Little Rock Nine

Life at Holy Cross College is a place in which everyone has an opportunity to learn from one another. Since I started at the college during 2013 (year 8) I have been blessed with seeing teachers and students helping one another to grow, inspire each other and become the best version of them self that they can be. As I witnessed this I knew that I wanted to inspire and help contribute to the growth of my fellow peers. I want to evoke others to strive for their personal best and I think it is…

In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” J.D. Salinger uses a conglomeration of symbols and motifs to represent Seymour and the materialism and greed of adults in society; Diction and a motif of different colors portray his feelings and emotions which may have led him to take his own life after the war. Seymour comes home from the war and can not merge into society. Salinger uses the bananafish to represent Seymour’s life; Seymour goes to war and the bananafish “swim into a banana hole” (Salinger).…

that the readers would have tried to answer “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” by tediously analyzing the text. However, the closest that the audience can get to answering the question is when they reach “Teddy”, the last story of Salinger’s “Nine Stories”. The readers realize that they cannot know what the sound of one hand clapping is unless they try to approach the question from a spiritual point of view. All of the aforementioned claims made by Teddy serve to convey the idea that…

came up with the idea of bananafish, went to war, and suffers from PTSD or depression because he commits suicide at the end of the story. Seymour communicates better with children than adults; for example, when Seymour is at the beach and Sybil, a little girl, comes up to him. “Sybil offers him a glimpse of the world as he would like it to be – innocent, curious, and pure”, (Shmoop Editorial Team). She says to him, “Are you going in the water?”, and Seymour replies, “I was waiting for you”…

Amelia Earhart Specific purpose: To inform my SPC-112-W003 class on Amelia Earhart’s wonderful accomplishments and life events. Central idea: Amelia Earhart was more than just an aviator she was a record breaker who was full of courage. I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Amelia purchased her first airplane within six months of having her first flying lesson, which is very unusual because people don’t purchase their first plane until they have completed their lessons. b. Credibility…

revealed facets of her already complex personality attracted a diverse group of people. The "lite feminism" of 9 to 5 made her appealing to feminists and working women without offending women with more conservative values. The sexual nuances of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas hinted at homosexuality and her pro-gay rights comments in interviews made her an icon for the queer community. Dolly's feminism and ties to homosexuality challenge her already established reputation as a conservative…

Without Amelia Earhart’s help in women’s rights who knows how far we would have come along without her help, especially in aviation for women. She also changed the industry by creating a club. “She...served as a founder and president of the Ninety-Nines club for women pilots” (Amelia Earhart, Pop Culture Universe). Amelia Earhart definitely changed women’s rights by all the things she did about it. By creating…

In J.D. Salinger’s famous short story “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Seymour Glass returns from war after having experienced atrocities to a wife and a society that are materialistic and unempathetic. He feels lonely and trapped, with a wife invested in only herself and an unempathetic society. Seymour realizes that nobody in his life comprehends his struggles to adjust to a post war America because they are so focused on material objects rather than people. Seymour’s wife Muriel reveals her…

people say that it was a meteorite or an asteroid, why wasn’t there a crater where it hit? There is so much to still be investigated on the Tunguska Explosion, but I think a powerful bomb made the explosion. I think maybe someone wanted to start a little war, but it never happened. “It is like a one-hundred year old murder mystery” (Kelley). Even though it was over a century people are still conducting research to figure out what really caused the explosion. There have been some big ideas about…

The Year 2516 It is the year 2516 and my world is full of twilight. Four years ago 3 evil gods took over my kingdom and demanded me to be his queen. He said if I agree to be with him he will bring no harm to my people of Mindala. Each year the world gets more and more grim. Animals are transforming into monsters. The nature around us is dying. Evil has surrounded us and is destroying anything living, bright, colorful or even happy. My people have been arguing. Each day there getting worse and…