Stephanie S. Tolan Essays

In the book Surviving the Applewhites, written by Stephanie S. Tolan, a boy named Jake, who is an absolute delinquent, and recently burned down a school he was going to, is taken in by a homeschool in Wits End, ran by a creative yet crazy family named The Applewhites. Jake goes through the story meeting and gaining relationships with the whole family, then ultimately discovers he loves to sing, and that he doesn’t have to be a bad person. There are many different themes, but only one main theme.

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Abstract Amy Chua introduced the concept of “Tiger mom” in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Chua, 2011). She described the hyper-parenting style she used with her daughters, analyzing it and comparing it to the Western parenting styles. Many studies have been conducted to determine which type of parenting is the best for their children best academic success, extracurricular activities performance, and social interaction among themselves and with adults. A clear and definite answer has

INTRODUCTION: Changing business ownership can be very challenging. There are factors and aspects that need to be looked at to make sure you are in a place to do so without spending all your resources. Especially changing from a sole trader [a type of business entity which is owned and run by one individual and where there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business as stated by “E-conomic, Sole Trader- What is a Sole Trader?] to a franchise [a right granted to an individual or group

An S corporation is a hybrid corporation that is organized as any regular corporation under state laws, but is treated, for federal tax purposes, as a pass-through entity. S corporations are restricted to no more than 100 shareholders which limits growth. S corporations enjoy pass-through taxation. The corporation’s income is taxed when it is paid in dividends to its owners under the personal income tax, not at the corporate level. This means that both the income and tax loss of the corporation can

The Flea by John Donne, published in 1633, is an erotic metaphysical poem in which the concept of a flea serves as an extended metaphor for the relationship between the speaker and his beloved. In comparison George Herbert’s The Altar, also published in 1633, demonstrates through the conceit of an altar how one should offer himself as a sacrifice to the Lord. This essay will compare and contrast; the poetic techniques, the shape of the poems and the use of meter. This essay will also highlight how

The Swimmer in the Desert Everyone and everthing has at some point desired something to badly, it was unbearble. …. In the short story, The Swimmer in the Desert, the author Alex Preston does exactely this. In this story, desire plays one of the bigger roles. For the maincharacter, all he The story takes place in the middle of a warzone in Afghanistan, with scalding hot sand and unbearable heat: “He’d thought, before getting here, that it would be cold at night. But it is never cold in the desert

In Sir Philip Sidney’s Poem, “Thou Blind Man’s Mark,” Sidney presents a male speaker who struggles with a inner conflict of the human trait, desire. This desire is what the poem centralizes on and he wrestles with the human trait desire which causes conflict in his life and his mind. He knows he must deal with it and tries to figure out how to subdue or erase it completely. The motivation driving him to write the poem, is his burning ambitions and his want to always rise through problems. But the

On March 5th 1946, not even one year after the overwhelming victory of the Alliance over the Nazis in World War II, Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time (1940 – 1945), was invited to deliver a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. It is commonly known as “The iron curtain speech”, but Churchill refers to it as “The Sinews of Peace” at the end of the same. This speech reflected his own personal opinion, and was aimed at the people of the United States

The actor Kenneth Branagh portrayed Hamlet as a depressed and gothic individual. At the beginning of the scene, Branagh begins his speech while he is walking towards a mirror staring at his reflection. As he closes in on the mirror he not only has the same expression on his face, but also uses the same monotone voice. By doing so, the audience can see the disgust on his face, showing that this is a serious matter. The use of the monotone speech illustrates the idea that Hamlet sees no value or significance

The Gettysburg Address: Why, how and what happened? On November 19, 1863, during the Civil War of the United States, a speech was held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that would later go down as one of the greatest in American history. The speech was held during the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery, a cemetery founded to honour the deceased soldiers of the battle of Gettysburg. The 272 word long address that the then current president Lincoln held at this event have been remembered ever since and

The two balanced stanzas of this poem form a well reasoned reply to the Movement writers’ challenging rejection of religious belief, myth, and obscure literary illusions. The first stanza consists of an elaborate rhetorical question supported by several intervening questions which express the speaker’s concern for the loss of the framework by which levels of consciousness can be organized and understood.“ If the myth’s outworn, the legend broken”: if the cultural forms are no longer available to

1863 ABRAHAM LINCOLN [THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS] PAULA SIMÓN POMARADA “The Gettysburg Address” is the most famous speech of Abraham Lincoln, the president of United States. was given on day November, 19th 1863, at the dedication of The Soldiers National Cemetery in the city of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the soldiers who died in the battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War. In less than 300 words, is one of the most exciting political speeches in history, but

youngest of the Greasers. Therefore, he is often not taken seriously by the members of his gang. “They were all as tough as nails and looked it. I had grown up with them, and they accepted me, even though I was younger, because I was Darry and Soda 's kid brother and I kept my mouth shut good.” As we have already seen previously, Ponyboy feels like an outsider not only with the Greasers, but with his family as well. His hobbies are different from his brothers and friends, but it is not the only issue

Phillip Hobsbaum’s poem Household Gods is a spoken account from the inanimate objects or “household gods”, who have been left in a broken home. Hobsbaum uses an extended metaphor, personifying the “household gods” who juxtapose the then and now, using an innocent naive perspective, utilising a series of objects, each with their own stanza. In doing this, Hobsbaum presents the possible feelings held by the ex-lovers showing just how devastating and unpredictable love, or the break down of love, can

A pivotal element in John Donne’s “Elegy 16” is his use of the page-disguise motif. By carefully reading the elegy in terms of the technical aspects and implications of Donne’s conception of disguise, it is argued that its non-normative translucence chiefly rests on his own personal politics of power and certainty. Therefore, the resultant realistic deviation, paradigmatic quality in his poetry when bringing into final artisticshape his vast array of experiential raw material. “Elegy

1809 February 12: Abraham Lincoln is born in Nolin Creek in Kentucky. His home was a log cabin. 1811 The Lincoln family move to a 230 acre farm near Sinking Spring. 1816 December: The Lincoln family move to Indiana. 1817 February: Legend states that Abraham shot a wild turkey but hated the experience and never hunted again. 1818 October 5: His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln dies. 1819 December 2: Thomas Lincoln marries Sarah

It has been debated through the years whether true love exists on Earth or if it is merely a false creation of the human mind. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” poet T.S. Eliot explores the concept of love through the perspective of a self-deprecating man seeking companionship wherever he can find it. Eliot examines Prufrock’s self-loathing psyche, questioning fate and the existence of true love through a stream of consciousness, metaphorical comparisons, and the use of an anticlimax as an

David Ignatow was the ideal voice for the ordinary man because of his life experience and turmoil he struggled with. Placed in the time period surrounding the Great Depression, Ignatow, like many at the time, struggled to sustain a stable livelihood. Despite his efforts to find work and make a living, Ignatow still placed a focus on his poetry and wrote a book called Poems in 1948. This first installment of Ignatow’s poetry lineage was well received, but despite that, the poet still had to work various

Frost Analysis Robert Lee Frost, a poet who is considered one of a kind during the twentieth century, and also known as one of America’s greatest poets. “Ezra pound wrote that “ it is a sinister thing that so American... a talent..should have to be exported before it can find due encouragement and recognition”.(Roberts 837) Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 and attended Lawrence High School where Frost began to write. He Graduated high school in 1892 and shared Valedictorian