Contra Costa County, California Essays

I am pursuing a career in commercial general contracting because I want to be part of a process that builds long lasting landmarks where people can create memories. Recently, a commercial landmark in my community that affected me and many others in my community was the closing and demolition of our local mall. At one time the mall was the spotlight of our community where many people worked, socialized and shopped. However, over the years other malls opened up and outperformed the local mall, ultimately

I picked the story of the jumping frog, which was written by Mark Twain. This author is well-known for his humorous tales, and this is why I chose this story. This story is about a man who asks a friend, the narrator, to get information about his old friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, a young man, Gospel's minister. The narrator goes to talk to a man called Simon Wheeler to get information. But instead of telling him about Leonidas W. Smiley, Simon Wheeler tells him about another man, Jim Smiley. He liked

Renowned writers Mark Twain and Charles Dickens bear similarities in portraying humor in their stories “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “The Baron of Grogzwig” respectively, although their method and execution differ in lots of ways. Twain used a small dash of satire with how he named the animals of Mr. Smiley after American politicians, drawing a caricature of prominent American symbols. Twain also utilizes the frame story form when he ends the story and we humorously learn

A number of Long Beach police officers are also buried at local cemeteries. Several of them lost their lives in the line of duty. I’ve only included the two buried at Sunnyside. You can read of the tragic deaths of the others in my book Prohibition Madness. Thomas Cicero Borden (4/13/1851-3/17/12) buried Sunnyside Cemetery. On Sunday, March 17, 1912, 60-year-old officer Thomas C. Borden became the first Long Beach police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Returning from church that Saint

To understand Mark Twain use of literary you must first understand how Mark Twain was able to write “The Celebrated Frog. It is in Gina article entitled “ The Jumping Frog story—both old and new” she helps makes the point that Mark Twain was not the first to learn of and hear of the origin Jumping Frog Story that in fact first appeared in a 1867 selection of short stories written by the Greek author Sidgwrick. I believe that even though Mark Twain was not the first author of the jumping frog story

In the folktale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, a nameless foreigner from the east of the United States travels to the west to visit Simon Wheeler. The folktale is told in a frame narrative. Both the narrator and Wheeler, being from different parts of the United States, vocalize in a disparate manner. Twain uses clever and colloquial vernacular to compare and contrast the narrator and Wheeler; by doing this, Twain elicits a stronger attitude from the reader. The

Jose Hernandez Ms.L English Honors 24 April 2018 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County In the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain it talks about the narrator of the story is asked by a friend to find Simon Wheeler and ask about his friend’s friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. But instead giving the narrator the information he asked for he goes on to tell stories about a man named Jim Smiley. The story goes that Jim Smiley is a man that will bet on anything

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Beat The bands Imagine you are in health class and you get paired with the weird person in your school. That is the situation that Coop is in and he is trying to get out of in the book “Beat The Bands” by Don Calame . Sean, Matt, Coop and his dad start a band so that Coop can “regain” his cool in the eyes of Patricia. Who is one of the most popular girls in school. The band practice after school and on the weekends. Coop trikes Sean and Matt in to being in the band after he turned in a fake demo

In the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, the narrator allows readers to grasp a tiny portion of how different people are from west to east coast and their different sense of humor. Mark Twain was the epitome of what people could call the “southern gentleman” , he was a courteous and well-mannered man. The author is describing the appearance of the character in which he is talking about. For example, “he is a simple man, fat and bald- headed, and had an expression

A bet between two men is the subject of Mark Twain's short story, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley is visited by a stranger named Simon Wheeler, who tells him the story of Jim Smiley and his beloved frog Dan'l Webster. Jim Smiley bets with another man that his frog can jump higher than his, but the other man cheats by stuffing the frog with lead shot, so Smiley loses the bet. There are many cause-and-effect scenarios to investigate in the story. One of

I am running for a position in the Vietnamese Culture Society because I would like to further educate myself about Vietnamese culture beyond what I already know from my family, relatives and my own experiences in Vietnam. As an immigrant fresh off the boat from Vietnam, I want to continue preserving my culture and give it an equitable representation here at Silver Creek. I also feel like I have the potential to contribute a lot to VCS in many ways. I am running for the position of Event Commissioner

In Mark Twain’s, “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain uses clever and colloquial diction to give an authenticity to the dialogue of the story. He does this through the story telling of his old friend Simon Wheeler. It is said that he can go on and on when telling the story about him and his good friends.Twain expresses heavily on the dialect of the characters to make them come to life. The first of many ways Twain shows us where the characters are from is when he writes, “feller”

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a story written by the author Mark Twain; Or rather, it was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain. I believe that the purpose of this story is to entertain readers with the amusing tale of the notorious gambler, Jim Smiley. Samuel’s writing style involves very many similes and metaphors. The protagonist of the frame story is the narrator, who listens to Simon Wheeler’s amusing tale about Jim Smiley. The protagonist

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County In the short story The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county, Mark twain's uses several literary devices to form a well story. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras is about a man named Jim Smiley whose story gets passed on. Jim Smiley is a gambler, Smiley makes bets on anything he can and he always ends up winning with him misrepresenting the truth . Till Smiley makes a bet that his trained to jump frog can jump higher than any frog in

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Does the thought of betting on a frog’s ability to jump sound humorous? In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Mark Twain tells the story of betting on a jumping frog. In the story, Twain uses the power of vernacular language to convey the painfully comedic story that the narrator has to endure, and its all for another’s amusement. Twain was writing in the nineteenth century at a time when writers were expected to use formal language, yet Twain wrote in the vernacular language. His

The folktale The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by the astounding Mark Twain brought him world wide attention because of his significant use of humor. The folktale contains wisdom and deep as the tone of the story. In the frame story Jim Smiley gambles and finally loses the bet to a “feller” who kills Smiley’s frog.Simon narrates “So he sat there a good while thinkin and thinkin to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and look a teaspoon and filled

The folktale, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain, is about a self-centered man named Smiley who was finally tricked out of his money after winning multiple bets. Twain presented tone in a cocky and arrogant manner, helping us better understand the personality and logic of Smiley. The arrogance displayed in the tone implied that Smiley was stubborn and had an excessive amount of confidence in his actions and intuition. He spoke as if there was no need for

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County     The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written by America’s most famous literary icon, Mark Twain, in 1865. The main idea of this story is to show the reader how each side of the country portrayed the other side. Mark Twain wanted to show the reader the idea of realism through stereotypes.. The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written to inform the reader of the stereotypes between