Carroll University

Throughout my high school career, I was able to just sit in class, takes notes, and pass with barely trying. I was always in advanced classes and succeeded at every one of them. The ease of getting those good grades led me into joining the PSEO/CCP program through Kent State University Ashtabula. This was the first time in my life that I was intellectually challenged and it sure did shape my future and my decision to go to John Carroll University. Bain reflects in his book about overcoming challenges and to not be self-conceited. One can’t just think so highly of themselves. One has to realize their strengths and weaknesses and use them to succeed. Bain also talks about overcoming failure and to not let it shape oneself. Just…

Off on my own with people I didn’t know and living with someone I met only once made me think this adventure is going to be scary too. I was so excited yet so nervous. In just a couple days, I was about to be living on my own, in a city that was unfamiliar. Inside I was freaking out, but no one would know that because when people asked, I always answered that I couldn’t wait to leave. To be honest, I really couldn 't wait to leave I didn’t have to listen to my siblings fighting, drive them all…

pleasure in watching young children run around and explore carefree, where the burdens of the world are not weighing on their shoulders. Lewis Carroll often enjoyed spending time with the Liddell children whom he lived next to at Christ Church University. Alice Liddell’s actions and outlook inspired Carroll to write his series of Alice and her adventures. Carroll portrays aspects of a child in her early years with people or subjects in which hold great influence over her upbringing with the use…

Through the Looking Glass, published in 1971, is a work of children’s fiction by Lewis Carroll. It is the famous sequel to Carroll’s first novel Alice in Wonderland, although it has no reference to its events. Generally referred to as ‘‘nonsense literature’’, it is a story full of humour, riddles and rhymes, all throughout while acting as a satire on the people in Carroll’s life at the time. Unlike general children’s novels that are written to instruct and educate, Carroll’s writings could only…

Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…

The rabbit character is filled with anxiety. The rabbit’s anxiety shows in his statement, “Oh dear! Oh dear I shall be late!” (Carroll 10). “He later checks his pocket watch to see the time” (Carroll 10). Anxiety presented in the rabbit is shown as well in Alice’s characteristics. Alice’s anxiety is shown when she is worried that she has to decide whether she will follow the instructions on the “label” (Carroll 13) that says, “‘DRINK ME’” (Carroll 13). Alice is thinking of what she knows to be…

Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

Charles Dodgson, otherwise known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born on January twenty-seventh, 1832 in the United Kingdom (Bethune 2015). Dodgson was the eldest boy in a family of eleven children. As a child, he wrote and created games. Growing up, he discovered his talent in mathematics and became an appointed lecturer at age twenty under a studentship at Christ Church. A studentship is another name for a grant to a university or college (Merriam-Webster). Aside from his love for…

Autobiography: Love Your Rabbit Heneghan, Judith. Love Your Rabbit. London: Wayland, 2013. Print. Judith Heneghan is an expert on rabbits. I learned so much from her amazing book. She owns two rabbits named Jack and Jill. She provides many things for these animals including different virides of food (hay , pellets bananas, apples, E.T.C) and different bedding to change things up a bit. She also likes to put her bunny outside because she believes that bunnies should get as much of the…

an adult throughout the book . Alice is troubled with these issues of suddenly acting like an adult and growing up . The Rapid Change of Growth Alice encounters many growth changes through the book. The first change she goes through is in the first chapter when she sees the bottle that has a label that says drink me on it . Alice checks the bottle before drinking it to make sure it’s not marked as poison (Carroll l865 pg 9). She eats and drinks things to try to control her height,…