Lewis Mumford

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is a fairy tale poem describing a boy’s quest to rid his land of the evil Jabberwock. Lewis Carroll wrote the first stanza years before the rest of the poem appeared in Through the Looking Glass (Jabberwocky, n.d.). Carroll uses portmanteaus, words made up of other words, and shows the use of several onomatopoeias, which occur when the sound of a word becomes it meaning (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Carroll invented blended words and called them portmanteaus. The…

Glen Mills is arguably the most popular sprinting coach in the world. He currently is the coach of the two fastest Jamaicans in the world; Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. Both Blake and Bolt rave about coach mills, calling him their “father figure, a friend and a mentor”. Jamaica has totalled more than 100 world and Olympic sprinting medals under his stewardship. Seventy-one medals at the IAAF World Championships and thirty-three at Olympic competitions a tally that continues to rise. Nineteen of…

Doping in sports Considering in doping in sports? Think twice before considering it although it may have positive results. But should the average athlete consider doping in their sport not promising positive results? There are many of athletes doping in their sport(s) and is very dangerous as it can cause short and long-term injuries to the human body. Doping in sports goes way back to ancient Greek Olympic and Roman gladiators to current day with professional sports. There are many…

Jamaican Usain Bolt is a legend in the Olympics who has been called the “fastest man alive”(besides the flash) and has been smashing world records since the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. Usain Bolt became the first man to set the record in the 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash in one season of the olympics. At the 2012 games in London he ran the 100 meter dash in 9.63 seconds putting him in first. He also won the 4 by 100 and the 200. In the 2016 games he won the same three events making…

into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred. The owners of factories viewed them to be more convenient, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Therefore inciting the era of child labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were,…

“Tenniel’s illustrations form an inescapable complement and counterpart to Carroll’s dream text and to the reader’s sense of the squarely down-to-earth ‘dream child’ in her striped stockings and long brushed hair, as well as her other various fabulous and incongruous interlocutors in wonderland and beyond the mirror.” (Carroll Haughton lxxix) Carroll’s opening sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland emphasizes how these (Tenniel’s) illustrations act as the nucleus of the book: Alice was…

There are four characters in the story. Each of these characters represents a part of us. :- Hem and Haw – Little people Sniff and Scurry – mice Sniff: Good and always sniffs out changes early before others are aware of it. Scurry: search what is needed and takes actions immediately. Hem: tries to deny and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse. Haw: Always learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better. All four characters in the story search for…

The most renowned and classic of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately…

The Wasteland is an overwhelming complexity, filled with a plethora of literature references. Ignoring the allusions, the piece itself shifts between different speakers and scenes so blatantly makes this especially difficult to digest. In one moment, a woman is reminiscing about riding on a sled when she was young. Then BAM. She’s suddenly staring at a dead sailor that’s decaying at the bottom of the sea. Needless to say, the plot is probably not the main focal point. Nevertheless, there is a…

Audubon, Meriwether Lewis (who died on the Trace in 1809), and Ulysses S. Grant are among the famous Americans to have traveled the Natchez Trace. One of the most tragic events to occur along the Natchez Trace during its “national” era was the death of Meriwether Lewis. Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was on his way to Washington on the Trace when he rode up to Grinder’s Stand to spend the evening. Sometime during the night, the wife of the inn-owner entered Lewis’ room to find…