Steve Basset was sent to prison for eight years in solitary confinement for assaulting two women. Bassett was known for having behavior; he assaulted guards, attacked inmates with razor blades. A prison official confirmed that Basset was a serious threat to other inmates and the prison employees. On August 11, 2010, Bassett left prison to serve five years on parole; for the first 180 days, he had intensive supervision with an electronic monitor. Basset lasted two months on the streets before he was convicted of kidnapping and murdering a man.…
Jazmine Alexander Teacher Mrs. Tracey Villanueva College Transition 28 November 2016 Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore once said, “Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.” Millard Fillmore always thought that everyone was suppose to have the same respect. He showed this throughout his whole presidency. What would have been different if he had not been president?…
O’Brien frequently uses imagery in this war novel because a large section of the reason the book was made was to evoke feelings and thoughts to readers that the soldiers had. In using imagery, this evocation is made possible, in the use of sentences such as, “A hot summer day and it was all very quaint and remote” (p.140) The imagery used is a very easy way for the author to set the tone because us as humans can relate in perceving situations. For example, if something is desribed as dark and scary, the author will have feelings of creepiness and scaredness; it is very objective regaring the tone because it is easy for people to relate in that…
I read Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles and illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. ISBN: 9780689830167. I would use this book in the 5th grade when teaching (5) History. The student understands important issues, events, and individuals in the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries. The student is expected to: (A) analyze various issues and events of the 20th century such as industrialization, urbanization, increased use of oil and gas, the Great Depression, the world wars, the civil rights movement, and military actions.…
Local Man Journey to Success The younger generations may not know what a wonderful person Paul Newman was but this is the reason for writing this paper about his life and established career. He was a local resident who shot to stardom and became a household name in both acting and business. This paper will share information about his early life, his acting career, and the race car driver that he lived to be.…
When the colonization of Africa is discussed, it typically focuses on the conditions the Africans endured and how drastically their lives changed when the colonizers arrived. Thus far, in class discussions on mental illness in colonized African nations have juxtaposed the approach that traditional African healers took with that of biomedical doctors. The systems implemented by colonial governments and how they may have conflicted with the culture of the nation have been examined as well. In “Madness and Marginality: the lives of Kenya’s White Insane”, Will Jackson takes an unprecedented approach to analyzing mental illness in a colonized nation. Instead of examining how the arrival of the colonizers changed the nation, he chose to focus on…
In 1947, John Cheever wrote a short story titled “The Enormous Radio” about the darkness that is hidden inside others and inside us. He does this through a masterful use of symbols, contrasting Irene and the radio, and dynamic character development. The radio and the protagonist of the “The Enormous Radio” are symbols demonstrating the journey to self-awareness. Cheever conveys this message through the journey of the dynamic protagonist, Irene Wescott—who begins this story as a naïve middle-aged wife but transforms into a distraught woman who has realized the dark secrets hidden by privacy.…
An Analysis of Obsession on the Knowledge of the Others’ Private Lives in John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” The desire of discovering the others’ secrets is part of human nature, but it becomes a problem if it is too excessive. “The Enormous Radio,” by John Cheever, is a simple tale which can be interpreted as a lesson of life. The story focuses on Irene, a middle-class woman, who enjoys listening to the music on the radio. She is obsessed by the new radio which allows her to eavesdrop on her neighbors’ conversations and secrets.…
According to film scholars, mise-en-scène refers to everything that is on screen, and the way the look and feel of a film tells a story. The different, interworking aspects of mise-en-scène also help to immerse the viewer into the film’s setting, mood, and even mind of a character. This is always a challenge for directors who wish to convey a certain message through their film and, keep the attention of the audience, as well. While mise-en-scène generally refers to the appearance of a film, it can also be interpreted as the way the actors present their characters and how the audience identifies with their performance. Nicolas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause is one example of a film that captures the audience’s attention through its mise-en-scène and sheds light on the issues of society at that time.…
Bude’s and Monet’s paintings have different subjects. They were developed in different historical periods. In relation to the subject matter of each artwork where each piece depicts a varied story line, it is imperative to underline the differences in order to understand the intention of the artists. Bude’s painting portrays the subject related to religion involving the crucifixion of Christ. The panel is quite colorful depicting a crowded illustration that captures Christ’s damnation, crucifixion, and salvation .…
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad was released by Henri Barbusse in December of 1916, still during the heat of World War I. The novel is written based off of Barbusse's own notes that wrote while in the trenches. It is one of the rare books about the war that released during the war and that painted the life of a soldier in such a realistic and brutal manner. The book is an important piece of war literature because it covers not only the intense scenes of fighting, but also the more mundane, but still shocking and tragic daily aspects of being a soldier in the First World War.…
Neo-Expressionist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, explores ideas of inequality and peace in his 1983 painting, La Colomba. This, oil and print on canvas, features a figure in the center with an over-sized oblong head with a distorted black torso. The background of the composition consists of a collage of photocopied drawings and images. The left side is painted over with a sky blue and right side displays scribbled olive branches overlaying the upper half. The left of the figure a splatter of red paint resembling blood drips down the blue background.…
My Own Monet When I had been in first grade, my class was granted the opportunity to write the President at the time, Bill Clinton. I was a fortunate student. Only I had received a letter along with a framed autographed photo of him and First Lady Hillary Clinton. The letter together with the photo made me ecstatic. I became reclusive from a young age, and this letter helped to boost my esteem.…
The Dark kid is Camara Laye's life history, tracing the event of his cultural and private values as a young man returning more matured inside the Malinke tribe of higher Guinea throughout the 1930's. when his death, Guinean author Camara Laye was truly acclaimed by The the big apple Times critical review as “his continent's superior writer.” he's the author of many well-known items of literature, the foremost widely-read and tutoredbeing The Dark kid (1954) and therefore the African kid (1953, translated in 1955 into English). No wherever in his life history will we see proof of the primitive, dark, "uncivilized" culture of Africa as delineated in classic colonial works like Conrad's Heart of Darkness, however instead encounter a quiet, solid,…
The creator of the work Woman with a Parasol-Madame Monet and Her Son was Claude Monet, a French, impressionist painter. Depicted in this piece are two figures—a woman and a child—who are meant to be Monet’s wife and son. While this piece currently resides in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the scene within this painting takes place in Paris, France. In this essay, I will formally analyze Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol-Madame Monet and Her Son by introducing Monet and discussing his inspiration, as well as his use of various artistic techniques, to create this painting. Claude Monet was born in 1840 in Paris, France and lived during the rise of Impressionism, an artistic movement that began in the 1860’s (Claude Monet…