracy Frech
Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29, 1899.
His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They raised Duke as an only child, until his sister, Ruth, was born when Duke was sixteen years old.
Duke, even as a teenager, had a great talent for music. In the beginning of his musical life, Duke began to take a promising interest in a new type of music that would later be called jazz. Choosing to base his career on a new idea may not have been smart, but Duke did take this chance and in turn became one of the most famous musicians in America.
Duke's first job was at a government office. He was a clerk who received the minimum wage and was barely getting by. He would arrange dance bands for weddings and parties for extra money. His mother taught him how to play the piano. Sometimes he put this knowledge to use and played at a few of the dance parties and weddings.
After Duke's first job, he became more interested in painting and the arts. For a few years he painted public posters. Duke then decided to put together his own band. At this point in his life things started to change for the better for Duke, but not for long. In those days, this new music was just beginning to develop and would later be given the name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In those early years, segregation was at one of its all time worst points in history. I think that is why Duke Ellington was one of the most important individuals to the growth and development of jazz.
During Duke's long career, the new music slowly spread out of bars and saloons, to dance and night clubs and then eventually onto the concert stage.
In time, jazz became a universally recognized form of art and has been said that it is the only real form that has originated from the American soul.
By the 1960's Duke traveled the globe so many times that he became known as the unofficial ambassador to the United States. Duke's band had played in Russia, Japan, Latin America, the Far East, the Middle East, and Africa.
Duke, himself, was an elegant man. When the white people looked down on the black man and his music, Duke managed to bring dignity to every one of his performances. Once, the jazz historian Leonard Feather described Duke as, "an inch over six feet tall, sturdily built, he had an innate grandeur that would have enabled him to step with unquenched dignity out of a mud puddle."
Duke's private life was something of an enigma. Although he had many friends he never really told them everything about himself. He would often guard his privacy probably because he had so little of it. When he was alone though, he would almost always be arranging the next tune for the band to play, and was always thinking or preparing something for the band to do in the next performance.
Duke attracted some of the greatest musicians to join his band. Because of this it has been said that many of Duke's pieces are almost impossible to exactly duplicate without the personal style of the original musicians. One of the strange things that was known about Duke was that his school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the inspiration for him to just sit down and start tinkering around with a few notes that usually became big hits.
In his band the two, probably most famous musicians were the trumpeter Whetsol and the saxophonist Hodges. As the band became more and more popular, saxophonist Hodges became the highest paid performer in the United States.
The 1920's became known as "the Jazz Age" because jazz had hit its first great burst of popularity. At that time Duke then added a young drummer named Sonny Greer. A few years after Greer was hired, Duke's band hit a very rough spot. They were often stuck in the street with no money and nowhere to go. Duke and his band often were stuck doing crude recordings just for a few dollars to buy a meal.
In the Autumn of 1927, luck had crossed paths with Duke again. The manager of Duke's band, Irving Mills, had heard that the prestigious cotton club was looking for a new band and immediately Irving began campaigning for Duke. Duke and his band opened on December 4, 1927 to meet a mad rush of spectators who eagerly awaited to hear Dukes newest pieces. Duke's band became very prosperous and they had their own spot on the Cotton Club floor with special lighting and accommodations.
At the year of 1928 the band consisted of Bubber Miley, Freddy Jenkins, and Arthur Whetsol on trumpet, joined with Tricky Sam Nanton, and Juan Tizol on trombone. Johnny Hodges, now on alto sax, with Barney Bigard doubled on tenor sax and clarinet, and finally Harry Carney at seventeen years old joined on bari sax. Carney was known as one of the first people in a band ever to use the bari sax as a solo instrument.
While Duke's band was performing at the Cotton Club, his band participated in more than sixty-four recording sessions.
In 1931 Duke grew so tired of the show-business routines that he decided to try his luck again on his own. When he arrived in New York his band grew to almost three times what it originally had been at the Cotton Club. Duke feared that this would become a very serious problem considering how the stock market crashed in late 1929 and millions of people across the United States were out of work.
Somehow, though, most of the entertainment business survived the economic hardships. Ellington's band had appeared on Broadway and had even gone to Hollywood to make a movie. Duke's band was having a hard time performing in the south because of the segregation laws not allowing blacks to eat in white restaurants or finding accommodations that would allow blacks and whites to stay together in a half-decent room.
In 1932 Duke added a trombonist named Lawrence Brown. In the same year, most of the other big bands were adding vocalists to their ensemble and thus Duke felt pressured to do so too. Duke then hired a woman named Ivie Anderson and quickly proved that he had done the right thing.
Then in 1933 his band got a chance to play in Europe. At first Duke was very skeptical of how his music would be reacted to just because jazz had it's roots in America and the Europeans had a very contrasting style of music. The band managed to talk Duke into believing the idea was a good one. The band's first stop was England. The band was amazed at how well informed they were about their entire past. Even the Prince of Wales came to hear the band play. At the time the prince was an amateur drummer and Sonny Greer Showed the prince how to work the drum set and they played together and in the end were calling each other "Sonny" and "The Wale". All the concerts held in England were sellouts. The band then moved on to Scotland, and then Paris, France where their music was greeted with open arms.
When Duke's band returned to America the band really began feeling the hardship and sorrow of traveling on the road, being separated from loved ones. Also, many of the band members, including Duke, began developing drinking problems and started making some of the musicians lives miserable. What made things worse was the fact that Duke's mother, Daisy, died in May of 1935 that set Duke into a deep depression and he used to sit and stare into space while he talked to himself. Fortunately though, those long pep-talks with himself seem to snap Duke out of his depression.
But despite everything the band survived and in 1946 a saxophonist/clarinetist named Russell Procope joined the band and brought everyone up to a new point of view about traveling on the road. Around the time that Procope joined the band Duke invented a new song called "Reminiscing in Tempo" and was not looked upon favorably by critics but it did seem to sum everything up that was written by Ellington from 1931 to 1939 in a combination of gladness, sadness, triumph, and tragedy. But then Duke's friend Arthur Whetsol became and had to leave the band.
Then the future of the band seemed uncertain as the depression continued and millions of people were still out of work. Until around 1935 when the "Swing Era" hit the U.S. Irving Mills had then formed his own record company in 1936 that boomed with popularity as the demand for big bands playing this new swing music was in intense demand.
Later on Duke hired a lyrical writer named Billy Strayhorn that led a premature death in 1967. But when Strayhorn was with the band he wrote many compositions that often went into the band's book of music. Then in 1942 Duke hired one of the best tenor saxophonists ever and let him play the first tenor sax solo ever arranged by Duke Ellington.
In 1951 Saxophonist Johnny Hodges, trombonist Lawrence Brown, and Sonny Greer left the band together and formed their own band but then in 1955 Sonny Greer returned to the band and stayed with Duke until his death in 1970. And then by the 1950's the Ellington band was carrying on almost alone.
By 1972 the times and styles of the world no longer fit the old time style of Duke's band. The band was not known like it used to be and that could be the point in time I suppose you could say that the band broke up.
Duke Ellington's career spanned the whole history of the birth of the music called jazz. And nowhere in that glorious history is there a man who had more love for music, more respect for his art, than the man they called the Duke.
By Tracy Frech
Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29, 1899.
His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They raised Duke as an only child, until his sister, Ruth, was born when Duke was sixteen years old.
Duke, even as a teenager, had a great talent for music. In the beginning of his musical life, Duke began to take a promising interest in a new type of music that would later be called jazz. Choosing to base his career on a new idea may not have been smart, but Duke did take this chance and in turn became one of the most famous musicians in America.
Duke's first job was at a government office. He was a clerk who received the minimum wage and was barely getting by. He would arrange dance bands for weddings and parties for extra money. His mother taught him how to play the piano. Sometimes he put this knowledge to use and played at a few of the dance parties and weddings.
After Duke's first job, he became more interested in painting and the arts. For a few years he painted public posters. Duke then decided to put together his own band. At this point in his life things started to change for the better for Duke, but not for long. In those days, this new music was just beginning to develop and would later be given the name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In those early years, segregation was at one of its all time worst points in history. I think that is why Duke Ellington was one of the most important individuals to the growth and development of jazz.
During Duke's long career, the new music slowly spread out of bars and saloons, to dance and night clubs and then eventually onto the concert stage.
In time, jazz became a universally recognized form of art and has been said that it is the only real form that has originated from the American soul.
By the 1960's Duke traveled the globe so many times that he became known as the unofficial ambassador to the United States. Duke's band had played in Russia, Japan, Latin America, the Far East, the Middle East, and Africa.
Duke, himself, was an elegant man. When the white people looked down on the black man and his music, Duke managed to bring dignity to every one of his performances. Once, the jazz historian Leonard Feather described Duke as, "an inch over six feet tall, sturdily built, he had an innate grandeur that would have enabled him to step with unquenched dignity out of a mud puddle."
Duke's private life was something of an enigma. Although he had many friends he never really told them everything about himself. He would often guard his privacy probably because he had so little of it. When he was alone though, he would almost always be arranging the next tune for the band to play, and was always thinking or preparing something for the band to do in the next performance.
Duke attracted some of the greatest musicians to join his band. Because of this it has been said that many of Duke's pieces are almost impossible to exactly duplicate without the personal style of the original musicians. One of the strange things that was known about Duke was that his school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the inspiration for him to just sit down and start tinkering around with a few notes that usually became big hits.
In his band the two, probably most famous musicians were the trumpeter Whetsol and the saxophonist Hodges. As the band became more and more popular, saxophonist Hodges became the highest paid performer in the United States.
The 1920's became known as "the Jazz Age" because jazz had hit its first great burst of popularity. At that time Duke then added a young drummer named Sonny Greer. A few years after Greer was hired, Duke's band hit a very rough spot. They were often stuck in the street with no money and nowhere to go. Duke and his band often were stuck doing crude recordings just for a few dollars to buy a meal.
