As you read, think about how it applies to the different scientists. The heights by great men reached and keptWere not attained by sudden flight;But they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward through the night. Using the charts you’ve created throughout the unit and the Longfellow poem, write an essay explaining why two of the scientists were or were not great individuals. In the first paragraph, explain the lines from the Longfellow poem. What kind of person did the poet admire?
a Ta 1 Vui Ta WR 201 William Lemon 08/02/2012 David Sedaris’ Life in A Plague of Tic When you see the people who act panicky actions, what do you think about? In A Plague of Tics, taken from Naked, Sedaris breaks down the eccentricity such as licking things, tapping his shoes over his forehead, and rocking. Through the essay, he describes his suffering of his obsessive-compulsive disease that makes him an outcast from elementary into college. Moreover, he not only allows the audiences to take a look at his personal life but also leads the readers to relate his struggles. By struggling with his tics, Sedaris discovers a way to control his outlandish behaviors that make him normal in society’s eyes.
Starting to get tired, Pete thinks to himself, “when I get to chapter five, I will take a nap and finish reading later.” As he flips the page as he reads the title of chapter five, ”How To Kiss A Princess.” Awakening with couirosity, he decides to continue reading when the fire princess appears on mannish-mans magical globe and wonders what Pete is reading wanting to celebrate his success of finding the hero book. Startled, he jumps into the air and screams, aw
Scene 2 The group is auditioned on their singing skills for Così Fan Tutte. Roy takes charge, assigning roles. Lewis listens to the radio where an interview featuring Nick is being broadcast. Doug goes to the toilet and then later returns saying that it is on fire. Cherry suspect that Doug lit the fire.
The story clearly starts while he is at school as he describes the night’s sky that distracts him while trying to study. “Moon and stars and clouds tipped with moonlight…against a fading sky I saw geese wedge southward…Now I try to study, but against the pages I see them again, driving southward. Going home.” After reading this, he seems to be missing what he considers home. This was extremely easy to relate to because I also constantly felt homesick earlier in the school year. He goes on to describe his home and my sense of his homesickness grew stronger from reading the descriptions of the scenery and activities he grew up with and his displeasure about not being there and missing out on them.
Hillsboro erupts with excitement as prominent lawyers and journalists arrive for the trial. E. K. Hornbeck, a critic for the Baltimore Herald, surveys the scene and makes wisecracks. The Bible-thumping politician Matthew Harrison Brady, who leads the prosecution, arrives to a warm welcome from the townspeople and a picnic in his honor. Brady meets with Reverend Brown, District Attorney Tom Davenport, and the mayor. Brady also holds a confidential discussion with Rachel about her friendship with Cates.
He continued through the experiment until 300 volts, where he then offered to change places with the learner, and asked the experimenter if he was required to follow the directions literally. The experimenter told him that he did, and the man continued administering shocks, but as he did he began breaking out in to fits laughter after each shock. After the experiment the man was interviewed and he revealed why he thinks he started laughing. He explained that it wasn’t that he thought it was funny, he was just in such an impossible situation, and he didn’t know how to react. Stanley Milgram’s conclusion was that a person is more likely to feel obligated to carry out tasks if he or she is ordered by some “higher” power.
A very big man with a grey beard and hair was asking for directions and said “I go from Seattle to San Diego and back every year”(241) and Elisa responds with, “That sounds like a nice kind of way to live”(214). Elisa shows interest in traveling as a way of life. The tinker lays his eyes on the chrysanthemum bed and begins making conversation about them and Elisa is expressed like this from the book, “the irritation and resistance melted from Elisa’s face”(241). Elisa annoyed disturbance from the tinker has now vanished that he is interested in her kind of work. Unlike when Henry makes notice of them back when he says they’re going to dinner, “You’ve got a gift with things” (239) doesn’t excite or please Elissa like the tinker
Malcom X wrote his story "Homemade Education" to persuade his audience that the only way we can empower ourselves is if we get some sort of education, Malcom X gains his readers trust by using ethological appeals in his writing. "At one-hour intervals the night guards paced past every room. Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. And as soon as the guard passed, I got back out of bed onto the floor area of that light-glow, where I would read for another fifty-eight minutes" (18) This quote shows how Malcom X had dedication to reading even when he was in jail, the fact that he mentions he reads when he is not suppose to makes us respect him as a person because it shows that he is a man of integrity and it also show that he is serious about his education. He convinces his audience that by reading books every day you gain knowledge and confidence in yourself because having some kind of education empowers you from those who do not have an
Screaming fans almost overpowered the sound coming from the stage. I’m not a huge country fan but I had heard Aldean’s rendition of the song and I honestly thought that Gilbert performed it much better. You could feel the emotion seeping from the stage and the way he performed it with so much feeling; it was immediately obvious that he was pulling from his own experiences rather than singing meaningless words written by someone else. Giving the audience a change of pace, he slowed the tempo midway through the show and sang some acoustic melodies. The audience swayed under the dimmed lights to the tempo as he sat in the middle of the stage, he and his guitar the only presences on the stage as a filler light cast his shadow across the floor.