The President Has Been Shot Analysis
I have read many books this year, most of which are in the genres of non-fiction. Non- Fiction is by far, my favorite genre because I love learning about not only our country’s history but the world’s.
Some books I found notable in the non-fiction genre, were “Manhunt” a compelling read about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I found James L. Swanson’s book enjoyable because of its descriptive words, and the author’s deep knowledge and love for the subject.
Another book by Mr. Swanson I find very good is “The President Has Been Shot.” Swanson writes about the gruesome events in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The book is thrilling, suspenseful and sometimes even a little bit ironic, as it tells two sides of the story.
Peter Ackroyd’s …show more content…
“The Tudors” is an amazing book that I would suggest to anyone, even if you try to avoid non-fiction. Mr.Ackroyd’s extensive knowledge about the reigns of King Henry VIII, Queens Mary and Elizabeth I is shown repeatedly in the 507 page book. I could barely put the book down, as I hung to almost every word. As a history lover, when I read a book, sometimes I already know the subject well or some of the facts. However, The Tudors gave me new insight that even contradicted some to my previous thoughts.
While the genre of non-fiction excites me, it won’t stop me from reading some of the classics. I was instilled the love of J.R.R. Tolkien from my fifth grade teacher who had read us “The Hobbit.” I was surprised to learn how much I loved fantasy, at that point I had never bothered reading. In seventh grade we had to pick classics to read, and it was as though a light had shown on it, The Hobbit. I immediately sat down and started to read. Gripping to every word, sentence and paragraph I couldn’t help but notice that I was seemingly slipping into a trance that took me straight to Middle Earth.
Harper Lee’s “How to Kill a Mockingbird” while seeming at first glance like a story about a young girl named Scout’s summer, was actually inspiring and much deeper than I had previously thought. I was always told from a young age that every book has a meaning. At first I saw no meaning, in Harper Lee’s book. That’s when I realized the theme, actually multiple themes. In fact, I couldn’t stop thinking of themes as I bounced from friendship, to acceptance, to racism. In the end, I was actually sad that the book ended because I had learned a lot from it.
I have watched almost every crime TV show, and read all about crime in the newspapers, so it was only fitting that I picked up the Queen of Mystery’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Agatha Christie’s book left me on cliff hanger after cliff hanger, while the book sometimes had French, it was easy to follow and a had great storyline, I would suggest to anyone that loves a good mystery to get this book now!
Question 2
At first glance, people define me as athletic, hardworking, determined and helpful. Why am I considered athletic? I am considered athletic because I love sports, I watch them all the time. Not only do I watch sports but I play them too. I have always had a deep love for baseball, watching Red Sox games with my dad. I was always the only girl on the Coach Pitch baseball team. By the time I was 10, I decided to play softball. Softball is all about determination, teamwork and grit. In my three years on the Canton, Connecticut softball team I went from outfield, to catcher and even second base. We had won first place in the league when I was twelve. I was expecting to get a big trophy to carry around. Instead we were given participation trophies. I was not a happy camper. Like my mom, another serious sports fan, competition runs in our blood, if we don’t win we only strive to get better. In the words of Eminem “Success is my only option, failure is not”.
When softball season is over, I go right into basketball. I have been playing basketball since I was nine, I was about 4’6, learning how to dribble and barely being able to shoot. Now I’m 5’5 and playing block for School Of St. Mary’s competitive team. I started the sport in fifth grade with my mom’s friend as coach, at that time it was all about the FUN-dementals and nobody really took it seriously. In sixth grade, not wanting to go completive yet I played on a recreational team with the seventh graders, and that seemed pretty competitive to me. In seventh grade I joined my school’s team the Canton Warriors. I thought we were pretty good, playing girls twice our size and much older. I was given the title of “Most Improved”. When I got to St. Mary’s Coach Trkla really whipped me into shape. Now I feel confident that I can play the best I can in basketball.
I also play soccer, which was my first sport. Soccer isn’t my best sport, but I love to play. In Canton we got first in the league twice. When I moved to Lake Forest, my team went undefeated. I love soccer because not only do I play the sport, I love to watch the Women’s US Team on TV.