In the Autumn of 1927, luck had crossed paths with Duke again. The manager of Duke's band, Irving Mills, had heard that the prestigious cotton club was looking for a new band and immediately Irving began campaigning for Duke. Duke and his band opened on December 4, 1927 to meet a mad rush of spectators who eagerly awaited to hear Dukes newest pieces. Duke's band became very prosperous and they had their own spot on the Cotton Club floor with special lighting and accommodations.
At the year of 1928 the band consisted of Bubber Miley, Freddy Jenkins, and Arthur Whetsol on trumpet, joined with Tricky Sam Nanton, and Juan Tizol on trombone. Johnny Hodges, now on alto sax, with Barney Bigard doubled on tenor sax and clarinet, and finally Harry Carney at seventeen years old joined on bari sax. Carney was known as one of the first people in a band ever to use the bari sax as a solo instrument.
While Duke's band was performing at the Cotton Club, his band participated in more than sixty-four recording sessions.
In 1931 Duke grew so tired of the show-business routines that he decided to try his luck again on his own. When he arrived in New York his band grew to almost three times what it originally had been at the Cotton Club. Duke feared that this would become a very serious problem considering how the stock market crashed in late 1929 and millions of people across the United States were out of work.
Somehow, though, most of the entertainment business survived the economic hardships. Ellington's band had appeared on Broadway and had even gone to Hollywood to make a movie. Duke's band was having a hard time performing in the south because of the segregation laws not allowing blacks to eat in white restaurants or finding accommodations that would allow blacks and whites to stay together in a half-decent room.
In 1932 Duke added a trombonist named Lawrence Brown. In the same year, most of the other big bands were adding vocalists to their ensemble and thus Duke felt pressured to do so too. Duke then hired a woman named Ivie Anderson and quickly proved that he had done the right thing.
Then in 1933 his band got a chance to play in Europe. At first Duke was very skeptical of how his music would be reacted to just because jazz had it's roots in America and the Europeans had a very contrasting style of music. The band managed to talk Duke into believing the idea was a good one. The band's first stop was England. The band was amazed at how well informed they were about their entire past. Even the Prince of Wales came to hear the band play. At the time the prince was an amateur drummer and Sonny Greer Showed the prince how to work the drum set and they played together and in the end were calling each other "Sonny" and "The Wale". All the concerts held in England were sellouts. The band then moved on to Scotland, and then Paris, France where their music was greeted with open arms.
When Duke's band returned to America the band really began feeling the hardship and sorrow of traveling on the road, being separated from loved ones. Also, many of the band members, including Duke, began developing drinking problems and started making some of the musicians lives miserable. What made things worse was the fact that Duke's mother, Daisy, died in May of 1935 that set Duke into a deep depression and he used to sit and stare into space while he talked to himself. Fortunately though, those long pep-talks with himself seem to snap Duke out of his depression.
But despite everything the band survived and in 1946 a saxophonist/clarinetist named Russell Procope joined the band and brought everyone up to a new point of view about traveling on the road. Around the time that Procope joined the band Duke invented a new song called "Reminiscing in Tempo" and was not looked upon favorably by critics but it did seem to sum everything up that was written by Ellington from 1931 to 1939 in a combination of gladness, sadness, triumph, and tragedy. But then Duke's friend Arthur Whetsol became and had to leave the band.
Then the future of the band seemed uncertain as the depression continued and millions of people were still out of work. Until around 1935 when the "Swing Era" hit the U.S. Irving Mills had then formed his own record company in 1936 that boomed with popularity as the demand for big bands playing this new swing music was in intense demand.
Later on Duke hired a lyrical writer named Billy Strayhorn that led a premature death in 1967. But when Strayhorn was with the band he wrote many compositions that often went into the band's book of music. Then in 1942 Duke hired one of the best tenor saxophonists ever and let him play the first tenor sax solo ever arranged by Duke Ellington.
In 1951 Saxophonist Johnny Hodges, trombonist Lawrence Brown, and Sonny Greer left the band together and formed their own band but then in 1955 Sonny Greer returned to the band and stayed with Duke until his death in 1970. And then by the 1950's the Ellington band was carrying on almost alone.
By 1972 the times and styles of the world no longer fit the old time style of Duke's band. The band was not known like it used to be and that could be the point in time I suppose you could say that the band broke up.
Duke Ellington's career spanned the whole history of the birth of the music called jazz. And nowhere in that glorious history is there a man who had more love for music, more respect for his art, than the man they called the Duke.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Vision
Literary analysis: Vision Out
of the Corner of One Eye.
The main character of "Vision out of the Corner of One Eye ", a short story by Luisa Valezuela, goes through a complete one hundred-eighty degree change over the course of the story.
In the beginning of the story, the main character is completely distraught. A man on the bus continues to fondle her, but rather than call attention to him she would rather save face for him. She hates the situation but she wants to believe he's a good person so she begins to make excuses for him: "maybe he didn't do it on purpose" or "maybe his right hand didn't know what his left hand was up to". All the while trusting , and having her trust broken.
The second phase the main character went through was the attempt to flee. When she finally tried wiggling out of his reach it just gives him a better angle to touch her. As she moved away, he was right there. She was like a fox hunted by wild dogs. No matter where she went, she was trapped.
The final phase was getting even. She figured she would put her hand on his butt and show him how it felt to molested. It turns out, she got more than the satisfaction of revenge, but also his wallet.
The main character has lots of moral and emotional choices to make. Though in the beginning she wants nothing more than to put the incident behind her, by the end she ironically throws all of her morals out the window and steals the man's wallet.
of the Corner of One Eye.
The main character of "Vision out of the Corner of One Eye ", a short story by Luisa Valezuela, goes through a complete one hundred-eighty degree change over the course of the story.
In the beginning of the story, the main character is completely distraught. A man on the bus continues to fondle her, but rather than call attention to him she would rather save face for him. She hates the situation but she wants to believe he's a good person so she begins to make excuses for him: "maybe he didn't do it on purpose" or "maybe his right hand didn't know what his left hand was up to". All the while trusting , and having her trust broken.
The second phase the main character went through was the attempt to flee. When she finally tried wiggling out of his reach it just gives him a better angle to touch her. As she moved away, he was right there. She was like a fox hunted by wild dogs. No matter where she went, she was trapped.
The final phase was getting even. She figured she would put her hand on his butt and show him how it felt to molested. It turns out, she got more than the satisfaction of revenge, but also his wallet.
The main character has lots of moral and emotional choices to make. Though in the beginning she wants nothing more than to put the incident behind her, by the end she ironically throws all of her morals out the window and steals the man's wallet.
the Paper Chase
The most famous quote in the movie, "The Paper Chase", would have to be when Kingsfield says, "You'll come in here with a scull full of mush and leave thinking like a lawyer."
This movie should teach a high school student that going to college demands a lot more than the "easy street" they've been riding in high school.
The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very expensive and most students come from wealthy families.
"The Paper Chase" teaches the viewer that law school is very stressful; it is a way of life not just going to school; and you must have what it takes just to survive law school.
The things I liked most about Mr. Kingsfield was well organized, and that he was a difficult teacher. Difficult teachers usually make you learn for yourself.
The only things I didn't like about Mr. Kingsfield were that he was rude to his students and that he didn't remember anyone's face without the seating chart.
The name, "The Paper Chase", most likely came from the pursuit of receiving a diploma in law. All of the students strived for their diplomas throughout the movie.
Hart possessed many characteristics that helped him be successful at Harvard. Among these were: endurance, will power, and respect for his professors.
I liked Ford best out of all the students. He had most of the characteristics needed to survive Harvard, but also kept his sense of humor.
This movie should teach a high school student that going to college demands a lot more than the "easy street" they've been riding in high school.
The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very expensive and most students come from wealthy families.
"The Paper Chase" teaches the viewer that law school is very stressful; it is a way of life not just going to school; and you must have what it takes just to survive law school.
The things I liked most about Mr. Kingsfield was well organized, and that he was a difficult teacher. Difficult teachers usually make you learn for yourself.
The only things I didn't like about Mr. Kingsfield were that he was rude to his students and that he didn't remember anyone's face without the seating chart.
The name, "The Paper Chase", most likely came from the pursuit of receiving a diploma in law. All of the students strived for their diplomas throughout the movie.
Hart possessed many characteristics that helped him be successful at Harvard. Among these were: endurance, will power, and respect for his professors.
I liked Ford best out of all the students. He had most of the characteristics needed to survive Harvard, but also kept his sense of humor.
