Robert A. Heinlein

Almost all schools have a fundraiser of some sort whether it is selling food or apparel. Jerry Renault refuses to sell chocolates during his school’s fundraiser at demand of Trinity High School’s “gang”, The Vigils. In Robert Cormier’s, The Chocolate War, Jerry Renault learns that his actions of refusing to sell the chocolates have consequences like being bullied. Renault gets beat up at football practice, receives idle phone calls at night, has his locker vandalized, and has his homework…

This particular set of impromptus appear rather disrupted by the publisher. Discrepancies regarding performance order, genre grouping and key signature have been disputed by theorists. In his review of Schubert’s Four Impromptus for the Pianoforte, Robert Schumann recognizes both strengths and weaknesses of the works in their current state at the time. It comes from a point of sincerity and respect, often noting the work’s intriguing comparison to various works by Beethoven and Liszt. Schubert…

Robert Frost wrote many poems throughout his 89 years of life. Most of the poems focused on nature, as did, “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The speaker of the poem is alone in the woods, clearly isolated. Isolation, even when self chosen, is difficult to contend with. “Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening” focuses on isolation. Literally, the speaker of this poem has stopped in the woods, on the darkest night of the year. He observes the depth and beauty of the woods and knows that he…

Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner…

In 1916, the poet Robert Frost published the iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” to the world. This poem is written in a first person perspective and it begins with a person explaining to the reader that they have come to a halt in the road. The road had forked into two separate roads, each going into two different directions. The person was unsure on which path they should choose, so they decided to figure out where they each went. According to the speaker, one of the roads had nicer grass and the…

The thought that first surfaces from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is that one has not made the correct choice by choosing a certain path, and the juxtaposition of good qualities between two roads. The poem creates an impossible decision between two seemingly similar roads that lead separate ways, leaving a traveler unknowing of where it will end up, and that one may perhaps be more favorable. The reality of the poem is that there is no right choice in which path is taken. The poem's…

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He stayed in California for the first twelve years of his life until his father, William Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. After his father had died, his mother moved their family to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his grandparents. Frost attended Lawrence High School where he met his future wife, Elinor. Frost attended Dartmouth for a few months after high school before returning home to help support his family. He…

Sitting in 10th hour, counting down the seconds until schools finally over and it's summer. Everyone starts counting down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then the last thing everyone screams is “SUMMER!!” I got that sudden feeling of joy rumbling around in my stomach. It was finally summer, the time where I could do whatever I wanted to without any dumb school rules that I had to deal with everyday. I am Emily if you were wondering. My favorite color is purple and I am a normal girl who loves to tan and…

Sunday’s in the winter special to you? Well, in the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, written by Robert Hayden, he writes about a special memory he has of his father when he was a kid on a wintery Sunday. The memory starts out regarding how his father would wake up early on winter mornings, on all days of the week. His father would get the house ready for the day before everyone else woke up. Years later when Robert is all grown up, he feels guilty for never thanking his father for all that he did…

Arthur Meighen Arthur Meighen, born June 16, 1874, Anderson, Ontario, was an intelligent and well-educated man. He was an important figure to Canada. He contributed to Canada in many ways, Prime minister, lawyer and an academic model to Canada. To begin with, Arthur Meighen served as a great politician to Canada. He served two terms as the P.M the first time he was the ninth P.M of Canada after he took over Borden’s mandate from 1920-1921. Arthur didn’t make many changes as a Prime Minster.…