The Mailbox

Overtime, as we begin to grow up and become Mature, we realize our mistakes and learned from in coherent ways in order to grow as a person and become more civilized. In Araby and How I Met My Husband , both authors showed how their main characters coming of age and developed over the passage. Each protagonist from both stories go through a child phase to a young juvenile who’s more experienced than at first. However, their path’s adapt in a different order to find themselves. In , Araby the…

“According to this Google map, there are close to 50,000 fast food chains across the United States, with McDonalds being the largest restaurant chain” (Ransohoff). Fast food is one of the leading causes of obesity. Many Americans resort to eating fast food due to the convenience and lack of motivation to cook after a long day at work. Obesity is defined as the condition of being overweight. In a like manner, a nonexistence of energy balance is also a cause of obesity. Energy balance is the…

In “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner shows that the characters of Miss Emily and Abner Snopes are from different backgrounds but they both are compelled to commit horrible crimes. Miss Emily from “A Rose for Emily” and Abner Snopes from “Barn Burning” seem like very different characters at first glance. However, they both have inclinations that lean toward the violent and sinister when things do not go their way. Miss Emily resorts to murder when her suitor attempts to…

What is life without feeling love? We’re all bound to find out what love feels like. We are told that one day we’ll find the ‘one’. Except I haven’t. I have always been so busy with life, from high school, to graduation, to college, to work. I never had time to fall in love, I was thrown into life and I wasn’t prepared. I didn’t indulge on what could have changed my life. I just went with the flow and didn’t really live. I was just alive. I didn’t have many people in my life, just my mom and dad…

Lucy Ren Ms. Dasho English 9H Period 1 10/7/15 Reading Log #1 (pg. 3-39) Strategy: Compare and contrast two characters In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a German girl named Liesel Meminger is sent to live with her new foster parents Rosa and Hans Hubermann on Himmel Street. The personalities of her two new guardians are very distinct. Rosa Hubermann is shown to be a strict, harsh woman who enjoys swearing. She is described as having “a face decorated with constant fury. That was how…

The definition of the Jim Crow Laws is defined as laws of segregation and disenfranchisement that effected the south of the United States in the 1890’s (PBS, n.d.). With these laws in progress, it separated the black community from the white community by placing detail signs over water fountains, bathrooms, and schools letting the black community and the white community know that specific place was either “whites only” or “colored”. (PBS, n.d.). The two following narratives Willie Ann Lucas and…

What would you do if a $10,000 check showed up in your mailbox? The play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry tells the story of an African-American family, the Younger’s, who live in Chicago. Hansberry was born in Chicago and has had many experiences similar to the Younger’s that led her to write A Raisin in the Sun. This play takes place around the 1950’s, a time when segregation was very active in Chicago. Each of the adults in the Younger family have their own dreams of what to do…

I visited the Riverside Country Superior court in Murrieta, California. Where I sat in on two parts of legal environments in a course. Before finding out which court room I would go in to observe a case. I sat in the master calendar room. In this room each case is pushed into a different court room. The master calendar room seemed to be controlled by the lawyers in the room. Of course each lawyer would check in with the policeman in the front so he knew who was in the room, but it was a time…

Diagnosis In the movie, A Beautiful Mind (Grazer & Howard, 2001), John Nash is a thirty-one-year-old Caucasian male mathematician who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor. John is married to his wife, Alicia Larde, who is currently pregnant. Recently John has been having instances of delusions and hallucinations that are severely impacting his relationships and lifestyle. Upon first meeting the client, John is a well-dressed man who wears a suit, because he teaches…

and spread. In recent decades, the use of digital media in various careers has become popular and accepted by society. People are able to assess their medical records by signing onto an online network and pulling up their information. Going to the mailbox is soon to be a thing of the past, because we are now able to receive bills and important records through a computer system. Modern society has become technological advanced and demands for businesses and agencies to conform to their desires.…