...Vi’Dual Futch English 132- F1 Dr. Dabney Gray Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Living In 1994 Many births happened all around the world in the year of 1994. There was one in particular that happened in a small town in Georgia called Statesboro. The kid that was born name is Vi’Dual Futch. He was born July 1st, 1994 to be more exact. During this year many events happened across the globe that was important to many. In fact a couple of them are flood related mortality in Georgia, Zimbabwe taking a lead in promoting birth control, and 30 people drowned as Haitian police fire on refugees. These 3 events happened in the year of 1994 and had an impact all- over the world. One can research these events and find several articles pertaining to them. The world had a lot going during the 1994 period, which gave light to the world. July 3, 1994 something happened in Georgia that killed people, injured people, and destroyed much of South Georgia. In fact, Center Of Disease Control classified 30 deaths as flood related from July 4 thru July 14 as ME/Cs. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 29, 1994: 526-530) The “GREAT FLOOD” of 1994 of Georgia; many refer to this tropical storm as. The storm originated off the coast of Africa on June 30. The storm named Alberto struck the Florida panhandle and it came with severe winds and rain. Winds were up to 60 miles per hour. The flood caused several roads in 30 counties to close. The storm also ruptured many dams included 100 recreational...
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...The Miracle Worker, a play written by William Gibson, tells the story of the early life of Helen Keller. It focuses on the difficulties Helen's family had with trying to reach her, and Annie Sullivan's efforts to give Helen the gift of language. In the "Water Pump" scene Annie is with Helen at the water pump in the yard. Several movie versions of the play are effective in its portrayal of the story have produced over the years including the 1964 version. This version of the play is effective in its portrayal of the story, particularly "Water pump scene". In this movie, the character actions, camera angles and sounds create the exciting mood of the scene. The character actions in the 1964 version are very effective especially when Hellen starts...
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...Baptism of Pocahontas John Gadsby Chapman Artist I believe the artist portrayed reverence and family connection in this painting. He shows a convergence of Christianity and the uncivilized Indians. It shows that different tribes or civilizations can love each other even though their belief systems can remain somewhat different. This painting was commissioned in1836 and was placed in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in 1840. William Henry was elected as President in 1840. During the time this painting was commissioned, the fight against slavery actually began and cotton prices went up. Women also became antislavery abolitionist, which help link the two fights together. A state education board was also started in Massachusetts. Declaration of Independence John Trumbull Artist This painting shows a group of individuals working for a better United States. The painting does not show the actual signing of the Declaration. It does show a united front with strength and authority around the desk being well balanced, which was a show of republicanism. I feel Trumbull portrayed this well with great detail of strength and authority in the face and stance of each individual. Trumbull was commissioned to do four paintings with this being the first completed and the first to be hung in the Capitol in 1819 and later was moved to the Rotunda in 1826. The painting was also one of four to be done in the Revolution-era. During this time period the founding fathers were...
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...it, some need to work for it, and others don't know how to get it. It is something either one has or does not, but rather can simply be fulfilled over the long run. The inquiry that numerous need addressed it "what would I be able to do to pick up confident?" I have discovered that confident is difficult to accomplish, yet with companions, trust, and time it can be come easy to reach. The sign of confidence is the "faith in oneself and one's forces or capacities." Everybody is inadequate with regards to trust in something; not everybody is great. Whether it be giving a discourse before the class, contending in a substantial rivalry, or tolerating one's appearance, some people do not have the confidence expected to appreciate life. Helen Keller said, "Positive thinking is the confidence that prompts accomplishment. There is no hope without trust and confidence." This quote is totally genuine in light of the fact that if one does not have certainty they can never accomplish or go past what they need to do. A few people have so much confidence that they do not have fear to do anything. Others are the complete inverse, and are frightened of being judged or scorned by others. Self-assurance can't be taught, yet is come to by the person when they choose to have faith in themselves. Keeping in mind the end goal to achieve fearlessness, one needs to accept that they can do the current workload. It can't be fulfilled overnight, yet gradually gets more grounded and more grounded more than...
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...passage from an academic source, altering it to make it her own. It is unclear whether this was done through intention or a lack of understanding. Many students may understand that copying and pasting from a source is an obvious form of plagiarism, but may not consider paraphrasing to be as well. Paraphrasing can also become challenging to acknowledge as a form of plagiarism, because it can sometimes be hard to distinguish between what you consider genuine thoughts and thoughts learned through other sources. As Mark Twain stated (1903), “For substantially all ideas are second-hand consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources” ("All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain On Plagiarism And Originality, In A Letter To Helen Keller"). There are many tips Teresa can take into consideration the next time she writes an...
