John Wooden

He lived on North Street, in a small wooden house near Love Lane. Paul was the second oldest out of ten other siblings. As a child Paul very busy and loved to try new things. Paul attended the top public school of Boston from the age of seven to thirteen; North Writing School. After graduating…

meaning, well they're wrong. Set in California near the Salinas River during The Great Depression, the novel begins when two grown men come looking in search of new jobs on a ranch. In Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor and John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, both the authors use symbolism to show that it is related to an action or event experienced through individuals imaginations with a possible range of meanings and interpretations. In chapter 12 of Foster’s…

pursed by the local police for trespassing into the now-destroyed and abandoned, once-his-home, trailer park community of Times Beach, Missouri, the unnamed narrator “carefully considered both coincidence and fate” (26). The heart of “Book of Songs” by John Dalton struggles with the narrator’s contemplation: it was not a coincidence that detrimental waste oil ended up contaminating a trailer park, yet it was inevitably their fate. The truth this story illustrates is simple: the poor’s earth is…

The Anchor Bible of Revelations discusses in depth the symbolism of “tree” as well in the biblical texts of Matthew, Luke, and Revelations, “John uses the symbolism of “tree,” probably as a metaphor for the leaders of the people; Matt 3:10. Luke 3:9; cf. Matt 7:16-20, 12:33-35. Trees, oaks, and cedars, were used as metaphors for leaders of the people. In Isa 61:3 “oaks of righteousness” (AB)…

In articles I and II of “The Harvest Gypsies”, John Steinbeck describes the migrant workers as ungracious people. But the word he used to describe the workers was “gypsies”. A gypsy is considered people who occasionally travel from place to place and live by seasonal work. Almost like a migrant workers…

predispositions and environment. Novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his gothic romance, The Scarlet Letter, fictionalizes the seventeenth century shameful epoch of the Puritan adulteress Hester Prynne. Hawthorne himself descended from the Massachusetts Puritan John Hathorne and his motivation to write developed as a result of his conflicting feelings of shame and pride for his family. His purpose is to contrast how people reflect their environment whereas others become something despite their…

was referred to as one of several “costumed character” in grammatically troubled, but overall positive TripAdvisor review. My supervisor John King was visibly angry, not at me (this time), but at the visitor. “These aren’t costumes. This isn’t Disneyland.” For three months, I wore period clothing (this was John King’s preferred term and one does not fail to use John King’s term). The period was the mid-nineteenth century. Depending on my scheduled tours and assigned exhibit, I either wore a…

in which this claim was true, that the Puritan society was stricken with the failure to be the community of sympathy and unity as well as the ultimate example of Christianity. In only the second paragraph of the novel, Hawthorne reveals that “…the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and…

As Joseph Ellis observes in his book Founding Brothers, longtime friends (and part-time bitter rivals) Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were very different men -- in politics, in personality, and (as we will observe most closely here) in leadership styles. Adams was talkative, confrontational, and tended to make his feelings unambiguously clear, while Jefferson was reserved, elusive, and outwardly passive, leading conversations where he wanted them to go by more subtle methods (a less charitable…

Of Mice and Men Reading Notes: Ch. 2 A good friend is loyal, protective, and caring. George is loyal. I think George is loyal in the way that if Lennie feels uncomfortable in a place, George will do anything to get him out of it. page 33, George says, “We gotta keep it till we get a stake. We can’t help it, Lennie. We’ll get out jus’ as soon as we can. I don’t like it no better than you do.” and “for two bits I’d shove out of here. If we can get jus’ a few dollars in the poke we’ll shove…