Character Analysis: Mia Hall

“Let me,” Ludington called, “I can ride as well as any man!” A young woman of only sixteen told her father one night during the Revolutionary War. Sybil Ludington volunteered to round up her father's troops when the original messenger could not go any farther. Sybil traveled over three times farther than the well-known story of Paul Revere. She rode farther, alone, and in horrible weather to bring four hundred soldiers to aid Henry Ludington. Sybil, though her remarkable story is largely ignored by historians, should be as well-known as Paul Revere for her bravery and contribution to the war effort.

In the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a 13 year old mountain girl who lives in Nepal. She has been sold to somebody as a prostitute for 10,000 rupees but she doesn't know that. The value of a human life is more than just a dollar amount.

Mia is the central character of this story. She is kind, musically gifted, and quiet. She cares a lot about her family and friends and also, she possesses a deep love for her cello. Mia

Sophie Biyoya Ciardulli is the main character in the book, “Endangered”, by Eliot Schrefer. She is the daughter of Florence Biyoya, who is Congolese, and an Italian-American dad. Her mother had always thought of protecting bonobos as her top duty in life, so it was no surprise when she chose staying in Congo to develop her bonobo sanctuary rather than returning to the U.S. with her husband and daughter, after Sophie’s dad is transferred to Miami, Florida by his company for a job. Sophie attends school in America, but spends summers with her mother. Sophie had always been angry and hurt by the fact that her mother was the reason her parents divorced, but when she meets Otto, she transitions slowly in opinion and grows in acceptance of her mother’s

In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family is born and raised throughout the country, never settling down in one place. Rex, Jeannette’s father, is an independent thinker, and a highly intelligent man. He spends every second of his spare time inventing odd contraptions that he hopes will make his family rich. Despite his obvious intellect, Rex struggles profusely with alcoholism, making his goal of maintaining a job, and protecting his family very difficult. Jeannette’s dad is best known for “skedaddling”, when things get too hard in one place, or bill collectors come he takes his family, regardless of what they think or want, away from there. They have no say in it, he practically drags them along because they don’t have a choice. Rex asks Jeannette what

Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States. One in every twelve adults suffers from alcohol abuse. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Jeannette’s father, Rex, deals with a drinking problem. His drinking problem is one characteristic that makes him crude and un-relatable to the reader. In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rex Walls is an unsympathetic character. The reader finds evidence of this in the story through the ways he cannot keep a stable job, his drinking and gambling problem, and how he steals from Jeannette and his children. Rex Walls is a terrible father.

Ms. Nancy Mairs, an accomplished and a renowned linguist, describes how she views herself with multiple sclerosis. Mairs presents herself as an extremely confident and proud woman who does not back down from her so-called “disability”. By explicitly calling herself a “cripple” Mairs is showing her audience that she is a strong woman who has come to terms with her condition and is now explaining it to others.

Margaret Hossack, a woman of Scottish descent has an interesting character to me. She is a hard-working wife of a farmer. While reading, I picture Margaret being about five feet and seven inches tall while weighing close to Clammer’s weight, 160 pounds. Physically, she is a strong, bigger, sturdy and large boned woman. Margaret Hossack is in her late fifties but her image does not make her appear older to me, even if she does have wrinkles under her eyes. Not only is she a hard-working, caring, and loving wife, but also a mother to her nine children. She puts her family’s needs before her own and seems to always accomplish chores around the house while making sure everyone is well taken care of. In my eyes, she is the provider and strength of her family. Without Margaret around, I believe the family would fall apart because her husband can sometimes act of in different ways. Along with her hard-working and ambitious character, her family also shares this trait with her. The family, including her children, seem to get everything done throughout every day no matter how long it takes them to finish. They listen to their parents and seem to have polite manners even though some may have had some issues with their father or are rather quiet. Although she has these positives traits and a well-developed personality, there is a side of Margaret that makes me question what is happening or if I can believe her. She has a secretive and quiet personality has well, which sometimes makes it difficult to read into her and understand her. She talks to many people about her problems and makes them seem very dramatic but when reading further into her questioning she denies all of it. Many families have several problems, but if she really needed help, I would think she would own up to what has happened to her family or try to get help from someone even if she is scared.

I am writing you regarding Dayna Marie Forderer. I have had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Dayna in the past year. During our acquaintance, I have worked along side Dayna and also got to know her on a personal level. Dayna and I, both went to Sheridan College, worked on many assignments together and were on the Sheridan Sun newspaper.

This paper will be an analysis of the personality of Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux from the show titled “The Golden Girls.” In this paper Blanche will be analyzed from two points of view. The first analysis will be from the view of psychodynamics using Freud’s ideas on personality. For this analysis I will begin with the structure of Blanche’s personality in regards to the Id, which is the aspect of personality that deals with the instincts, the Ego, which is the rational aspect of the personality, and the Superego, which is the moral aspect of personality. The second analysis will be from the perspective of Abraham Maslow; I will use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and his

I nominate Maritza Norman for the Mission Award because Maritza is a valued employee that always goes above and beyond in all aspects of her work. Whether it be doing things on her own, communicating with her co-workers and/or clients she makes it a point to overcome obstacles in her path to ensure that a solution is given to help them achieve their own goals. She is a devoted worker that aims to achieve perfection on a daily basis and will admit to her own faults to allow her room to exceed and overcome her own obstacles and be able to provide a better service for herself, her co-workers and the clients that she serves. Maritza shows that she is devoted to the Mission of Catholic Charities in the way that she makes herself readily available

Every town has at least one person always seeking attention in everything he or she does. In the small town of Maycomb County, this busybody is Miss Stephanie Crawford. If anything remotely interesting happens, Miss Stephanie makes her business to know all about it. A lack of new material simply requires Miss Stephanie to invent her own drama with whatever she can think of. Because of her ability to take everything that happens in the town of Maycomb and turn it into some extravagant gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford is Maycomb County's most revealing member.

Julia Braverman-Graham is a very successful lawyer with a husband Joel and a daughter Sydney. Julia’s life revolves around her job. Family seems to come second in her life. Joel seems to take on the lead role in parenting their daughter Sydney. It is made clear in the episode that Sydney favors Joel and seems to not like her mother, as she should. Sydney treats her mother more of an acquaintance than a parental figure. Julia observes this multiple times through out the episode and it really

Mary Walls is an optimist. Throughout the story her thoughts on life are positive, even when the situation is not. The Walls family is one that could easily be pessimistic, constantly moving with just enough money and food to survive. Mary,along with her husband Rex, is a mediocre parent at best, but can always find the good. On page 144 when her daughter Jeanette claims to hate her Grandma, she says, “You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.” (Walls 144). When Jeanette tests her mother asking about Hitler, Mary responds that he loved dogs.

The role of women in The Things They Carried, is that they are an example of innocents and how you lose your innocents over time and in war. The women make a big impact on the men’s life because they help them focus and keep there stories going on weather the women dies or not.