The Little Ones

There are many lessons to be learned in life, lessons which are learned through conversations, mishaps, and great experiences. One experience I had was a little bit of all three. It was a conversation, started wrong, but nevertheless ended up being a great experience in which I learned an important lesson, that there are times to give up, and times to not give up, and sometimes even though giving up might seem like the right option, not giving up can lead to great success. My senior year of…

think of but yet she still was able to get over each and every one of them. From being a women to being extremely impoverished, she overcame them all. Not only did she overcome them but she made something great out of them , Little Women. Even though I have never read this book , reading about Louisa’s life make me want to spend some time reading it. She portrayed her life and everything that made Louisa , Louisa and not only in Little Women but every book , poem or journal she wrote. She has…

With every adventure one faces, they are shaped into an individual by the people they meet along the way. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids, Foster uses a first-person point of view to present techniques to truly analyze literature. More specifically, he elaborates on the idea that all characters go on quests to discover themselves. This theme is represented in Little Women, where Louisa May Alcott tells the story of four sisters, Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth, as they go through the…

Hobbit and Deft Dwarves J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit portrays a wide range of characters throughout the novel. In which, a tale wrought with adventure and danger unfolds with two unlikely forces aiding one another in order to achieve a common goal. The hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is a well to do little creature who enjoys a quiet life in his comfortable hole in the earth. In fact, upon Gandalf inquiring about Bilbo accompanying him on an adventure, the hobbit responds with, “We are plain quiet folk…

more specifically, exploits the story to work as another muse to spread Disney’s ideas to its young consumers. Today, Disney is accounted as one of the leading influencers of contemporary society and a major benefactor within popular culture, however this simply means that the 21th century is continuing to adopt more fundamental values, versus left wing ones despite the enlightened times. This may be due to the fact that its viewers of today and yesterday have adopted these beliefs and are now…

I took another trip to Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts to see the Senior Exhibit. I was quite impressed by the artworks that were displayed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery. As I walked around the West Gallery, there was an artwork that I kept going back to. I reckoned it was a sign. An art student named Congdi Wang used a single instrument, a ballpoint pen specifically, to draw Deer in Forest (Figure 1). Compared to my inept and appalling ability to draw or doodle anything noteworthy…

their very own song in that chapter. Each song shows a different tone, content, and structure. This reveal In the beginning of the novel, the dwarves, Gandalf, and Bilbo plan to go on an adventure. When they are planning, the dwarves start to sing a little song. “Far over the misty mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must ere break of day, To seek the pale of enchanted gold.” The dwarves are singing about their newly planed adventure to the misty mountains.…

explain to them if their right for each other love would bring them back together in the future if their soul mates. Even if you know for fact you wouldn’t in a million years date them again still say it. Just like a resume when you stretch the truth a little, same procedures…

thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.” This quote from the recent film Hacksaw Ridge embodies my sentiment that brightening up someone’s day is the best feeling in the world for me. This desire to help others prompted me to volunteer for two years at UCLA hospital to help transport patients. Hospital patients often deal with severe pain and sometimes loneliness, and I knew that giving some of my time could improve their moods and outlooks. One particular patient stands…

be described as an example of foreshadowing? The main purpose of this story is to basically tell how the little girl Myop wondered off and saw her too far away from home. When she realize she was too far she began to walk back towards her house then she steps on a dead man face on a mistake. She later then realize that the man got hung by the tree she was around because his head was in one spot while his body was in another. The plow line that was in the soil was what made me think the man was…