James Naismith

Good Afternoon.Fallen Angels is a book that takes place in 1968, twoards the end of the Vietnam War. The book follows the journey of a 17 year old boy named Richie Perry. Who was a african american from New York City. He just graduated from high school, and Perry doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. He knows that his single mom cannot afford college,he choosees that he wants to join the army so he can go to college. On the plane to Vietnam he thinks about how he is going into combat…

As Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window has been out since 1954, there have been many reviews and speculations about the film as a whole. The reviews are both positive and negative, some going in depth about the plotline and others giving the basics of the plotline as a reason for their opinion. This film is one that has a very good story, but seemingly questionable ethics and standards. In 1983, Vincent Canby wrote a review about Rear Window for the New York Times. He praised the movie that was…

Is the creation the monster, or is the creator the monster? In Mary Shelley's Frankensteinthis question resonates within the minds of the readers. Many believe that Victor is the monsterdue to his theories of creating a new life from scraps of others, and many believe that themonster created is the true monster due to his intent to kill Victor's family. I believe that thecreator, Victor Frankenstein, is the true monster.From an early age Victor is infatuated by everything within science, and…

Avatar is a movie about an ex-Marine who is put into a hostile alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind is in an alien body. The main character Jake Sulley finds himself torn between two worlds, in a fight for his survival and that of the indigenous people. Avatar has racism themes throughout the movie and are very hard to ignore. The white hero saving natives once again. Like the white Messiah fable. Marine, Jake Sully, is linked to an alien's body and put on the…

Corbin Tyler Mr. Levy Composition 30 March 2016 How to be hypnotized Hypnosis is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used to do many things. It can help you see things from new perspectives. It can take you on trips to faraway or fantastic lands. It can prove how powerful your mind can be. It can help you get a restful night's sleep and have sweet dreams. Hypnosis has helped me enormously. I first learned about using hypnosis when I found a hypnosis app for helping you fall to sleep. It…

Wordless Picture Book A Ball for Daisy by Schwartz & Wade. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, for wordless books anyone who picks them suddenly becomes an author in my opinion because you have to create a story with your Imaginations as you see the pictures from the book. My point of view of the story goes a little something with Daisy, who is in love with playing and chewing on her red ball. She rolls over on her back and holds the ball on her stomach. After Daisy takes her nap the…

In life, being judged by others in society is inevitable, no matter how hard a person attempts to avoid it; the only way to survive the harsh opinions is to disregard them and continue forward. The inescapable scrutiny a person encounters from mankind is commonly based on the first piece of information they are presented— one’s name. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the judgement of the protagonist occurs immediately by both the readers and the other characters as a direct result of the…

For a long time Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had a strong dislike for each other and on July 11, 1804 that dispute was settled. The running disagreement between the two of them was for a variety of reasons regarding their upbringing and political standpoint. Being that Hamilton was a Federalist and Burr was a Republican they often did not agree on political issues. Therefore, when Burr got in the way of Hamilton being able to influence Senate’s ruling by taking the place of Hamilton’s…

Maria Cominis’ “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, presented by California State University, Fullerton College of the Arts at the Young Theatre was an afternoon of captivating acting. On Sunday, October 1st, 2017 at two in the afternoon the play begun. It was very intense and so many things happened. Robert leaves his sister and sets out on a journey with his crew to find new things about human nature and she is very worried for him, but lets him go. Victor Frankenstein comes home to Geneva from…

Frankenstein is not only a member of France’s elite, but he is Shelley’s depiction of the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The timeline of Bonaparte’s fall from power coincides with when Shelley was writing her novel. Susan Wolfson, professor of English at Princeton, gives a summary of the similar timelines, “Frankenstein was conceived in June 1816, a year or so after Napoleon Bonaparte, a monster to many, was defeated at Waterloo and exiled to a remote island in the Atlantic. The novel’s…