In 1942 Maurice Richard entered the National Hockey League. By the year 1946 he was a hero to most boys found in the province of Quebec. “The Hockey Sweater” demonstrates this in the town of St. Justine. Maurice Richard, as known as “The Rocket”, lived in the hearts of all aspiring French hockey players, especially those in Quebec, who tried to not only look like Maurice, but act like him as well. Maurice was a hero to these boys as seen in three ways: his background and rise to the NHL, his talent and position on the Montreal Canadians, and the way the media presented him.…
Frank Capra’s, “What a Wonderful Life” is about a man, named George Bailey, who wishes that he was never born. George’s wish is granted when an angel is sent down to earth to teach George a lesson. George later learns how many lives he has changed or effected and then no longer takes the things he has for granted. The moral of the movie is that friends and family make man rich. In this essay…
When many people think of Robert Henry Boyd they do not realize who this man was. Many can say due to his past that he was not a good cause for the black race, but he was born into issues, which was hard for him to accept. These issues later helped him lead his black race with many opportunities to advance his people, even though many today can still argue that he was not a good leader for the black race do to his mishaps, which are immorally wrong to people who views are different from his views. It is not for people to judge, but for people to understand his goal and achievements for his Baptist…
“Money maketh” is often repeated throughout the poem to talk about the festival, evil, and sin that money causes. Lang acknowledges that money can drive people to work, but it also can create evil and sin, like robberies and fraud. Another phrase often repeated at the end of every stanza is “These alone can ne’er bestow / Youth, and health, and paradise.” This stanza helps drive the theme of the poem. When we think of wealthy people, we think of youthful, healthy people that are living a glamorous and easy life. Money itself can’t give you those things, however. Money won’t stop you from aging, from developing an illness, and you may still face…
Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 and raised in Sacramento, he spent his free time hunting on a 2,000-acre ranch in Colusa County with his family, who are descendants of President Andrew Jackson. He studied engineering and art at Sacramento State College. He held down odd jobs like Christmas tree farming and mining for gold in Sierra City before getting his first gallery shows in L.A. in the 1970s. He now has a studio where he does all his work in Sierra Madre, California. It looks more like an auto body shop, complete with power tools, welding and woodworking equipment and milling machine. Outside he keeps two black labs, inspiration for Bad Dog and favorite hunting partners. Jackson is a devoted American maverick who has redefined and expanded painting over a forty-year period. From the beginning of his career he as driven by a relentless desire to build on the advances in painting by Jasper Johns, Jackson Polluck, and Robert Rauschenberg. Jackson is known for his large-scale, site-specific wall paintings, room-size painted environments, monumental stacked canvases, and more recent his painting “machines”. Jackson’s wild inventive, exuberant, and irrelevant take on painting has dramatically extended its performance dimensions, merged it with sculpture and architecture, and has made it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth. Jackson has had over 30 solo exhibitions and group exhibitions throughout his career.…
On December 6th, 1941 the world welcomed Richard Benjamin Speck, who would become a well-known mass murderer. Speck, having a rather rough childhood, had an extensive criminal background before committing the unspeakable murders that made him famous. After being found guilty, Speck spent his remaining days in Chicago’s Stateville Penitentiary. One can look at Richard’s personal history, crime and criminal history to try and pin him to one criminological theory, when in reality, none will really fit him to a “T”. He was a psychopath who was in great need of psychological help, among other things.…
Richard Frethorne, an indentured servant, a young man forced to grow up in a challenging area known as Colonial Virginia. Becoming an indentured servant, one must sign a contract giving them a working environment hoping for some land in return once the contract has expired. Depending on age, one would typically work for around five years. Richard Frethorne wrote this letter to his parents back home describing his struggles, his thoughts and opinions, and work environment. Richard Frethorne was forced to work throughout the day’s and night’s with little to no water and perhaps a mouthful of bread to end his day. Death by starvation was just over the horizon, and for many, it killed them. Exhaustion, disease and even constant attacks from the natives killed many of the workers. Colonial Virginia is a newly formed colony, with majority of workers fighting their way to survive in their unpleasant work environment, trust was out the window. Many would steal food and clothing from others, mainly from people who have became sick and weak with distress. Coming from England, Richard had no idea on how much of a struggle he would have to go through in order just to survive the working conditions. In his letter Richard stated, “…that I have eaten more in a day at home than I have allowed me here for a weeke.” This quote had me thinking how hard it really must have been for Richard to even survive a month, I couldn’t’ even do that, but luckily he came across a couple who lends a helping hand. A sense of family is found in the new world due to this couple, though they too are struggling. The tone and desperation of this letter became clear once I read “But this is Certaine I never felt the want of ffather an mother till now,…” He is a child crying for his parents, wanting to go back home , “…I beg of you to helpe me.” These two quotes basically sums up the whole letter, his whole tone of the letter, and the way he feels about being an indentured servant. His cry for help to…
