Jefferson “Jeff” Bussey is a 16 year old boy from Linn County, Kansas.. Who later enlists in the Union Army in 1861. Jeff is the protagonist of Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith. The novel takes place in between the years of 1861 to 1864 during the peak of the Civil War. Jefferson Bussey is a character who has left me with a strong impression.…
Rowe 2 Mia Rowe Ms. Johnson AP English Literature 6 November 2017 The Conflicting Ways of Mrs. Turner In most stories, characters are introduced with unknown intentions and unknown worldly views. Mrs. Turner, on the other hand, is not a character from most stories. From the second she makes a closer connection with Janie, she is very clear about her opinions on social structure and her own beliefs.…
Bob Ewell and his family of eight children live behind Maycomb's dump. Ewell uses his welfare money to buy alcohol while his children go hungry. He can be best described as a drunken, lazy, mostly unemployed member of Maycomb's poorest family. With his wrongful accusation that Tom Robinson raped his daughter, Ewell represents the narrow minded South which includes ignorance, scarcity, and racial…
Caroline Lusby is three-and-a-half-years old, she also has a younger sister, Savannah, who is one-and-a-half. Her parents, Martha and Ralph, both work full-time jobs. Martha is a nurse in the Infection Control Unit at John Hopkins Hospital, while Ralph works for the Government. Caroline attends a full-day preschool at Glenelg Country Day School in Glenelg, Maryland. When Caroline is not in pre-school she attends daycare with her younger sister Savannah.…
Melba Pattillo was a normal girl that just waned to be friends with everyone. When she was of age Melba was given the chance to go to Little Rock Central High. As in her book Warriors Don't Cry. On her first day she was heavily bullied people calling her names and her being it and teased about. A thing that made Melba strong was her belief in god.…
Despite being portrayed as somewhat ordinary, her determination, intelligence and bravery during the hard fought quest is what makes her…
Eleanor Longtooth or Claudius Clatwitt, if one is such a person, then one might suspect a third side. A reality apart. A place parallel to our own. Longtooth theorized that magic itself leaked from this place to ours.…
Could you imagine not being able to go to a specific school based on the color of your skin? Many African American children knew how that felt up until the 1960s. African Americans had just seriously started to fight back and fight for their rights, even going to the same school as the white children. When a law was passed to integrate school, all did so except for Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the book, Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals, nine African American students, including herself had to go through the experience of being in the middle of a integration feud between people who believed in equal rights and others that didn’t.…
“Everyone has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what really is beautiful. If we were all the same it would be boring.” by Tila Tequila. Melinda is self conscious about how other people think of her.…
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals tells a story of a then 16 years old girl and eight of her friend integrating Little Rock's Central High School. The nine students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Carlotta Walls, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Melba Patillo. The nine students soon became known as the Little Rock Nine. The integration of public schools in Little Rock took place after the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. The ruling stated that segregation of public school was unconstitutional.…
Billy Dobels and Brian Phung have been really close friends for around three years now. Billy is a funny guy. He knows how to turn a boring event into a fun one in a matter of minutes. A lot of his friends say that he is the life of the the party. Brian is a quiet guy and the valedictorian of his high school class.…
Melba’s changes throughout the story take a dramatic turn as the story progresses. She goes through so much as she grows up. She started out innocent to the cruel ways of the world. She first blindly was introduced to the racism of the world as an infant baby. Her mother conceived her and she fell ill, the doctors didn’t do anything to help her because she was an African American child.…
Donna Elvira is portrayed as the “Donna Abbandonata” (abandoned woman) throughout various literature. In particular, I will examine her character through Wolfgang A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni. Donna Elvira is a sensible and imprudent woman throughout her ordeal with Don Giovanni. She can’t decide whether she wants to kiss Giovanni or to kill him. Donna Elvira is unwavering in her goal throughout the opera.…
Every team has a universal goal for success. Every team desires to operate at optimum performance. Through a fictional account, Patrick Lencioni illustrates how talented teams fail to be successful. Lencioni identifies five defective traits of that will impede upon the achievement of teams. Additionally, Lencioni offers ways to remedy the situation.…
You’re Mine, Margery: The Utilization of Instrumentality, Ownership, and Unhealthy Relationships in The Book of Margery Kempe The nature of a patriarchal society is depicted by a system or social order where women are subordinated and considered inferior beings. The women in such a society have no power to make their personal choices and their actions pertaining different situations are dictated by men. Women are considered as second-class citizens with no voice or influence in decision-making in their respective patriarchal society. Margery lived in this typical nature of society.…