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When thinking of successful people you automatically think about how hard people have worked to be successful. In the Outliers book "Malcolm Gladwell" argues that we should look at the world that surrounds successful people. For instance their culture, family, experiences, and their upbringing. Gladwell has made an interesting argument about how people become successful. In this paper, I will be talking about how Bradley Byrne, US Representative for Alabama became successful using some…

After graduating high school, she then attended an all-female college called Huntingdon College, which is located in Montgomery. Later on, she transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During junior year of college, she was accepted into the university’s law school that allowed students to work on their law degrees while they are undergraduates. However, after a year in the program, she expressed that writing law was not her…

Harper Lee, also known as the author of the Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the book that made her famous was a marvelous work of literature. But what’s her backstory before she even became the author of her book?. Well I’ve been able to find as much information as possible from websites online. So here’s the information I’ve found. First, she was born on April 28, 1926, and during her childhood she lived in Alabama and a small town called Monroeville. Now Monroeville was very similar to Maycomb…

There is not one person on this earth that is born the same. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. One thing that people battle with is discrimination. There are lots of people born with different kinds of disabilities. There are some cruel people in the world that treats people with a handicap differently. People ask all the time "Why can we all not be treated equal?" People still have a chance to change their life and do what is right. Yet there are some people that choose not too…

“But niggers don't want to pick cotton anymore. You can't get the white folks to pick it and now you can't get the niggers because they got to be right up there with the white folks." (O’Connor, 9) As Mrs. Turpin was saying this, it shows what Flannery O’Connor was willing to have the characters say in order to fit in completely in the south as a white character. With the setting in the south, most characters of Flannery's writing are racist but it fits the setting. And many other little…

After I contacted the seller; I called my dad, who is a mechanic, and asked if he would go with me to look at the car. He loved the idea! We drove the short distance from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham to get a better view at the condition of the car. Other than a messed up rear bumper, other very minor cosmetic issues, and a worn-out CV-axle; the car seemed amazing. One of the highlights of my life was driving my dream car for the…

Cook, David Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. In this book, David Cook attempts to synthesize all available information about the spread of disease in the new world in one volume. Cook’s main argument is that the traditional historiography on the subject, most notably that written by Bartolome de Las Casas, over-emphasizes the cruelty of the Spanish as the reason behind the massive deaths experienced in Amerindian…

Wang, Yamin. A Representative of the New Female Image- Analyzing Hester Prynne 's consciousness in The Scarlet Letter. Finland 2010. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, We. April 25 2016. In Yamin Wang’s literary citizen of hester Prynne she calls Hester the representative of the ‘New Female Image.’ Primarily Wang speaks about the development of the female images beginning with the traditional female image. This traditional image is split up into two images; one being praiseworthy…

In life and literature multiple common themes arise, most commonly negative and positive relationships. While it is human nature to want to form relationships with other people, sometimes it is a hard lesson in determining whether the relationship is positive or negative. Closely related it is discovered that these relationships become present in the literature that was read. When analyzing the relationships in life it is possible to see reflections of them in the literature read. Within the…

watched the Olympics since I was a kid and would watch the Texas Longhorns every once in awhile, but I had yet to go to a game. It is not that I did not want to, but at 16, I was just too young and was not old enough in my parents minds to drive to Tuscaloosa alone, at night. It would be almost three years later until I got to see the Crimson Tide…