...A Hopeful Indentured in Maryland Cindy Burdick HIS/110 Kristin Nelson University of Phoenix March 5, 2010 My Dear Brother, I have been here in America for more than three years now. As you know I arrived as an indentured servant to Master Sinclair, who was kind enough to pay my passage here. He has treated me fairly these past years, and in three months time my contract with him will soon be fulfilled. At this time he has promised me a parcel of land with which to build my own home, and tools that will allow me to ply my trade as a blacksmith. I have been fortunate, for some in my position as an indentured servant have not fared as well as me. There are those whose masters are unkind, and harsh in the ways of discipline. They have time added to their service, or they are beaten, for indiscretions that would otherwise go unnoticed by normal freemen. The freedom dues that are promised to them at the end of their service go unpaid, and they are forced to either continue to work for the master or try to find a way to support them elsewhere (Brinkley, 2007). I arrived here during a turbulent political time. The Declaration of Independence had already been signed. It states that all men are created equal, and we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I find it difficult to believe that I live in a place where I will be able to live for myself; to build my life as I see fit, and not labor to make someone else wealthy. I am looking forward...
Words: 804 - Pages: 4
...In Kenneth Oldfield's article "Humble and Hopeful: Welcoming First Generation Poor and Working Class Students to College," he discusses the situation he faced when he had no role models who have experienced college. He argues that there should be more done for first generation students. He wished he had known more about college. Oldfield discusses six specific lessons that he wishes he knew before he started college as a first generation student. I relate most to the second lesson—“I wish I had known the real purpose of college before I started.” I relate most to the second lesson because I am a first generation student and I didn’t have anyone to tell me what the real purpose of college is. Like the author, I assumed that the purpose of...
Words: 452 - Pages: 2
...In a cycle of repression, a person may need to do the unexpected. Maybe a courageous act of defiance is needed to get hope back into a life. In “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, Sartoris, the main character, is a young boy on the path for a dim future because he is in a poverty-stricken family with a father who shows no care for him. After losing his hope, Sartoris must go against the ways of the rest of his family to ensure that he has a brighter future. Faulkner emphasizes that Sartoris has escaped misery and is heading down the path for a better life with the contrast of the family dynamic and the hopeful tone of the last two paragraphs. All of Abner’s emotion is reserved for society and everything except his family, and the small amount...
Words: 1338 - Pages: 6
...always a risky behavior, and whether it is for life or for money, success in never guaranteed. Within the fiction selections, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence winning a gamble are depicted as luck. It is clear in both of these selections that winning is not always a positive thing. Introduction: * Thesis statement * Opening statements about how the two short stories are compared and contrasted. Body: Paragraph 1 * Topic sentence that focuses on similarities: Gambling for something valuable. One is gambling for money while the other is for luck. * Paul was hopeful and cared for his family * Tessie was hopeful as well but cared more about herself than her family. Body: Paragraph 2 * Topic sentence which focuses on differences: One character was fortunate and hopeful while the other character was unfortunate and unpleasant Conclusion: * A summary of the similarities’ and differences of the two short stories. Paul in the end is more successful than Tessie is. Gambling is always a risky behavior, and whether it is for life or for money, success in never guaranteed. Within the fiction selections, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence winning a gamble is depicted as luck that comes with consequences. It is clear in both of these selections that winning is not always a positive thing. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the main character we focus...
Words: 1193 - Pages: 5
...n the short story, "By the River", by Jack Hodgins the protagonist: Crystal Styan is a woman who is hopeful, kind, and naive. Hodgins begins the story by presenting Crystal as a rather unattractive woman who lives in the middle of nowhere. He describes her as "she know that she isn't even a little pretty". At first glance she is not an attractive or pretty woman and she is hopeful and naive in the extreme. When readers first picture Crystal Styan, she is an unattractive woman who lives in the woods all alone with her husband. Later on, we learn her husband had left six months ago and never came back. Mrs. Styan has a hopeful heart because she has not seemed to give up hope that her husband has not come back in six months and may never come back . This is proven when for everyday since six months ago she has continuously returned to the train station to await her husband and to see if he has returned with a present or surprise. Crystal Styan not only demonstrated a hopeful heart but also a certain naiveté. During this short story the author showed the readers glimpses into her life with Jim through flashbacks. She did have a rather interesting life with Jim, nevertheless she has been naive in believing that if she keeps returning to the train station he will come back even after six months, she is blinded by her feelings and believed that Jim feels the same about her. She is rendered naïve by her...