Why am I hardworking and helpful? I have been in Girl Scouts of America since I was four. In fifth grade, I did my bronze star project. I decided to do a bike drive for people in need all over the globe. My mom had called the news station and contacted the newspapers. Being interviewed for the local news, Better Connecticut was awesome for me. I’ve always been nervous, even preforming King Melchior at my Christmas pageant made me nervous. In the end I got over my fear. Then the big day arrived: the bike drive. My mom and I were hoping for around 50 bikes, instead we got over 200. Why am I determined? This year I hope to do the same thing but on a much bigger scale. This time I will be working with my friends, without any help from parents because we are in eighth grade now and we should be able to do this on our own. We are hoping to get around 250 bikes.
Question 3
I hope to accomplish many things in the following years. In the near future I want to receive my Silver Star, in which I will be organizing a drive and collecting bikes for people in need all over the world. This may sound like my bronze star but I assure you it’s not. This time there will be no outside help except for the other six girls working on the project with me. For my gold star, I want to do the same thing except it would just be me, no parents, no friends just me. Why would I want to do the same thing over again? I’m not, each time I do this it gets harder and harder. I started with a parent doing most of the work, now it will just be me and my friends and for my gold star it will just be me. I would like to see my growth through this process. I would like to accomplish something that will help others, I want to inspire others and I want to change the way at least one person view’s the world, and to me if I can change how one person sees the world, then I have already changed the world.
Question 4 I have taken Spanish for five years, in seventh grade I took honors Spanish where I learned 2 years of Spanish in one.
I love to write, I was a finalist in the Veteran’s Day essay in sixth grade and I spend my free time writing, reading or making up stories. Currently I’m writing a book called “Dark April” which is about all the bad things that happened on April 14th. This includes a long list such as Lincoln’s assassination, the first Jews reported at Auschwitz, the cure for typhoid is created and the sinking of the Titanic. I love to push my boundaries, and try new things like food or books. I love to learn about the world and have been to a few countries, however not as many as I would like to one day see. I received S.O.M (student of the month) four times in seventh grade, making honor roll three times, and receiving M.A.G.I.C student a total of seven times. I was placed into honors English and Spanish and even started my own sports blog. However my biggest academic achievement would be receiving the President’s Award for Outstanding Academics. I pride myself on my speaking skills, preforming in my church’s annual Christmas pageant and even forcing my brothers to be in my holiday plays in my basement. I enjoy doing readings during school Mass. I love little kids, so I took a baby sitting course called Safe Sitter. I read to little kids in the basement of my old church during mass, sang songs and did crafts with them because readings and Homilies are to complex for a bunch of three and five year olds. I went to the soup kitchen in Waukegan and helped out there for the afternoon, and I helped set up a haunted house at the Gorton community center for little kids, even helping re arrange paperback books at the library. I love being a leader because I stick up for what’s right. I’m independent and I don’t care what others think of me. I donate money to charities such as the Hole In The Wall Gang, which is now known as SeriousFun. I also ran a 5K for VIE, a group
that helps raise money for children battling cancer, my mom worked on both of these committees because we both love helping people.
Question 5
Admiration from some is hard to get. Admiration from everyone is nearly impossible. I believe my great Grandmother Jeanne Sweeney achieved the impossible. She received her college diploma from Brinmar, she got her masters and doctorate in archeology and minored in anthropology. She settled in the field of archeology at the age of 50. She helped unearth the temples in Copan, Honduras. While she was there she worked with a team of students from Penn. She collected pieces of pottery and compared them. She studied their shapes and markings and eventually reconstructed them. She worked for over twenty years in her field, studying mostly southern and Central American archeology and culture. She collected cave drawings, ancient heads, sacrificial tools, and masks.
She took her dissertation in a room full of men. After she passed she went on more digs. After coming back from one dig when unearthing “complex E” in La Venta, in Mexico. La Venta is home to the colossal heads, which are huge boulders with faces. These heads have lots of mystery surrounding them. They are almost like the Hispanic version of Stonehenge. Google says there are 34,038 people in America with the name Jeanne Sweeney. But in my mind, there will only be one, my great grandmother, Jeanne Sweeney.
