Hometown Glory

during my sophomore year of high school, the time I was beginning to explore my love of cinema. Basing my selection on the vague knowledge I had acquired about Katharine Hepburn over the first sixteen years of my life, and with an inflated sense of hometown glory, I watched the film. I am now forever indebted to The Philadelphia Story. It is ultimately what inspired me to pursue a career in the film industry and continues to inspire my work today. But there is a disparity…

- Houseman's poems are often about dying young. How does he approach the topic here? How would you describe the tone? Housman approaches the topic by reminiscing on the good times of the athlete winning his hometown the race. In most cases it would be fair to expect that a poem about someone dying at a young age would have a sad tone. Houseman takes a different outlook on the topic and turns it into a happy toned poem. Houseman creates a positive tone from the beginning of a poem that would…

friend for a long time. The third group of items that I have chosen are to represent my roots. I have old photos of those from my hometown who have a very special spot in my heart. I also packed the state of Minnesota to show where my roots lie. These roots have determined who I have grown to become and represent where my final journey will hopefully take place, in my hometown with my community. Next, it’s to represent my love for enlightening places was chosen. I have a wandering soul and I…

The way one views his or her setting can affect actions and thought processes greatly; for example, if the present situation seems hopeless, one’s decision-making abilities will be skewed, as he or she would believe there is nothing that could possibly be done to salvage the current state of affairs. The topic of discouragement and desperation influencing one’s outlook, as well as how it can or cannot affect the course of action, is explored heavily in Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The…

he would never be tested. He hoped the Americans would go away.” These two quotes demonstrate the contradicting feelings of soldiers as determined from outsiders and from inside themselves. In most cases, soldiers are told to enter battle for self glory, for protection of their country, and for the domination of their country’s enemies. Within the passage, he states: “He would have been taught that to defend the land was a man’s highest duty and highest privilege,” which backs up the previous…

When

the All-American Neely Crenshaw attended Messina High School they were a football

powerhouse. They won state titles constantly. But now the glory days of Crenshaw's career are

long gone. He received news that the legendary Coach Rake was on his death bed and he and

some other past players should see him before he passes. The boys all meet in the bleachers high

above the field where they once…

after an hour of him being shot. This Iliad ended right before Achilles dies. The other book that I read was the Odyssey. This book also had major events. The Odyssey starts off ten years after the fall of Troy. Odysseus still has not returned to his hometown in Ithaca. The suitors want to go steal his wife and his kingdom. The suitors still do not know that Odysseus is still alive. This book is basically about how Odysseus tries to disguise himself and go back to Ithaca to save his wife and…

nobles. In the year of 1802, Bolivar would return to his hometown, but he would return to Europe yet again in 1804 during his visits to Italy and France. On this journey, Bolivar was exposed to the actions of a fairly famous French emperor, Napoleon I. During Bolivar’s travels, Napoleon had usurped the French throne to claim it for himself. Bolivar admired Napoleon’s choices; He admired them so much, in fact, that he began to envision a similar glory for…

prevent the British troops from taking him and throwing him onto a prison ship and leaving him there to rot. Taken first by the British, and finally by cholera, the people of Redding–including Tim–never saw Jerry’s face again. After the war ended, his hometown of Redding finds out that after he dies on the ship, the Lobsterbacks had thrown his body overboard with stone, into the vast, deep sea. He could not be given a proper burial by his loved ones, who had to mourn over the only remnants of…

In Glory, it is set in Boston in the 1860’s during the American Civil War. Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the Battle of Antietam and sent to his hometown of Boston. As he is there recovering, he meets Frederick Douglas and is convinced of the mistreatment of African Americans and becomes interested in wanting to be the first Captain of an all African-American regiment of soldiers. Soon after he finds his second in command and receives enough volunteers to have a regiment, the Emancipation…