Lee Myung-bak

Yellow, about three foot tall, very fast, and my worst nightmare. The protector of my grandmother's hot, sticky, dirty farm a place that I dread to go. Some people fear clowns, insects, rodents, but my fear is a big yellow rooster. This rooster that I fear is no ordinary rooster, he’s leaner and meaner than any other rooster i’ve ever seen. In the next few pages I hope to tell you about this rooster and how I overcame this beast to make me the person I am today. Life for me wasn’t always filled…

My name: Lucy Kenyon Date: 2 October 2017 Title: Grade 10 Long Essay Topic: Resilience Teacher: B. Mavuso Books and Plays (4): 1) The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (book) 2) David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (book) 3) My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (book) 4) Macbeth by William Shakespeare (play) “Resilience is the…

Harka Gurung Analytical essay by three songs (Bob Dylan) English 101-067 October 21, 2017 These three songs by Bob Dylan emphasize mostly on people and the nation entirely; he is trying to bring his message to people, warning them of their ignorance and sufferings. He also uses his song to bring the rights and freedoms of people like it are in the song “blowing in the wind.” He also discourages people from quitting, when he writes, “knocking on the heaven’s door.” He, therefore, gives hope to…

Bryan Funk Professor Debra Williamson ENG 122 19 September 2017 Book Review Hillbilly Elegy, written by J.D. Vance and published by HarperCollins books in 2016, is a memoir about the author’s, J.D. Vance’s, hillbilly family and how they differed the common ways of the rest of society, his childhood struggles with an abusive addict mother and her terrible boyfriends, and his early adult life through the military and college. Throughout the book Vance discovers himself intellectually, spiritually…

The Adventure of my Life I have never been a risk taker or daredevil. The person from a group of friends that kills the Black Widow Spider on the wall doesn’t represent me, and I shy away from dangerous tasks out of fear. This needed to change when the opportunity to complete some dangerous stunts came my way while zip lining in the mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Everything started last summer when we drove to the Smoky Mountains for vacation. We decided to zip line as one of our…

Reporter and author, H.L. Mencken, in his essay, “The Hills of Zion,” recounts a trial In Dayton Tennessee and his experiences there with the townspeople. The trial involved the state and a substitute teacher named Mr.Scopes who was accused of violating a law at that time prohibiting any teachings of evolution.This is the reason he wrote “The Hills of Zion”. This trial is why H.L. Mencken went to Tennessee; he had to cover it. Mencken’s purpose was to convey coverage that was biased against the…

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter Reflection #1 p. 1-113 ( Beginning of text through a dangerous adventure) Answer these questions (Just copy the questions onto a word document and insert your answers as you read, should take 2-3 pages double spaced, 12 pt times new roman font, 1 inch margins) The Way  Grandpa talks twice about “the Way”- once in regards to hunting and once in regards to honeybees. What are the principles involved in “the Way” and what happens to…

The story of Temple Drake, a young southern girl within the town of Memphis is the image of purity and sainthood that is corrupted by a dramatic event of the “corncob rape” followed by the slow creep into insanity or could be view as a release from the restrains of Southern society norms at the time. The idea that William Faulkner tries to show within his book of Sanctuary is the original sin that lives in all of us as humans. We as humans are easily corruptible and fall into the darkness of…

[2] Five years after hooks’ published her essay, artist Kara Walker’s etching “Untitled (John Brown)” expands the essay’s ideas to apply to more mediums than simply cinema. Walker’s piece is a physical embodiment of the very skepticism hooks has theorized. The seemingly unfinished sketch is her take on the moment when radical white abolitionist John Brown is being led to his execution for leading the infamous Harper’s Ferry raid. A famous lithograph that was distributed throughout the nation…

in reality, Dolphus drinks not alcohol, but merely coca-cola. He confesses this to Scout: “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (Lee 200-201). This shows that what is most outwardly transparent and unlikable in a character may truly be interesting and good-natured. In Maycomb’s society, white men do not usually associate with colored people, let alone live with them. The fact…