Carpentry

In his poem “The Wood-Pile”, Robert Frost reveals humanity's thirst for knowledge, yet fear in the unknown. He unravels this through a series of binary diction, vivid details, and images of life(or the lack of life). A man goes on a lonely stroll in a frozen swamp. He is has a fear of what is ahead and says, “I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther and we shall see(2-3).” There is a noticeable shift from the pronoun “I” to the pronoun “we”. This signifies the speaker’s belief in a…

When people hear the word penitentiary they automatically think prison, but there is a difference in the two institutions. Penitentiary was a deep and place criminal went as a form of punishment for a crime someone committed. A penitentiary was considered secular and spiritual. It was a place of human punishment instead of physical punishments that was used in other societies. A penitentiary was an idea, or set of principles, opposed to an actual physical institution with shape and form. The…

didn't get the job, but he didn't give up on the entertainment industry altogether. Eventually he got some small uncredited roles in a few movies, yet it wasn’t nearly enough money to live by so Ford decided to leave the acting business and take up carpentry. It wasn't until 1973 when he got a role in American Graffiti and met George Lucas that he had a shot at making it big. George Lucas hired Ford to read lines for auditions for Star Wars initially, but Ford won over Lucas with his reading and…

Everyone Has a Little Malcolm in Them: Malcolm X’s Leadership On November 10, 1963, Malcolm X delivered his best known speech at the Northern Negro GrassRoots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan. One of his most famous lines from his speech, “Message to the GrassRoots” states, “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”(“Americas | Malcolm X: Key quotes”) Malcolm X was one of the most famous leaders of the…

their degrading statue in the society. For example, Malcolm X, who was an A student and the president of his class, was met with rejection when discussing his future plan of becoming a lawyer with his teacher. Instead, he was advised to consider carpentry instead. Malcolm was angry and confused and consequently withdrew from his White classmates. This dramatic example of the encounter stage also shows how one transitions to the next stage of identity development, which is the immersion/emersion…

K J Somaiya College of Buddhism ( KJSCB) inaugurated its outreach program Jetvan, at Sakarwadi, Koregaon, Maharashta. Godavari Biorefineries Limited and K J Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies in association with Ven. Dhammadipa, a Buddhist monk from the Czech Republic has launched Jetvan, a Buddhist education centre at Sakarwadi, Kopergaon. Jetvan, as an outreach programme of K J Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies aims to support the teaching of Buddhism. It is the brainchild of Ven.…

John and Ruth Blomquist, the author’s paternal grandparents and central subjects of this segment of our family’s history, called Almelund, of east central Minnesota their home. Swedish immigrants came to the area in the late 1800s to farm the rich land west of the St. Croix River. Too distant from the established river town of Taylors Falls, ten miles to the southeast, and the farm communities in the Chisago Lakes Area, eight to twelve miles to the south and southwest, the village of Almelund…

Selling a Sense of Power Imagine that you have everything you could ever want. You landed your dream job and have plenty of extra cash, an astounding education, a nice house, and everything else to complete a comfortable life. All that you strive to possess is handed to you for just acting how society says you should act. But what if you were always told you would have it all, and it was taken away? You now struggle to make ends meet; you try to get an education, but never make the cut, and…

He apologized for the role of the government in the residential schools. In the apology, Harper recognized that the residential schools were wrong, harmful and damaging to the students. Liberal leader, Stéphane Dion, NDP leader, Jack Layton and Bloc Québecois leader, Gilles Duceppe also made statements apologizing for the residential schools. The aboriginal community accepted the apology through speeches from former students. The government will fund a Commemoration initiative with a total of…

Food is distributed fairly and meals are shared. The people worked on farms and learned a useful trade such as weaving or carpentry. They work days were 6 hours and they shared the work load equally. The only citizens exempted from manual labor are those who show intellectual promises and they study to become priest who could be male or female. The priest conducted services…