Carleton S. Coon

There are always new challenges to come every few years or so. For instance, women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920. On down the line slavery ended with the help of president Abraham Lincoln in the year of 1865. Everyone is fighting for some rights or cause in this world, but women have to fight for so much more of not being judged by what role we are supposed to carry out in a family environment and working economy. Even when it comes to criminal punishment, we struggle by the hand’s of…

El Coyote the Mexican Rebel El Coyote the Mexican Rebel is the best book to describe the Mexican culture but, the book is well enjoyable. El Coyote the Mexican Rebel tells a story about a orphaned mexican boy who runs away from his cruel aunt and his uncle that has a massive drinking problem.Luis Perez is a average Mexican kid that decides to run away. The boy (Luis Perez) soon joins the Mexican rebels and has a great adventure with his fellow rebel but, he decides to leave the rebels. The book…

Good people sometimes make bad decisions. They mess up and they let others down. But that doesn’t make them bad people. We all make mistakes.~Unknown When Ponyboy Curtis thinks of Dallas Winston (Dally) from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders he thinks of a hoodlum on the streets. He does not think of Dally as a good person because of his actions. But what if his actions have good intentions behind them? What if all the negative qualities that Ponyboy describes, Dally uses for good? Dallas Winston is…

What once was known to be someone’s thought that turned into someone’s words is known to be related to poetry. Thoughts and emotions play an important role in not only confessional, but also beat poetry. In Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California” different techniques are used to capture a reader’s feelings. Throughout this poem Ginsberg allows the audience to sense emotions in ways such as using word choice with specific punctuation, contrast of metaphors, and use of active voice.…

What Is in a Name? Does your name reflect what you do in your life? If you were a character in C.S. Lewis’s book, Perelandra, your name would describe you, and reveal your personality. C.S. Lewis used the names of his characters to portray their significance, and their place in the plot of the story. His characters’ names have been thought-out, making each name coordinate with the overall story, and coordinating with the stories hidden beneath the main plot. Each name is intentional, and has a…

The Outsiders Essay Beyulah Anderson intro: theme- nothing gold can stay or appearance: Do you think something good and perfect can last forever? This question refers to the poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay. which is a poem about how everything beautiful and perfect is precious and can't stay forever. This is a prominent theme to think about as you read this essay. The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton tells a story about a 14 year old boy trying to understand the harsh world in which he…

A magnificent story by H.E Hinton " The Outsiders" starts off with a boy named ponyboy, a poor yet kind individual who is In a gang called the greasers. He fights to survive in an unforgiving environment within a town of Oklahoma with severe gang violence. All the members of the greasers struggle with money and live in a more broken down part of town, and most townspeople tend to be scared of the greasers and steer clear of them. But many of the greasers are very kind, like Sodapop, Johnny, and…

Hundreds of years ago, America’s economy was nowhere near close to world standards. However, as time has progressed it has grown into the largest superpower in the world. One of the major factors to this growth is due to the emergence of entrepreneurs. Wal-Mart is just one successful business that is able to benefit from enormous economies of scale, and find ways to outgrow its competitors (The 39 Most Influential). Sam Walton, the entrepreneur who started it all, was able to accomplish…

During the late eighteen hundreds things were changing rapidly. Many states had left the Union and opinions about slavery was dividing communities apart. One man called Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer from Kentucky was elected presidency in 1860, even though only had 40% of the popular vote as stated in www.history.com. When Lincoln was elected it caused some southern states to leave the Union and form their own nation. John Wilkes Boothe was one of the many haters of Lincoln. Boothe was violently…

Synopsis: The greasers and the Socs, two rival groups in the mid 1960’s, are facing many challenges throughout The Outsiders. Ponyboy, played by C Thomas Howell, is a young teenager living with his two older brothers Darry, Patrick Swayze, and Sodapop, Rob Lowe. He is part of the greaser gang, along with his closest friends Dally, Matt Dillon, Johnny, Ralph Macchio, Two-Bit, Emilio Estevez, and Steve, Tom Cruise. The two social groups do not get along, to say the least. Throughout the movie,…