In the article called “French Farmer on Trial for Helping Migrants”, The author Laura Smith-Spark tells how a french farmer, Cedric Herrou, helped people cross the border from Italy to France illegally. Herrou lives in his house which is about 6 miles from the border of Italy, so to get the refugee to his house would be quite easy for him. He said that as a farmer, it’s his job to feed people. He gave the migrants shelter and now faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and a 30,000 euro ($31,000) fine if convicted. Herrou said he offered young refugees a place to stay before continuing their journey to find better place to live. Europe has been trying to cope with many refugees trying to cross the border in hopes of fleeing war, persecution,…
“This is going wrong in every possible way” is what Michael Scofield said when his plan to break his brother out of Fox River Penitentiary started to not go the way he intended it to (“Quotes”). Prison Break is one of the most intense shows ever. This show is argued as one of the best television series ever to be aired. Not only do the actors play their roles absolutely perfect, but the writer of this tv series is a genius. The way they had excitement and strategy hooked the audience right…
Everybody believed that Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) already died in the finale episode of “Prison Break” Season 4. However, it came as a big surprise when the coming of “Prison Break” Season 5 was announced. As 2017 is about to come, here are the five important details we know so far about the much-awaited TV series. Original Characters Coming In ‘Prison Break’ Season 5 Of course, “Prison Break” Season 5 won’t be complete without the original characters. Aside from Michael Scofield,…
E. E. Cummings lived from October 14,1894, to September 3, 1962. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was encouraged by his parents to develop his creative gifts. He first started writing poems at the young age of eight. Between then and age twenty two, Cummings wrote a poem a day, experimenting with many traditional forms of poetry. Cummings studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School, and then went to Harvard University. He first started writing modern poetry at…
In 1831, at the age of twelve, Walt Whitman began working for his local newspaper. He soon fell in love with the written word and started writing his own poetry (“Poet Walt Whitman”). Fast forward to the turn of the 20th century, and Whitman has already made a name for himself as one of America’s most influential poets. Two of Whitman’s most esteemed works are “O Captain! My Captain!”, written in 1865 to reflect on Abraham Lincoln's death, and “O Me! O Life!”, written in 1891 to contemplate…
COLUMBUS — After serving 29 years for the murder of Gayle Meggyesy, John Friedrich will walk free. Release of Friedrich, who was sentenced to 18 years to life for the March 29, 1986, murder, was granted at the conclusion of a Thursday full hearing by the Ohio Parole Board. He began serving that sentence on March 25, 1988, after a Holmes County Jury found him not guilty of aggravated murder, but guilty of murder. The majority decision to release Friedrich on or after March 26 was announced by…
The life of Mr. Ezzard Who is Mr. Ezzard ? I believe he is a nice man who enjoys writing and traveling far and wide. He himself has been to many places and wrote a lot, especially in his travel journals. He has done enough to fill a boring life a thousand times over, and I have recently sat down with him to learn more about him. Even when just walking into his room to interview him, I see untold treasures on the walls that prove that writing means the universe to him. Mr. Ezzard always had a…
The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings describes the life of a man who the townspeople do not care for because they obsess over improving their own lives with insignificant objects. The man lives, falls deeply in love, and eventually surrenders to death. Yet, the townspeople pay no attention to his death because they “are busy folk,” running around infatuated with things that do not matter (line 27). Little do they know that death will soon take them also. E. E. Cummings,…
Slater Brown, on charges of treason. Brown and Cummings endured three days of interrogation before the French government delivered them to a concentration camp. During his four months of incarceration, Cummings wrote his first autobiographical work, The Enormous Room. In this book, Cummings expressed his opposition to the systems that did him wrong: the French government for jailing an innocent man and the American government for leaving him out to dry . The Enormous Room served as another…
Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…