Rick Perry

A Day That Made a Difference: Meeting the Senator The day that I met Senator Rick Santorum was a day that made a difference to me. Meeting Rick Santorum made a difference to me because I was shown traits that are essential for leadership. On March 3, 2016, I was at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. I was there to hear conservative speakers and leaders from throughout the country. I sat in the front row of the auditorium at the Gaylord National Convention Center…

Many incredible books that are well known and loved have been made into movies, such as, Twilight, Harry Potter, as well as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. While watching them have you ever said to yourself, “That scene wasn’t like the book” or “They got rid of [character/scene]”? Film adaptations are now known to be the movie industry, and because of this there are a lot more critics in the world. Readers mainly notice how film adaptations make people anti-readers, crush character…

Compare & Contrast: The Lightning Thief The movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is supposed to be an adaptation of the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is an award winning novel and the first book in the famed series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The series has sold over forty-five million books worldwide, and gained a very loyal legion of fans. Its popularity led to it being adapted into a huge Hollywood movie. However, with so many…

This essay is about the text Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I firmly believe that things in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief are not what they seem. For a start, Ares was not as he seemed because he served Kronos and backstabbed Percy. The backpack was not as it seemed, it was the master bolt all along. And Luke was definitely not as he seemed. He was the traitor in the prophecy. He served Kronos. First up, Ares... Ares was one of the facets of Kronos’ plan. He…

The main characters in this book are Percy, Grover, Annabeth, Chiron, Poseidon, Ares, Hades, Luke, and Zeus. The book primarily takes place in Camp Half Blood. This book is about Zeus’s lightning bolt getting stolen by Luke. The problem in this book is Zeus’s lightning bolt gets stolen and Percy has a quest to find the bolt before the summer solstice. When Percy is on the quest he has to take a taxi, car, and bus from New York to Los Angeles to get to the Underworld. He has to go to the…

In the novel “The Titan’s Curse”, the protagonist Percy Jackson experiences “Road of Trials” from the Initiation Stage in Joseph Campbell’s monomythic cycle. Percy must conquer some of the most hideous and vicious beasts alive to achieve success. This particular quest was no piece of cake. However, Percy Jackson is quite an ambitious young man. He was willing to accept a challenge, but not defeat. The hero mustered his courage and demonstrated his heroic qualities like never before in order to…

James Altucher is an American best-selling author. He has written and published eleven books so far. Many of Altucher’s writing have appeared in publications such as the Financial times, Wall Street Journal, and the Forbes. James Altucher wrote a book in 2011 called I Was Blind but Now I see reached number one in Amazon.com’s motivational books section in 2011. USA Today also named Altucher’s Choose Yourself among the twelve best business books of all time. James Altucher is a very successful…

Emmitt Perry (also known as Tyler Perry) has been one of the major producers, directors and actors who have dominated this form of media, and the box office ever since his first movie debuted in 2006 (Baldwin 2012). Tyler Perry movies have become so popular because they are suppose to be incorporating African American culture, thinking and mentality as well as a message within them. Usually this message is something along the lines of faith, power, love or forgiveness. The movies are also…

family murders, which gained celebrity after the 1965 publishing of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” were the brutal slayings of Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children, Nancy and Kenyon, by 27-year-old Richard Hickock and 30-year-old Perry Smith (Garden City). The two killers, Hickock and Smith, knew each other from their time spent in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. It was during their first stay in prison where Hickock heard of Herbert Clutter from a prison…

nothing but the truth which lead to his factual tone. This is demonstrated when he states, “The evening of Wednesday, December 30, was a memorable one in the household of Agent A. A. Dewey” (Capote, In Cold Blood 240). As well as when he begins to quote Perry Smiths testimony “Around midnight. Dick said it was seven miles away, he kept talking to himself saying this ought to be here and that ought to be there-according to the instructions he’d memorized” (Capote, In Cold Blood 266). These…