Guy Chambers

1. Beth's and Mary's car is in the shop. In this sentence there’s one car. To show joint ownership an apostrophe plus “s” is only needed at the last part of the compound noun. The apostrophe plus “s” needs to be omitted after the word Beth. Beth and Mary’s car is in the shop. 2. Tom smoking bothered the residents. The word smoking is a gerund. When a noun is used immediately before a gerund the noun must be possessive. An apostrophe plus “s” is needed after the word Tom. Tom’s smoking bothered…

The heart of every story is the theme. Without the theme, the story is not as exciting, and as well put together. Changing the theme can affect the rest of the story. For example, changing the theme in the invisible man to "friendliness gets cooperation " makes the whole story different. Changing the theme in the invisible man changes almost everything in this novel. In The Invisible Man Book, he is alone all the time, and he is trying to become visible but nothing is working. If the invisible…

Ben Franklin was a man born on October 18, 1785 who struggled at a young age with being ignored and thought as a servant from his older brother while in the printing industry. In the Autobiography about Ben Franklin, it talks about his life and the steps he overcame to be a successful man. Two traits that contributed to Ben Franklin's success are being resourceful and determined. These attributes help him in life to keep his head up and stay positive, even during rough times. When Ben was in…

A long time ago, there was a fire that killed about 146 immigrant woman. What had happened was that these women had been working, and every time they had to empty out their purses to make sure they weren’t stealing. The day the fire broke out, they were checking the purses. The fire started on the 8th floor and spread upwards. The whole story was written some months later in one of the most popular journals called the “McClure’s Magazine.” The buildings were made out of wood, it was obvious that…

“When one person suffers from delusions, we call it a mental illness. When society suffers from them, we call it being normal” (Unknown). Do you ever wonder how humans in society seem to stray away from each other? I believe it is due to the fact that technology advances day by day. It is becoming to the point where technology seems to be taking over our social life. I feel as if the advancement of technology will take over our lives completely, just like it does in the novel “Fahrenheit 451” by…

From the start of the book of “Fahrenheit 451,” till the end there were subtle hints of the various roles that the fire had throughout the story. In the first place, the reader sees how the firefighters used fire as a way to burn the books to keep anyone from reading them. In doing so the firefighters are not only burning the books, but also the people's opportunity to be able to independently think for their own and having a chance to flourish with knowledge of the past life. Having the books…

Johna skidmore feels like a average kid ,complete with a smart but annoying sister hetr name is katherine.their parents say they are special and loved. This family lives in Ohio. Sometimes johna feels like a out cast because he is adopted johna has a friend named chip him and chip hang out a lot and they go on adventures with each other and go on adventures so this book starts by starting off were the last book leaves off..As they land the gravity of the earth forses them to their hands and…

1890 Victorian England was a time and place where gentleman smoked their cigars in the light of a gas lamp and spoke about topics such as; the possibility of a fourth dimension. The time traveller lived in this world, a world where no one had thought time travel was possible, even through his efforts of trying to prove time travel possible, they continue to disbelieve it. The time traveller feels that as time goes on man should make great improvements to humanity, but, when he travels to the…

At some point Prospero claims that he enlightened Caliban from his primitivism and illiteracy to the modern lifestyle. However, Caliban immediately respond that “[Prospero] didn’t teach [Caliban] a thing! Except to jabber in your own language so that [Caliban] could understand your orders…All your science [Prospero] keep for yourself alone, shut up in those big books” (Cesaire 17). Cesaire also states that between the colonizer and colonized there is room only forced labor, intimidation,…

XIV The plan is coming together. I believe that I now know what to do about the ever looming problem of the others. The others that have lost what is now so important to my life. The words of individualism. The word "I". The word that is now so sacred to Gaea and I. The word that has been lost since The Unmentionable Times. I am planning the journey back to The City from which I have not been back to in over three years. I wonder how much has changed since I have escaped with my beloved Gaea.…