Emmit Smith announced his retirement February 3, 2005. It was a very emotional moment for Smith, who has played running back in the NFL for fifteen years (thirteen of those years for the Dallas Cowboys). As Smith announced his retirement tears began to flow down his face stating "It's been a tremendous ride." Over his career in the NFL, Smith has racked up many impressive statistics and awards. Smith has played on three Super Bowl championship teams (including an MVP award in 1993). Smith is currently the NFL's all time leading rusher with 18,355 yards.…
In the Stevie Wonder song "Black Man," the Motown marvel sings of Benjamin Banneker: "first clock to be made in America was created by a black man." Though the song is a fitting salute to a great inventor (and African Americans in general), it only touches on the genius of Benjamin Banneker and the many hats he wore – as a farmer, mathematician, astronomer, author and land surveyor.…
(1) Inform the reader why you have selected your chosen leader and describe how you came to know the individual…
In this essay, I will be comparing how and why the writers use strong feelings about human nature in Macbeth and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.…
Unconditional love gives Elie and his father the power and strength to overcome the most dramatic experience of their lives. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a great book. This amazing novel demonstrates many different things, such as the father-son relationship between Elie and his father is what kept them alive. They always wanted to be together, Elie and Shlomo never gave up on each other and Elie was staying alive for his father. A fathers role is to protect his child and a Sons role is to protect his parent when they are in need. In Night Elie and Shlomo both protected each other.…
Ben Quilty is an Australian artist producing rich visual images which have earned him a national reputation. Acclaimed as a portraitist, Quilty creates thickly impastoed canvases using vibrant coloursand broad brush strokes that build up layers of paint.…
Both poems are about the death of a child. However, the poets have chosen to actually state the death at different places of the poem. Jonson reveals and hints the death in the first three words of the first line, ‘Farewell, thou child…’ However Heaney doesn’t actually clearly state that his brother has died, but instead spreads it out across the whole poem especially in the second half, ‘the corpse…’, ‘I saw him… Paler now’ and ‘the bumper knocked him clear.’ The effect of this is so that it takes the audience a while before they can establish what has happened. Heaney may have…
On July 4th, 1776, representatives in a small courthouse in Pennsylvania signed the Declaration of Independence. The men that signed that paper would come to be known as the founding fathers (1 Kindig, Thomas). Everyone has heard of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, but who has heard of Benjamin Rush?…
After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his Vice President, Andrew Johnson, had no other choice but to accept the Presidential position. While he was president, Andrew Johnson failed to act as a partly leader which eventually led to his impeachment. Andrew Johnson’s worst quality as president was his lack of care for the public’s opinion. Johnson ignored the public and pardoned the Confederates, rather than punishing them, causing people to distrust him.…
The poem "On My First Son" is a elegy about Ben Jonson's son who died at the age of 7. Ben Jonson looks at death as a terrible stage in life that has taken away his son at such a young age. He can not understand why God has taken his son away so soon and wishes that it was he himself that God had chosen as expressed in this quote "Will man lament the state he should envy?" (Line 6). Ben Jonson uses figurative language throughout the poem to strengthen his sad and morbid tone. The author used two types of figurative language in the first line of his poem, "Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;"(line 1). He first addresses a "farewell" to his son which is an apostrophe since his son can not answer. He also made a biblical reference to Jesus being at the right hand of God, called an allusion. Ben Jonson strengthens his tone by using an extended metaphor in lines 3 and 4, "Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day." That metaphor of God "lending" Ben his first son really keeps the reader interested and creates a nice flow carried throughout the poem. Towards the end of the poem we learn that the author can no longer love so strongly in fear that whatever he loves will be taken away from him.…
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Roald Dahl's life was almost as fantastic as his books. Dahl's patterns in his life are much like the patterns in his novels. He made a clear connection with the tragedies that his characters are faced with. One theme that is apparent in most of Dahl's work is the use of cruelty by authority figures on the weak and powerless. Dahl with humor turns this cruelty to be more of a positive, amusing aspect, rather than a negative traumatizing one that he himself was forced to overcome. Tragedy in the family, negativity towards figures of authority, orphans, and absent parental figures are among many of the intertwined themes in his novels. Whether positive or negative, at least one character in each of his novels mimics one person who had an effect on his life.…
All poems have underlined meanings, many are not straightforward, and sometimes what you think is happening, is the exact opposite. Emily Dickinson’s poem “Dying,” is a perfect example of this idea. In her poem she talking about the idea of death and what happened before she died. Obviously she is not dead because she wrote the poem. Here in this poem, she uses the idea of actual death to symbolize rebirth; the ending of old way of living and the struggle of creating a new way to life.…
The beginning of his poem tells us not to fret over death and anticipate the horrors that it might possibly hold. He encourages us, that when we do begin to feel this way, to go outside and see how nature is strong, constant, and seemingly infinite, just as the reality of death is constant and unchanging. He convinces us that we are all going to die, no matter what our social or economic status, and that we will all eventually pass on and return to the earth. He then, in his concluding lines, tells us how to approach our encroaching death.…
On returning to England, he became an actor and playwright, experiencing the life of a strolling player.…