Hi Emilka‚ Here are my two favorite lines from your story: “The fantastic‚ frantic footsteps of my coworkers - young sharply dressed waiters - moving in with empty plates and going out with food‚ hot and ready‚ on silver platters to bring to those over privileged elitists whose suits and dresses probably cost more than my rent.” I like this because it clearly captures the environment of a busy restaurant. It captures the energy really well. “Nothing really worth paying too much attention to - the
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not “APLAC worthy”. A book read in such an advanced course must go beyond the walls of the classroom and have application in the real world. The text must spur deep thoughts and intricate questions instead of being forgotten as soon as you leave school. That being said‚ the perfect book to include in the APLAC curriculum would be His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt written by Joseph Lelyveld. Students have plenty to learn and express by reading up on the great life lived by Franklin
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During his time of vast country control and aspirations of becoming the emperor of the new world‚ Napoleon influenced countless composers simply through conquering their land. Napoleons conquest stirred a massive amount of nationalism in these countries and over time artist and musicians such as Beethoven have created there work in which they were inspired by Napoleon directly. Even with the new world order on their nation and trying to preserve their own cultures‚ many musicians and artist started
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Hamlet‚ His Own Victim Hamlet‚ the main character in William Shakespeare ’s play Hamlet is a deeply intelligent and reflective man. Hamlet is compelled by justice and filial duty to revenge his father ’s murder; he is also simultaneously riddled with self-doubt and moral conscience. Hamlet is quite disturbed by the sudden death of his father and his mother ’s hasty marriage to his uncle‚ King Claudius. Hamlet ’s character is naturally withdrawn‚ dark‚ and morose in the wake of these traumatic
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engaged in a violent persecution of the newly-forming Church. He was confronted on the road to Damascus with a blinding vision of the risen Jesus. He continued to Damascus‚ and there regained his sight and was baptized c. AD 34 Paul ’s conversion dramatically changed the course of his life. In obedience to his new Lord‚ he began at once to preach Jesus of Nazareth in the Jewish synagogues‚ and he became the object of Jewish persecution. He taught that Jesus is the long-awaited Jewish Messiah and the Son
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This excerpt from “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo analyzes the relationship between a growing young boy‚ Joe‚ and his father. The author tells us that every summers since Joe was seven‚ he and his father would come to this same place to camp and fish. Joe is now fifteen and his friend‚ Bill Harper‚ is coming tomorrow and for the first time Joe is wanting to fish with Bill instead of his father. Through third person point of view‚ short‚ simple sentence structure and purposeful selection of
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Eliezer’s Relationship with his Father In his book‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel spoke about his experience as a young Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camps. During this turbulent time period‚ Elie described the horrifying events that he lived through and how that affected the relationship with his father. Throughout the book‚ Elie and his father’s relationship faced many obstacles. In the beginning‚ Elie and his father have much respect for one another and at the end of the book‚ that
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The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story Of a Remarkable Friendship was written bye Malcolm MacPherson‚ and was published in 2001. The story begins by describing what a cull is and that the lone survivor of the cull is called "The Storyteller". The first chapter is not accurate as nothing is known of what happened to the elephant until the point of the cull. It simply describes basic behaviors of other elephants in the same region. Later in the first chapter the cull begins‚ which is the slaughter
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Analysis on “Oedipus” And his Tragic Flaw It has been said that all tragic heroes possess tragic flaws. Whether this statement applies to Oedipus of “Oedipus” the King‚ written by Sophocles‚ is still a matter of much debate even centuries after its debut. If Oedipus bares a “tragic flaw‚” then he is a man‚ and therefore is able to exercise his free will in determining his fate. If‚ however‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero without a flaw‚ then he is said to be a mere “puppet” in his story; no matter what
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Comparison of his Early Work with His Projects in Alabama Time has ravaged many of the greatest works of art that mankind has created but one form of art has far outlasted all of the rest. Architecture is the art of buildings but it spills over into designing furniture‚ bridges‚ and even cities. There have been many great architects‚ from the classical builders of ancient Rome and Greece to the Modernists of the last century. All of these men were great in their own right
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