In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” author Mike Rose highlights and explains the multi-thinking process involved in a blue collar job. In the article, Rose gives a detailed description of his mother working as a waitress in several restaurants. He observed his mother, Rose Meraglio Rose, achieving a great expertise over the years, by creating a perfect coordination between her body and brain. Rose also describes that “The restaurant became the place where she (Rose) studied human behavior, puzzling over the problems of her regular customer ad refining her ability to deal with people in a difficult world (Rose 275). In other words, the restaurant was the place where Rose used all her brilliance to merge in her surroundings. Rose also introduces…
In sunset towers the murder mystery commences. In book named The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The students are confused from all the redheirings to the killer of Sam Westing. The Westing Game books and movies contain many similarities and differences that are worth listening to.…
He has to beat a lich (a serpent) in a game of Joust (an 80’s video game). When he wins, his name was the first to appear on the leaderboard and he becomes famous in OASIS. It became a race to obtain all the keys and pass all the gates to get to Halliday's egg. Wade has the cooper key, but now he needs to discover the location of the first gate to move on in the race. Wade goes to find the gate in James Halliday's hometown.…
Have you ever imagined of what people’s lives in the future might look like? Did you ever think about how different or similar they might be? In this book Invitation To The Game By Monica Hughes, the main character Lisse has a very unusual life compared to mine.…
Chad Foster's book Teenagers Preparing for the Real World, is a great motivational piece for teens and leaves a lasting impression on the reader. In the chapter "Mr. X and Mr. President," Foster instills the importance of contacts and friendship in a person's life. His example of Mr. X shows kids that a friendship formed in a person's younger years can pay off greatly down the road, emotionally and even financially. He then tells the tale of his father's first experience in the work world, where he met two men, had a brief friendship for a few months, then moved. Foster senior continued to correspond with these men for the next thirty years, never even seeing each other. As it turns out, one of these men was President George Bush and Foster had the opportunity to meet him in person. This story is significant because it shows that everyone grows up to be someone in the world, and someday you just might want to be their contact. Overall, this is a very well put together chapter and defiantly leaves an impression on the…
Truer to the game by Randy Horick is a short story, possibly an excerpt from something larger, about how women’s basketball more clearly reflects the essence of the game. He claims that for a multitude of reasons that I will discuss later in this, that women’s collegiate basketball and the WNBA are representative of the true nature of the sport. More shots from behind the 3-point line, less fouls, plays that happen at a speed you can understand, and more behind the scenes stuff is what differentiates men and women’s. He cites pressure to win as his main argument for the cause of the differences in the two. This pressure to win creates an environment of hostility; athletes only play at the collegiate level for a few short years, not earning…
In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, Rainsford, the main character, goes through hard times because he is forced to transition from a hunter to a huntee, then back to a hunter. As he uses his many strengths and his knowledge from both perspectives, he creates a plan and ends up beating the whole game despite all of his conflicts. In all likelihood, this wouldn't happen in real life, but we can still learn from him. Throughout the story, the reader witnesses how Rainsford's character struggles with different conflicts with his enemy,…
This graphic novel written by Lisa Chen consists of different chapters that provide insight on several periods of her life, that impact and shape her into the person she is today. The Lead Up is a chapter that recounts the events that occur before her stepmother and father divorce. The chapter depicts how these events had significantly affected her and how that has caused her to be the emotionally sensitive yet resilient and independent teenager she is today after experiencing these hardships. It is written after reading Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, to gain insight on the writing process.…
Maxwell, John C. (2002). The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc.…
1. Personality is a relatively stable set of traits that aids in explaining and predicting individual behavior. What are some of Mark Cuban's traits that can explain his behavior during Maverick games?…
Throughout the novel, Wade has to make the necessary decisions that change him. He has to compromise or give something up for something else. To begin, when Wade had found the copper key he couldn’t tell his best friend because he knew it was something that could not be shared. He had to be secretive of all the secrets that could potentially hurt him.…
In Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type”, King uses imagery, setting and irony to ask the question “What will a person risk in order to survive?” In this short story, Richard Pine, a medical school graduate, surgeon and a pill pusher is on his way back home to the United States with 2 Kilos of heroin, when the cruise ship that he is on sinks after an enormous explosion. Dr. Pine manages to get onto a life boat that takes him to a deserted island which Pine describes as small enough to spit across. He is on the island with very few resources and of course the 2 kilos of heroin worth $350,000. Richard Pine resorts to killing gulls in order to suppress his hunger but then ends up falling into a hole and fracturing his ankle. This disability leaves Pine vulnerable to nature and unable to fully function in killing his food on the island. He is then left realizing how and what he will do in order to survive until someone rescues him. When hunger overcomes his body and he is unable to kill his food, Dr. Pine starts slowly eating away at his own body, in hopes of being rescued very soon. He takes the heroin to dull the pain from the amputation. Days turn into weeks and Richard Pine is left eating the one thing that was most valuable in his life--his hands.…
Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O. Russell is based on Pat Solitano, a former teacher who was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 Disorder after walking in on his wife cheating with the history teacher from the school they teach at. This paper will compare how the movie portrays Bipolar 1 Disorder, and distinguish the differences between the two by using the DSM-V as a resource. In addition, the DSM-V made changes to facilitate diagnosing Bipolar 1 and 2 earlier, instead of misdiagnosing for another disorder (Culpepper, 2014). Here is an overview of the changes to the DSM-V in relation to Bipolar 1 Disorder. The changes include an addition to Criterion A that includes increased energy/activity as a main symptom of Bipolar 1 disorder. Bipolar…
Is it wrong to want better for your child? This is one of the issues faced in Edward J. Whitelock’s “Future Connected By”. Throughout the poem we learn of a young boy’s admiration of his fathers’ work despite the father’s desire for a different profession for his son. As a parent your primary job is to prepare your child for how the world really works. The father only wants whats best for his child and i strongly agree with this descision. Based on my research and own personal expierence, I have found that Whitelock is trying to get across the two different perspectives of that of the young boy and the father. The father doesnt want his son to emobdy his profession as a welder. Whitelocks’ father states that his son is “too smart for that”…
The three leters ‘o’, ‘e’, and ‘i’ go into the spaces of the title. obelisk.…