Bob McDonnell

“A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”-The Lorax In the film/pop culture genre, Dr.Seuss, a classic children’s books author, is the inspiration for the Lorax, which is a well-known and loved film. The way it is put together shines the truth through kid-friendly lenses- it’s reality but just put in a way for children to understand. It is quite a profound allegory for the impact of our actions and the swift modernization of society on the environment, and how we have to…

“Don’t Drink the Water” is a song by the Dave Matthews Band. It was written by Dave Matthews and released in 1998 on the band’s album titled “Before These Crowded Streets” (ASCAP, 2017). Noted performer Alanis Morrissette provided backing vocals for the song, and bluegrass performer Bela Fleck played banjo for the song, marking the band’s first collaboration with other performers. “Don’t Drink the Water” was the first single off the album and spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Mainstream Rock…

60’s the people that were not considered “white” were not considered as normal humans. If a white man did something that was not right or illegal they knew saying it was a black man was the easy way out. Not all white people were against black people. Bob Dylan is a man who was not racist at all considering he helped a black man named Rubin Carter clear his name. Dylan wrote a song called Hurricane, because it was Rubin Carter’s middle name. The song was based off a true story which taught…

christmas. the 3 ghosts names were: past, present, and future. Past was the first to come. He showed scrooge visions from the past of himself and how happy scrooge was as a boy and young man. Present showed scrooge the family of his college Bob Cratchit. Bob was a poor man with a big family. On christmas eve his wife prepares a moderately small meal of a turkey and fig pudding, but despite their lack of money, they are happy. He shows scrooge that he is now something of a tyrant and that his…

A Christmas Carol “Ignorance and want are man’s children and for the time being ignorance has doom of you, written upon his brow.”(Dickens 26) Ignorance consumes a man and all he is worth. Sure, he has money, but what else may a rich, greedy man like that say of himself. May he say he is loved, may he say he is popular among his peers. No. This man may come out on top, but he has no respect for what the simple pleasures of family bring and, as far as I’m concerned this man, Scrooge, lives a…

The spirit shows him Bob Cratchit's once more, showing that Tiny Tim, Bob's most crippled son, has died. The spirit also showed him his own grave. Scrooge was scared, so he figured he had to change his ways. The next morning Scrooge wakes up, and it is Christmas morning…

to change people’s views of the poor and society’s responsibility to them. Scrooge, who represents the richer class, is introduced as the personification of winter, after which Dickens uses Fezziwig who is the antithesis of Scrooge as an employer; Bob Cratchit and his family; and Ignorance and Want, in an attempt to illustrate the need for a more compassionate society.…

Charles Dickens once said, “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Dickens was a very influential and outstanding writer and this quote perfectly describes the moral of A Christmas Carol. In the novella, a man named Ebenezer Scrooge goes through a huge transformation from having no feelings or remorse for anything or anyone to a merry and kind man spreading joy. The story is set in the 1800’s while Queen Victoria was having her reign the…

president and a “deliberate obstruction of justice”. (“Watergate Scandal”) Seven men were charged with charges that had to do with the Watergate affair. Five of them pleaded guilty and the other two were convicted. Many people such as Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and the trial Judge, John J. Sirica, began to think that there was a much bigger situation going on. Conspirators that were involved began to come out because they were all under…

All the President’s Men, an investigative, nonfiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, details the investigation into the Watergate scandal of the 1970s caused by President Richard Nixon and his team. By detailing the investigation of a burglary, recounting the discovery of a high-profile scandal, and revealing the importance of both anonymous and credited sources, Woodward and Bernstein analyze the factors that were necessary in exposing President Nixon’s part in the Watergate scandal.…