Robert C. Jones

opular sources vs. scholarly sources In preparation for this assignment, I was able to use Pinterest as a way of research and learned that depending on research topic, that Pinterest and popular sources may be an acceptable way to support an argument. These sources are what I used in my comparison to the popular sources that can be found on Pinterest. My Exploratory draft three explores how popular sources can be useful in supporting an argument: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_rmoHln…

I graduated high school in 2014 with a 4.0 GPA, was in the top ten percent of my class, and was accepted to Pennsylvania State University. Everything had gone right for me, and I was excited to begin my college career. The only problem was, I did not know what I wanted to major in, let alone what I wanted to be in my life. I chose Penn State because they had a great program for students who were undecided. My hope was that I would suddenly have an epiphany and realize what career I wanted to…

Initial Goals: My initial goals for the program was to take in an equation like 5*(4/3+2^(3-1)) and return the answer to it (26.666667 in this case). I intended it to work with simple arithmetic (multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, exponents, and parentheses). My initial brainstorming resulted in an iterative action. The program would follow the order of operations and begin with the contents of innermost parentheses and replace that portion of the input with the answer before…

Hundreds of children talking all at once, that’s what morning at Illini Elementary School sounded like. And there I sat having no one to talk to. Until one day a new girl came through the school doors. She was as tall as a giant and had short black box braids. This girl sat down by all the other children in my grade. So many thoughts were going through my head at once I didn’t know what to do. I was so nervous to talk to her that I almost threw up! I didn’t want her to reject me like the other…

Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice defined the Regency era of Britain, and her leading characters influenced literature for centuries to come, essentially birthing the “enemies turned into lovers” trope. Her depiction of two lovers needing to overcome the faults of their own pride and prejudices and their own internal struggles is an idea still surging throughout modern day literature. The novel’s original purpose was to criticize the social hierarchy of England at the time and the…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is about a young middle-class woman named Elizabeth Bennet who falls in love with a wealthy man named Mr. Darcy. Unfortunately, her prejudice influences her to develop a negative first impression of him due to his excessive pride. As Mr. Darcy overlooks Elizabeth Bennet’s lower social status, she learns to overcome her prejudiced personality. In turn, they get married after finally accepting one another’s strengths and weaknesses. I enjoyed this novel because it…

How Does the Concept of Characters in Works of Literature Needing to Grow and Change in Order to Reach a Goal Apply to Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy? Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen divulges the transformations of Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a gentleman, and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy estate owner. Both of these characters hold bigotry toward one another that encumbers their ultimate engagement and requires them to change in order to find happiness. Elizabeth grows to be self-aware of…

The 2008 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” examines the affairs of love, marriage, and reason in the early 19th century. Particularly, it reveals Jane Austen’s personal views on what an ideal and an imperfect relationship looked like with the couples presented in the story. The opening scene of the film is that of the Bennet family bustling with excitement at the prospect of meeting a suitor. The scene quickly establishes Elizabeth Bennet is a surrogate for Austen herself…

The opinions we have of ourselves and others are powerful. Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet and the arrogant Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, who have a mutual dislike for one another after an initial meeting at a local ball. The novel portrays the growth of Elizabeth and Darcy, and their journey in realizing their love for each other despite the hindrances they create for themselves. This book reveals how displaced pride and prejudices can blind people…

“There is only one story. Ever. One. It’s been going on and it’s everywhere around us and every story you’ve ever read or heard or watched is part of it.” This is what Thomas Foster extolled in his book, How To Read Literature Like A Professor. Foster reveals to the audience that every story anyone has ever known is all part of one larger, more universal story, and this story has several universal concepts that reoccur in each of it’s developments. He explains to us how minor details can…