Some books I found notable in the non-fiction genre, were “Manhunt” a compelling read about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I found James L. Swanson’s book enjoyable because of its descriptive words, and the author’s deep knowledge and love for the subject.
Another book by Mr. Swanson I find very good is “The President Has Been Shot.” Swanson writes about the gruesome events in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The book is thrilling, suspenseful and sometimes even a little bit ironic, as it tells two sides of the story.
Peter Ackroyd’s …show more content…
“The Tudors” is an amazing book that I would suggest to anyone, even if you try to avoid non-fiction. Mr.Ackroyd’s extensive knowledge about the reigns of King Henry VIII, Queens Mary and Elizabeth I is shown repeatedly in the 507 page book. I could barely put the book down, as I hung to almost every word. As a history lover, when I read a book, sometimes I already know the subject well or some of the facts. However, The Tudors gave me new insight that even contradicted some to my previous thoughts.
While the genre of non-fiction excites me, it won’t stop me from reading some of the classics. I was instilled the love of J.R.R. Tolkien from my fifth grade teacher who had read us “The Hobbit.” I was surprised to learn how much I loved fantasy, at that point I had never bothered reading. In seventh grade we had to pick classics to read, and it was as though a light had shown on it, The Hobbit. I immediately sat down and started to read. Gripping to every word, sentence and paragraph I couldn’t help but notice that I was seemingly slipping into a trance that took me straight to Middle Earth.
Harper Lee’s “How to Kill a Mockingbird” while seeming at first glance like a story about a young girl named Scout’s summer, was actually inspiring and much deeper than I had previously thought. I was always told from a young age that every book has a meaning. At first I saw no meaning, in Harper Lee’s book. That’s when I realized the theme, actually multiple themes. In fact, I couldn’t stop thinking of themes as I bounced from friendship, to acceptance, to racism. In the end, I was actually sad that the book ended because I had learned a lot from it.
I have watched almost every crime TV show, and read all about crime in the newspapers, so it was only fitting that I picked up the Queen of Mystery’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Agatha Christie’s book left me on cliff hanger after cliff hanger, while the book sometimes had French, it was easy to follow and a had great storyline, I would suggest to anyone that loves a good mystery to get this book now!
Question 2
At first glance, people define me as athletic, hardworking, determined and helpful. Why am I considered athletic? I am considered athletic because I love sports, I watch them all the time. Not only do I watch sports but I play them too. I have always had a deep love for baseball, watching Red Sox games with my dad. I was always the only girl on the Coach Pitch baseball team. By the time I was 10, I decided to play softball. Softball is all about determination, teamwork and grit. In my three years on the Canton, Connecticut softball team I went from outfield, to catcher and even second base. We had won first place in the league when I was twelve. I was expecting to get a big trophy to carry around. Instead we were given participation trophies. I was not a happy camper. Like my mom, another serious sports fan, competition runs in our blood, if we don’t win we only strive to get better. In the words of Eminem “Success is my only option, failure is not”.
When softball season is over, I go right into basketball. I have been playing basketball since I was nine, I was about 4’6, learning how to dribble and barely being able to shoot. Now I’m 5’5 and playing block for School Of St. Mary’s competitive team. I started the sport in fifth grade with my mom’s friend as coach, at that time it was all about the FUN-dementals and nobody really took it seriously. In sixth grade, not wanting to go completive yet I played on a recreational team with the seventh graders, and that seemed pretty competitive to me. In seventh grade I joined my school’s team the Canton Warriors. I thought we were pretty good, playing girls twice our size and much older. I was given the title of “Most Improved”. When I got to St. Mary’s Coach Trkla really whipped me into shape. Now I feel confident that I can play the best I can in basketball.
I also play soccer, which was my first sport. Soccer isn’t my best sport, but I love to play. In Canton we got first in the league twice. When I moved to Lake Forest, my team went undefeated. I love soccer because not only do I play the sport, I love to watch the Women’s US Team on TV.
