...years old. By age 23 years old, she had decided to marry her boyfriend and to become a dietician. As a 23-year-old, she set a 10-year plan with her husband. (Age 25 was not her turning point). They both...
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... Davis 2 Table of Contents Title Page…………………………………………………………………...................1 Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………..2 Thesis Statement/ Introduction………………………………………………………..3 Background Information……………………………………………………………....4 Research/ In-Text Citations……………………………………………………………5 Introduction of Project………………………………………………………………...6 Steps of Personal Project………………………………………………………………7 Interviews…………………………………………………………………….…...8 & 9 Product ………………………………….…………………………………………...10 Conclusion/ Reflection…………………………………………………………11 & 12 Davis 3 Reading With Reid Thesis Statement My primary goal for this project is to bring happiness and a better education to the students at Turning Point Academy. I did this by buying and collecting books to donate to the libraries that serve Turning Point Academy students in order to increase their reading opportunities and their learning environment. This project has reminded me that reading is a joy that belongs in every one’s life and should be considered a privilege more than as a right. Reading is amazing. In fact, amazing doesn’t even begin to describe how unbelievably valuable reading is in one’s life. The dictionary definition of reading is “the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud,” (Webster’s Dictionary). This definition doesn’t adequately describe reading because it does not fully portray the valuable benefits that you receive from the moment you start reading. What is often overlooked...
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...characters in Romeo and Juliet. It can be explored through the characters: Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo Montague. Lord Capulet started off being very moderate but towards the end he becomes immoderate, with the rushing of the wedding of Juliet and Paris. Friar Lawrence changes from trying to help everyone else into being selfish and helping himself. Lastly, Romeo Montague changes from being a silly, lustful young boy into a mature man. At the beginning of the play, Lord Capulet is a moderate and genial man . A significant quote about Lord Capulet from the opening section of the play is: “ What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!”This quote suggests that Lord Capulet was eager to fight despite his age and authority. A major turning point for Lord Capulet is when he forces Juliet into marrying Paris and threatens her that if she does not marry Paris, then she had better not look upon him ever again. and calls her a “disobedient wretch” By the end of the play, Lord Capulet displays the following qualities: Impatient, tyrant and nastiness. An important quote supporting this is: “An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend......” This illustrates that Lord Capulet has made a decision that Paris should be Juliet’s husband. In conclusion, the main changes are being calm and patient into impatient and quick. However, Lord Capulet will always stick to the decision he makes. In conclusion, the main changes are Lord Capulet is a patience man, however, as the play goes on, he becomes...
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...Analysis and interpretation of Judy Troy’s ”The Order of Things” Sigurd Storgaard 2.e Everybody can fall in love. Even the most settled people with a wife and children can suddenly fall in love with another woman or vice versa. This is the order of things, but it may seem like a hackneyed truism that everybody at every age can abruptly in the middle of the hardships of the everyday feel the hair-raising feeling of being in love. When it happens to a settled person it causes him or her a lot of ethical consideration. But when the feeling is strong enough people, at least Carl and Lily, find it okay to cheat on their spouses. Carl and Lucy are the main characters in Judy Troy’s short story “The Order of Things”. It is a short story that among other things deals with the issues put forward. It is about a reverend, Carl, and a woman, Lily, who fall in love. They live in a small town called Worland and they are both settled and married. They have a romantic love affair on a trip, but when they come back it is hard for them to find the right time to see each other. After all, they start dating in the church on weekdays – they are in love like teenagers and they want to get married. But on the iciest winter day Lily dies accidently. Carl is left alone with a broken heart. Carl also seems like the subject of the narration due to the fact the narrator can go in and out of his internal thoughts. Everything is seen through his eyes, “Carl forced himself to say, although he couldn’t...
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...The Critical Turning Point In The Movie The characters : • John Nash • Alicia John Nash ( Wife ) The turning point ( discussed in brief) “ Before we discuss the turning point I’d like to put some light on what happened a little before this turning point to understand what were the series of events that ultimately lead to this critical turning point. ” Flash back After a conflict with his wife, where in he had encountered an illusion ( conflict between the reality & his world of illusions ) which effects the people around him especially his wife) John Nash realizes that all of the characters of his illusion never get old. And thus he concludes that none of the characters in the series of illusions can be real. After this his mind is open to the facts of reality but he is still very confused & puzzled ( b’coz his mind is now telling him that the characters of his illusion are unreal but he himself is a little skeptical to accept the truth all this b’coz of the frame of mind he is in due to his illness ) This is where John Nash encounters one of the most critical turning points out of the many in his life His wife Alicia John Nash supports him further and motivates him she explains to him the difference between reality & illusions She explains to him that all that he sees may not necessarily be reality She tells him that reality is what one can feel, reality is like a heartbeat ………. That can be felt This very act of Alicia motivates...
