Dr Ellena‚ I have been informed that Tomahawk Creek Middle School is considering a year-round schedule. I understand that this means that there will be three-week breaks after each nine weeks‚ instead of one long summer break. I respect the school board’s decision‚ but I believe that this may be a colossal failure. Please consider these points that may have been overlooked. First of all‚ this means we will be in school during August. We will not have that long for maintenance or repairs to happen
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Like Dolmens round my childhood analysis In this poem John Montague compares old country characters to megalithic tombs. In the first stanza Montague describes the personality of the loner Jamie McCrystal‚ a man who sang tuneless songs to himself. Jamie was a kind man who fed the birds and gave John a penny for sweets every week. John Montague states the fact that his house was robbed and ransacked for money after he died at home. In the second stanza‚ the poet describes an unusual old lady who
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In Susan Glaspell’s‚“Trifles‚” Mrs. Peters is the round character. While being a supportive sheriff’s wife‚ Mrs.Peters would follow all the guideline set in place for her. Such as what to say and what to do to be an honorable female in a society the is ruled by men. In the play the men would make careless remarks that were meant to dishonor the women. For example‚ when they show concert for Mrs. Wright’s preserves because they might have frozen‚ Mr. Hale relates women’s chores to “trifles”. While
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competitions‚ rivalries between kingdoms‚ and knightly chivalry. Several of these tales center on the bravery of knights against mighty foes or on their ability to resist earthly temptations. Sir Gawain is the nephew of King Arthur and is a knight of the round table. He appears in more Arthurian-tales than any other knight and is known as the ideal that all knights should strive for. (Joe) In the Arthurian-Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ Sir Gawain faces many challenges and his decisions based
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"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is a satiric comedy about the quest of King Arthur. The movie starts out with Arthur‚ King of the Britons‚ looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure‚ Sir Lancelot the brave‚ the quiet Sir Bedevere‚ and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. Through satire and parody of certain events in history (witch trials‚ the black plague) they find Camelot‚ but after literally a quick song and dance they decide
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reason why schools shut down for 10 weeks every summer‚ but not for a wonderful reason. The reason being that it’s been like that since the 20th century. People think that it should stay the same because it has never changed. Learning should be a year round for students‚ even during the summer. In September students get up as well as go back to school having lost two months worth of learning. People feel that the school should stay the same as five days a week. The Public school days system is spending
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In the Story “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” A green knight appeared to King Arthur an the Knights at the Round Table. The Green Knight then challenged the knights too use his axe and cut of his head‚ but after they have done the Green Knight will also get the chance to do the same to them. No knight at the took the challenge so Gawain the weakest of the knights took the challenge‚ knowing he is the weakest took the challenge knowing he would be the least miss. In the story “Sir Gawain and The
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The story of a knight going out on an unbelievable quest is nothing new‚ but the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight may be one of the most interesting examples of a Knight going out to face his foe and his designated destiny. The long poem full of wonderful narration and tongue twisters was first written by an unknown writer in the 1400 in the northern part of England . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was not necessarily an instant hit‚ understandably so‚ at its birth period was not the high
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atmosphere‚ the reader is able to catch a glimpse of these 5 Knightly Virtues or standards Gawain is put up against as a knight of high honor‚ the troubles he faces with his courtly lover‚ and how each of these affects his character as a knight of the Round Table as well as a courtly lover. All throughout the poem the ideals of chivalry are prominent. These morals can be described as a lifestyle for these knights followed by not only Arthur’s court but by all knights.
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The story “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” has many different settings and locations that are intertwined in the confusing‚ but humorous story. It starts out at King Arthur’s kingdom‚ Camelot. There is a knight that rides in on a horse asking to seek the leader. “Where is he‚ he said‚ The Captain of the crowd” (Pearl-Poet 167.225). The knight then proceeds to talk about how he has a game and ask one of King Arthur’s knights to cut his head off in exchange in a year he gets to return the favor. There
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