Montreal Canadiens

Glory is fleeting. This expression means no matter how popular or famous someone gets, their fame and glory do not last. According to A. E. Housman’s, “To an Athlete Dying Young”, he illustrates how precious life is and how people tend to remember public figures of great promise that dies young. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” uses metaphor throughout the entire poem to illustrate the Athlete’s glory and his view on death. The poem reveals the concept of dying at the peak of their…

Langston Hughes’s poem “My People” is a short poem that gives off a variety of meanings. Hughes’s poem gives the reader a different form of viewing people by emphasizing certain features from his people, although not directly throwing it out there for the reader to grasp right away. Also, interior and outer beauty. When the reader first reads this short poem, they would assume that the narrator is implying that his people are beautiful and that is all, just beautiful. Although, as the reader…

It was a dark and stormy evening when a mentally unstable main character pondered whether word choice and extravagant descriptions would have any effect on the reader of his written works. He looked at the purple velvet curtains his long dead love had hung years ago when he was still sane and concluded that this was indeed the case. The shadows cast upon the floor by the dying coals in the fireplace helped him to understand that a reader’s first impression is characterized by the first…

Calm- Ordinary days The song ‘Calm’ is taken from the show Ordinary Days, Ordinary days follows the lives of Warren, Deb, Jason and Claire living ordinary lives in New York City, but the shows how their lives connect in an extraordinary way. The show is a collection of 21 songs in total written by Adam Gwon in 2008. Adam Gwon is a musical theatre composer that has been named one of the fifty to watch by The Dramatist Magazine and his works have had more than 150 productions on 5 continents. Gwon…

This past Saturday morning, I motivated my little brother Vincent, my little sisters Tess and Alex and my cousin Olivia to volunteer at a local food and clothing distribution center in Chula Vista, Turning the Heart Center. Vincent is thirteen years old, Tess is nine, Alex is twenty and Olivia is twenty-three. I invited them all to spend the night at my house the night before. We laughed, had dinner and spoke about life in general. I went on to tell them how thankful I was for all God has…

Bad Things The sound of alerts beeping at me from my comdev are what wake me up on Sunday morning. I check them with sleepy eyes, already knowing that they are telling me I have bills overdue. I sit up and stretch before changing into a pair of black jeans, a black tee shirt, and a red sweater. Grabbing my purse, and a hair tie, I make my way downstairs and slip on my boots. Uncle Lee is the only one awake at this time, and he glances at me as I make my way outside, shutting and locking the…

of Leafs and Canadiens’ players is especially clear when Arthur juxtaposes the two main starters of the conflict in Saturday night, Prust and Habs, with the obvious demonstration of his own perspective towards the two teams. He had disappointed by the players. This is also an indication of author’s tone in the texts. As Arthur said “Saturday night, Prust was a jerk and lit the fuse, which means the Habs picked the fight” (Arthur 2). As this evidence shows, Arthur defined the Canadiens’ player…

Richard but he got rocket in at his blazing speed he would weave through their opponents with no problem. Maurice's career was on and off the ice. He was the infamous Riot Richard in 1955. His Stanley Cup Success Was Perfect For the Montreal Canadiens.He Got the Montreal Canadiens 8 Stanley Cups With His Blazing Speed And Powerful Shots. Richard's ice accomplishments As a French Canadian NHL Superstar.Richard to Journey from a promising Young player to NHL Superstar that is known for his…

small town in Quebec in which all of the residents are huge Montreal Canadiens fans. The kids of the town are always on the ice with Montreal Canadiens sweaters but the main character Roch’s sweater has been ripped and had to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater which was not accepted with the other kids. This story is in both categories because the main character, Roch, is challenged by being forced to wear a sweater with the Montreal Canadiens rival team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. While Roch is…

Jake the Snake: Jaques Plante “ How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo and yell at you that you suck!” The eldest of 11 children, Joseph Jacques Omer Plante, was born on January 17, 1929 on a farm near Notre-Dame-du-Mont Carmel, in Maurice Quebec. Plante began playing hockey at three ....he had no skates, he used a tennis ball instead of a puck and his stick was carved from a tree root by his father. His father also made his first…