The ghost and me
The Ghost and his soul
Nowhere, a place to live a life so full of destruction that time never seems to take place
a bleaching of disaster reaches out of the hole of hell to seize any frightful body
a whispering ghost sits upon a rotted out log stump to tell a tale never told before
the beast was the soul of the darkened phantom that roved the area in hate
upon a midmorning rain a beast no more mere than the size of a 2000 pound bolder prowled
to feast was his mind set and to another animal a battle of might's that can scream of blood
striding at six feet with long dry stiff hair saturated in pride of his prays blood
a main so laid out of perfection for a feeling from a looker standing behind away from death
eyes so filled with flames being able to make any normal filled creature faint of fright
time strolled on while this evil beast lurked and tamed his mind full of desirable thoughts
a forest all still while this time moved on and all around nothing lived as use to
greed of pride tempted this evil beast so unbearably often his fall could become reality
quite all around while the beast roamed his territory by choosing victims for their blood
the scent on tree bases and earth's crust soaked in his prays gore for victory
his blood never shed touching air but when the forest all became one against him
the whisper of fate has neared while ending the fright from everyone's wits
alone no one stands to be fearless and earth was lost deadening their dreadful spirit's
to care never about life on account of being annihilated by his fellow tribes and the wilderness
Nowhere, a place to live a life so full of destruction that time never seems to take place
a bleaching of disaster reaches out of the hole of hell to seize any frightful body
a whispering ghost sits upon a rotted out log stump to tell a tale never told before
the beast was the soul of the darkened phantom that roved the area in hate
upon a midmorning rain a beast no more mere than the size of a 2000 pound bolder prowled
to feast was his mind set and to another animal a battle of might's that can scream of blood
striding at six feet with long dry stiff hair saturated in pride of his prays blood
a main so laid out of perfection for a feeling from a looker standing behind away from death
eyes so filled with flames being able to make any normal filled creature faint of fright
time strolled on while this evil beast lurked and tamed his mind full of desirable thoughts
a forest all still while this time moved on and all around nothing lived as use to
greed of pride tempted this evil beast so unbearably often his fall could become reality
quite all around while the beast roamed his territory by choosing victims for their blood
the scent on tree bases and earth's crust soaked in his prays gore for victory
his blood never shed touching air but when the forest all became one against him
the whisper of fate has neared while ending the fright from everyone's wits
alone no one stands to be fearless and earth was lost deadening their dreadful spirit's
to care never about life on account of being annihilated by his fellow tribes and the wilderness
Tale of 2 Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and the judicial system in effect as this time.
The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not just the difference between the poor and rich but also between the rich and the royalty. While Monsieur the Marquis is driving through St. Antoine, he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows the difference between the classes is when the Monseigneur is having his chocolate while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy
cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of mindless people who only have death on their minds.
The third fault that Dickens wants to point out in the novel is the way the judicial system is corrupt. Throughout the novel Dickens mentions that any of the aristocracy could have put any person in prison just by "making a call." This shows that there was no system of balances to keep order in the courts. Another way Dickens shows the faults in the judicial system is when Madame Defarge wants to kill not just Charles Darnay, but his entire family. This shows that during the revolution the judicial system was changed, to suit the common people, but the mentality remained the same.
Because of these faults, Dickens shows that nothing is perfect, not even after the revolution does anything really change. These are not the only faults of the social structure of the society, but there are many more that show Dickens' ridicule for this society.
Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and the judicial system in effect as this time.
The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not just the difference between the poor and rich but also between the rich and the royalty. While Monsieur the Marquis is driving through St. Antoine, he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows the difference between the classes is when the Monseigneur is having his chocolate while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy
cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of mindless people who only have death on their minds.
The third fault that Dickens wants to point out in the novel is the way the judicial system is corrupt. Throughout the novel Dickens mentions that any of the aristocracy could have put any person in prison just by "making a call." This shows that there was no system of balances to keep order in the courts. Another way Dickens shows the faults in the judicial system is when Madame Defarge wants to kill not just Charles Darnay, but his entire family. This shows that during the revolution the judicial system was changed, to suit the common people, but the mentality remained the same.
Because of these faults, Dickens shows that nothing is perfect, not even after the revolution does anything really change. These are not the only faults of the social structure of the society, but there are many more that show Dickens' ridicule for this society.
Tale of 2 Cities again
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and the judicial system in effect as this time.
The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not just the difference between the poor and rich but also between the rich and the royalty. While Monsieur the Marquis is driving through St. Antoine, he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows the difference between the classes is when the Monseigneur is having his chocolate while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy
cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of mindless people who only have death on their minds.
The third fault that Dickens wants to point out in the novel is the way the judicial system is corrupt. Throughout the novel Dickens mentions that any of the aristocracy could have put any person in prison just by "making a call." This shows that there was no system of balances to keep order in the courts. Another way Dickens shows the faults in the judicial system is when Madame Defarge wants to kill not just Charles Darnay, but his entire family. This shows that during the revolution the judicial system was changed, to suit the common people, but the mentality remained the same.
Because of these faults, Dickens shows that nothing is perfect, not even after the revolution does anything really change. These are not the only faults of the social structure of the society, but there are many more that show Dickens' ridicule for this society.
Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and the judicial system in effect as this time.
The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not just the difference between the poor and rich but also between the rich and the royalty. While Monsieur the Marquis is driving through St. Antoine, he runs over a child. All he does is toss a few gold coins out to the father and drives away. This is showing that all the aristocracy cares about is money. Another place in the novel where Dickens shows the difference between the classes is when the Monseigneur is having his chocolate while everyone is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy
cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another place where Dickens describes this revolution lunacy is when the crowd of "five thousand demons" come around the corner "dancing" to the Carmagnole, the song of the revolution. This shows that everyone who has a part in the revolution has become like one, a large mass of mindless people who only have death on their minds.
The third fault that Dickens wants to point out in the novel is the way the judicial system is corrupt. Throughout the novel Dickens mentions that any of the aristocracy could have put any person in prison just by "making a call." This shows that there was no system of balances to keep order in the courts. Another way Dickens shows the faults in the judicial system is when Madame Defarge wants to kill not just Charles Darnay, but his entire family. This shows that during the revolution the judicial system was changed, to suit the common people, but the mentality remained the same.
Because of these faults, Dickens shows that nothing is perfect, not even after the revolution does anything really change. These are not the only faults of the social structure of the society, but there are many more that show Dickens' ridicule for this society.
Sleepless in Seattle
It is difficult to say at times, what exactly makes a movie great. I have found that the good movies are felt as you are leaving the theater. The audience should be able to feel and belive, to some degree. When exiting a movie, I hope that I feel this way. Today, paying large sums of money for each visit to the theater is tough to keep up. The audience expects an extra special performance each and every visit. I want to feel good as I leave. This satisfies my willingness to put out a large expence for this type of entertainment.
When I left "Sleepless in Seattle", I was in heaven. I had the feeling I wanted. They movie brought me that "believer" feeling. I feel that the purpose of this movie was to show the audience that fate is alive and well. I was shown that there is someone out there for each and every one of us. I went to the movies with family. This was important. I saw that I had nobody to lean on-but family. This upset me. The movie showed me that it is not necessary to get discouraged. Tom Hanks was meant for Meg Ryan. The proved fate. This alone made me a believer.
I also think that Meg Ryan is adorable. I hope my fate leads to another Meg Ryan. I don't think there can be two. I am forced to hope so. The movie helps me to convince myself. When I convince myself, fate sets itself up. I now feel that fate is working hard. I hope it is not just hardly working.
I hope to dicover fate soon. Thanks for a great movie-"Sleepless in Seattle".
When I left "Sleepless in Seattle", I was in heaven. I had the feeling I wanted. They movie brought me that "believer" feeling. I feel that the purpose of this movie was to show the audience that fate is alive and well. I was shown that there is someone out there for each and every one of us. I went to the movies with family. This was important. I saw that I had nobody to lean on-but family. This upset me. The movie showed me that it is not necessary to get discouraged. Tom Hanks was meant for Meg Ryan. The proved fate. This alone made me a believer.
I also think that Meg Ryan is adorable. I hope my fate leads to another Meg Ryan. I don't think there can be two. I am forced to hope so. The movie helps me to convince myself. When I convince myself, fate sets itself up. I now feel that fate is working hard. I hope it is not just hardly working.
I hope to dicover fate soon. Thanks for a great movie-"Sleepless in Seattle".
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He
had a major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years
old, he began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered
Gray's Inn to pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584.
Bacon's opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought
an end to his political advancement, but he had the support of the Earl of
Essex, whose prosecution for treason he later managed. He was knighted in
1603 after the succession of James I. Bacon and he became solicitor-general
in 1609, attorney-general in 1613, lord keeper of the great seal in 1617, and
lord chancellor in 1618; he was also created Baron of Verulam I 1618, and
Viscount St. Albans in 1621. Bacon retained James's favor by steadfast
defense of royal prerogative, but in 1621 he was found guilty of accepting
bribes and was removed from his office. Retiring to Gorhambury, he
devoted himself to writing and scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna
(Great Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of
humankind to mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first
a classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness
of his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a
new philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of
Learning in 1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
(On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum
(The New Organon, 1620), which was to replace Aristotle's Organon.
Sciences were under the general headings of history, poetry, and philosophy.
Their culmination was an inductive philosophy of nature, in which proposed
to find the natural laws, of bodily action. To this end, he devised so-called
tables of induction designed to discover such forms with the goal of mastery
over nature.
Although Bacon was not a great scientist, he gave impetus to the
development of modern inductive science. His works were held in esteem by
Robert Boyle, Robert Hook, Sir Isaac Newton, and Thomas Hobbes. In the
eighteenth century, Voltaire and Diderot considered him the father of modern
sentence. Other works of Bacon's include his essays from 1597-1625 and
the New Atlantis in 1627. So nineteenth century writers suggested that
Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is
discounted by most scholars.
Bibliography:
World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational
Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18.
Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health Encyclopedia, New York:
Ferguson Publishing Company, 1992, Pp. 491-492.
Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He
had a major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years
old, he began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered
Gray's Inn to pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584.
Bacon's opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought
an end to his political advancement, but he had the support of the Earl of
Essex, whose prosecution for treason he later managed. He was knighted in
1603 after the succession of James I. Bacon and he became solicitor-general
in 1609, attorney-general in 1613, lord keeper of the great seal in 1617, and
lord chancellor in 1618; he was also created Baron of Verulam I 1618, and
Viscount St. Albans in 1621. Bacon retained James's favor by steadfast
defense of royal prerogative, but in 1621 he was found guilty of accepting
bribes and was removed from his office. Retiring to Gorhambury, he
devoted himself to writing and scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna
(Great Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of
humankind to mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first
a classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness
of his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a
new philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of
Learning in 1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
(On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum
(The New Organon, 1620), which was to replace Aristotle's Organon.
