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Florence Joyner also known as “Flo Jo” was born as Florence Delorez Griffith on December 21st, 1959 in Los Angeles, California (Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website). In 1987 Florence Griffith married her spouse Al Joyner which was a fellow athlete and the brother of famed athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website). Florence broke records and even set records due to the speed that she carried

Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" In "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, uses symbolism in the choice of names, almost to the point of being ironic and humorous. These names center around the personality and demeanor of the characters. Hulga, once known as Joy, simply changed her name because it was the ugliest she could think of. Mrs. Freeman's name is ironic because she is burdened by the land that she works, so is not really free. Mrs. Hopewell?s name is also ironic

Griffith Joyner was born Delores Florence Griffith the seventh of 11 children. Her father worked as an electrical contractor, and her mother was a teacher. At the age of 4, her mother left her husband and the house in California’s Mojave desert, talking the kids to live in a public housing project in the impoverished waths neighborhood of Los Angeles. Florence studied the Bible and prayed through adulthood. Florence Delorez Griffith-Joyner also know as Flo-Jo was an American track and field athlete

“Good Country People” is a short story written by Flannery O’Connor in the mid 50’s. The story takes place on farm in Georgia that Mrs. Hopewell owns. Flannery O’Connor uses the characters names and personalities to symbolize that they aren’t really who they think they are. The protagonist Joy-Hulga has a heart condition which and a peg leg. Her heat condition and disability reflects that she is a broken and weak person on the inside. Mrs. Hopewell is Joy-Hulga’s mother, she is very hopeful that

Good and Evil in Good Country People      In "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, the masked truth is reflected unequivocally through the reality in the story, its equal counterpart. For every good or evil thing, there is an antagonist or opposing force. Each character has a duplicate personality mirrored in someone else in the story. In the story, the names and personalities of the characters clash. The name is the mask covering the personality, which is representative of the

Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" is a story told through the examination of the relationships between the four main characters. All of the characters have distinct feelings about the others, from misunderstanding to contempt. Both Joy-Hulga, the protagonist, and Manley Pointer, the antagonist, are multi-faceted characters. While all of the characters have different levels of complexity, Joy-Hulga and Manley Pointer are the deepest and the ones with the most obvious facades. The

Everyone wants to believe that they are beautiful. For this reason, we tend to seek out that approval from others including our parents, friends, and other loved ones. Flannery O'Connor's story, "Good Country People," focuses on this particular theme. In her narrative, a young girl named Joy Hopewell longs for her mother's approval. When she does not find it, Joy begins to believe that she is unworthy of anyone's admiration. This basic premise allows for Manley Pointer to easily win Joy's trust

orchestral works, Three Places in New England, one can see how Ives uses complex compositional devices to not only establish his own identity as a composer but provide an American context as well. Biography Charles Ives was born in 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut. Charles was raised in a musical family, his father a well known bandmaster in his home county. George served as a soldier in the Union army during the American civil war and was raised in the tradition of American military music, which would be

Memoirs of a Caustic Clown: My Mother was a Lovely Dancer He still hates that putrid green shag carpet, he remembers playing with his plastic army men, pretending they were real soldiers walking through the weeds of Nam. His Father only talked about his time in Vietnam, when distanced from the clutches of sobriety, unfortunately for the boy that was nearly everyday. He hated when people talked about their childhoods, always considering it “the happiest time of their life," or better yet reminiscing

very intolerant itself and any dissenters were pushed out of the colony. 2. Other New England colonies sprouted up, due to (a) religious dissent from Plymouth and Massachusetts as with Rhode Island, (b) the constant search for more farmland as in Connecticut, and (c) just due to natural growth as in Maine. 3. The Middle Colonies emerged as the literal crossroads of the north and south. They held the stereotypical qualities of both regions: agricultural and industrial. And they were unique in that (a)