The narrator Sammy, a 19-year-old boy who works as a cashier in a grocery…
Son Jarocho is a regional Mexican son musical style, where the artists using three main instrument which are jarana jarocho, requinto jarocho, and son jarocho harp. First is the two regional instruments which are jarana and requinto jarocho, jarana is an eight strings, guitar type that carved from a solid piece of wood and usually used for mãnicos. Then is the requinto jarocho which is also a small guitar type and has four strings and also it carved from a solid piece of wood and usually used for melody. Secondly is the traditional instrument which is the son jarocho harp, harp has a 36 strings, 16 are bass strings and the other 20 strings are treble strings, and it used for both bass and melody. Son jarocho”El Siquisiri” uses the Decima…
Book report 3 I am number 4 Pages 440 Pittacus Lore Characters the main character is john smith your ordinary teen who is in high school. But when he discovers his true family and heritage his life changes forever. Another main character is Mogladorions they have they have noses and have holes near there nose and they don’t use there nose and have razor sharp teeth and warrior like and ruthless. Backgrounds John is teen who has to keep on the run.…
Hanien Hamad Mrs. Sheridan Language Arts 0 The outsiders In the book the outsiders johnny is a person that changes a lot hd dynamic character. He changes dramatically. "If you can picture a little dark puppy that had been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny”(pg.11).…
There once lived a girl named Bessie that lived in Prattville, Alabama. She was 19 when she died. Bessie was the type of person that loved her family and friends, and she was very sociable. The only things that Bessie didn’t like was liars and apples. Bessie birthed two kids, in which were twins.…
Joe-boy and Vinny are friends in the short story “The Ravine” and they are different and similar in many ways. Vinny is scared because the author wrote at on page he is at the picipist of a cliff. on page six through seven Vinny is nice because he listened to his friends that also means he is loyal. I read on page six through he is disrespectful listen to his mom. Those are the reasons Vinny is different.…
In the story “The Ravine” Vinny and Joe-boy are friends in hawaii. They know that a boy died two weeks and one day ago. Vinny and Joe-boy are different but have things in common. There are many things about the boys differences are Vinny is a boy who is not very strong, but Joe-boy is a very strong boy. Vinny is not brave, but Joe-boy is a fearless.…
Giovanni and Lusanna The narrative of Giovanni and Lusanna tells of an unusual situation in mid-fifteenth century Florence, when a bourgeois woman, Lusanna, took her forbidden lover, Giovanni, to court over the legal status of their secret marriage. The two had been covert lovers for twelve years before Giovanni publicly married an aristocrat woman instead of Lusanna. The chain of events was captured, by Ser Filippo Mazzei, as a notary of the court proceedings. These included court transcripts and witness accounts.…
One must possess perseverance in order to survive. This trait is valued by some, but often overlooked in today’s society. The trait is comparable to the philosophy of “survival of the fittest”. In other words, one must keep going in order to keep going. In the short story “John Colter’s Race For Life”, Stanley Vestal paints a picture of how important perserverance really is.…
The quote ”A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on the myths of a struggling commonality”express the fact that a nation is built on the coming together of common citizens as well as establishing a feeling of struggling. This feeling creates an environment where our society feels it must work hard to keep the nation together. Andrew O’Hagen has taken the reality of different nations in our world and has put them into one sentence. Andrew O'Hagen's view is one of that may be controversial due to the fact that it completely embraces the ideological factor of nationalism where a nation is defined under specific rules and not defined by the diversity of the citizens. A nation under his perspective may be considered more of an ethnic nation which is a nation where there is one common culture, race and religion compared to a civic nation where there a combination of cultures, races and religions.…
John’s loyalty to his families name causes him to give up his life rather than diminish it in any…
Don John resents his brother, and this causes him to commit evil deeds out of spite. He is known as the ‘bastard brother’, while Don Pedro is widely respected as a leader and voice of reason in Messina. On top of this, Don Pedro has just defeated him in battle, with Claudio by his side. When Don John hears that Claudio…
He wrote this story not as much for others to read, but for himself, to help cope with his emotional past. And while many of us might not be able to relate to what John is feeling in the story, the least we can do is listen to…
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a sculpture unlike any sculpture before him. The episode, The Power of Art, illustrates examples of his sculptures and his work as an architect. Bernini was able to carve so much depth and so much emotion out of a single piece of marble. The world had never seen such movement and play out from a sculptures and Bernini had revolutionized a new way in the world of sculpting.…
John overcame his personal conflict, remained honest, and risked his honorable name to save the people who were his friends. He has come to the point where he no longer feels as though he sinned, but feels as though he does not want to blacken his name, not just for his boys, but for his friends. Continuing with the dealings of the…