Sciences were under the general headings of history, poetry, and philosophy.
Their culmination was an inductive philosophy of nature, in which proposed
to find the natural laws, of bodily action. To this end, he devised so-called
tables of induction designed to discover such forms with the goal of mastery
over nature.
Although Bacon was not a great scientist, he gave impetus to the
development of modern inductive science. His works were held in esteem by
Robert Boyle, Robert Hook, Sir Isaac Newton, and Thomas Hobbes. In the
eighteenth century, Voltaire and Diderot considered him the father of modern
sentence. Other works of Bacon's include his essays from 1597-1625 and
the New Atlantis in 1627. So nineteenth century writers suggested that
Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is
discounted by most scholars.
Bibliography:
World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational
Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18.
Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health Encyclopedia, New York:
Ferguson Publishing Company, 1992, Pp. 491-492.
Sir Francis Bacon 4
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He
had a major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years
old, he began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered
Gray's Inn to pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584.
Bacon's opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought
an end to his political advancement, but he had the support of the Earl of
Essex, whose prosecution for treason he later managed. He was knighted in
1603 after the succession of James I. Bacon and he became solicitor-general
in 1609, attorney-general in 1613, lord keeper of the great seal in 1617, and
lord chancellor in 1618; he was also created Baron of Verulam I 1618, and
Viscount St. Albans in 1621. Bacon retained James's favor by steadfast
defense of royal prerogative, but in 1621 he was found guilty of accepting
bribes and was removed from his office. Retiring to Gorhambury, he
devoted himself to writing and scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna
(Great Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of
humankind to mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first
a classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness
of his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a
new philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of
Learning in 1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
(On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum
(The New Organon, 1620), which was to replace Aristotle's Organon.
Sciences were under the general headings of history, poetry, and philosophy.
Their culmination was an inductive philosophy of nature, in which proposed
to find the natural laws, of bodily action. To this end, he devised so-called
tables of induction designed to discover such forms with the goal of mastery
over nature.
Although Bacon was not a great scientist, he gave impetus to the
development of modern inductive science. His works were held in esteem by
Robert Boyle, Robert Hook, Sir Isaac Newton, and Thomas Hobbes. In the
eighteenth century, Voltaire and Diderot considered him the father of modern
sentence. Other works of Bacon's include his essays from 1597-1625 and
the New Atlantis in 1627. So nineteenth century writers suggested that
Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is
discounted by most scholars.
Bibliography:
World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational
Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18.
Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health Encyclopedia, New York:
Ferguson Publishing Company, 1992, Pp. 491-492.
Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He
had a major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years
old, he began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered
Gray's Inn to pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584.
Bacon's opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought
an end to his political advancement, but he had the support of the Earl of
Essex, whose prosecution for treason he later managed. He was knighted in
1603 after the succession of James I. Bacon and he became solicitor-general
in 1609, attorney-general in 1613, lord keeper of the great seal in 1617, and
lord chancellor in 1618; he was also created Baron of Verulam I 1618, and
Viscount St. Albans in 1621. Bacon retained James's favor by steadfast
defense of royal prerogative, but in 1621 he was found guilty of accepting
bribes and was removed from his office. Retiring to Gorhambury, he
devoted himself to writing and scientific work.
Philosophically, Bacon wrote marks such as the Instauratio Magna
(Great Restoration), setting forth his concepts for the restoration of
humankind to mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first
a classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness
of his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a
new philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of
Learning in 1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
(On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum
(The New Organon, 1620), which was to replace Aristotle's Organon.
Sciences were under the general headings of history, poetry, and philosophy.
Their culmination was an inductive philosophy of nature, in which proposed
to find the natural laws, of bodily action. To this end, he devised so-called
tables of induction designed to discover such forms with the goal of mastery
over nature.
Although Bacon was not a great scientist, he gave impetus to the
development of modern inductive science. His works were held in esteem by
Robert Boyle, Robert Hook, Sir Isaac Newton, and Thomas Hobbes. In the
eighteenth century, Voltaire and Diderot considered him the father of modern
sentence. Other works of Bacon's include his essays from 1597-1625 and
the New Atlantis in 1627. So nineteenth century writers suggested that
Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays, but this theory is
discounted by most scholars.
Bibliography:
World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational
Corporation, 1962. Volume B Pp. 18.
Wegman, Richard J., Medical and Health Encyclopedia, New York:
Ferguson Publishing Company, 1992, Pp. 491-492.
safe place for kids
Writing Todd Turner
Composition 10/15/96
Outdoors Or TV?
I think that if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV there would be less kids in gangs and less kids causing crimes. I've noticed lately that alot of kids are in gangs and have been burglarizing houses and stores. One reason why I think kids are becoming more violent and committing crimes is because, they sit in front of the stupid TV all day long. They don't spend enough time outdoors, hunting, fishing, surfing, and doing all those fun exciting things.
The outdoors offers so much to do and takes your mind off reality and into the fun world. When you are outdoors you are free as a bird and there aren't too many rules. The one rule I go by is; "have fun." When you're outdoors you don't have to think about being robbed or hurt by crazy people because, they stay in the city.
If you are outdoors you can't watch TV. That means that there would be fewer kids wanting to join gangs and probably less violence. That would stop allot of killing and stealing in this world if every body went outdoors instead of watching TV.
Just think, what if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV and learning how to steal and kill. Maybe our world would become a safer place. Instead of watching TV, I spend my time outside. It is allot more fun then learning how to fight and kill each other.
Composition 10/15/96
Outdoors Or TV?
I think that if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV there would be less kids in gangs and less kids causing crimes. I've noticed lately that alot of kids are in gangs and have been burglarizing houses and stores. One reason why I think kids are becoming more violent and committing crimes is because, they sit in front of the stupid TV all day long. They don't spend enough time outdoors, hunting, fishing, surfing, and doing all those fun exciting things.
The outdoors offers so much to do and takes your mind off reality and into the fun world. When you are outdoors you are free as a bird and there aren't too many rules. The one rule I go by is; "have fun." When you're outdoors you don't have to think about being robbed or hurt by crazy people because, they stay in the city.
If you are outdoors you can't watch TV. That means that there would be fewer kids wanting to join gangs and probably less violence. That would stop allot of killing and stealing in this world if every body went outdoors instead of watching TV.
Just think, what if kids spent their time outside rather than watching TV and learning how to steal and kill. Maybe our world would become a safer place. Instead of watching TV, I spend my time outside. It is allot more fun then learning how to fight and kill each other.
Hard Times
CharlesDickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the struggle of
fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in
Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One
deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the
value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in
that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence.
Thomas Gradgrind, the father of Louisa, Tom, and June not only stresses facts in
the classroom in which he teaches, but also at home to his family. Thomas has brought
up his children to know nothing but facts. Everything is black and white,right or wrong--
nothing in between. He discourages such fanciful motions as going to the circus or
having flowered carpet. Everyone knows, one cannot have flowered carpet. One would
trample all over them and they would end up dying.
In Hard Times, two classes are relevant in Coketown. The upper class, which
were few in numbers, are dominant over the middle class, which is larger in numbers.
Stephen Blackpool represents the working class. He is a warm-hearted man trapped in
thes run down society. He feels he deserves this mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was
originally employed under Bounderby, but is fired for standing up for his beliefs. This
type of behavior was totally unacceptable during the period of time as it involved
imagination and independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when
in fact, he had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the
very best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different worlds.
The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into accepting that
something other than facts exist. Thomas Gradgrind has given up his philosophy of facts
by allowing his daughter back into his house.
In conclusion, the entire Gridgrind system of facts proves to be a failure, and he
learns that emotions and imagination are the controlling forces in everyones life.
fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in
Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One
deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the
value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in
that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence.
Thomas Gradgrind, the father of Louisa, Tom, and June not only stresses facts in
the classroom in which he teaches, but also at home to his family. Thomas has brought
up his children to know nothing but facts. Everything is black and white,right or wrong--
nothing in between. He discourages such fanciful motions as going to the circus or
having flowered carpet. Everyone knows, one cannot have flowered carpet. One would
trample all over them and they would end up dying.
In Hard Times, two classes are relevant in Coketown. The upper class, which
were few in numbers, are dominant over the middle class, which is larger in numbers.
Stephen Blackpool represents the working class. He is a warm-hearted man trapped in
thes run down society. He feels he deserves this mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was
originally employed under Bounderby, but is fired for standing up for his beliefs. This
type of behavior was totally unacceptable during the period of time as it involved
imagination and independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when
in fact, he had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the
very best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different worlds.
The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into accepting that
something other than facts exist. Thomas Gradgrind has given up his philosophy of facts
by allowing his daughter back into his house.
In conclusion, the entire Gridgrind system of facts proves to be a failure, and he
learns that emotions and imagination are the controlling forces in everyones life.
Hard Times 5
CharlesDickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the struggle of
fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in
Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One
deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the
value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in
that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence.
Thomas Gradgrind, the father of Louisa, Tom, and June not only stresses facts in
the classroom in which he teaches, but also at home to his family. Thomas has brought
up his children to know nothing but facts. Everything is black and white,right or wrong--
nothing in between. He discourages such fanciful motions as going to the circus or
having flowered carpet. Everyone knows, one cannot have flowered carpet. One would
trample all over them and they would end up dying.
In Hard Times, two classes are relevant in Coketown. The upper class, which
were few in numbers, are dominant over the middle class, which is larger in numbers.
Stephen Blackpool represents the working class. He is a warm-hearted man trapped in
thes run down society. He feels he deserves this mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was
originally employed under Bounderby, but is fired for standing up for his beliefs. This
type of behavior was totally unacceptable during the period of time as it involved
imagination and independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when
in fact, he had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the
very best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different worlds.