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...Summary of Helen Keller: The Story of My Life For my personal choice book I have chosen Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, by James Berger. I chose this book because it was very interesting to read about how her education developed throughout her life. It was also fascinating to know how she learned to understand what people were saying because she wrote how sometimes she would place her fingers on their lips and would discover what they were saying from the movements of their lips. At other times people would spell into her hand what they were saying. This book was about the first 22 years of her life. When she was 18 months old she suffered from Scarlet Fever, which left her blind and deaf. Her articulate speech was gone as well. With these disabilities she also had problems with relationships. She never had children or got married. Her greatest confidant was her teacher, Anne Sullivan. She learned to talk passably and dance. Once she opened her mind she became a happy participant of the world. She graduated from Radcliffe University. She became an artful writer and a crusading humanitarian. She also revolutionized the educational techniques and methods of teaching for the blind and deaf. The Main Characters Main Problem and How She Goes about Solving it. The main character in the book Helen Keller: The Story of My Life is Helen Keller. Helen Keller’s main problem was that she was battling with two disabilities in life. She was both deaf and blind from an illness she...
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...Story of my Life by Helen Keller The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is an autobiography of Helen, a girl who was born without any abnormalities until the age of 19 months that she came down with a fever. Leading to an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain, the doctor said she might not recover, although she did survive it lead to her being blind and deaf as a result. Helen’s autobiography talks about her childhood when she met Anne Sullivan, to learning to use sign language, to being able to learn to read on her own, which led her to write her first short story titled "The Frost King,” to Mr. Anagnos, but was sad at the fact it was plagiarized and was found similar to, "The Frost Fairies" by Miss Margaret T. Canby, in a book called "Birdie and His Friends,” and how it affected her friendship with Mr. Anagnos had ended because no one believed that she did not intend to plagiarize the story. She also talks about her visit to Boston, to the Perkins Institute, and seeing other children who are blind and chat with them, "what joy to talk with other children in my own language" (Ch9). Helen also talks about going to Radcliffe College for the first time and overcoming obstacles with her teacher, Anne Sullivan; for example, when she could not get her books published in Braille in time and it was a difficult learning process but Anne had some difficulty signing into Helen’s hand. She talks about Anne and her new acquired friendships such as with Mr. Anagnos, Alexander Graham...
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...Summary of Helen Keller: The Story of My Life For my personal choice book I have chosen Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, by James Berger. I chose this book because it was very interesting to read about how her education developed throughout her life. It was also fascinating to know how she learned to understand what people were saying because she wrote how sometimes she would place her fingers on their lips and would discover what they were saying from the movements of their lips. At other times people would spell into her hand what they were saying. This book was about the first 22 years of her life. When she was 18 months old she suffered from Scarlet Fever, which left her blind and deaf. Her articulate speech was gone as well. With these disabilities she also had problems with relationships. She never had children or got married. Her greatest confidant was her teacher, Anne Sullivan. She learned to talk passably and dance. Once she opened her mind she became a happy participant of the world. She graduated from Radcliffe University. She became an artful writer and a crusading humanitarian. She also revolutionized the educational techniques and methods of teaching for the blind and deaf. The Main Characters Main Problem and How She Goes about Solving it. The main character in the book Helen Keller: The Story of My Life is Helen Keller. Helen Keller’s main problem was that she was battling with two disabilities in life. She was both deaf and blind from an illness she...
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...Introduction My name is Wanjia Jiang. Before I went to JCCC, I have been to Warrensburg, MO for studying for two years. Warrensburg is not a big city or place for all of the international students because there is no convenient transportation. This city cannot bring more convenience to people in their daily life. However, most people love it here because there are nice people. They are living here and cannot leave here. The local people always enjoy life and help the international students. In fact, before I went JCCC, I was a girl who knows nothing. I used to using my father’s money at America. I did not understand how difficult to making money. I have no gold, no hope and no future. I was thinking about go back to China with degree. I did not like here, U.S.A. I just have one dream, which is go back to my home. Since I have been know so body, that hurt me, but help me grow up. However, now I am moving to JCCC, because I want to move with my boyfriend. In fact, that is ex-boyfriend who cheated my more than two years tuition. That is why I choice JCCC. Before I was sad， but now I am good. And I went Ottawa, because I want using the fast way to find my gold. Personal philosophy I believe every thing is possible. I can do every thing by my self. I believe I will not dead, if I lose somebody. Just like a remark, I quoted from Nietzsche: “Was mich nicht unbringth, macht mich starker”(Kushner, 2006). This quoted let me know: if people hurt you, but did not kill you. Then...
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...weird and we don’t get along. Body: My high school life was tough, and it’s something I never want to experience again. The high school I attended was a career technical school in Springfield, Ohio. We ran a restaurant there for lunch service Tuesday-Friday. Also, we competed in state and national competitions for culinary and baking and pastry. While attending high school, I also worked at The Golden Jersey Inn at Youngs Dairy as a prep/catering cook. During the fall, I plan to intern at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. Then after I get my associates degree here, I plan to get my bachelors at CIA in New York for food science. I would like to someday work at Alinea or The French Laundry. I’m really inspired by Grant Achatz and Thomas Keller. Conclusion: I feel as though if I didn’t attend Springfield Clark Career Technology Center, I probably would have never came to Johnson and Wales. I have my instructors from there to thank for that, Chef Hay and Chef Scott. Coming to Charlotte has opened so many opportunities that I didn’t think were imaginable in Ohio. Leaving high school and starting college early made it so much easier for me to get away from what I had to experience in high...