Why am I hardworking and helpful? I have been in Girl Scouts of America since I was four. In fifth grade, I did my bronze star project. I decided to do a bike drive for people in need all over the globe. My mom had called the news station and contacted the newspapers. Being interviewed for the local news, Better Connecticut was awesome for me. I’ve always been nervous, even preforming King Melchior at my Christmas pageant made me nervous. In the end I got over my fear. Then the big day arrived: the bike drive. My mom and I were hoping for around 50 bikes, instead we got over 200. Why am I determined? This year I hope to do the same thing but on a much bigger scale. This time I will be working with my friends, without any help from parents because we are in eighth grade now and we should be able to do this on our own. We are hoping to get around 250 bikes.
Question 3
I hope to accomplish many things in the following years. In the near future I want to receive my Silver Star, in which I will be organizing a drive and collecting bikes for people in need all over the world. This may sound like my bronze star but I assure you it’s not. This time there will be no outside help except for the other six girls working on the project with me. For my gold star, I want to do the same thing except it would just be me, no parents, no friends just me. Why would I want to do the same thing over again? I’m not, each time I do this it gets harder and harder. I started with a parent doing most of the work, now it will just be me and my friends and for my gold star it will just be me. I would like to see my growth through this process. I would like to accomplish something that will help others, I want to inspire others and I want to change the way at least one person view’s the world, and to me if I can change how one person sees the world, then I have already changed the world.
Question 4 I have taken Spanish for five years, in seventh grade I took honors Spanish where I learned 2 years of Spanish in one.
I love to write, I was a finalist in the Veteran’s Day essay in sixth grade and I spend my free time writing, reading or making up stories. Currently I’m writing a book called “Dark April” which is about all the bad things that happened on April 14th. This includes a long list such as Lincoln’s assassination, the first Jews reported at Auschwitz, the cure for typhoid is created and the sinking of the Titanic. I love to push my boundaries, and try new things like food or books. I love to learn about the world and have been to a few countries, however not as many as I would like to one day see. I received S.O.M (student of the month) four times in seventh grade, making honor roll three times, and receiving M.A.G.I.C student a total of seven times. I was placed into honors English and Spanish and even started my own sports blog. However my biggest academic achievement would be receiving the President’s Award for Outstanding Academics. I pride myself on my speaking skills, preforming in my church’s annual Christmas pageant and even forcing my brothers to be in my holiday plays in my basement. I enjoy doing readings during school Mass. I love little kids, so I took a baby sitting course called Safe Sitter. I read to little kids in the basement of my old church during mass, sang songs and did crafts with them because readings and Homilies are to complex for a bunch of three and five year olds. I went to the soup kitchen in Waukegan and helped out there for the afternoon, and I helped set up a haunted house at the Gorton community center for little kids, even helping re arrange paperback books at the library. I love being a leader because I stick up for what’s right. I’m independent and I don’t care what others think of me. I donate money to charities such as the Hole In The Wall Gang, which is now known as SeriousFun. I also ran a 5K for VIE, a group
that helps raise money for children battling cancer, my mom worked on both of these committees because we both love helping people.
Question 5
Admiration from some is hard to get. Admiration from everyone is nearly impossible. I believe my great Grandmother Jeanne Sweeney achieved the impossible. She received her college diploma from Brinmar, she got her masters and doctorate in archeology and minored in anthropology. She settled in the field of archeology at the age of 50. She helped unearth the temples in Copan, Honduras. While she was there she worked with a team of students from Penn. She collected pieces of pottery and compared them. She studied their shapes and markings and eventually reconstructed them. She worked for over twenty years in her field, studying mostly southern and Central American archeology and culture. She collected cave drawings, ancient heads, sacrificial tools, and masks.
She took her dissertation in a room full of men. After she passed she went on more digs. After coming back from one dig when unearthing “complex E” in La Venta, in Mexico. La Venta is home to the colossal heads, which are huge boulders with faces. These heads have lots of mystery surrounding them. They are almost like the Hispanic version of Stonehenge. Google says there are 34,038 people in America with the name Jeanne Sweeney. But in my mind, there will only be one, my great grandmother, Jeanne Sweeney.