The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into accepting that
something other than facts exist. Thomas Gradgrind has given up his philosophy of facts
by allowing his daughter back into his house.
In conclusion, the entire Gridgrind system of facts proves to be a failure, and he
learns that emotions and imagination are the controlling forces in everyones life.
fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in
Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is divided into two sections. One
deals with the struggle of upper class members of society and their struggle to learn the
value of imagination. The other involves a working class man who is trapped by those in
that upper class who trap him in a dreary existence.
Thomas Gradgrind, the father of Louisa, Tom, and June not only stresses facts in
the classroom in which he teaches, but also at home to his family. Thomas has brought
up his children to know nothing but facts. Everything is black and white,right or wrong--
nothing in between. He discourages such fanciful motions as going to the circus or
having flowered carpet. Everyone knows, one cannot have flowered carpet. One would
trample all over them and they would end up dying.
In Hard Times, two classes are relevant in Coketown. The upper class, which
were few in numbers, are dominant over the middle class, which is larger in numbers.
Stephen Blackpool represents the working class. He is a warm-hearted man trapped in
thes run down society. He feels he deserves this mediocre lifestyle. Blackpool was
originally employed under Bounderby, but is fired for standing up for his beliefs. This
type of behavior was totally unacceptable during the period of time as it involved
imagination and independance. Bounderby portrayed himself as a self-made man,when
in fact, he had eveything handed to him with a silver spoon. His mother gave him the
very best of everything, including a wonderful education. This demonstrates that the
upper and middle classes were not just two different classes, but two different worlds.
The book concludes with the upper class characters being forced into accepting that
something other than facts exist. Thomas Gradgrind has given up his philosophy of facts
by allowing his daughter back into his house.
In conclusion, the entire Gridgrind system of facts proves to be a failure, and he
learns that emotions and imagination are the controlling forces in everyones life.
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 18, 1837. He was the first Democratic President who served two terms that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters.
Grover Cleveland's family let a hard life, having little money and moving around alot. After Grover Cleveland's father died, he had to help support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a week! He was unable to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied by himself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested in politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment. He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence". Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first and only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.
In 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters suggested that he run for President of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a public trust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. He served for four years and then barely lost the next election to Benjamin Harrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he was persuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.
This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard-working President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigning tasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. going over official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.
Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that came into the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they could reduce their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans. These "no" answers made him unpopular at the time, but have caused him to have respect now.
People think that they would rate Grover Cleveland at a 9 out of a possible 10, with 10 being the highest score. This is because he was the only President to be elected one year, loose the next (even though winning the popular vote), and then win the next year. He was respected for his honesty and hard workmanship.
In 1879, after Grover Cleveland's second term in office, he returned to New Jersey where he lived a private life with his family. Occassionally he gave lectures at Universities. He died in 1908 at the age of 71.
Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 18, 1837. He was the first Democratic President who served two terms that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters.
Grover Cleveland's family let a hard life, having little money and moving around alot. After Grover Cleveland's father died, he had to help support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a week! He was unable to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied by himself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested in politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment. He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence". Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first and only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.
In 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters suggested that he run for President of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a public trust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. He served for four years and then barely lost the next election to Benjamin Harrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he was persuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.
This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard-working President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigning tasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. going over official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.
Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that came into the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they could reduce their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans. These "no" answers made him unpopular at the time, but have caused him to have respect now.
People think that they would rate Grover Cleveland at a 9 out of a possible 10, with 10 being the highest score. This is because he was the only President to be elected one year, loose the next (even though winning the popular vote), and then win the next year. He was respected for his honesty and hard workmanship.
In 1879, after Grover Cleveland's second term in office, he returned to New Jersey where he lived a private life with his family. Occassionally he gave lectures at Universities. He died in 1908 at the age of 71.
Grover Cleveland 4
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 18, 1837. He was the first Democratic President who served two terms that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters.
Grover Cleveland's family let a hard life, having little money and moving around alot. After Grover Cleveland's father died, he had to help support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a week! He was unable to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied by himself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested in politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment. He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence". Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first and only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.
In 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters suggested that he run for President of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a public trust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. He served for four years and then barely lost the next election to Benjamin Harrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he was persuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.
This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard-working President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigning tasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. going over official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.
Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that came into the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they could reduce their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans. These "no" answers made him unpopular at the time, but have caused him to have respect now.
People think that they would rate Grover Cleveland at a 9 out of a possible 10, with 10 being the highest score. This is because he was the only President to be elected one year, loose the next (even though winning the popular vote), and then win the next year. He was respected for his honesty and hard workmanship.
In 1879, after Grover Cleveland's second term in office, he returned to New Jersey where he lived a private life with his family. Occassionally he gave lectures at Universities. He died in 1908 at the age of 71.
Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States, was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 18, 1837. He was the first Democratic President who served two terms that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Cleveland. His mothers name was Ann Neal Cleveland, the daughter of a publisher. Grover Cleveland was the fifth child in a family of four brothers and five sisters.
Grover Cleveland's family let a hard life, having little money and moving around alot. After Grover Cleveland's father died, he had to help support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a week! He was unable to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied by himself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested in politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment. He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence". Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first and only child of a President to ever be born in the White House.
In 1884, Grover Cleveland's supporters suggested that he run for President of the United States. His motto was "a public office is a public trust". He was elected as the twenty-second President from 1885 until 1889. He served for four years and then barely lost the next election to Benjamin Harrison, even though he had the majority of the popular vote. In 1892, he was persuaded to seek office again and he returned to Washington as the twenty-fourth President in 1893 for four more years.
This President, called "Uncle Jumbo" by his relatives, was a hard-working President. He liked to do much of the work himself instead of assigning tasks to other people. Mr. Cleveland often stayed up until 2 or 3 a.m. going over official business, and sometimes answered the White House Telephone himself.
Grover Cleveland worked hard at reducing taxes on products that came into the United States, he refused easy money to farmers so that they could reduce their debt, and he refused bigger pensions to Veterans. These "no" answers made him unpopular at the time, but have caused him to have respect now.
People think that they would rate Grover Cleveland at a 9 out of a possible 10, with 10 being the highest score. This is because he was the only President to be elected one year, loose the next (even though winning the popular vote), and then win the next year. He was respected for his honesty and hard workmanship.
In 1879, after Grover Cleveland's second term in office, he returned to New Jersey where he lived a private life with his family. Occassionally he gave lectures at Universities. He died in 1908 at the age of 71.
graduation
GRADUATION
I can still remember it like yesterday. It was June 6, 1994, the day of my high
school graduation. This day is the single most important day of my life. This day was so
important to me because it was the first thing I had to work really hard on to accomplish.
For the first time in my life I felt as if I really could succeed in something. It helped to
change my life.
It started out like just another day but things would quickly change. I woke up at
7:00 a.m., which is extremely early by my standards, with anticipation of the day I had
been waiting for. After sitting around for 3 hours I made my way over to Ludlow High
School. The graduating class was to be there for 10:00 a.m. to pick up our cap and gown.
The principal, Mr. James Cavallo, called out everyone's name and proceeded to hand them
their cap and gown. When he finally handed me my gown I quickly took it and sat to me
admire it. Its funny how the simplest things can symbolize a whole new beginning. I sat
and looked at this ugly maroon gown with this weird looking square hat.
The ceremonies were to be held at the Mullins Center on the campus of the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The ceremonies were to begin at 7:00p.m., yet I
had to be there at 6:00p.m.. When everyone arrived we rehearsed on how we were to
walk in and where we were going to sit. You could the excitement in everyone's eyes.
No one could wait for the moment in which our diplomas would be handed to us. They
lined us up by height with the boys to one side and the girls to the other. Each boy was
paired up with a girl and was to walk in side by side with her when the ceremonies began.
Once the couple reached the grandstands, where each member of the graduating class
would be sitting , they were to separate with the girls going left and the boys to the right
until everyone was seated.
The time finally arrived . It was 7:00p.m. and the music had begun to play. We
started our slow march to the grandstands and I could here the crowd cheering. I looked
up to take a look at the audience and quickly found my family waving their hands around
in excitement. It felt like we had just won a sporting championship and had arrived home
to our beloved fans. I sat through about an hour of boring speeches which I could not tell
you one single thing about. I tried to seem interested in what was being said at the
platform to my right but I just couldn't concentrate. My mind kept wandering to the
moment why I was sitting through this nonsense. Finally I saw my principal stand up and
then I knew it was time. He gave a brief five minute speech and started calling out
names. When my name was finally called I had a funny feeling come about me. It was a
feeling that I have not experienced since. My heart felt like it dropped into my stomach
and I got this cold shivering which produced goose bumps all over my me. That brief
moment had come and gone and now it was time to celebrate.
Not only was my high school graduation the first step in helping me to get to
college but it gave me the confidence that I could do anything if I really put my mind to it.
If I had not graduated I would of felt like I couldn't accomplish anything.
I can still remember it like yesterday. It was June 6, 1994, the day of my high
school graduation. This day is the single most important day of my life. This day was so
important to me because it was the first thing I had to work really hard on to accomplish.
For the first time in my life I felt as if I really could succeed in something. It helped to
change my life.
It started out like just another day but things would quickly change. I woke up at
7:00 a.m., which is extremely early by my standards, with anticipation of the day I had
been waiting for. After sitting around for 3 hours I made my way over to Ludlow High
School. The graduating class was to be there for 10:00 a.m. to pick up our cap and gown.
The principal, Mr. James Cavallo, called out everyone's name and proceeded to hand them
their cap and gown. When he finally handed me my gown I quickly took it and sat to me
admire it. Its funny how the simplest things can symbolize a whole new beginning. I sat
and looked at this ugly maroon gown with this weird looking square hat.
