The Boy Who Cried Wolf By B. G. Hennessy

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

Through the narrative “The Scholarship Boy” I find few turning points that I notice a shift in the demeanor of Richard Rodriguez as well as how I perceive the story. First of all, it is made apparent to me that people acknowledge him for his successes by making remarks such as, “Your parents must be proud” or “How did you manage it? According to the opening paragraphs Rodriguez is seen as a model student. Although this may be true, the first turning point I find suggests otherwise as Rodriguez conveys, “For although I was a very good student, I was also a very bad student…Always successful, always unconfident. Exhilarated by my process. Sad.” This quote changed my perspective of Rodriguez because of the negative emotion he expresses toward his family. By the same token, I recall my sister being an outstanding achiever throughout school, yet, she was similarly depressed as well as annoyed towards me and the rest of our family. This flashback assisted me in relating to Rodriguez’s emotions towards his successes. In the same fashion, I am supplied a grasp of his shift in tone and direction in the narrative.

It all started off with my family and I going to Mexico. We were going on a vacation. I was pretty excited to see my cousin. He was a really funny guy, especially because the way he tells his jokes. When we got to my godfather’s house, it was huge. It had 2 stories, 5 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, a garage, and a big patio. I realized that staying at his house was going to be the best . So my cousin, brother, and I we all ate when we arrived. After we ate we went outside to play soccer, as we were going outside I noticed he had and ATV. He said we could use it later. After soccer we went inside to shower, because we were gonna go to the mall.

The book “Radioactive Boy Scout” is a true story about a boy named David Hahn that attended a Michigan high school. His goal was to set out and build a fast breeder reactor in his garden shed. He educated himself in these things by reading popular mechanics and the golden book of chemistry experiments. Whatever he could not get from laboratory suppliers, universities, hospitals, and nuclear agencies, he made himself. David collected household smoke detectors and extracted americium-24. He also got assembled gas mantle covers and pulverized them to get radioactive thorium and took the Geiger counter in to an antique shop where he found a clock with a phial of radium paint left in it. With a little bit of things he had

Howard Thurman removes the window dressing in the African American experience of segregation in America. Thurman in his book, “The Luminous Darkness” paints an obscure portrait that delved deep into the consciousness of Black men, women and children freshly freed from chattel slavery. Two hundred years of slavery and one hundred years of darkness seeping into each soul perpetuated by an evil explained only through the Word of God. Although this book was published in the 60’s, the stigma segregation continues resonate in the souls of those who remember and perhaps even in the souls of those who do not.

Social change comes from a societies understanding and acceptance of controversial topics, laws that enforce social norms and the politics that play a role in such change. The author Gerald Rosenberg of “The Hollow Hope” believes that the Supreme Court is able to bring about social change. Rosenburg main argument seemed to be questioning if a courts ruling that had once been accepted and had standing for several years were to be over turned, would the environment outside of the courtroom suddenly change and be accepting of their division.

"Character is what you are in the dark." -Dwight Lyman Moody means that a person's true nature and real behaviors show in every day life and how they react to stuff when no one is watching. How people act when everyone is looking isn't always who they are really are. I have a read a book, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" that gives a good example of the meaning of this quotation. One of the characters shows what type of a person he is when he lets another person take the blame for something he did because he knew no one would ever know he really did it.

Symbols and themes play a major role in novels. The symbols and themes can help with getting a better understanding in novels. One novel that has many symbols is The Red Badge Of Courage. The author of this novel is Stephen Crane and the genre is historical fiction. In the novel the main character is Henry Fleming. Henry is also known as The Youth. Henry joins the Union in the Civil War. Henry joined the army to have glory. When Henry first gets on the battle field he is scared, but he overcomes his fears. Another novel that has many symbols and themes is A Separate Peace. The author is John Knowles and the genre of the book is a novel. The main character is Gene Forrester. Gene has a friend named Finny. Gene

Political scientist, Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, argued that the Supreme Court, and courts in general, have far less influence on policy than what is commonly believed. Rosenberg affirmed that it is practically impossible to create significant policy reform through litigation itself. In his opinion American courts are quite powerless and unavailing. Rosenberg covers two types of judicial behavior: the Dynamic Court model, in which Supreme Court decisions are extremely influential and the Constrained Court model, where limits on the Court’s power cause decisions to have little impact. To support his claims he discussed the direct and indirect effects of major court decisions like Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade on policy. He claimed that Congress, the White House, and social movements have done far more to advance policy changes than the Court has. Rosenberg also addressed the fight for same-sex marriage rights as a current example of the Court’s weak influence on policy change and emphasized the importance of social movements to policy change. It’s clear that Rosenberg believes that there is very little that the courts can actually accomplish on their own. I would have to agree, people create social change, not the courts.

The “Red Badge of Courage” is a story written by Stephen Crane. The events of “The Red Badge of Courage” took place in Chancellorsville, Virginia, happening during a course of a couple days in May of 1863. It takes place in the Battle of Chancellorsville on a field of battle during the Civil War on a field of battle.

In Richard Wright’s Black Boy, you see not only the transformation of a young boy going into adulthood, but a fascinating story of a hero on a journey to discover his true identity and his part in society. “Heroism is not about rising to the top, fighting for one's rightful place in society, but rather about making one's society and one's self whole. There is, however, also the notion that the right person can solve even global problems single-handedly. If the right person attempts such a feat, it will usually be successful” (Haberkorn). Wright goes from an ordinary world of struggles with hunger and poverty to a life of unfair treatment due to the color of his skin. This only leads Wright to take on the world with his head held high and

A mythical forest creature. Human by day, monster by night. Often, we glorify werewolves. A group of screaming teenage girls rooting for “Team Jacob”. But what happens when you live with the equivalent? In My Father, The Werewolf, author John Brownlee gives us a glimpse in.

Are you, a servant? Servants are people who perform duties or tasks for others. When you think of a leader you normally do not think of a servant; however, James Hunt explains how a servant leader can change the style of leadership to enhance the company, school, and life.

In his article ‘the awful truth: education won't stop the west getting poorer’ for the Guardian newspaper, Peter Wilby seemingly argues that the current downward economic trend of the western world is almost an irreversible occurrence. He argues that for the past 30 years ‘traditional forms of state intervention such as subsidies and tariffs ’ have failed to protect the jobs of western people from being exported overseas. Wilby explains that instead of using traditional methods, governments now believe education is the solution to keeping the western world employed. However, this so called ‘Knowledge Work’ is also increasingly being outsourced to developing countries, Wilby gives various examples to this outsourcing such as ‘Analysing X-rays,

All throughout the week all I thought about was a party and finally Friday came. My friends were Overjoyed to have me hang out with them later than usual I was happy as well. As my curfew approached I told him I needed to start heading back, but they wanted to make me stay longer. Although the temptation to stay longer came, I thought about how long it took me to earn my parents trust so I declined and headed home. On the way home i felt disappointed and regretted going home, but when I got home my father had a huge grin on his face and I asked him why he was so happy. He told me how proud he was that I kept to my curfew and he told me how much of a man I was for not breaking his Trust. To top it all off he told me that I can be out as late as I want because i earned his trust. Hearing those words come out from my father's mouth made me very delighted and thrilled. It was from that moment I felt that I had become a man not because I was wanting to feel like one, but because my father respected me as one and I had earned