Owen 'Alik Shahadah

The most memorable books are those with memorable characters. The most loved characters are those that leave an impact on readers. Being able to identify with the characters allow the readers to feel as if they’re on a journey. Therefore, characters have the ability to change readers’ lives. Authors will often fill their stories with powerful characters to create an unforgettable book. This is exactly what John Grogan did when creating Marley and Me. The book is full of his family members and…

Jesse Owens. He was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. Owens was the son of a sharecropper known as Henry Cleveland Owens and his mother was Mary Emma Fitzgerald. Jesse was the 7th child of Henry and Emma Owens. Jesse Owens is perhaps best known for proving Adolf Hitler’s theories regarding racial superiority using his athletic capabilities. Hitler believed men and women of Aryan descent were physically, mentally, and smarter than other racial or ethnic groups. Jesse Owens was…

Jesse Owens did not become a track star overnight. Owens had many training sessions and had to keep up with school to make it to the Olympics. Owens also had to push through discrimination before he became the athlete we now know him as. In 1936, Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the olympics. The reason he was so successful was because of his leadership, dedication, and high ambition. Jesse Owen´s leadership was a huge part of his success. ¨ The 22 year-old sprinter made a mockery of Adolf…

Usain St Leo Bolt, OJ, CD (/ˈjuːseɪn/; born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. He is the first person to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records since fully automatic time became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the 4 × 100 metres relay. He is the reigning world and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in sprint competition, he is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all…

athletes from all around the world compete in Berlin, and taking center stage was the biggest African - American track and field team ever established. Led by twenty - three year old star Jesse Owens, records were demolished in one of the greatest displays of courage and athleticism in history. Jesse Owens is considered one of the greatest…

Like many soldiers, Wilfred Owen, was faced with harsh tasks. He marched six miles over shelled roads and flooded trenches in the middle of No Man’s Land in the dark. Being a soldiers, among other things, heavily influenced his work. Among those other things, were his mother, his priesthood, and his perceived homosexuality. However Wilfred, was not a poet known to support the war. Wilfred Owen born on March 18, 1893 in Shropshire, England was a famous poet in the time of World War…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

The Royal Tenunbaum is about a dysfunctional family that revolves around Royal (Gene Hackman), who failed as a husband for Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and failed as a father to his three children: Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and his step-daughter Margot (Gweneth Paltrow). Royal is trying to reconnect with his family after learning from his informant and servant to the family, Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), that Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), Etheline’s accountant, proposed to his estranged…

being the best of the best. Jesse Owens was this star athlete. Owens was not only a star athlete, but he was an inspiration to many people in this time. Being an African American star athlete in the early 1930’s came with difficulties; however, Jesse Owens was always eager to learn, was determined to accomplish, and confident in what he did best. Jesse Owens was the best of the best, but he never took that to his head. Owens was always eager to learn. While Owens was in high school the track…

Spoken Task Will: Morning/afternoon Hayden, what’s been happening mate? Hayden: Ahh not much, what’s new? Will: Well not much, you know, school and football keeping me busy. Hayden: Yeah school is getting tough, I’m not enjoying it too much, except for English, we’re learning about growing up and it’s finally an interesting unit. Will: Oh really? We are too, with Tom Brennan and Flirting (Hayden: Yeah, those are the ones). Okay, what do you think about it? Hayden: They’re both good…