Chester Greenwood

What if you knew how much time you had left what would you do how would you act? To live longer they’d do anything. The poor grabbing at each other's throats, threatening, yelling, stealing each others time, we’d take another’s life to save our own. While the riches are drinking and governors are watching. “Please, I promise once I get home my son will pay for the remaining cost, please. I just paid a loan off and it’s my daughter’s birthday today,” the woman pleaded. “I got a whole bus full of

In the topic of successful entrepreneurship, L.L. Bean would definitely be one of the top examples that it was one of the largest mail-order companies in the area of outdoor equipment in history. From the start in 1912 with a borrowed $400 and only one product offered in the United States, the business had grown to sell more than… 1. How successful has L.L. Bean been? It sold more than 1000 outdoor equipment, such as hunter boots and camping tools, targeted to both men and women. The company had

Exactly six months to the day before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Radiohead released their eerily prescient and hypnotic ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, to great fanfare. Nothing could have foretold the future more than the lyrics to the opening song, “Burn the Witch”: “Abandon all reason / avoid all eye contact / this is a low-flying panic attack.” Backed by a repetitive and sawing string arrangement and an equally disturbing music video, it’s one of the most overtly

The Dark Side of the Moon and OK Computer are two of the most acclaimed albums by fans and critics. OK Computer currently holds the number one position for best album of all time on the websites Besteveralbums and Rateyourmusic while The Dark Side of the Moon holds the number two position on both sites in comparison. I discovered both of these albums in 8th grade and they have stayed with me ever since. As the years go by, I continuously find more meaning within these albums then I have in the past

There are many different ways for a song to be effective. For many people, it’s a catchy melody and relatable lyrics. For others, it’s complex instrumentation and clever songwriting. Still others prefer deep lyrics they can dig into and analyze. On all of these fronts, Let Down passes with flying colors. But what makes Let Down such an effective song for me is how well it can put feelings into words and sounds, and its ability to completely accept the meaninglessness of life, while at the same time

L.L.Bean started from making a hundred pair of boots, to becoming one of America largest mail order retailer of high quality outdoor goods and apparel for men, women and children. Leon Leonwood Bean founded L.L. Bean in 1912; the company headquarters is in Freeport, Maine. Leon Leonwood Bean founded his business on a belief in honesty, commitment to quality, customer satisfaction and a passion for the outdoors. Leon Leonwood Bean was an avid outdoorsman that decided that he could improve on the

Bean boots are not only used for hunting but are also used for day-to-day wear. The initials in L.L bean stand for Leon Leonwood(Westbrook). Leon Leonwood was the founder of the LL bean boots and started the company as well. The production of Bean boots dates back to 1912 and the company is still making the same style of boots today (History of Ll Bean). Leon Leonwood spent most of his time outdoors. Leonwood needed a waterproof boot that could be worn out which inspired him to invent the Bean

felt obligated to follow. Society told women that their only jobs were to get married, have children, and become homemakers, and if a woman did not fall under all of these categories, she was considered a social outcast. The main character, Esther Greenwood, fears that she will not make a good wife because she could not cook, she stood too tall, and danced poorly. Women also had many restrictions on what they could do. For example, they could not serve on a jury, get an Ivy League education, and they

President James Garfield’s tragic death is brought to new life in the book The Destiny of the Republic. Author Candice Millard shows readers just how that very incident brought one nation together. This being in the middle of the Gilded Age, at times it looked like the nation had everything under its belt but in reality, people didn’t see the corrupt happenings at that time. Through poverty, war, a surprising turn in events, to downright failure in medicine, President Garfield’s life was a downward

How effectively does the poet convey aspects of change in ‘Funeral Blues’? ‘Funeral Blues’ by W. H. Auden is a poem is about death and grief. It was originally written as a satirical poem about the death of a politician, though was later edited to become solemn. The poet effectively conveys aspects of change, such as the human condition in relation to the experience of loss. This is conveyed through tone, metaphors, imagery and anaphora. The aspect of the human condition and our response to