Someone Who Influenced You

1. There has never really been anyone, within or outside of my family, that i considered to have changed my life for the better. I would guess that most people would take into account teachers when considering this. I mean after all they do , most of them, teach you things that can ultimately help you in life. That is of course if knowing how to find square roots will make a difference in how you're going to get your bills paid. I really ttry not to be influenced by others. Contrary to what most may believe I don't think imitation is the best form of flatory. Becoming to heavily influenced by someone can leave you, cloned in a way. Being someone who thrives on the fact that I am myself that wouldn't fit to well. I don't have mentors to teach me, constantly, what I should do. For those who try I shoot them down, for I'd much rather learn from experience. The only things, that I could say, would have influenced me that came from someone else is their words. Advice from other people never ceases to surround me, and so I pay it all no mind. The only thing I am influenced by that comes from other people is actions. What I've come to learn is that many of the people around me have a tendancy to say one thing and, quickly, do another. They say hypocrites are the best people to learn from but I'd rather not. So has anyone ever influenced me for the better, probably, but I sure don't remember.
2. To put it simply, I believe that what the Humanities class is, is a combination of Social Studies and Language Arts. What I mean by this is that Humanities contains elements from both of these subjects. For instance, we've had to write several essays, and will eventually do more, thus far. While still learning about other cultures and the ways and operations of their lands. we've also had to write about things all people in the world go through. Much like when we had written about a time when we came of age. Since coming of age is something everyone goes through it pertains to everyone. In fact, I believe that's just what Humanities is, finding away to connect to one another. Humanities pertains to everyone, and so that is what it is, everyone, along with everything that they do.
3. I believe it would be a good idea to replace all of the Detroit Public Schools with Charter schools. I have attended both Detroit Public Schools and Charter schools and while public schooling is convenient it does not hold the stature of which a charter school does. The school, of which I am currently in attendance to , is a charter school. I have been an on-again-off-again student, leaving the school to attend others and eventually come back, but ultimately I attended this school since it was first built. Others alike can concur that, even in it's earliest stages, it was doing far better than a vast majority of Detroit Public Schools. Needless to say Charter schools offer more to its students. Some Charter schools are directed to a specific subject in learning. For example math, engineer training, science and technology and various other subjects. Along with this factor Charter schools are not subject to the restrictions that Detroit Public Schools are obliged too follow therefore they are more capable or have more of the means to provide their students with things that are needed. An example of charter schools surpassing Detroit Public Schools is in more recent events. My school's debate team has beat out an acclaimed Detroit Public School for first place in the competition. Our students, the students of Plymouth Educational Center Preparatory High School, winning this competition as a whole, along with various individual parts, proves my point. That Charter schools better prepare their students for what's to come in their future and ultimately giving them a better one.

Edgar Allan Poe: Amontillado

1. Poe was a haunted man. Demons of his malevolent past seemed to follow him with undying consistency throughout his life. Twice the Earth had revolved around the Sun, since Poe had been brought into this world, when his mother head been taken out. Poe was abandoned around this time and taken in by a new family. Abused by his new father but loved by his new mother. He had married his cousin,Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, of whom many believe he wrote his last complete poem for,"Annabel Lee". In the poem it explains how the narrator and this Annabel shared a love so strong that even the highest of angels became jealous. Self-loathing and lonely he was. To on lookers he was merely, and nothing more than a faithful drunk and an admirer of hallucinogenic drugs. Within the depths of what is contained beneath a dome one would find things that are melancholy, dark, and demented. I believe that he was merely frightened and, among all, misunderstood. Though he did not receive proper recognition for his work until long after being discovered dead in what most would call, a compromising situation. On the side of a road with the opposite sexes clothes on. However he finally got his recognition and will forever inspire those who stalk macabre from there on.

2. Revenge he wanted and so revenge he sought, and, eventually got. Whom, you may ask? Why Mr.Montresor of course, a Freemason he was, and therefore he had the skill to fulfill a devious deed. Furtunato, the target of Montresor's revenge, was a lover of compressed grapes. He donned himself all knower of wines. That was what Montresor used to his advantage, to lure Fortunato to the, long abandoned,catacombs. Fortunato was led to his death believing he would receive a bountiful cask of Amontillado, only to be bound, chained, and shut in. A joke he thought it must have been, but Montresor continually laid brick upon brick, upon brick, upon brick to an almost complted wall. What for, I should tell you, to restrict the very essence of all human life. Oxygen he was without and so, on him, revenge was brought. All that was, was Montresor, a brick wall and the dwelling souls of the catacombs. May he rest in peace.

Robin's Feeling's on Voyage

1. What I think Robin was feeling was, when he made his decision to sail around the world, was a sense of emptiness that he felt sailing around the world could, somehow, get rid of. Whether or not this is possible today is purely circumstantial. The task itself is possible, anyone could go sailing around the world. Advances in today's technology and boat structure, along with a better understanding of weather, have made this so. However, I doubt that the vast majority of parents or guardians who have teenagers, would allow their child to sail around the world, especially alone.

2. A coming of age ritual that differs from the type I celebrate, but still contains likeliness to, a sweet sixteen for example, is a quinceneara. A quinceneara is a Mexican coming of age ritual. Coming of age is simply a phrase used to indicate someone growing older in life and reaching a certain point within their life. Quincenearas celebrate a young girl becoming a woman at the age of fifteen. Where as sweet sixteens celebrate a the same thing, with the exception of the age, which ,at sixteen, differs from fifteen. These particular rituals are alike as well, for they both celebrate a young woman's coming of age. These rituals would differ if one were to celebrate a young man's coming of age.

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The princess had difficulty with her decision because on one hand she could watch her lover die right in front of her. Not only would that be agonizing for her but of course he's the one who has to endure the wrath of the tiger. On the other hand it would probably destroy her much more to see her lover spending the rest of his life with a new wife,one of which she knoew personally and hated so deeply she could not stand it. I have been in situations where I had to give up something dear to me in order to make someone else happy, but never to this extent. I truly feel sorry for the princess because I would not no what to do in this situation. . . . . except, of course, over throw my father, but that probably won't happen.