The relationship between Richard Rodriguez and Richard Hoggart is supremely that of a student to a teacher with Rodriguez as the student and Hoggart as the teacher. In moments when Rodriguez says that Hoggart’s opinion of what a “scholarship boy” entails is “more accurate than fair,” Rodriguez is learning more as if he is a student (547). Of course Rodriguez now, after having written “The Achievement of Desire,” understands his place as a “scholarship boy” student; however, there are brutally honest aspects that Hoggart is able to recognize and Rodriguez does not want to acknowledge. Rodriguez lived through his education as a “bank,” as Paulo Freire would say, and there are many negative impacts that this had on his future and actual knowledge.…
Rodriguez faces a few tensions in his personal experience such as being a "scholarship boy" as oppose to a well rounded student and and his life at home compared to a more friendly home environment. Rodriguez says that "I was a very good student, I was a also a very bad student. I was a scholarship boy, a certain kind of scholarship boy. Always successful, I was always unconfident. Exhilarated by my progress. Sad. I became the prized student - anxious and eager to learn. Too eager, too anxious - an imitative and unoriginal pupil." ( Rodrigues #283 ) Rodriguez describes himself here as imitating his teachers too much and being a perfect student instead of thinking for himself and taking in the knowledge he is given by his teachers and analyzing it and putting it to use. He is unoriginal and and uninteresting compared to a student who can use their knowledge in their own way and gets more involved. The other tension Rodriguez faces his the tension he has with his family, mostly his mother and father. At home his mother and father both support and encourage what he is doing very much but they didn't like the fact that he would always be in his room and the fact that the only thing he was involved with was school. "He permits himself embarrassment at their lack of education." (Rodriguez #286) This quote shows that Rodriguez's amount of knowledge of the english language and other subjects he had compared to his parents and therefore he was somewhat embarrassed by them and it created a tough home environment to live in because he didn't communicate much with his parents. This contrasts the home environment where their is a strong relationship between the family and their is communication.…
“’Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone’ he told me ‘ just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the same advantages as you’ve had” (page 1) Many people believed having many expensive belongings or have a lot of money is what everybody is looking for out of life. That being wealthy could solve all of your problems. In the quote above, Nick Carraway’s father is telling him to be humble about his advantages, because not everyone is so lucky… and not everyone cares to be.…
In this poem Andrew Lang explains the cold truth about money and what it has meant for people in the 1800's . He uses repetition to explain his ideas. Andrew Lang gathers in his mind that money can be good or evil. It depends on the use of the money not the context. In this poem most of the people will only do things for money and this is what Lang is really trying to emphasize about the main idea. The "Ballad of Worthy Wealth," is saying that no matter what the subject or ideal perception is that money can bring deception and total corruption in a society.…
materialistic ends will lead to happiness. In "The Rocking Horse Winner," Paul's mother, in a search for happiness, equates having "stuff" with her social status, which the author illustrates with the statement that "...[ they ] felt themselves superior to anyone in the neighborhood" (Lawrence 302). This woman wants her notoriety. "The mother had a small income, the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position..." (Lawrence 302). To achieve this she needs money. To her, this equation is the solution to her happiness.…
His racial status, his poverty, the disruption of his family, and his faulty education allowed Richard Wright to grow into a novelist astonishingly different than other major American writers. Richard Wright was born on a Rucker plantation in Adams County, Mississippi. He was born on September 4, 1908 to Ella Wilson, a schoolteacher and Nathaniel Wright, a sharecropper. When Wright was about six years old, his father abandoned Ella and his two sons in a penniless condition to run off with another woman. This left Wright’s mother the difficult task of supporting herself and her children on her own, but left Wright with a humiliating kind of loss (Duffus).…
Leaders are born to serve. Their aspirations and dreams for their constituents, for the country are embodied in their deeds and speech. To be a president is a noble and a very sophisticated job a man can do in his own life. But the first Philippine woman president had no background for being a politician, seemed to be agitated during times of trouble, she took the responsibility of being the new bearer of the noble mission to lead the Filipino people out from the mud of unwanted rule of the intelligent president Marcos. She was no other than Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, the 11th president of the Philippine Republic.…
Richard Clayton Harwick's father is ill and this worries everyone in Harwick Hall. Before his death, he tells Richard to take care of his mother and sister, Lilith and Charlotte Harwick. After that, Richard not only feels sad for his father's death, but also because his father had only thought of his mother and sister instead of him until the end of his life. Later in the story, Lilith marries Reverend Coldstone, a priest who is cruel towards Richard but is very nice towards Charlotte. Richard is then sent to a boarding school called Mordanger School, where he is treated like a prisoner. He then decides to run away and sail all over the world. He comes back twice to Harwick Hall but never bothers to enter it or meet his mother and sister. He finally returns home after reading a print which states that solicitors have something to his advantage back home, discovering from a letter Charlotte had written before her death, that his family had been searching for him until the end of their lives and how Reverend Coldstone had turned out to be a very bad man. He then runs away forever, leaving his green diary in his room…