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...took the first turning quite unquestioningly And walked quickly without looking back even once. It was of course the wrong turning. First they were nagged By a small wind that tugged at their clothing like a dog; Then the rain began and there was no shelter anywhere, Only the street and the rows of houses stern as soldiers. Though the blood chilled, the endearing word burnt the tongue. There were no parks or gardens or public houses: Midnight settled and the rain paused leaving the city Enormous and still like a great sleeping seal. At last they found accommodation in a cold Furnished room where they quickly learnt to believe in ghosts; They had their hope stuffed and put on the mantelpiece But found, after a while, that they did not notice it. While she spends many hours looking in the bottoms of teacups He reads much about association football And waits for the marvellous envelope to fall: Their eyes are strangers and they rarely speak. They did not expect this. * Wr – “They did not expect this.” – Link to ‘Meeting point’, by Louis MacNeice - * “Only the beauty of youth’s season” – Quickly changing, fading, naïve * “By a small wind that tugged at their clothing like a dog” – Pathetic fallacy? * “There were no parks or gardens or public houses” – Power of 3 – Nothing good/pretty * Destructive love? * Time was away and somewhere else * No rhyme scheme – Unorganised, not pretty – Like their love/relationship...
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...How We Chose Our Topic We chose turning points in baseball history because we thought it would be interesting to learn about. We all play and love baseball so we wanted to know how it really changed history. We all know a few players were famous because of their color. Also, we all wanted to know what baseball meant when the color barrier was not broken. Moreover, our group wanted to know how baseball was a major point in history. Lastly, we wanted to know many different ways the color barrier was broken and who broke it. In conclusion, since baseball is famous today we wanted to know how it really became so famous. How We Constructed Our Research We constructed our research in several ways. One way we researched out topic was we went to the library and asked the librarian for books about Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth. She helped us find many books and we took notes on these people. Since there are four people in our group, we needed to split the work evenly. Two people researched about people, and two people researched about events in baseball history. Splitting the work between four people made it so much easier to construct our website. In addition, each member of the group gathered pictures off Google that related to our topic. How We Created and Developed Our Website After we finished researching about the major turning points in Major League Baseball history we asked our teacher about setting up an account for our website. After setting up our account we saw...
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...practices the teachings of Jesus in “turning the other cheek” rather than retaliating against evil attacks like other religions suggest an “eye for an eye.” Jesus was tortured, degraded, judged and ultimately killed because he loved the people of the world, the same people who killed him he gave his life for. Christianity preaches that God wants his followers to be merciful like his son in turning the other cheek and loving his enemies. “We are told that we are not to resist evil but to turn the other cheek. The world assumes that evil must be resisted by every means available. We are told to love our enemies and bless those who curse us. The world assumes that friends are to be loved and enemies hated.”(Smith, p.212) If Jesus had not turned the other cheek and sacrificed himself for all of mans’ sins God would not be loving or forgiving of man and there would be no promise of eternal life which would take away life’s true meaning. The Bible clearly states that we are to love our enemies and be merciful and that doing so will yield a great reward for these holy actions. "But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."(Luke 6:35-36). Many followers of the Christian faith may not fully understand why Jesus is asking them to love their enemies. Why should we love those who wish to attack us...
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...unsophisticated, artless, ingenuous, inexperienced, guileless, unworldly, trusting; gullible, credulous, immature, callow, raw, green, wide-eyed (Naive). Everyone starts off as a naive child, but by exploring the world, experiencing the battles and challenges of life, dealing with whatever is thrown at them, people are molded into becoming more knowledgeable and understanding of what they can and cannot do. People are dynamic. People are always changing. Their entire life is a Bildungsroman, a coming of age story, coming to understand who they are, what they are worth, and who they love. Celie, the main character in the novel “The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker, is human. She undergoes changes in the novel just like everyone else. Celie starts off her life as a young, naive girl. She was manipulated into being submissive to men and oppressed by patriarchy. She was beaten and abused to the point where her love for herself, and her self-respect, had diminished to nothing. By the end of her life, with the help of other strong, independent women, she had become a strong, independent woman herself. She finally knew who she was and what she was worth. She freed herself from being week and submissive, and became an equal to men because that is what she fought for. She started off the novel with an understanding that life was a story of abuse, and in order to protect herself, she hardened her heart. Celie had also rid herself of any expectations or goals in order to avoid disappointment. These...
