Robert E. Lee and The Alchemist Metaphor

               Robert E. Lee never achieved his personal legend. In terms consistent with the metaphors in Paulo Coehlo’s fable The Alchemist, Lee chose to stay with his sheep instead, out of a sense of duty.

               Lee knew early that he wanted a career in the military, and to that end enrolled in West Point. He graduated with 98.33% of total grade points available, the second-highest as of 1978 (below an 1884 graduate my source fails to name) (Manchester, 54). He served in the Spanish-American War as captain in the engineers’ corps (Long, 53) and there are plenty of glowing reports of Lee’s performance from his commanding officers, several of which begin by admitting they know others have already written about Lee’s excellence but feel they have to record the following anyway (the source was heavily biased). This is early in his career and in Coelho’s metaphor would be the universe conspiring to propel Lee towards his legend.

               In the same war Lee met General Scott, who plays the part of the King of Salem, aiding Lee in developing his career and doing his best to convince him to take the right path to his legend. As states and officers were choosing sides for the Civil War, Scott did his best to convince Lee it would be in his best interest to stay with the Union. There was no way the Confederates could have won the war, and Lee had to see it was hopeless. Anyone who managed to stay awake long enough in history classes knows the Confederates had a long list severe, sometimes crippling disadvantages, including population deficiency, a level of industrialization below what was needed to keep up with the North’s war factories, and dependency on foreign trade that their meager naval strength could not protect against the warships of the Union. The Confederates lacked the resources for more than one offensive while the Union, under Ulysses Grant, was able to do nothing but. Grant was not the first choice for the top Union commander. Lee had been approached before the war officially began, at President Lincoln’s insistence (Long 92), but refused to abandon his home state of Virginia, his sheep. In Coelho’s metaphor sheep are whatever a person feels responsible for, and feels they cannot drop for the sake of pursuing their personal legend. The choice would cost Lee his home, which would become Arlington National Cemetery, and his military career.

               He may have lost a shot at the presidency. Lee was a popular, natural leader before the war. Otherwise he would not still be in our school textbooks. Had he stayed with the Union he would have become a war hero, and war heroes are very often elected to presidency. Eisenhower and Washington did it. Ulysses Grant managed it, despite past problems with alcohol and a rather less illustrious military record (O’Brian). Lee likely would have been better for the country. Grant accomplished little his first term and his second was plagued by economic troubles and administration scandals (O’Brian). The South would also have taken more kindly to Lee governing the United States, as he was one of them, easing the process of Reconstruction. Fear for his home state kept Lee from his personal legend.

·        Virginia=sheep
·        General Scott=King of Salem, tried to keep him on track

Works Cited

Manchester, William. American Caesar. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Print.

This book is actually an extensive biography of Douglas Macarthur, but frequently compares its subject to Lee and in some places was more detailed than Lee’s own biography.

Long, A.L. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee. Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Gray Press, 1983. Print.

For some reason, when I picked up this book I expected it have been written by Lee himself. The lack of author name on the front cover adds to this illusion. However, it is revealed in the preface this was actually written by a close friend of Lee, as Lee had decided only later in life to write a memoir and died before he could begin. Long can write nothing bad about Lee and admits in the preface he had great personal respect for the general. Subsequent lack of detail is slightly suspicious.

O’Brian, Steven G. “Ulysses S. Grant.” ABC-Clio. Web. 19 May 2014.

               Self-explanatory.

Jimi Hendrix and The Alchemist

Ankur Bhatt

Mr. Mahoney

5/12/14

Blog Post: The Alchemist and Jimi Hendrix

 The Alchemist is a tale that highlight the importance of following one’s calling, and pursuing what one is meant to do. There are many distractions and secure paths that one can take instead of following their calling, but in the end it will haunt them for the rest of their lives. A person I believe had succeeded in following their personal legend is guitar player Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix went through many rough times in his life, with the only thing guiding him out of the darkness was his guitar. Once he decided that he would stick to the amazing skill of his to play, he ended up becoming big internationally, and now being known as one of the most legendary players of all time. There is no doubt that Jimi Hendrix reflects some of the major factors presented in The Alchemist. The ideas of the distractions to the Personal Legend and the world conspiring to help achieve one's goal were played out over the course of Jimi Hendrix’s life.