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...Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, for the next few minutes I will share with you my perspective about beauty. I have a quote, which did not only capture my mind, but also captured my heart. Helen Keller said: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” She is American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree she was blind. You might be wondering why I have decided to talk to you about this quote, but instead of me just telling you, I will take you to a journey that might place you in my position. Let me ask you this, with a raise of hands how many of you would like to live in a house like this? Well, it is a common goal in today’s fast-paced society to achieve monetary wellness in order to live what some people call “the good life”. In this house you have the latest technology and a crew of people that are more than willing to take care of all of your needs. Now, picture yourself in this house. It certainly does not compare, right? So what is my point? Why am I showing these pictures? Well what you do not know is that in the second picture lives an aged couple who had been married for over 20 years. They had lived together the toughest years of their lives in that simple house. They had seen their daughter grow, they saw how she would fail, but they also had the opportunity to see her achieve all of her goals. Now if you show this...
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...Helen Keller was a very intelligent woman who was afflicted at an early age in life. Her disabilities set in on her at eighteen months. As she grew older she didn’t let her incapacity defeat her. In 1933, Keller wrote an essay entitled, “Three Days To See”. In this article Keller gives a response about what she would like to see if she were given her sight back for three days. She also speaks about what it would be like if others were to lose their sight for three days as well. The opening statement of Keller’s article reads, “I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight, silence would teach him the joys of sound.” Does not this statement alone make you take the time to sit back and wonder what that type of journey would be like. Then suddenly you close your eyes and embrace all that is going on around you just to bathe in its glory for you know you have taken so much for granted Keller uses a lot of her emotions to catch your attention. It is very hard to argue with her about the situation because she makes a very relevant point. One reason is that she lives by experience. Keller lives in darkness on a day to day basis. Looking at my like, I know that I definitely take so much for granted and do not appreciate a lot of the simpler things in life. Things like the way my son son turns his head to the side and pokes his lip...
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...Helen Keller may be the world's most famous ‘supercrip’. Very few people can claim to have "overcome" disability so thoroughly and spectacularly. A blind and deaf wild child at the age of 7, she became, by the time she published The Story of My Life at 22, one of Radcliffe's most successful and polished students, fluent in Latin, Greek, German, French and (not least) English--not to mention three versions of Braille (English, American, New York Point) and the manual alphabet in which her renowned teacher Anne Sullivan first communicated with her. But let me dispense with the scare quotes for a moment. Helen Keller is famous--and justly so--precisely because she did, in many respects, overcome the physical impairments of deafness and blindness, as well as the formidable social obstacles facing people with disabilities at the end of the nineteenth century. Her story retains its power to startle and inspire even now, just as Anne Sullivan's story remains among the most startling and inspiring tales in the history of pedagogy. Keller's story is also a member of the genre of disability autobiographies in which the writing of one's life story takes on the characteristics of what the philosopher J.L. Austin called "performative" utterances: The primary function of The Story of My Life, in this sense, is to let readers know that its author is capable of telling the story of her life. The point is hardly a trivial one. Helen Keller was dogged nearly all her life by the charge that she...
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...Ladies. In 1900, she gained entrance to Radcliffe College. She graduated Radcliffe at age 24 in 1904 and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. She was the first blind, deaf, and mute person to get that degree.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100124132526AAe3nwd Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in a small town in Alabama. What makes her extra ordinary is the fact that at the age of 19th months she suffered from something that may have been scarlet fever. The illness left her blind and deaf. Keller did not let this make her give up on opportunities that most children and women have had. She was the first blind-deaf women to graduate from college. She attended Radcliffe College and graduated in 1904. Upon her college graduation Keller devoted her life to writing and public speaking. She wanted to serve as an inspiration to women. She fought for those with disabilities, she supported birth control, and she supported women’s suffrage. President Lyndon B. Johnson even awarded her the President Medal of Freedom for all achievements and for making a difference in the lives of others. At the age of 87, on June 1st, 1968 Helen Keller. In her long life of 87 years, I truly believe Helen Keller touched the lives of many people and I think her legacy still does today. Although she wrote and was an activist for many causes. Her own life story and her persistent struggle, and the fact that she refused to give up, and overcame all obstacles are what make her so accomplished...
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...The play the Miracle Worker by William Gibson. This play is about how Helen was a deaf, Blind, And mute girl. This play is based on a true story and was very popular back in the day so they made a movie out of it. Here are some examples of the differences between the play and the movie: Helen seemed much more older than in the play than in the movie, Helen seemed to wander around more, And the negro servants seemed to be more younger in the movie. Considering in the play it said that Helen was only six and half years old, it was surprising that she seemed to be much older in the movie. For example when the movie first started and i saw Hellen and she seemed older in the movie than in the play. Helen seemed to wander...
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