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...Wolfgang arrived to Paris in the beginning of the Reign of Terror (the French Revolution) and witnessed scenes of butchery and cruelty which gained the exact opposite of what his friends and family aimed for; He had become even more introverted and consumed with his own private, dark world of imagination. Little by little Wolfgang also becomes sexually obsessed. The quote describes the beginning of the process, while using the element of a dream state (one of the elements of gothic literature) Since Wolfgang is too shy to actually approach a woman, he gives himself over to romantic and erotic dreams, in which one particular woman face appears. This woman becomes the focus of his desires, and he dreams about her again and again, until the point of madness. 2. The Tell – Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe The Tell – Tale Heart is told in first person narration by an unnamed narrator. The narrator lives with an old man (some kind of a father figure, the narrator doesn't elaborate on that) who has a blue, pale, filmy eye,...
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...How does George Eliot present money and wealth in Silas Marner? George Eliot presents money and wealth in Silas Marner as something which is a prized possession and as if there is nothing better. There are many situations throughout the novel where this is revealed. However closer to the end of the novel there comes a turning point on the point about wealth and money when they realise it’s not all about money. One of the ways George shows the importance of money is when he says “And [he] had lost his money too, so as he had nothing but what he worked for week by week, and when the weaving was going down too—for there was less and less flax spun—and Master Marner was none so young.” This quote is an example of George Eliot's historical precision. That throw-away line, "there was less and less flax spun," keys into a big historical change: the Industrial Revolution, which is basically outsourcing Silas's job. In the cities, factories are churning out cheap fabric that makes his loom irrelevant. Another point about wealth mentioned in the novel is when they are trying to get Eppie (Godfrey’s child) but in this case it is not an obsession of wealth at hand or its importance. “It's natural he should be disappointed at not having any children: every man likes to have somebody to work for and lay by for, and he always counted so on making a fuss with 'em when they were little.” From this we can understand Nancy excuses Godfrey's disappointment in not having children because, she...
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...despair, and heartache may be channeled and applied for creativity as emotional inspiration. A well known example is Edgar Allan Poe, who suffered from poverty, was orphaned before age three, and fought alcoholism during most of his life. After meeting and falling in love with his cousin, Virginia, Poe was not aware he’d have to endure the pain of losing her like so many of his loved ones before. He once stated, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." (citation?) If it had not been for the tragic illness and death of Virginia, Poes' work may not have been as good or memorable, and we may not have gained some of...
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...Based on this information, Machiavelli seems to be very vocal about three important qualities. According to Machiavelli, a leader must put his trust in his own troops instead of turning to outside forces. To Machiavelli, this is a very important matter. Turning to outside forces can really be harmful to the power. Machiavelli points out that mercenary troops can sometimes take advantage of the people they are working for and take the power for themselves. He states that a prince who puts his trust in his own troops will have much less to worry about. Another quality important to Machiavelli is being feared other than hated. If you are loved and everything starts to go wrong, the people will no longer love you anymore and you will lose everything....
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...The two poems, “ To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age” and “ When I Was One-and-Twenty” both explore the blissfulness of turning twenty one as well as the dangers that come with making your own mistakes. The two poems compare in that they both head warning signs about being an adult and about how being twenty one allows a person to be foolish. The two poems contrast in the sense that they both have different points of view and differ in tone towards coming of age and of being twenty one. The two poems both effectively use tone and point of view to convey the dangers of being an optimistic young adult. Housman’s “When I Was One and Twenty” takes a personal reflection of being twenty one and the dangers of being your own man. In the first stanza Housman writes about “[hearing] a wise man say” (line 2) warnings of caution on throwing “...Crowns and pounds…” (line 3) away. Housman ends the stanza with a nostalgic...
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...that they are dealing with. This huge pressure can make people feel very lonely, even though they are surrounded by lots of people, and this is exactly what the short story “A Gap of Sky”, written by Anna Hope, is about. In this short story we hear about a nineteen year old girl called Ellie, who is afraid of not living up to her teachers’ and parents’ expectations and this is what has driven her into a drug abuse. The short story gives us a portrait of a young girl, who is caught in between her desires and what is being expected of her. She is struggling with her inner demons and she is having an inner fight with herself about which decisions are ethically right or wrong. The short story is written as a 3rd person narrative. The point of view is limited to the main character Ellie and the text only describes Ellie’s thoughts e.g: “She remembers going out for booze. Did she get booze?” . The narrative technique that’s being used makes the reader come very close to Ellie’s personality and her feelings. This is also one of the reasons why there’s mainly one character throughout the story - we don’t need any other characters to get to know Ellie and what she’s going through, because we already know every thought that she has. When she feels unhappy or stressed, the reader can “feel” it by reading the story, e.g we have a situation where the reader can feel that Ellie is...
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