The ceremonies were to be held at the Mullins Center on the campus of the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The ceremonies were to begin at 7:00p.m., yet I
had to be there at 6:00p.m.. When everyone arrived we rehearsed on how we were to
walk in and where we were going to sit. You could the excitement in everyone's eyes.
No one could wait for the moment in which our diplomas would be handed to us. They
lined us up by height with the boys to one side and the girls to the other. Each boy was
paired up with a girl and was to walk in side by side with her when the ceremonies began.
Once the couple reached the grandstands, where each member of the graduating class
would be sitting , they were to separate with the girls going left and the boys to the right
until everyone was seated.
The time finally arrived . It was 7:00p.m. and the music had begun to play. We
started our slow march to the grandstands and I could here the crowd cheering. I looked
up to take a look at the audience and quickly found my family waving their hands around
in excitement. It felt like we had just won a sporting championship and had arrived home
to our beloved fans. I sat through about an hour of boring speeches which I could not tell
you one single thing about. I tried to seem interested in what was being said at the
platform to my right but I just couldn't concentrate. My mind kept wandering to the
moment why I was sitting through this nonsense. Finally I saw my principal stand up and
then I knew it was time. He gave a brief five minute speech and started calling out
names. When my name was finally called I had a funny feeling come about me. It was a
feeling that I have not experienced since. My heart felt like it dropped into my stomach
and I got this cold shivering which produced goose bumps all over my me. That brief
moment had come and gone and now it was time to celebrate.
Not only was my high school graduation the first step in helping me to get to
college but it gave me the confidence that I could do anything if I really put my mind to it.
If I had not graduated I would of felt like I couldn't accomplish anything.
English3 txt Makeup your own title
It was a calm sunny day in mid-January as Bob climbed into his plane to go for a late afternoon
flight over the mountains. He started the engine and it gave a weak squeal as it turned over. Bob thought
nothing of this as it happens when it is cold out, but it was more than he could ever know. He taxied his
plane to the end of the runway and applied full power. The plane began to accelerate slowly at first but
quickly gained speed, and just as fast it leaped into the air.
About twenty minutes into the flight the plane gave a shudder as a strong gust of wind shoved at
the small plane. In minutes the sun disappeared and snow took its place. Bob's peaceful afternoon flight
had just become a nightmare.
Bob attempted to turn the small plane back to the airport but the wind would not allow it. The
wind had it's way with the plane until that squeal came back to haunt the young man inside. With a
shudder and a bang the plane's prop stopped. Within seconds the stall horn began to blow and the plane
rolled onto it's right side and plummeted to the snow covered ground.
Bob awoke, not knowing how long he was out, hoping that some one had received his frantic calls
for help. After a day he decided to try and hike out, he took everything he could carry. He made good
distance during the day but at nightfall he knew it was over; the temperature had fallen below negative fifty
mark.
The rescuers sent out search parties and finally found him in his sleeping bag next to a burnt out
fire. They had been looking for weeks, this is what they had expected.
flight over the mountains. He started the engine and it gave a weak squeal as it turned over. Bob thought
nothing of this as it happens when it is cold out, but it was more than he could ever know. He taxied his
plane to the end of the runway and applied full power. The plane began to accelerate slowly at first but
quickly gained speed, and just as fast it leaped into the air.
About twenty minutes into the flight the plane gave a shudder as a strong gust of wind shoved at
the small plane. In minutes the sun disappeared and snow took its place. Bob's peaceful afternoon flight
had just become a nightmare.
Bob attempted to turn the small plane back to the airport but the wind would not allow it. The
wind had it's way with the plane until that squeal came back to haunt the young man inside. With a
shudder and a bang the plane's prop stopped. Within seconds the stall horn began to blow and the plane
rolled onto it's right side and plummeted to the snow covered ground.
Bob awoke, not knowing how long he was out, hoping that some one had received his frantic calls
for help. After a day he decided to try and hike out, he took everything he could carry. He made good
distance during the day but at nightfall he knew it was over; the temperature had fallen below negative fifty
mark.
The rescuers sent out search parties and finally found him in his sleeping bag next to a burnt out
fire. They had been looking for weeks, this is what they had expected.
Einstein 3
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was an important person who changed the
world of science. People referred to him as a genius, and as
one of the smartest people in the world. Einstein devoted
himself to solving the mysteries of the world, and he changed
the way science is looked at today.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm,
Germany. Albert's speech was late in development; he didn't
start talking until he was about three. Since he started
talking late, his parents thought he was retarded. "His
explanation was that he consciously skipped baby babbling,
waiting until he could speak in complete sentences"(Brian 1).
Einstein had a very bad temper when he was young; he got mad
and hit his sister Maja in the head with a garden hoe and
cracked her skull. When he was in school, his teachers thought
he was mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him
and attacked anything he had interest in.
Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married.
His marriage almost didn't take place because Mileva, his
fiance, thought he had an affair.
Einstein decided to go to America to tell other scientists
about his theory of relativity. He brought his wife and
several freinds with him. When they got there, they were
stormed with reporters and camera-men who wanted to know about
his theories. He went around to different areas and gave
speeches and lectures. When he appeared at Union Station to
lecture, there was almost a riot because so many people wanted
to see him.
Einstein's most famous theory was the theory of
relativity. "Einstein started his theory of relativity at the
age of sixteen" (Encyclopedia 511). He received the Nobel
prize for his famous theory. Another famous scientific theory
he discovered was E=MC2 (energy equals mass times the speed of
light squared). That theory made the atomic bomb possible.
"At dawn on July 16, the atomic structure of the world was
revealed when Einstein's famous equation E=MC2 came to life
with a bang"(Brian 344). He was famous for his philosophies
too. besides the theory of relativity, he discovered the
theory of motion. "The motions of bodies included in a given
(vehicle) are the same among themselves whether that (vehicle)
is at rest or in uniform motion" (Hoffman 63). When Einstein
was a kid, he devoted himself to solving the mysteries of the
world.
On April 18, 1955, Einstein died in his sleep. On his
desk lay his last complete statement, written to honor Isreali
Independence day. It read in part: "What I seek to accomplish
is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice at
the risk of pleasing no one." (Encyclopedia 513).
Albert Einstein was smart as a child, but no one
understood him, and he was punished for it. Albert Einstein
discovered the theories of relativity, and motion as well as
the atomic bomb. Einstein was one of the most important people
in science, and he dedicated his life to changing the world.
Works Cited
Brian, Dennis. Einstein a Life. New York: John Whiley and
Sons, Inc., 1996.
"Einstein, Albert." Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol.6. 15th
edition.
Hoffmann, Banesh. Albert Einstein Creator and Rebel. New
York: Penguin Books, 1972.
Albert Einstein was an important person who changed the
world of science. People referred to him as a genius, and as
one of the smartest people in the world. Einstein devoted
himself to solving the mysteries of the world, and he changed
the way science is looked at today.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm,
Germany. Albert's speech was late in development; he didn't
start talking until he was about three. Since he started
talking late, his parents thought he was retarded. "His
explanation was that he consciously skipped baby babbling,
waiting until he could speak in complete sentences"(Brian 1).
Einstein had a very bad temper when he was young; he got mad
and hit his sister Maja in the head with a garden hoe and
cracked her skull. When he was in school, his teachers thought
he was mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him
and attacked anything he had interest in.
Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married.
His marriage almost didn't take place because Mileva, his
fiance, thought he had an affair.
Einstein decided to go to America to tell other scientists
about his theory of relativity. He brought his wife and
several freinds with him. When they got there, they were
stormed with reporters and camera-men who wanted to know about
his theories. He went around to different areas and gave
speeches and lectures. When he appeared at Union Station to
lecture, there was almost a riot because so many people wanted
to see him.
Einstein's most famous theory was the theory of
relativity. "Einstein started his theory of relativity at the
age of sixteen" (Encyclopedia 511). He received the Nobel
prize for his famous theory. Another famous scientific theory
he discovered was E=MC2 (energy equals mass times the speed of
light squared). That theory made the atomic bomb possible.
"At dawn on July 16, the atomic structure of the world was
revealed when Einstein's famous equation E=MC2 came to life
with a bang"(Brian 344). He was famous for his philosophies
too. besides the theory of relativity, he discovered the
theory of motion. "The motions of bodies included in a given
(vehicle) are the same among themselves whether that (vehicle)
is at rest or in uniform motion" (Hoffman 63). When Einstein
was a kid, he devoted himself to solving the mysteries of the
world.
On April 18, 1955, Einstein died in his sleep. On his
desk lay his last complete statement, written to honor Isreali
Independence day. It read in part: "What I seek to accomplish
is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice at
the risk of pleasing no one." (Encyclopedia 513).
Albert Einstein was smart as a child, but no one
understood him, and he was punished for it. Albert Einstein
discovered the theories of relativity, and motion as well as
the atomic bomb. Einstein was one of the most important people
in science, and he dedicated his life to changing the world.
Works Cited
Brian, Dennis. Einstein a Life. New York: John Whiley and
Sons, Inc., 1996.
"Einstein, Albert." Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol.6. 15th
edition.
Hoffmann, Banesh. Albert Einstein Creator and Rebel. New
York: Penguin Books, 1972.
Dr Seuss The Great American Childrens Poet 4
Dr. Seuss:
The Great American Children's Poet
Dr. Seuss is the pseudonym for Theodor Seuss Geisel III, Ted Geisel to
his friends. He originally thought of his pen name being pronounced zo-oice
which is the German pronunciation. He took his middle name from his
mother's maiden name.
