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Byron Nelson is 33. He has a thirteen-year-old daughter he sees once a year, is on his sixth attempt in attempting to get a degree, and embodies the heart and soul of Haywood’s restaurant in Lexington VA. On a typical day, Byron wakes up praying that he has not slept through his morning Calculus class, goes to his Physics class, visits both his professor’s office hours, drives an hour to get to work, leaves work at 11PM, drives an hour to get home, and stays up until 6AM doing homework. Byron is

Summarize - Ishmael is told that he is going to live with his uncle’s family officially in two weeks. He was scared about how he’d act, since he’s been alone for so long. He says farewell to his friends in the center, and learns that Mambu is going back to the army because he won’t be taken in by his family. He says farewell to Esther, too. He realizes that he never told her how thankful he was for her support. He goes to his Uncle’s house, and loves it there. He shares a room with Allie, his older

This documentary detailed the life and accomplishments of Bayard Rustin. He was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania in 1912. He grew up in a Quaker household and never knew his father, but his mom always encouraged him to oppose injustices nonviolently. Rustin seemed to take this advice to heart, based on movements that he organized later on in life. He was present for many major advancements of black people, but often times seemed to be in the background. I quickly learned that Rustin did not always

Genesis Martinez-Morales Honors OHS Transit is a novel of an unnamed narrator who spends a couple of years of his life in Marseille, a port side town in freed France, trying to find a way to stay in Europe while also finding a way to get out through many layers of paperwork that require him to constantly go to bureaucracy agencies and basically wasting his time there. The novel is in actuality based on the real life of Anna Seghers and her experience in trying to leave France with her two children

The three Baudelaire orphans have been placed under the care of their closest living relative, herpetologist, Dr. Montgomery Montgomery. "Uncle Monty", as he prefers to be called, is a short, chubby man with a round, red face. The children immediately like him. He lets them each choose their own bedroom and informs them that they are going to accompany him on a trip to Peru to study snakes. The children are fascinated by the many snakes in the "Reptile Room", a giant hall in which Monty's reptile

It is Eddie’s fifth birthday, and an Irish man, called Mickey Shea joyfully picks Eddie up by his feet and shakes him out once for each year he has completed, while the other adult men laugh and cheer. Firstly, “Eddie is wearing his birthday gift, a red cowboy hat and a toy holster. He gets up and runs from one group to the next, pulling out the toy gun and going, ‘Bang, bang!’ ‘C’mere boy’ Mickey Shea beckons from a bench. ‘Bang, bang,’ goes Eddie. MIckey Shea works with Eddie’s dad, fixing the

“The snows of Kilimanjaro” Death is certain in life, but some seemingly harmless things can facilitate death. The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway, is about a man of wealth who takes trip to Africa to go on a safari. The man’s wife is woman of high stature who has plenty of money. The man is a writer who charms his way into wealth, which has hurt his writing career He does not love the women he marries; he just likes women's bodies and their pockets. When the man was asked if he loved his

One of the traditional principles of the US is that it supports religious liberty and the separation of the Church and the state. In fact, the Founding Fathers regarded this as such high importance that it was incorporated into the Bill of Rights as the first Amendment of the US Constitution. However, at this time the overwhelming majority of Americans were Christians, and the Founding Fathers could not have predicted how religiously diverse the US would become. The 1965 Immigration and Naturalization

"The Island" investigates important science fiction topics that are reflected in today's way of life of corporate morals, restorative morals, jail populations, organ transplants, class warfare and others. The motion picture depends on the thought that, at some point, the well-off residents of the world may pay a private partnership to develop substitution body parts so that the customers may accomplish eternality even as they destroy their own particular organs through unfortunate way of life decisions

“Gather around boys and girls to hear a story about the men forgotten by the world, “said the story teller. All the boys and girls gathered around the old wrinkly and tall black man. “What’s the story about Mr. Washington,” said Jimmy. “Well let’s get to it and find out then, we begin in way back 1865 and it was the year slaves had been freed”. The white men had pushed the Indians off their land around 1848 and put them on reservations, but they needed a strong group of men to fight them. In what