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After coming off a six game winning streak the Central Connecticut women's basketball team have went on to lose two straight games. Their luck changed as they went on to win a thriller against Bryant University by a score of 53-52 in the final 10 seconds. The Blue Devils started off the game to a weak start as Bryant University began the first quarter with a 10-3 run. But the Blue Devils quickly responded with a 11-6 run of their own. BU own Alex Klein had six points for the first quarter,…

Summer 2017 Reading Assignment for English III Honors: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain The way Hank Morgan used his knowledge to gain power during the Medieval Period was assisted by superstition; which allowed Hank to climb in ranking, plus he saved himself from being burned alive when he claimed the eclipse was the work of his enchantments. Merlin who was the original magician became somewhat jealous and/or furious due to Hank’s sudden leap in ranking but didn’t…

Throughout my four years at the University of Connecticut I participated in a variety of different one-time service projects known as Community Service Days. For my first year at the university, I was a member of the Community Service Learning Community. As a participant, I was asked to complete thirty hours of community service each semester, a goal that I exceeded each time. To illustrate the types of volunteerism I participated in I have included only several of the many activities I…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court explores the drastic differences that separate two eras thirteen centuries apart. Amongst these distinctions are the values and ideals held by the people of these different times. This great disparity is addressed by the story’s narrator, Hank Morgan. Morgan, who holds the same views as author Mark Twain, sets out to challenge 6th century values with his American ideals of the 19th century. A prideful, practical, and intelligent man, Hank Morgan…

time thinking and dreaming about this day. June 18th, 2015 was the day of my Connecticut State Driver’s License Exam. I had turned 16 on January 18th of the same year. 3 days after my birthday, I made the trek to Cheshire from my hometown of Farmington, about a 20 minute drive. I made the trip in order to take the Learner’s Permit Test, the first of many steps in the process of receiving a Driver’s License in Connecticut. On the way there, my dad said to me, “I hope you don’t fail…

John F. Kennedy said “A man does what he must—and that is the basis of all human morality” (Bartleby, Kennedy). This quote rings true in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a story about the advancement of Gilded Age technology transferred into Arthurian British times. A man named Hank Morgan has mysteriously time traveled into the reign of King Arthur and is being brought to the King for possible execution. His decisions after his capture give a sick and twisted spin to…

Daniel Hale Willams By; Erica Lamb Daniel Hale Willams was a man ahead of his time. He performed the first known open heart surgery in the United States, and also founded a hospital with an interracial staff during an extremely racial time in history. Daniel Willams was born Jan. 18 1856. He was born African American. At the time he was born, the civil war was still a few years ahead. But his family lived North, where slavery was illegal. So he had…

One important quote from Mark Twain’s “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut” is the narrator’s conscience’s explanation of how it becomes desensitized after it has been jabbed at for too long: "[…] When people plead with you at this late day to quit [smoking], that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. It exerts a mysterious, smothering effect, and presently I, your faithful hater, your devoted Conscience, go sound asleep!"…

In the novel’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” by Mark Twain the authors suggest that human nature dictates their characters tendency to force other to bend to their version of reality. The main characters applied their knowledge, values, and logic to the world around them through the their experiences they found in the new worlds they faced. In the novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the main character, Alice, applies…

The case Grimm v. Gloucester County is about a transgender student G.G. or Gavin Grimm, who during the 2013-2014 school year was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a “strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one’s own assigned sex that results in significant distress or impairment”(Psychology today 2018) . Grimm had at first gained permission from the principal to use the boy’s restroom during his 2014-2015 school year. G.G.…