Words: 260 - Pages: 2
...In the short story, "By the River", by Jack Hodgins the protagonist: Crystal Styan is a woman who is hopeful, kind, and naive. Hodgins begins the story by presenting Crystal as a rather unattractive woman who lives in the middle of nowhere. He describes her as "she know that she isn't even a little pretty". At first glance she is not an attractive or pretty woman and she is hopeful and naive in the extreme. When readers first picture Crystal Styan, she is an unattractive woman who lives in the woods all alone with her husband. Later on, we learn her husband had left six months ago and never came back. Mrs. Styan has a hopeful heart because she has not seemed to give up hope that her husband has not come back in six months and may never come back . This is proven when for everyday since six months ago she has continuously returned to the train station to await her husband and to see if he has returned with a present or surprise. Crystal Styan not only demonstrated a hopeful heart but also a certain naiveté. During this short story the author showed the readers glimpses into her life with Jim through flashbacks. She did have a rather interesting life with Jim, nevertheless she has been naive in believing that if she keeps returning to the train station he will come back even after six months, she is blinded by her feelings and believed that Jim feels the same about her. She is rendered naïve by her...
Words: 261 - Pages: 2
...senses rather than thinking and therefore this round he withdraws totally from senses through a process of methodological doubt. He creates a sense of doubt in other scholars work by disputing their line of thinking with a distinguished line of logic. He sheds off any criticism directed at him and urges his readers to argue along his line of logic to get his concept and reason. HOW OR WHY THE COGITO EGO SUM IS HOPEFUL. Descartes concludes that he cannot doubt his existence. He argues that doing so would mean that even the idea of doubting would not exist and as far as it exists, then its source is him, his mind. However, the existence of the body puts him in a situation of doubt. He thinks that the idea of a mind implanted in a body is a deception and forms a basis of argument and cross psychological analysis. He goes ahead to state that this would be demons work of deceiving him or it can be that God was praying tricks on him, something he really doesn’t conquer with. God being perfect, He would not do that. ‘I think, therefore I am’ in the Discourse on method is hopeful because it brings out the picture of knowledge, that the mind can know itself better than it can do to anything else. Descartes is certain that he can only support his own existence presently (that is in the present tense, “I think, therefore I am’) and not in the past (the past tense, “I thought, therefore I was”). Contextually, the cogito can only happen inform of thought and not anything else, since mind does...
Words: 912 - Pages: 4
...Throughout, she seems to have this tone of hope. While she is not sure what to expect through her journeying, also encountering roadblocks and tragedies along the way, she continues to be hopeful for what is to come. Rather than getting down about her circumstance, she keeps her head up, continually moving forward. This hopeful tone helps create that innocence that makes the audience root for her. It’s what makes her a reliable narrator. Had she been negative and angry, although more than justified, she would not have come across as innocent, nor would the reader have any ____ to believe that she would be a reliable narrator from that point forward. Anything she shared thereafter could have been argued to be influenced by her own bias and anger. In her novel, dealing with themes of discrimination and identity, Butler’s choice of a female narrator that has been cursed with a loss of memory and self is a smart one. Shori’s innocence and curiosity, as well as her hopeful tone, help to make her a reliable narrator throughout the novel, giving the reader reason to care about the story she has to...
Words: 545 - Pages: 3
...5.The prisoners of the detention camps in “The Return” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o reminisce about the people and villages they left behind feeling worried about their families, deprived of the time, and hopeful to return. While the men remain in the detention camps, they have no access to the outside world and cannot know what happens to their families. One detainee, Njoroge, tells Kamau of his wife explaining, “I left her expecting a baby. I have no idea what has happened to her” (Ngugi 137). Njoroge worries about his wife because her condition is a mystery to him. Another common feeling is deprivation of the time because the men are pulled out of their lives. Kamau hears another prisoner tell the story of his arrest. His wife had a baby the same...
Words: 276 - Pages: 2
...A study of the positions and relationships of the sun, moon, stars, and planets in order to judge their influence on human actions. Because the study is not scientifically proven, most signs are defined on opinion. Astrology is usually represented by 12 different zodiac signs, a person's signs is dependent on the month they were born. I think the three main characters from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 are very complex and can be defined by a single sign. I think Clarisse McClellan is a Gemini, Guy Montag is Cancer, and Captain Beatty is an Aeries. Clarisse McClellan is a Gemini because Geminis are often described to be curious, creative, and open-minded. In the book McClellan inquires to Montag,”Do you mind if I ask? How long have...
