In the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham, the two main characters, Kenny and Byron are brothers. Byron is described as “daddy cool”, therefore Kenny is known as an exceptional kid. The family, dad, momma, Byron, Kenny and Joetta are commonly established as the weird watsons”. This book accommodates the moments before, during and after the trip to Birmingham Alabama.…
After I read the book and watched the movie The Watsons Go to Birmingham, I noticed there were some obvious major differences between the two. Three of the major differences I noticed include the diner discussion with the white employees, the absence of the character Rufus, and their cousins talking about school integration. These differences played a major part in how the story was told.…
Julie Watson is a native of Atlanta, Georgia born at Georgia Baptist Hospital in the Old Forth Ward on Boulevard in 1963. She grew up in Atlanta’s Midtown during the 60’s and 70’s surrounded by hippies, then spent the summers with her grandmother and cousins in rural Rome, Georgia steeped in Southern traditions. Both extremes have deeply influenced her work.…
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Brewer, Maine on September 8, 1828. Chamberlain was the oldest sibling out of five, Thomas Chamberlain, Horace Beriah Chamberlain, John Chamberlain, Sarah Barstow Chamberlain. His parents were Joshua and Sarah Chamberlain. Chamberlain before going to college would work in a brickyard. He would teach in 1846. Joshua would then go to college and study Greek, Latin, Rhetoric at Bowdoin College. He would graduate in 1852. Chamberlain would then go…
American outlaw, robber and legendary figure Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri.Jesse and his brother Frank James were educated and hailed from a prestigious family of farmers. Their father, the Reverend Robert James, was a Baptist minister who married Zerelda Cole James and moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. In the summer of 1863, the James farm was brutally attacked by Union soldiers.Jesse was 16 when he and Frank became Confederate guerrilla soldiers, riding alongside William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson.…
Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13th, 1850 to his parents Thomas and Margaret Stevenson., he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stevenson studied civil engineering at Edinburgh University at age seventeen, he was expected to follow the same footsteps of his father Thomas, who was a civil engineer and designed lighthouses. Stevenson was never interested in civil engineering or designing lighthouses in his father's business, he decided to stop studying civil engineering and instead study law at Edinburgh University. In 1875, Robert Louis Stevenson believed his profession should be writing, with that he quit studying law and focused on writing. As Stevenson progressed in his life, he had to face a tragical challenge, he suffered from…
Known as one of America’s founding fathers, secretary of state and president of the United States, James Madison was born in 1751 and grew up in Orange County, Virginia. Madison was the oldest of twelve children and son to a wealthy plantation owner. At age eleven, James was sent to a boarding school but returned five years later to receive private tutoring due to ill health. After two years, Madison went to study at Princeton University, then called the College of New Jersey, where he studied Latin, Greek, science and philosophy and became well-read in law. He Graduated in 1771, staying a bit longer to study under the school's president, Reverend John Witherspoon.…
In the report Watson wrote to Holmes concerning incidents surrounding Henry Baskervilles and the moor, his use of creative descriptive language revealed his romantic and imaginative feature. In contrast of Holmes, he was not mechanic, he always apply metaphors, similes, personifications and also some vivid adjectives to build up an atmosphere. [The] God-forsaken corner of the world referred to the quite isolated moor and this informal adjective gave the feeling of deserted more appealing. He admired the beauty of this enchanting land, he said, The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into ones soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. When you are once upon its bosom, you have left all traces of modern England behind you It was such a fascinating example of personification and it showed his enthusiasm of the moors charisma. It made the reader actually enjoy his fanciful writing. Besides, he was also very imaginative as seen through his romantic piece of writing. if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl[ed] out from the low door, fitting a flint arrow on to the string of his bow This illustration was brought into the minds of readers deeply since it would not be the style of Holmes or anyone else, but only the imagination of Watson. Moreover, Watson described Miss Stapletons brother to be giving the idea of hidden fires. It was a total abstract and non-concrete description that once again revealed his romance. From this report to Holmes, Watson expressed his romantic and imaginative personality which could have been both an advantage and as well a disadvantage to him for being a detective, since imagination was no doubt useful, however it depended on whether it was the right time to apply.…
Ziyin Chen History 146-04 In 1978, November 18th, there was a tragedy happened in a town located in Guyana. The town’s name was “Jones Town,” and it was named by Jim Jones. The purpose of the town was to bring Jim Jones’ believers together and live happily ever after, but turns out to be a huge tragedy for those who were living in Jones Town. Around 909 people committed suicide by drinking poison under the command of Jim Jones.…
As nurses, we identify the significance of human caring as it relates to science, research, and promoting patients’ spiritual needs. Human conjunction at…
James Gregory was born in the Manse of Drumoak. This is a small parish on the river Dee, about fifteen kilometres west of Aberdeen. His father was John Gregory and his mother was Janet Anderson. John Gregory had studied at Marischal College in Aberdeen, then gone on to study theology at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews before spending his life in the parish of Drumoak. Turnbull writes [20]:-…
Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Growing up, he had always preferred to spend his time writing. To do so, his mother made him keep a journal as young child up until he was a young adult. Cummings was educated at the Cambridge Latin School, and later at Harvard…
Some people seem to thrive on figuring out the unknown, and I’m one of them. That, perhaps, is why I fell so immediately in love with Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe of Sherlock Holmes. Opening my first Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, and becoming enthralled with the characters, the language, and the mystery, was a turning point in my life.…
Paul was born in Toronto; at six years old, he and his family moved to the lobster fishing town of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea in New Brunswick, where he grew up. His father's name was Anthony Joseph Watson and his mother was Annemarie Larsen. When Annemarie died in January of 1964 his family returned to Toronto.…
Mark Twain, author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, writes about a young boy named Huck Finn, who experiences many tough decisions and meets a variety of people. Huck meets those whom he can trust and those he cannot. Growing into who he is meant to be, Huck starts to find who he is and his stance on topics. Throughout his journey down the Mississippi, Huck encounters Crooks, Caregivers, and Racists who positively influence his moral growth.…