February 25

Week 4 – F.O.I.L. with Roots

This is the week we learned how Roots work and how they interact with each other. I decided the one I wanted to do was this how to F.O.I.L. with roots. Once again, I’m using Paint instead of $latex. I enjoy it more. This one took me a little bit to get, and I still struggle a tiny bit with figuring out when and where I need to use this, the actual procedure of using it isn’t an issue though. So here’s me attempting to do it correctly:

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February 15

Character Sketch “Two Fishermen”

This character sketch is on the character Michael Foster, this is more or less, my opinion on what he looks like (^As seen above)and who he is as a character, well, more just what I found in the story, not my actual opinion. From what I’ve seen throughout the short story, Michael Foster seems to be a docile, greedy, and cowardly man. Michael is a reporter for the town paper, who wants to eventually leave the small town for a much bigger city. One day Michael comes across the one story he thinks would be able to give him the push he needs to leave this small town. The town has a man how in self defence murdered a man, although it was in self defence, he is sentenced to death, and an executioner is brought to town. Michael sees this as an opportunity and attempts to talk and get to know the executioner, using him to further his own career. He finds out that this man actually is a human being and has a family and has feelings, he ended up liking the guy and thinking he was pretty great. Then came the day of the hanging, after the hanging the hangman was supposed to leave in a car, but for some reason the car left without him, leaving him to face a mob of people all pelting rocks and other stuff at him, this was the moment where Michael could’ve helped this poor man, but instead, he cowered in the crowd and didn’t do a thing. This was a cowardly act, and earlier he used him to further his own career, the greedy aspect. I believe Daniel Radcliff would do a pretty good job at playing this character.

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February 8

Capital Punishment in “Two Fishermen”

Capital Punishment, what is it? Well Capital punishment is more or less, the death sentence. Basically when someone commits a really serious crime, they kill them. In Canada, in the early days, we had Capital Punishment as well, but only for premeditated murder and murder of an on duty law man. Luckily, in Canada, we got rid of Capital Punishment in 1976, and we also took it away from the Canadian National Defence Act in 1988. Now let’s get into Capital Punishment in the short story “Two Fishermen”. In this short story a man named Thomas Delany is supposed to be hanged for protecting his wife from a man who was molesting her named, Mathew Rinehart. If this were to have happened in Canada it would’ve had to happen before the year 1976 (Because that’s the year we abolished Capital Punishment), and it happened in the middle of the town for all people to see, so it most likely happened closer to 1865, (Because that’s when we originally introduced Capital Punishment) I’m thinking early 1900’s.

Now let’s move onto why Thomas Delany should not have been hanged like he was. Now Thomas Delany did commit a murder, but it was in the Defence of his wife, who was at the time being sexually assaulted, which I might add would have gotten Mathew Rinehart the death penalty for his actions anyway. Not only that, but Thomas Delany didn’t plan on committing this crime, so it wasn’t premeditated, it was in self defence, as Mathew Rinehart had also started to beat up Thomas for attempting to stop him from what he was doing. In my opinion Thomas shouldn’t have gotten any penalty, because it was self defence and he was defending his wife.

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