Benjamin Franklin Born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin was one of 20 children and the youngest boy. Father Josiah Franklin and Mother Abiah Folger, Benjamin had one child. Benjamin was one of the founding fathers of America and was a author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Benjamin attended Boston Latin School until he was 10 years old and his father pulled him out to work with him making candles. Dipping wax wasn’t cutting it for Ben’s creative mind so he apprenticed at his brothers print shop when he was 12 despite his brothers harsh treatments.
Just a month after the surgery, Charlie can read Robinson Crusoe, his first “very hard book” (33). Because of the surgery he is exposed to spelling, punctuation and can finally retain information. This period of his life is full of curiosity and wonder, but innocence as well. He did not understand that the people at the bakery made fun of him. He was unaware of his sexual side.
King started his education in a small school where he quickly took an interest in reading and writing. King was a much better writer than his fellow classmates, he graduated top of the class in 1962, although the class only had three students in it. King then moved onto Lisbon High School after completing his earlier
With a crippled hand, Johnny cannot find sufficient work and he allows himself to feel sorrowful. Almost giving up all his hope, Johnny almost commits a crime. Yet, with his new job with the Boston Observer, the Whig newspaper, and his friendship with Rab, the Lornes, and the leaders of the revolution, Johnny takes a more truthful path. Inspired by their generosity and dignity, Johnny finds himself changing from a selfish boy into a dedicated man. On a conscious level, he models himself after his new best friend, Rab, trying to copy Rab’s quiet, meek confidence and mild temperament.
There he wrote for the Michigan Daily, the student paper, and completed his first play, No Villain. Arthur Miller was inspired to create much of the conflict in his play, Death of a Salesman, on his relationship with his uncle, Manny Newman. Miller had actually written a short story about an unsuccessful salesman in his youth but discarded it. After meeting with his uncle in 1947 in Boston, Arthur Miller reworked his play to include the conflicted relationship among he and his uncle into his characters and the plot of the play. Newman was a man who refused to accept failure, and demanded the appearance of great confidence in his family.
A skilled cartoonist, Karl has never had an interest in boxing, but as Max becomes the mentor Karl never had, Karl soon finds both his boxing skills and his art flourishing. But when Nazi violence against Jews escalates, Karl must take on a new role: protector of his family. Karl longs to ask his new mentor for help, but with Max's fame growing, he is forced to associate with Hitler and other Nazi elites, leaving Karl to wonder where his hero's sympathies truly lie. Can Karl balance his dream of boxing greatness with his obligation to keep his family out of harm's way? World War II is a hot topic among teens and The Berlin Boxing Club is a welcome addition to library shelves.
Caitlyn Chandler Music Appreciation Period 3 12.9.11 Ol’ Blue Eyes “Sinatra knew how to make sophisticated craft sound as natural as an intimate conversation or personal confession” – Gene Lees Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12th, 1915 in Hoboken New Jersey. He was the son of Martin, a Captain at the Hoboken Fire Department, and Dolly Sinatra. He attended Demarest High School in Hoboken. He was never really serious about school and ended up leaving before he graduated. In fact, he got expelled after only 47 days because of his “rowdy behavior” Frank took a job as a delivery boy for the Jersey Observer Newspaper, and later as a riveter at the Tietjan and Lang shipyard.
This was followed by Seriously Funny in 2010, and in 2011 Laugh at My Pain in 2011, most arguably his most successful stand-up act so far. Kevin Hart was born on July 3, 1980, in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has one older brother, Robert Hart, and was raised by his single mother, Nancy, because his father, Henry, was in and out of jail most of his childhood. His father was a cocaine addict, but Kevin used his natural ability to make people laugh as a coping mechanism to deal with his family struggles and to stay out of trouble. His relationship with his father is much better now that he has recovered from his addiction.
The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11). His son does not show any gratitude toward his father and in fact “[speaks] indifferently to him” (line 10). It is unfortunate too since the last two lines make it seem as though the father has passed away and the son never took the opportunity to thank him for all he had done. Again, in both poems the sons are appreciative of their fathers and yet show it
Dominique Allen Burriss AP English III October 17, 2012 Thomas Paine Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England on January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph Paine, had high hopes for what Thomas was to accomplish throughout his life but, despite the fact that he is commonly known for his successfully revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense (written with magnificent eloquence), Paine actually failed in numerous activities in his early ages (Biddle). Paine had failed out of school at the age of twelve. Still having a little hope, his father let Thomas be his apprentice in his trading business, but he wasn’t very successful in that occupation(Kreis). At the age of nineteen Paine went out to sea, but the expedition didn’t last as long as it was thought