Me and Mrs. Jones

As a Freshman at Jones College Prep, one of the top three most prestigious high schools in the state; I was part of the Career and Technical Education Program. This allowed me the opportunity to choose between the Engineering and Pre- Law programs provided at my school. My interest in math and science pushed me to pursue a path in Engineering. Knowing that I will be able to positively impact someone’s life through this career made it all the more compelling. The “Introduction to Engineering”…

A Village to Raise a Child “Help me, Mama. I need you to help me.” “It’s too late for that, the woman said. You got yourself into this, you can just get out of it” (Haruf 10). Parents are a main source of comfort and care for children. However, in Plainsong, parent abandonment is a main theme. Ike, Bobby, and Victoria are three characters whose lives change drastically from decisions of their parents. However, “It takes a village to raise a child.” The abandonment of their parents causes hard…

ride, John said, “ ‘Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t’other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation.’ ”(Austen, Chapter 7). Further research on Tom Jones, it is a comic novel by Henry Fielding published in 1749 about Tom Jones’ life journey as an abandoned baby, who grew up to be a thoughtless and rude bastard until he changes when he falls in love…

Karl Marx was the author of the Communist Manifesto. Old major was the creator of Animalism. Karl Marx died years before the Russian revolution. Old major also died before he could see his plans of the revolution against Mr. Jones put into motion. According to old major the solution to the animals is a rebellion. In the text it says, “That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!” The animals plan to achieve his goals by over throwing the humans. “It says work night and…

four young men had that someone when it mattered most. For Biondi, It was his mother. For Gallimore, it was his whole family, who now call him ‘Honest Abe’. For James, it was his father ‘He sacrificed a lot for me’ James wrote ‘I want to make him proud of me. I don’t want him to look at me like I was a waste of time.” (Reilly) This shows that in the text that the four football players could have stolen, but instead, they paid for their items because their family might have told them to never…

JJ by: Anne Cassidy. The main character of this book is Jennifer Jones, who killed her friend in a fit of anger at the age of ten. She now lives normally at the age of sixteen, as Alice Tully a “normal” teenage girl who has normal problems. Throughout the book the main character, Jennifer, shows many different traits, but two important traits that make her who she is in the books is extreme aggression and fearfulness. Jennifer Jones was a very aggressive child when she was younger. During her…

of a reporter named Nikole Hannah Jones – which was broadcasted through a podcast series called This American Life. Pruitt-Martin’s integration experience occurred after the Normandy school district, a predominantly black district, lost its state accreditation, and the…

Jones, out of the farm and running the farm their own. At first it was working well, but one pig in particular, Napoleon, wanted to be a little more. Snowball, his friend, started working on a plan for a windmill, limiting the world they had to do, producing more food, and more importantly, giving them the luxury of electricity. With himself in mind, he lead everyone against Snowball, assuming he was a traitor and trying to bring Mr. Jones back. Then, he took the idea…

at 123 Jones street to serve an arrest warrant to a repeat offender by the name of, James Lou Ellen Brown. He had failed to appear in court after multiple, different charges of, driving with a suspended license, unsafe lane change, no driver’s license and a possession charge. Officer Peter Malloy was familiar with Mr. Brown and his location, after having arrested him before on possession for sale and possession of paraphernalia. Mr. Malloy informed me that there was an alley located behind Mr.…

identity in his stories “Winter Dreams” and “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” The three central female characters in these stories all explore this identity in different ways. “Winter Dreams” is a Gatsby cluster story in which Dexter lusts after the young Judy Jones. In “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” Marjorie takes the role of the New Woman, who pushes the Victorian Bernice to modernize herself. Analyzing these two stories allows…