Melvin Jones

Opportunities are all over the place in America, a person can come from nothing and work hard and manage to come out in the end successful, the opportunities are far and wide. American culture revels on individualism: Freedom of speech, liberation, and the value of an individual are some of the things that are associated with America. The American dream where folks in the US have the liberty to follow their dreams, no matter how crazy or unconventional they are. And while the economy might be crumbling

expanding my mind to new concepts, and affecting my social life in surprising ways. Likewise, even through the simpler books I read as a child, I was able to learn many important life lessons. In grade school, I was reading 4-5 books a week. Junie B. Jones, The Magic Treehouse, Inkheart, and Song of the Sparrow all still hold a special place in my heart. Junie B. made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind to because of her rebellious nature and taught me to try to make the best of every bad

Five Little Monkeys books and later Junie B. Jones. The Five Little Monkeys books were enjoyable to me and I remember having this one amazing, indescribable feeling of joy while reading these books. Contrastingly, the Junie B. Jones book about the monster under her bed made me extra worried about monsters under my bed. When I was a little bit older, I read a book called The Mysterious Benedict Society, which was a long chapter book, unlike the Junie B. Jones books. The Mysterious Benedict Society is

DIGGING INTO THE EXECUTIONER'S STORIES A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL AND THE MOVIE: THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG INTRODUCTION The Executioner's Song is a story of a rather eccentric man - Gary Gilmore; and the events in between his phase of being released from the prison and being executed. The story begins with the reunion of Gary and Brenda,who are cousins. Gary gets another chance to work and improve his life. While he begins well at the professional level, he fails at his many attempts in

Nicole Wells English 117 10/17/14 Rick Walters Act II Scene I Act II Scene I is a pivotal scene within the play “Fences” by August Wilson. This is the scene in which all truth comes to light and the “fall” of Troy begins. Up until this scene the characters of Cory, Bono, and Rose have let Troy be the authoritarian and leader within their lives, but within the scenes opening, the audience can already see a change in the characters attitude. The scene opens with Rose asking Cory to come help here

The play Fences is about a family living in the late 1950s-1965. Troy is a garbage truck driver his wife is Rose. I see Rose Maxson as a strong character because she defends the people she cares about and she doesn’t allow Troy to control her or alter her beliefs. Rose is a caring Mother to Cory and demonstrates she loves him very much. She also cares for Lyons who she did not birth, but she considers him family would consider family. Rose stands up for people she cares about, we see multiple instances

“The First Day” by Edward P. Jones It’s only natural to keep vivid memories of certain monumental moments in life, such as the first day of school, for a long time. “The First Day” by Edward P. Jones tells the story of a mother and daughter on the daughter’s first day of school. In the beginning of the story, the mother goes to great lengths to prepare her daughter for this important occasion. After the preparation is over, she takes her daughter to a particular school before being told that she

Fences There are people who have loved someone so hard and unconditionally that when the love of your life hurt them, it feels like the life have been snatched out of you? The only comfort they have is God. This is how Rose, one of the main characters in the story felt when her husband Troy, of eighteen years, came home one day and confided in her of his adulterous affair that led to the birth of his daughter, Raynell. Fences, written by August Wilson, tells of a man named Troy that was angry at

Some people in this world build fences to keep people in while other people build them to keep people out. Rose Maxson wanted to keep her husband troy and their son Corey to build a fence to keep others out .But in reality she had them do it to keep them in so they could spend time together . Everybody has their own fence to build these to make sure them or the people they love never gets hurt . Troy was the type of person to build his fence to keep people out .One person especially “Death” He

Wall-E, released in the summer of 2008, explores the lonely life of the one robot left working on a future Earth. Wall-E is a garbage unit robot left to clean up the mess that humans have made after centuries of buying things they don’t need. Humans have apparently left the planet to live on a luxury spacecraft for five years until Earth is clean. It looks as though it has been much longer than this because other Wall-E units have long since rusted away. Our hero, Wall-E, however, continues to plug