He was born in 1904 to Theodor Jr. and Henrietta Geisel of Springfiel
Massachusetts. Both sets of grandparents were from Germany. Theodor Jr.
was a wealthy brewer and tavern owner until the Prohibition. Then he
worked as the manager of the Springfield Zoo. Ted also had an older sister
named Marnie. He went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at
Oxford. While at Dartmouth he got into a bit of trouble when the police
arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment
he was kicked off the school magazine, The Jack O'Lantern, to which he
contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the rule he began to sign his work
as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss. While at Oxford
he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was married for 40 years until
her death. They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing
cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the
phrase "Quick Henry, the Flit" which was to 1930s advertising what "Just
Do It" is to 1990s advertising. Sort of.
They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of
his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their
own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died
in 1991 in his sleep at the age of 87. He wrote 57 books spanning seven
decadesfrom 1939's And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street to 1992's
posthumously published Daisy-Head Maizy.
He received a special Pulitzer Prize recognizing his contribution to
children's literatur. He also received an Emmy for The Grinch Who Stole
Christmas and an Oscar for his screenplay for Gerald McBoing-Boing which
Chuck Jones (of Looney Tunes fame) animated.
Dr. Seuss completely revolutionized the field of children's beginner
books. Before Dr. Seuss the books were of the See Dick. See Dick run. type.
With the Cat In The Hat all that changed by creating a fun, interesting story
that a young reader could read.
Ted Geisel also ran the publishing company Beginner Books (a
division of Random House). He thus was the publisher of many of his own
books. Beginner Books also fostered several other children's writers, most
notably Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears. Ted had so
many demands with running the publishing company that he felt some of his
writings were not up to par. These he published under two different
pseudonyms, Rosetta Stone. and Theo. Le Seig (Geisel spelled backwards).
He did not illustrate these himself but rather let other people do that.
Why did Dr. Seuss write. For many reasons. He loved children and
wanted to entertain them and instill in them a love for reading. He wanted to
tell the stories inside him as only he could with his beautiful illustrations and
nonsense words. But perhaps the most important reason was he loved writing
the almost musical rhymes that a generation of Americans grew up with more
than he loved to do anything else.
The Great American Children's Poet
Dr. Seuss is the pseudonym for Theodor Seuss Geisel III, Ted Geisel to
his friends. He originally thought of his pen name being pronounced zo-oice
which is the German pronunciation. He took his middle name from his
mother's maiden name.
He was born in 1904 to Theodor Jr. and Henrietta Geisel of Springfiel
Massachusetts. Both sets of grandparents were from Germany. Theodor Jr.
was a wealthy brewer and tavern owner until the Prohibition. Then he
worked as the manager of the Springfield Zoo. Ted also had an older sister
named Marnie. He went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at
Oxford. While at Dartmouth he got into a bit of trouble when the police
arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment
he was kicked off the school magazine, The Jack O'Lantern, to which he
contributed as a cartoonist. To get around the rule he began to sign his work
as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss. While at Oxford
he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was married for 40 years until
her death. They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing
cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the
phrase "Quick Henry, the Flit" which was to 1930s advertising what "Just
Do It" is to 1990s advertising. Sort of.
They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of
his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their
own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died
in 1991 in his sleep at the age of 87. He wrote 57 books spanning seven
decadesfrom 1939's And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street to 1992's
posthumously published Daisy-Head Maizy.
He received a special Pulitzer Prize recognizing his contribution to
children's literatur. He also received an Emmy for The Grinch Who Stole
Christmas and an Oscar for his screenplay for Gerald McBoing-Boing which
Chuck Jones (of Looney Tunes fame) animated.
Dr. Seuss completely revolutionized the field of children's beginner
books. Before Dr. Seuss the books were of the See Dick. See Dick run. type.
With the Cat In The Hat all that changed by creating a fun, interesting story
that a young reader could read.
Ted Geisel also ran the publishing company Beginner Books (a
division of Random House). He thus was the publisher of many of his own
books. Beginner Books also fostered several other children's writers, most
notably Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears. Ted had so
many demands with running the publishing company that he felt some of his
writings were not up to par. These he published under two different
pseudonyms, Rosetta Stone. and Theo. Le Seig (Geisel spelled backwards).
He did not illustrate these himself but rather let other people do that.
Why did Dr. Seuss write. For many reasons. He loved children and
wanted to entertain them and instill in them a love for reading. He wanted to
tell the stories inside him as only he could with his beautiful illustrations and
nonsense words. But perhaps the most important reason was he loved writing
the almost musical rhymes that a generation of Americans grew up with more
than he loved to do anything else.
Civil Disobdience Right or Responsiblity
The short play, Antigone, was written in 441 B.C. by the Greek playwright Sophocles. It deals with some of the most basic problems that affect a society. One of them is Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience both a right and responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law.
Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people composing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feel has been placed against them, then they have a right to convey this. Civil Disobedience allows one to convey their thoughts and ideas in a passive, nonviolent way. It can be used when one believes that they are morally right, and that others will agree with them. Antigone conveys this thought when she tells, "No one will ever convict me for a traitor" (Page 61). In a nonviolent from, Civil Disobedience is a basic human right.
Often society has laws that individuals feel is immoral, or unjust. Antigone decided to bury Polynices, for she was obeying the gods, even though it was declared illegal by Creon. "Look on me, you noble sons of Thebes- the last of a great line kings, I alone, see what I suffer now at the hands of breed of men- all for reverence, my reverence for the gods!" (page 106) This quote illustrates how Antigone believed that the power of the gods was greater than the power of any king. If she had obeyed Creon, she would have disobeyed the stronger power of the gods which could have had more of a devastating result on her.
Antigone shows us, thru Civil Disobedience, that breaking some of societies laws is both a right and responsibility.
Government is given the right to control a group of people by the people composing the group. If an individual has a problem with an injustice they feel has been placed against them, then they have a right to convey this. Civil Disobedience allows one to convey their thoughts and ideas in a passive, nonviolent way. It can be used when one believes that they are morally right, and that others will agree with them. Antigone conveys this thought when she tells, "No one will ever convict me for a traitor" (Page 61). In a nonviolent from, Civil Disobedience is a basic human right.
Often society has laws that individuals feel is immoral, or unjust. Antigone decided to bury Polynices, for she was obeying the gods, even though it was declared illegal by Creon. "Look on me, you noble sons of Thebes- the last of a great line kings, I alone, see what I suffer now at the hands of breed of men- all for reverence, my reverence for the gods!" (page 106) This quote illustrates how Antigone believed that the power of the gods was greater than the power of any king. If she had obeyed Creon, she would have disobeyed the stronger power of the gods which could have had more of a devastating result on her.
Antigone shows us, thru Civil Disobedience, that breaking some of societies laws is both a right and responsibility.
Charles Dickens 2
Charles Dickens was born in Portsea, England on February 7, 1812 and died June 9,1870. He is now regarded as one of the greatest English writers. His novels combine vast social perspective and deep compassion for the lower class. His works are still widely read, taught, and performed in modern dramatizations.
Dickens was born into a poor family. When he was 12 his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens was removed from school and put to work in a blacking factory. He lived alone in a lodging house in North London. His father received inheritance after a few months and Charles finally returned to school, but his money troubles were not over. When he was 15 he went to work as a clerk in a law firm and later became a reporter. He was also a quick stenographer.
In (1837-1839) OLIVER TWIST was being serialized in a monthly magazine called Bently's Miscellany. In 1836 Charles married Catherine Hogarth and they had 10 children. They seperated in 1858. In March 1840, Dickens started a weekly periodical called Master Humphrey's Clock in which he published The Old Curiosity Shop , Barnaby Rudge , and a Christmas Carol.
When Dickens died he was an angry man but he is still remembered as one of the greatest authors. His works range from HARD TIMES (1854), a satire of Victorian education and a portrayal of of the ugliness of factory life, through A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), which portrays the chaos of revolutions. Dickens remains a master storyteller whose works are laced with humor and social satire.
Dickens was born into a poor family. When he was 12 his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens was removed from school and put to work in a blacking factory. He lived alone in a lodging house in North London. His father received inheritance after a few months and Charles finally returned to school, but his money troubles were not over. When he was 15 he went to work as a clerk in a law firm and later became a reporter. He was also a quick stenographer.
In (1837-1839) OLIVER TWIST was being serialized in a monthly magazine called Bently's Miscellany. In 1836 Charles married Catherine Hogarth and they had 10 children. They seperated in 1858. In March 1840, Dickens started a weekly periodical called Master Humphrey's Clock in which he published The Old Curiosity Shop , Barnaby Rudge , and a Christmas Carol.
When Dickens died he was an angry man but he is still remembered as one of the greatest authors. His works range from HARD TIMES (1854), a satire of Victorian education and a portrayal of of the ugliness of factory life, through A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), which portrays the chaos of revolutions. Dickens remains a master storyteller whose works are laced with humor and social satire.
Another Albert Einstein 4 Essay
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As
a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that
he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He
suffered under the learning methods that they used in the
schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish
his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the
family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested
in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous
technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics
began to show.
When Einstein was graduated in 1900 he was unable to get a
teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical
job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what
he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and
thinking. While over there he wrote scientific papers. Einstein
submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich
to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second
paper to the University of Bern and became lecturer there. The
next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate
professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 1909,
Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading
scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in
1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution
opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper
that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the
nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not
accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow
rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also
predicted that light rays passing near the sun would be bent out
of a straight line. When this was verified at the eclipse of 1919,
Einstein was instantly accepted as the great scientific thinker
since Newton.
By now Germany had fallen in the hands of Adolf Hitler and
his Nazis. Albert Einstein was Jewish. In 1933 when the Nazis
came to power, Einstein happened to be in California. He did
not return to Germany. He went to Belgium instead. The Nazis
confiscated his possessions, publicly burned his writings, and
expelled him from all German scientific societies. Einstein came
back to the United States and became a citizen.
