English Online Seminar: Alex Wasley Welcome and good evening to my online seminar of the novel ‘Jasper Jones’ This novel is set around the era of the 1960’s, in a hot summer day. This novel created by Craig Silvery has created the character Charlie Bucktin that I have chosen for my character analysis. Through the use of textual and aesthetic features Craig can show Charlies opposing views than society. Charlie struggles to understand people’s reasons for committing crimes like robbery in the town. He starts to become aware of a number of inhumanities like racism that was notorious in the 1960’s, and starts to realize that people are not as ‘good’ as he assumed.…
BODY 3 Topic Sentence: Use a transition and state CLAIM 3. Based on your thesis above, what is your third claim? (Analysis) ( Not only is this book about_______it’s also about) Also, another key concept made clear in the ending of the book shows how to cope with these issues through finding passion and love in life.…
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten; either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” (Franklin Quotes). Benjamin Franklin famously said these words and he made sure he wasn’t forgotten. He is famous for being one of America’s Founding Fathers, tying a key to a kite, inventing the bifocals and for his literary works. His most famous one being: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This book has” became itself the most widely read autobiography ever written in America” (Franklin 1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was divided into four parts and written from 1771 thru 1788.…
The Awakening When I was in seventh grade, I quit playing Rebel Football. Rebel Football was a team that offered a unique experience to play football with your friends and receive expert coaching from a former college football player. Almost every boy in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade was on this team. Being on this team was akin to a badge of honor. If you were not on the team, you were ostracized.…
The famous Will Rogers once said, “Never let yesterday take too much of today.” Will Rogers quote is very meaningful and can have a tremendous amount of impact on people. This quote can be very controversial, since it is coming from a well known person. Many people were curious on what this quote means.…
You may have heard the saying, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”, but you know where it came from. Muhammad Ali came up with that saying and it was supposed to mean the hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see. Other quotes like, “ The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life,” meaning that if you have the same knowledge of the world as you did from long ago then you haven’t seen/done anything new.…
Javert’s upbringing turned him into a strict, ignorant inspector of the law, who feels that people deserved to be punished even if they need help. Javert is introduced to the reader while the main character, Jean Valjean, is serving time in the french prison, the galleys. JVJ is serving time for stealing bread for his starving niece and nephew, and Javert made the decision to imprisoned him, regardless of JVJ’s situation. However Javert himself “was born in a prison. His mother was a fortune teller whose husband was in the galleys.…
The quote, “Many in the years after didn’t even consider homosexual prisoners as victims-they viewed the survivors as men with a criminal past” (pg 92), is interesting because most people didn’t try or want to understand these men and how they suffered for their feelings or beliefs. The people of Germany most likely did not want to be seen with a homosexual because they believed Hitler was making the right decisions to strengthen the…
Nelsons Mandela’s violence was justifiable to resist the apartheid government of South Africa. It took some time to be able to come up with such violence, but it was justifiable because Mandela did not want to cause more harm to the civilians. He wanted to end a war that was amongst people who did not provide the best for everyone. Ending inequality was something worth fighting for according to Mandela at every cost. Mandela strategist in order to be able to violently and securely destroy violent weapons and people but still maintaining the security for civilians.…
Nonetheless, he was absent in the South African struggle for justice and human dignity, due to his captivity, Mandela emerged as a leader of this movement against apartheid (Fluker, 2009, p.165-166). Ethical motivation and resourcefulness were Mandela’s sources of energy. Fluker appreciates Mandela’s aptitude, which helped him to imprint himself and the South African vision in the memory of many, as a lesson for present-day leaders (2009, p.…
He allows himself to become one of his people in order to show the audience he is like them and not better than anyone else. This strikes the audiences’ emotions and shows that Mandela is a respectable and dedicated leader who wants good for his…
In the early years Mandela had a dream where he saw an Africa with politically-sanctioned racial segregation being disposed of and man are by large free and evened out. It was this vision that pushed him to do what he should do and it was additionally this vision that made him trust that regardless he has trust through the darkest days in jail. Nelson Mandela’s determination made him trust that one day he could succeed in liberating the general population from the biased past. He never surrendered despite the fact that he was detained foe twenty-seven years before being chosen to be the principal president of South…
1. “ He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning...” - Sun Tzu, Excerpt from The Art of War. Page 243, lines 94-96 - The place where this quotation was found Tzu, is talking about the strong and the weak points.…
Self-sacrifice — a Messiah-like figure to his people, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his precious life in prison on Robben Island, hammering on rocks in the scorching heat during the day, only to retire to a tiny eight-by-seven-foot concrete cell with only a straw mat to sleep on. When he was offered freedom in 1985, he refused, saying: “I cannot and will not give any undertaking, at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated!” Compassion — it is easy to forgive a stranger, and easier to forgive a friend, but how difficult it is to forgive an enemy.…
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