Words: 492 - Pages: 2
...In the movie, Tom Joad and his family are extremely poor. They are forced to live during the depression and must find a way to survive. The bank has just recently kicked them out of their home and they are left with merely nothing. One situation that really caught my attention was when the family was left with no choice other than to bury their grandfather on the side of the highway. They were so poor they could not afford a funeral, nor any other type of burial. I cannot fathom what it would be like to bury one of my relatives on the side of a highway and just continue moving forward. Furthermore, throughout all of these issues the Joad family still remained hopeful and maintained their pride during their search for...
Words: 636 - Pages: 3
...Before the Civil Rights Movement sparked, our country was plagued with discrimination. After violence by police against African American protesters in Selma, Alabama erupted, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed the public, in his speech “We Shall Overcome,” declaring how the country must unify against discrimination. The author showed the need to consolidate the nation’s forces to fight for equality through his use of repetition of parallel structure and a passionate appeal to convey a hopeful tone. The author used repetition of parallel structure to persuade his country to fight against discrimination. Johnson used “so it was” followed by an allusion to a historical landmark, such as “Lexington and Concord” and “Appomattox,” to illustrate past victories in arduous battles by...
Words: 806 - Pages: 4
...American Dream, he is still sometimes a victim of racism. “The evil Japanese in our home country will be locked away,” following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans are ordered into internment camps where they live under the harshest conditions. Inside the camps, prisoners were provided with very little food, shelter, or sanitation utilities, not to mention overcrowding. The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in Wyoming “was a barbed-wire-surrounded enclave with unpartitioned toilets, cots for beds, and a budget of 45 cents daily per capita for food rations” (Myer). Outside of joining the military, there was little hope amongst the prisoners of ever leaving the camps. Even in atrocious living conditions, Kenji remains hopeful that one day they’ll return to their normal lives, “cause someday we'll get out, someday, someday.”...
Words: 1041 - Pages: 5
...Different Voting systems and Fast Past the Post advantages and Disadvantages Fast Past the Post (FPTP) voting happens in single-party supporters. Voters put a cross in a case by their favored hopeful and the applicant with the most votes in the voting public wins. All different votes mean nothing. FPTP is the second most widely used voting system in the world. First Past the Post is defended is mainly based on grounds of simplicity and its tendency to produce winners who are representatives beholden to defined geographic areas and governability. Provides a clear-cut choice for voters between two main parties. In FPTP, the flip side of a strong single-party government is that the opposition is also given enough seats to perform critical checking role and present itself as a realistic alternative to the government of the day. It advantages broadly-based political parties. The most important piece of this discussion is that majority voting with single-part regions is essentially the most noticeably awful conceivable framework, and this is a vital issue. So there are essentially no wrong responses to this inquiry. Actually, your inquiry is at the heart of "social decision hypothesis"; if an entire field of study has invested decades debating this inquiry without concurring on anything other than the way that majority is terrible, it’s difficult to determine it in one Quora answer. A piece of the issue is that it’s essentially two separate...
Words: 2805 - Pages: 12
...Objectives Fred recently became a manager at a local hardware store that employs six managers and 55 nonmanagement employees. As new, larger chains such as Home Depot come to the area, the owner is concerned about losing many of his customers because he cannot compete on the basis of price. The management team met and discussed its strategic response. The team determined that the hardware store would focus on particular items and make personalized service the cornerstone of its effort. Fred’s responsibility was to train all nonmanagement employees in good customer relations skills; for that he was given a budget of $70,000. Over that past six months, Fred received a number of training brochures from outside organizations. One of the brochures boasted, “Three-day workshop, $35,000. We will come in and train all your employees (maximum of 50 per session) so that any customer who comes to your store once will come again. Another said, ” one day seminar on customer service skills. The best in the country. Only $8,000 (maximum participants 70).” A third said, “customer satisfaction guaranteed on our customer satisfaction training for sales clerks. Three-day workshop, $25,000. Maximum participants 25 to allow for individual help.” Fred liked the third one because it provided personalized training. He called the company to talk about its offering. The consultant said that by keeping the number small, he would be able to provide actual work simulations for each of the trainees. He also...
Words: 1328 - Pages: 6