The atomic bomb is an explosive device that depends upon
the release of energy in a nuclear reaction known as FISSION,
which is the splitting of atomic nuclei. Einstein sent a letter to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out that atomic bombs
are possible and that enemy nations must be allowed to make
them first.
Roosevelt agreed with Einstein and funded the Manhattan
Project.
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. To his dying day,
he urged the world to come to some agreement that would
make nuclear wars forever impossible.
Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As
a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that
he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He
suffered under the learning methods that they used in the
schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish
his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the
family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested
in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous
technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics
began to show.
When Einstein was graduated in 1900 he was unable to get a
teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical
job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what
he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and
thinking. While over there he wrote scientific papers. Einstein
submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich
to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second
paper to the University of Bern and became lecturer there. The
next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate
professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 1909,
Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading
scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in
1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution
opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper
that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the
nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not
accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow
rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also
predicted that light rays passing near the sun would be bent out
of a straight line. When this was verified at the eclipse of 1919,
Einstein was instantly accepted as the great scientific thinker
since Newton.
By now Germany had fallen in the hands of Adolf Hitler and
his Nazis. Albert Einstein was Jewish. In 1933 when the Nazis
came to power, Einstein happened to be in California. He did
not return to Germany. He went to Belgium instead. The Nazis
confiscated his possessions, publicly burned his writings, and
expelled him from all German scientific societies. Einstein came
back to the United States and became a citizen.
The atomic bomb is an explosive device that depends upon
the release of energy in a nuclear reaction known as FISSION,
which is the splitting of atomic nuclei. Einstein sent a letter to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out that atomic bombs
are possible and that enemy nations must be allowed to make
them first.
Roosevelt agreed with Einstein and funded the Manhattan
Project.
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. To his dying day,
he urged the world to come to some agreement that would
make nuclear wars forever impossible.
Albert Einstein
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As
a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that
he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He
suffered under the learning methods that they used in the
schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish
his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the
family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested
in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous
technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics
began to show.
When Einstein was graduated in 1900 he was unable to get a
teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical
job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what
he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and
thinking. While over there he wrote scientific papers. Einstein
submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich
to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second
paper to the University of Bern and became lecturer there. The
next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate
professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 1909,
Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading
scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in
1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution
opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper
that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the
nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not
accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow
rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also
predicted that light rays passing near the sun would be bent out
of a straight line. When this was verified at the eclipse of 1919,
Einstein was instantly accepted as the great scientific thinker
since Newton.
By now Germany had fallen in the hands of Adolf Hitler and
his Nazis. Albert Einstein was Jewish. In 1933 when the Nazis
came to power, Einstein happened to be in California. He did
not return to Germany. He went to Belgium instead. The Nazis
confiscated his possessions, publicly burned his writings, and
expelled him from all German scientific societies. Einstein came
back to the United States and became a citizen.
The atomic bomb is an explosive device that depends upon
the release of energy in a nuclear reaction known as FISSION,
which is the splitting of atomic nuclei. Einstein sent a letter to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out that atomic bombs
are possible and that enemy nations must be allowed to make
them first.
Roosevelt agreed with Einstein and funded the Manhattan
Project.
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. To his dying day,
he urged the world to come to some agreement that would
make nuclear wars forever impossible.
Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As
a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that
he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He
suffered under the learning methods that they used in the
schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish
his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the
family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested
in science, went to Zurich, Switzerland, to enter a famous
technical school. There his ability in mathematics and physics
began to show.
When Einstein was graduated in 1900 he was unable to get a
teaching appointment at a university. Instead he got a clerical
job in the patent office at Bern, Switzerland. It was not what
he wanted but it would give him leisure for studying and
thinking. While over there he wrote scientific papers. Einstein
submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich
to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second
paper to the University of Bern and became lecturer there. The
next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate
professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 1909,
Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading
scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in
1913 he was appointed director of a new research institution
opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper
that extended his theories. He put forth new views on the
nature of gravitation. Newton's theories he said were not
accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to explain the slow
rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also
predicted that light rays passing near the sun would be bent out
of a straight line. When this was verified at the eclipse of 1919,
Einstein was instantly accepted as the great scientific thinker
since Newton.
By now Germany had fallen in the hands of Adolf Hitler and
his Nazis. Albert Einstein was Jewish. In 1933 when the Nazis
came to power, Einstein happened to be in California. He did
not return to Germany. He went to Belgium instead. The Nazis
confiscated his possessions, publicly burned his writings, and
expelled him from all German scientific societies. Einstein came
back to the United States and became a citizen.
The atomic bomb is an explosive device that depends upon
the release of energy in a nuclear reaction known as FISSION,
which is the splitting of atomic nuclei. Einstein sent a letter to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out that atomic bombs
are possible and that enemy nations must be allowed to make
them first.
Roosevelt agreed with Einstein and funded the Manhattan
Project.
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. To his dying day,
he urged the world to come to some agreement that would
make nuclear wars forever impossible.
A Character Sketch of Joe Gargary
Joe Gargery might not be the smartest or wisest of
Dickens' characters, but he is definitely one of the kindest
and most humane. Although Miss Havisham gets much
attention for being different, I think that you will soon be
convinced that Joe, however simple he may be, is definitely
a unique character. It is my opinion that Dickens made an
effort to raise the readers respect for Joe by the sharp
contrast between him and his wife. Three qualities
belonging to Joe are his affectionate nature, pride, and his
perseverance.
When Joe asks Mrs. Gargery to marry him, he
especially insists that she bring her young orphaned
brother, Pip, to live with them. Joe never reminds Pip of
this fact, except when telling Pip how much he thinks of
him. Mrs. Gargery, on the other hand, is constantly
reminding Pip to be thankful of her "raising him by hand".
At one point, Pip decides he will teach Joe to read.
Although Joe has no real aspiration for this, he humors Pip
and lets the boy instruct him. As mentioned before, Mrs.
Gargery is a very cruel person. One would think living
with her would drive even a saint to kill. Even so, Joe
never says a harsh word about his wife and treats her with
the utmost respect. Pip's decision to go to London has a
greater impact than most readers think. Not only was Joe
losing a set of hands around the forge, but he was also
saying farewell to a boy who must have been like a son to
him. Joe knew that once Pip left they would never have the
same relationship. It was clear to Joe that this was Pip's
dream, so not once did he question the decision Pip had
made.
When Pip is asked to come to Miss Havisham's and
"play", Mrs. Gargery and Pumblechook are driven crazy
wondering what gift she will give Pip for his service. Joe,
on the other hand, pays no attention to their high hopes.
His pride is also evident when he turns down the money
Jaggers offers him for Pip's indentures. It is not that Joe
couldn't use the money, after all he is losing Pip's help in
the forge and his wife is bedridden.
Joe proves to be a man of great perseverance. He
manages to run a smithy, be married to a wife with a
temper that makes a rabid dog seem tame, and be a father
and friend to Pip. To have the responsibility of any one of
these would be enough to put a great deal of stress on any
individual, much less all three.
I think that Dickens might have used Joe in connection
with Biddy to represent the opposite of Miss Havisham
and Estella. Whatever the case, I feel that Joe exhibits the
three qualities mentioned and many other gratifying ones.
Be it today or a century ago, I believe that Joe Gargery is a
unique character because of his philanthropic ways.
Dickens' characters, but he is definitely one of the kindest
and most humane. Although Miss Havisham gets much
attention for being different, I think that you will soon be
convinced that Joe, however simple he may be, is definitely
a unique character. It is my opinion that Dickens made an
effort to raise the readers respect for Joe by the sharp
contrast between him and his wife. Three qualities
belonging to Joe are his affectionate nature, pride, and his
perseverance.
When Joe asks Mrs. Gargery to marry him, he
especially insists that she bring her young orphaned
brother, Pip, to live with them. Joe never reminds Pip of
this fact, except when telling Pip how much he thinks of
him. Mrs. Gargery, on the other hand, is constantly
reminding Pip to be thankful of her "raising him by hand".
At one point, Pip decides he will teach Joe to read.
Although Joe has no real aspiration for this, he humors Pip
and lets the boy instruct him. As mentioned before, Mrs.
Gargery is a very cruel person. One would think living
with her would drive even a saint to kill. Even so, Joe
never says a harsh word about his wife and treats her with
the utmost respect. Pip's decision to go to London has a
greater impact than most readers think. Not only was Joe
losing a set of hands around the forge, but he was also
saying farewell to a boy who must have been like a son to
him. Joe knew that once Pip left they would never have the
same relationship. It was clear to Joe that this was Pip's
dream, so not once did he question the decision Pip had
made.
When Pip is asked to come to Miss Havisham's and
"play", Mrs. Gargery and Pumblechook are driven crazy
wondering what gift she will give Pip for his service. Joe,
on the other hand, pays no attention to their high hopes.
His pride is also evident when he turns down the money
Jaggers offers him for Pip's indentures. It is not that Joe
couldn't use the money, after all he is losing Pip's help in
the forge and his wife is bedridden.
Joe proves to be a man of great perseverance. He
manages to run a smithy, be married to a wife with a
temper that makes a rabid dog seem tame, and be a father
and friend to Pip. To have the responsibility of any one of
these would be enough to put a great deal of stress on any
individual, much less all three.
I think that Dickens might have used Joe in connection
with Biddy to represent the opposite of Miss Havisham
and Estella. Whatever the case, I feel that Joe exhibits the
three qualities mentioned and many other gratifying ones.
Be it today or a century ago, I believe that Joe Gargery is a
unique character because of his philanthropic ways.
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