At Seventeen

The Seattle Seahawks have a one of a kind coach named Pete Carroll. The Seahawks head coach likes to have fun during practice and in meetings and even has a mini basketball hoop in the practice facility that they can use in practice and sometimes he will stop meetings to have a shooting contest on it. He also sometimes likes to play blaring music to let the players have fun. Even though he encourages the players to be themselves in practice or in games he does not like when they start yelling or…

Dickens uses Pip as an example to show the flexible class system of the late eighteen hundreds, the behaviors associated to the different classes, and what true wealth is. Society in the eighteen hundreds was changing. The rigid class system of the seventeen hundreds transformed into a flexible class system where there was room for self-improvement. Although it required effort, people were not stuck in the level of society in…

abated the immigration conditions. British authorizes agreed to allow an undetermined number of children aged seventeen and under. The organizations had to guarantee payment for every child’s care, education, and eventual departure from Britain. After the crisis was over children would return back to their families. Kindertransport was a rescue system to remove Jewish children aged seventeen and under from Nazi Germany to Great Britain between 1938 and 1940 and…

as well as feeling it's not worth the risk. Songwriters have completely different views, some believe that you need to show or have independence and not depend on love, others believe that love is everything. Of course the view of love for some seventeen year old differs from others. As some may have been around parents that were in love, while others may have been in a home where the parents were separated so there was not much love shown between the parents.…

Thesis: Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451, is aligned with the “bad guys.” He’s a firefighter who burns books simply because that is what is expected him, not necessarily because he thinks that books are dangerous. Guy undergoes a major transformation because attempts to revive lost pieces of society. In Fahrenheit 451, an example of control is when Mildred wants to put a fourth wall in but they don’t have the money. Guy’s yearly pay is only $16,000 and the fourth wall would cost one fourth of his…

and at the age of seventeen I have acquired many lessons, and have been thrown into the scorching sun like the prisoner in Greek philosopher, Plato’s story, Allegory of the Cave. I have been mentally, physically, emotionally, and verbally abused by the very people who were supposed to show me love, security, and affection. I have felt the feeling of loneliness, stress, and confusion; but one challenge I’ve faced, and still facing is being independent at the age of seventeen. My father was…

A man falls in love, goes off to war bathing in her memory, only to come home to find that she had married a rich man while he was gone. Hearing this, you may feel bad for this man, but Jay Gatsby reinvented himself to be a man that he believed his love, Daisy Buchannan, would love in return. However, this wasn’t the first time Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself in a better image. To quote "The Great Gatsby", chapter 6, "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his…

stereotypes that are showed in this book have a lot of similarities to real life stereotypes. Butler illustrates that “not only do most of all the characters challenge gender expectations, but they each do so in their own unique ways” (253). In chapter seventeen the philosophers Butler and Mill express a lot of examples using stereotype as a theme. Butler shows equality between men and women within characters mostly of Penny, Bernadette, Sheldon, and Howard. The philosophers use feminism as a…

okay, yet it continues to happen over and over again. I, along with many other people, believe that kids who do have a choice about whether they were in the army or not should be given amnesty and helped be rehabilitated, but kids over the age of seventeen who consciously make the decision to stay with the war groups should not.…

Analyzing The Sound of Music The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is arguably one of the most classic musical motion pictures in cinematic history. The wildly successful 1965 film directed by Robert Wise has touched several lives, not the least of which being my own and those of my family and many friends. According to lists created by the Christian Science Monitor, IMDb.com, The American Film Institute, and many others, The Sound of Music ranks among the best…