Jeff Spender: great expectation and unknown reality
There are always some people in the world who had complicated feelings. Nobody can understand them and take in what they pour out. As a result, other people only treat them as the people not of the same clan, and what they think is all becoming ridiculous. However, their willingness sometimes can bring people into a new different world which help haughty human beings introspect their malignance and see our future in a different. In the Martian Chronicles, Jeff Spender was that kind of the ambivalent person. He had a good heart and wanted to stopped people’s destroying but he killed many people who came with him. He knew what he did might be wrong but he still kept his faith. He came from
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His saying: “I know. I got sick. When you want to do a thing badly enough you lie to yourself. You say the other people are all wrong. Well, soon after I started killing people I realized they were just fools and I should not be killing them. But it is too late.” shows that he was in turmoil at that time (Bradbury 87). I think not only his future was uncertain, but also his present. He was quite not sure that should he kill these people. I think perhaps he killed them because of his intuition without a wise reason. As I mention in the front of the passage, he was an ambivalent person: he persisted but he did not know whether he should do that. And I am not sure he was the one with a good heart or the one acted bloodily now. What is more, his future was also mysterious. I have to say that everyone’s future is fully unknown. But is there anyone who want to protect other planet as he or she’s home? The answer is certainly no. In the book, we know the end of Spender, but considering him as a real person who lived in Mars, we may understand the fog his faced. “Can I protect Mars at the end?”, “If I fall, what is the future of Mars?” or “What will other people do in Mars?” are all question may appear in Spender’s mind all the time. In this situation, Martians and then appeared with mask which was creepy because they were all dead before. All the things seemed unusual at that time which also makes readers feel confused. And what happened when he first came to live in the Martians’ city was the most curious thing for me. Did he really once live in that city? Did what he learn about Martians was true? I do not the answer
The presentation and use of military personnel in the “Forever War” by Joe Haldeman and “Halo: The Fall of Reach” by Eric Nylund illustrate how science fiction depicts these individuals as disposable and replaceable. The negative treatment of soldiers can result in various mental problems and unnatural relationships if conditions remain the same. Although the characters in these stories are fictional, the mistreatment of military personnel can lead to future problems when the time comes for them to return to civilian life.
Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall hosted performing artist Chris Thile on September 12th to delight a full house with a comedic, live, musical performance featuring himself. Appearing as a one-man-show, Thile stood simply on stage with his mandolin around his neck and a microphone in front of him to capture his witty banter and southern vocals. Throughout the course of the night, technical errors threatened to detract from the show but Thile took them in stride as he worked the mishaps gracefully into his act. Overall, the performance was executed to the high standards of the Grammy Award Winning musician and his famously diverse and spontaneous art was eloquently displayed to his lively audience members.
Todd Beamer was one of the men who took action on Flight 93 during the attack of 9/11. Beamer was one of the passengers on the hijacked Flight 93 American Airlines plane. Todd Beamer was born in Flushing, Michigan on November 24, 1968 (Evensen, 2017, para 1). Through many calls to others on the ground, Beamer and others learned that the airplane they were on, Flight 93, was one of the planes that was being hijacked (Vulliamy, 2001, para 3). The hijackers had already begun to redirect the flight to Washington D.C, and many believe that they were targeting to crash into the White House, or the Capitol (Vulliamy, 2001, para 4). Todd Beamer, along with some others, decided to step up to the hijackers, and regain control of the plane. They managed
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The central idea of Guts is that Gary Paulsen always thought of just one memory when he was writing Hatchet. Part of the evidence is that he remembers the man he tried to help. Also, he says that he will not be able to go to sleep because the memory will haunt him. That is how strong the memory is to him. Finally, in paragraph 1, it uses the word catastrophic which has a deep connotation which supports the central idea.
While it is the year 1928, James J. Braddock is at the peak of his career: he makes over $8,000 per fight. He isn’t considered a good boxer; he is one of the greats. After 5 years pass, James goes from making $8,000 a fight to $50, losing money. Money is tight and food is scarce in James’ household now. Claiming he isn’t hungry, James, being considerate of his daughter’s needs, gives her his dinner. But he shouldn’t fight without eating. James goes to his fight with an injured hand and an empty stomach. James loses the fight, and he isn’t given the $50 he was promised. After the fight is over, he is told that the fight was pathetic, and his boxing license is revoked. Much later, James’ manager gets him a fight against Griffin. James wins,
In "Too Much of a Good Thing," Greg Critser, author of Supersize, pushes his opinion on the rising epidemic of obesity in America. Critser cites the devastating statistics on this rise in size to further the impact of his point. By stating the many problems that amass to an obesity epidemic, Critser is able to propose his remedy to the masses. Critser conveys that stigmatizing overeating is all that society must undertake to solve this tragedy. Critser is careful to distinguish between the sin and the sinner, but does not apologize when pushing the fact that we need to teach children to eat less. Citing statistics on the shocking increase in the percentages of childhood obesity, Critser
Jim bridger died at the age 77 he was a good man he was born 1804 died 1881 so you can say he lived a good and long life. He has travled on feet 61 miles to get somwhere he was very smart and he made some good food just like how the food is at denneys. What is good for you sometimes at one point he was on a diet. Jim bridger had 3 kids they are all dead now.so so him and his wife .he quit and regetted it. A lot of other people think he should havewent through it all for his kids. He has used a gun so he now how to us one but that dows not matter he was good at math and since. he was taken away from his family he lost a lot of people at a yong age and was going on so he got mad and ran away and almost got killed by a
In the beginning of the story, The Rules of the Game, by Elizabeth Campbell, the main character Doug Tillman, who is secretly a superhero, has a conflict with not using his powers. His character changes very much from the beginning of the novel to the end. In the beginning Doug is told by WAVE, the organization that he works with, that he is not ready to use his powers quite yet but Doug strongly disagrees. He feels like WAVE is not letting him enjoy his powers and like WAVE is too strict with him. Doug wants more freedom. On page 6 doug says, “I’ve got super powers but all I ever do is listen to my lectures and do my chores.” Later on in the story Doug accidentally reveals his powers to his vice principal, Mr. Simms. He did this by pooping
In life, you have thousands of choices to make each and every day. When victory occurs is at times when you will be passionate and love what you do.If you love something, you will benefit power in your heart which then will make your succeed at what you want to do. There was a time when not a single person in the world thought it was physically possible to run under a four minute mile. One man proved the world wrong, Roger Bannister was the first person to run under that 4 minute mile mark. After Roger ran that four minute mile, over 20,000 people followed in his footsteps the achieve that amazing feat. If you know that someone has obtained something, there is no reason why you can’t do it too. Every choice you make will impact your life.
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I underestimated him. That's exactly what the teachers and coaches of Michael oher were thinking because they all underestimated his set of skills at one point in Michael's life. The theme of the blind side is don't underestimate anyone. Michael was underestimated in sports and his teachers underestimated his ability to learn.
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This essay will be studying the artwork of the Canadian artist Robin Collyer; known for his remarkable work in sculptures, subjected photography, and subject experimentation in architectural form and text. His work consists of a subtle, clean, geometric forms, and also takes inspiration from taking away. He challenges society, and the Mass-media industry’s role in producing the culture of representation. He explores a concept of societal media as a skillful creation of illusions of representations, and its dominion over the public realm and commodification of the private. His work as a Canadian artist, represents his keen focus on the small elements of the city of Toronto that condition the society to see from a centred single view.Through