The Reading “Brain versus Brawn” is about a jocks high school career and how he was discriminated against because he was athletically talented. At his first school he benefited from the special treatment he was receiving from his teaches. But he declined their offers because he decided to earn his grade as every other student. When he transferred to another high school where football was not as important he began to see how his new teacher were harder on him than they were on any other students. The teacher judged him because they assumed that he was expecting hand outs and wasn’t willing to earn his own grades. But he proved everyone wrong and used discouraging teachers as motivation to work as hard in the classroom as he did on the field.…
“Show me Yours” by Richard Van Camp narrates the promising and apparent upturned in life experienced by Richard, a middle-aged man who at the beginning has experienced a nadir in his life caused by addiction issues and harmful friendships. After a bad night, by mere randomness, he decides to glue a found baby picture of him to his grandparent saint’s necklace and wears it under his shirt. Abruptly, the baby picture necklace becomes a trend in his community and seems to encourage care and positivism around the participants of the furor. Richard, who starts experiencing acceptance and recognition around the locality also reunites with an old love, Shawna, with whom he spends the night and appears to bring more hope to Richard’s situation. At…
Coyotes are known for reeling in chickens. That is what Mendez and other smugglers do to get large amounts of money from desperate illegal immigrants coming into the United States. Tragedies, like the Yuma 14/ Welton 26 occur often. Many deaths go unnoticed and some of those that enter the desert, never return. In the true account The Devils Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, The Welton 26 faced betrayal, hardship, and the possibility of death with great courage and peserverance.…
I am reading No Easy Way Out by Dayna Lorentz. I have read pages 150-341 this week. The prompt I have chosen this week is “How a character’s traits affect the story.”…
1. When data are read from a text file, you can use the BufferedReader to read one line at a time. After a line of data is read, there is no way of going back to read it again. To overcome this you can first read all the data into a structured object to store them, and then process the data later. Please use the DNA class (we have developed in the past a few weeks, which has properties of ID and seq, and the set/get methods) to develop a Java program to read in a FASTA format DNA sequence file, and parse out each sequence record into the part of ID and sequence. The ID is identified between the ">" and the "|" in the header line, and the sequence is the concatenation of all lines of the sequence part into a single string. Each DNA sequence record can then be stored into an array element of the DNA class. Use a loop in your program to prompt the user to enter a sequence ID, and if the ID exists print out the sequence. If the ID does not exist, print out a warning message. Exit the loop if the user enters “quit”. Please use the sequence file (seq.fasta) as the input file. Below is a sample output of the program: (2 points)…
‘It is through the characters that the themes of a novel come to life.’ Without characters the author would not be able to expand on the themes and provide depth into the novel. There would be no emotion in the novel and it would not be interesting to read. ‘A Bridge to Wiseman’s cove,’ by James Maloney, uses characters such as Carl, Harley and Justine to make the novel come to life through the themes of friendship, abandonment and support.…
Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels against society for different reasons. Chris is independent and demonstrates this throughout his journey. Huck struggles to find an identity which leads him to rebel against society.Would you consider Chris McCandless and Huck Finn rebels? I believe that both of the characters are rebels. They both are rebels…
Returning from one job site with a large spearfish, Alex learns from his close friend Jeff that he doesn't want to go to Japan for his next assignment, but to Las Vegas. The timing will allow them both to return to Manhattan and manage another new site there in the Big Apple. So it's off to Las Vegas for Alex Whitman, and during one of his early sojourns into a Mexican restaurant he meets Isabel. They find themselves in a casual night of passion. Three months later Isabel went to Alex's home to tell him that she is pregnant because of their one-night-stand. Alex chases Isabel to say he really didn't know how to react in the circumstance but he would like to do what is right. Isabel convinced him to…
A new society that was created by science and technology. The novel, Brave New World, was written by Aldous Huxley. This science fiction novel was published by the publishing company HarperCollins in New York, New York. The original copyright date was in the year of 1932, but was then later copyrighted in the year of 1946 by the author Aldous Huxley. John is the main character, but he is also the antagonist in this novel. He has many qualities that makes him important. He also has people that motivate him to behave and act certain ways. However, John also creates many conflicts with other people in this dystopian society.…
Romeo and Juliet Essay In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet find forbidden love for each other but things don’t go as planned. Metaphors and Romeo and Juliet’s actions emphasize how love is such a powerful emotion that guides people into making rash decisions Metaphors in the play show that love is a powerful emotion. When Romeo is crying because he cannot see Juliet anymore while contemplating suicide, Friar Lawrence says, “Thy tears are womanish” (III.iii.115-120).…
Grassian realized “these people were very sick.”(Maclyn Willigan “What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain”) Researcher Stuart Grassian who interview many men at Walpole State Penitentiary in 1982. she found that the men talked with symptoms “such as hallucinatory tendencies, paranoia, and delirium”( Maclyn Willigan “What Solitary Confinement Does to the Human Brain” ) Grassian characterize them as “SHU Syndrome” this syndrome has symptoms of PTSD, insomnia and uncontrollable feelings of rage and fear.…
In the world, there is a constant battle between good and evil. It is a choice that all men and women have to make at some point in life. This is demonstrated in “That Hideous Strength,” as the main characters, Mark and Jane, are in a state of dissatisfaction and must simultaneously make a decision. Jane is displayed as choosing the good side. However, the choice was not always easy and sometimes frightening. As truth of the world was revealed to her, she had to learn to trust the gift she had been given and use it to draw closer to the good. At the same time, Mark chooses a different path. As he chooses evil, he falls victim and swiftly reaches a desperate point of no escape. Mark may not have realized it at first, but it did not take long…
Some people say that nothing is permanent in life. These people are wrong, one thing is permanent; death. When a loved one dies, they are not forgotten, they are forever remembered and continuously affect those who were close to them. In the novel, Ordinary People, written by Judith Guest, this theme is seen in the Jarrett family after their youngest son, Buck, died in a boating accident. Each family member deals with the shock of Buck's Untimely death in different ways. Conrad feels responsible for Buck's death, Calvin sees it as mere chance, but is left reexamining his life after Buck, Beth tries to be a control freak about the situation force everyone to move past the accident. Each Family member attempts to make a temporary fix to the accident,…
Hypothetically, I am applying at local police after completing the police academy. One friend of mine from college actually work for the same department. However, she decided not to mention the fact that we were arrested for marijuana our freshman year, reason being is that the charges were dropped because the search the officers ducted was illegal. She also advised me that the department does not conduct polygraph as part of the hiring process. I now have the decision to either lie on the form or tell the truth about the incident. I know if that if I lie eventually I will be found out, but I believe that the long-ago arrest will never become known. If I don’t lie, I will be asked to explain the situation of the arrest and my friend will be implicated in the story.…
The mind is a trust from God. The cultivated mind is the measure of the man. The mind is to be educated that the best energies of the soul will be brought out and every faculty be developed. We must not be contented with a low standard. We are to move onward from one advanced line of work to another. The mind is the best possession we have; but it must be trained by study, by reflection, by learning in the school of Christ, the best and truest educator the world has ever known. Because every faculty of the mind shows that God designed these faculties to be used, not to remain inactive. The positiveness and energy, the solidity and strength of character manifested in Christ are to be developed in us through the same discipline that He endured.…