Michael Lewis

All The Lights I clench my fist tightly. Twenty-one blinking faces stare me down. I look down at my paper, feeling tears rising from wherever tears come from to the corners of my eyes. I blink them back. “Dormant breathing, constant searching, I am alert…..” I stumble over the last words in my poem, the class courteously claps, and I shuffle to my seat in one sweeping motion. We had been assigned to write a poem on our perception of current events in the world. Writing the poem was fairly…

Zootopia is about a bunny, Judy Hopps, who struggles to fit into the police force. She quickly discovers that Zootopia is not quite what she imagined. Ironically, she partners up with a fox, Nick Wilde, who stubbornly creates conflict between the two of them. The story is centered around a bunny named Judy Hopps whose dream is to become a cop. Usually, predators are the only animals that become cops, but she firmly believes that she can be just as good of a cop as any predator because they are…

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." Peter Pan is a fantastical children's book published in 1904 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie. The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, is a historical young adult fiction. These two books could not be more different. Peter Pan focuses on the imagination of young ones, one of which will never grow up. The Count of Monte Cristo follows the betrayal of a man and his revenge. However,…

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: sniffs out changes early before others are aware of it. Scurry: sees 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 Cheese in the maze.…

Throughout his lifetime, Lewis Carroll created short stories and hadn’t published anything until 1856. In 1856, Lewis Carroll published a piece for “The Train.” On July 4th of 1862, 10 year aged girl named Alice asked Lewis to entertain her and her sisters. Carroll suddenly told the girls stories about a girl named Alice who fell down a rabbit hole. This story was unlike others, so Alice asked Lewis to write it down. Carroll after rewrites the story, asked a friend…

Literary Analysis Lewis Carroll was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England. Lewis was the oldest child out of his ten siblings and yet was always very bright in mathematics and won many prizes throughout his youth. Carroll was always known for connecting with children within literature and even the way he spoke was more perceivable to children in the mid 1800’s. As Carroll enjoyed and connected with the young minds of the youth he connected greatly with Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry…

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” Alice asks herself this shortly after entering Wonderland, although this line would not be at all out of place in any adolescent’s head (Carroll 15). Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is a novel that deals heavily with many aspects of identity, including finding and growing an identity as a child. Alice goes through many trials in the novel, and readers watch her change and adapt to get through all of these. Disney’s 1951 adaptation Alice…

Charles Dodgson, otherwise known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born on January twenty-seventh, 1832 in the United Kingdom (Bethune 2015). Dodgson was the eldest boy in a family of eleven children. As a child, he wrote and created games. Growing up, he discovered his talent in mathematics and became an appointed lecturer at age twenty under a studentship at Christ Church. A studentship is another name for a grant to a university or college (Merriam-Webster). Aside from his love for…

I train for athletics on the weekends with a group of men who all have over 50 years on me. Training with them has and always will be the best decision I have made. My trainer is called Jack Giddy and he trained my grandfather in athletics as well. He is currently 93 years old. He and his wife, Snow, have been family friends with us for years. He had a friend called Reg Austin was also a runner that was trained by Jack when he was young. Born on October 16, 1936, Reg Austin was a runner from…

hole” to many psychologist represents female genitalia. Analyzing the content and the background of the originally story book, I discovered that Carrol became sexually attach to Alice which became an inspiration to his stories of Alice in Wonderland. “Lewis Carrol, having an unconventional relationship with the young Alice Liddell, wrote Alice in Wonderland” out of motivation and fear. Carroll’s motivation was the hope that someday Alive would be able to be his love; he fear was that if she did…