Paulo Coelho’s concept of a Personal Legend is the overall goal that the universe plans for you to achieve, and that your spirit demands for everlasting satisfaction. In The Alchemist, Santiago pursues his calling and travels to the pyramids to eventually find his calling. During the course, Santiago is in a position where life seems satisfying enough to him. He had met his wife Fatima, and was very wealthy after staying at the oasis. But even though he is in a position to settle down, he decides to keep pursuing his calling, knowing that the regret from not doing so would eat him up alive until he was dead. Similar to Santiago, Jimi Hendrix faced obstacles in pursuing his calling as a guitar player, but decided to stay away from these distractions. One major distraction that Jimi fortunately avoided was staying in the army. Even though it seemed like a good option for his circumstance, he stayed with his calling to become the legend he was. “Jimmy’s father strongly suggested that his son join the 101st Airborne Division. If he wasn’t going to finish high school, he needed some way to make a living and head for a steady future” (Lawrence 19). Jimi was influenced to be in the army, which other people in his life thought would be great for someone with his circumstances. But Hendrix could not put the guitar down, and forget about the extenuating talent he had. He did eventually get called out from the army, and followed his Personal Legend. This shows that Jimi Hendrix does reflect the idea of one’s calling presented by Paulo Coelho.

Along with the idea of following your personal legend, Paulo Coelho believes that the world conspires in your favor when you try to achieve your goal. This occurred to Santiago in The Alchemist through the people that he met in his journey. For example, the Alchemist he meets guides him through the desert and teaches him the lessons that nature gives off to help Santiago in his journey. Also, the King of Salem’s wisdom helps Santiago continue his course to the pyramids and pursue the journey, indicating that it is indeed his calling. The biography Jimi Hendrix shows examples of the universe conspiring in Hendrix's way to achieve his goal of becoming a renown musician. The most important was his trip to London, which eventually jump started a career that would create a legend. After creating and playing a song independently, Hendrix got nothing but positive feedback from people around him. “ Folkestone, London, Paris, the world! You’ve got a hit record blooming and more on the way! I’ve kept it promise, mate” (Lawrence 68)! This was Chas’s words, Jimi Hendrix’s manager. before this, Jimi hadn’t taken advantage of the unique talent he had with his guitar. It was when he started to take part in gigs that the world did conspire in his favor. More and more people would reach out to him and ask to take part in their own gigs, and Jimi would almost never refuse. Eventually, he got a chance to meet with Chas and become a hit in London, and become the world's highest paid performer in the 1960’s. Jimi’s seemingly swift ride to the top proves that the universe does indeed conspire in one’s favor when the Personal Legend is being met.

Hendrix’s life does provide ideas presented by Paulo Coelho, most importantly the ideas of the Personal Legend and the world conspiring to help achieve one's goal. Jimi Hendrix was meant to express himself through his guitar, and even though there were several obstacles in his life in his way, he found a way to cross the barriers and achieve his goal. Once he did head in this direction, the opportunities he got started swarming towards him, and the universe did indeed help him achieve his Personal Legend. Jimi Hendrix is a great example of the rare cases of people meeting their Personal Legend. Most people settle down and live a safe, secure lifestyle. But is that what life is about? Paulo Coelho and Jimi Hendrix demonstrate ways that taking a risk can work out for you, and work out for the universe in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwWjx7Cw8I
 

The Relationship Between Steve Jobs and The Alchemist

Parth Patel

Mr. Mahoney

English 11 CP1 A Block

May 12th, 2014

Steve Jobs and The Alchemist: Following One’s Personal Legend

Everyone has a goal or a final destination in their life. It is up to them to them whether or not they want to achieve that goal or reach that final destination. In fact, many are confused as to what is their goal or final destination in their life. In the novel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago, a young shepherdsmen, has a recurring dream of a treasure in Egypt and determines that it was his personal legend and ultimate goal in life to discover what this treasure was. At the beginning, Coelho states, “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times” (Coelho VII).  This means in life you will be faced with obstacles when you are trying to get to your personal legend, but it is necessary to have the courage and determination to not let those obstacles interfere in achieving your personal legend. If by any chance, we do fall down, we need to able to get up on our own. We always need to be one step ahead of our fears or obstacles so that they do not skew us from reaching our ultimate goal.  Later on in the novel, Coelho states, “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” (Coelho 22). This simply means when you are on the right path to achieving your personal legend, or your set goal in life, the World will send you omens, or signs along the way to guide you in the correct path to your goal. For example, in The Alchemist, Santiago encounters many people who guide him on the right path and are signs that show he is going in the right direction. For example, there was the King of Salem who told Santiago about following his dreams and to learn about himself, to find the right path and to learn to be wise. The King of Salem helps Santiago understand that what people most want is to learn their personal legends, and in order to achieve them one needs to focused and determined. He also contributes to Santiago's journey by giving hints and clues as to where to find his treasure. There is also the crystal merchant with whom Santiago learns that he is scared of going to Mecca because the merchant is scared of failure. He is scared that it would be underwhelming and will not live up to his expectations. There is also Fatimah, a girl who he meets in the Oasis and falls in love with her and many others. Coelho has also said, “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure” (Coelho 141). This ties into not letting the environment or the obstacles come in the way when you are pursuing your dream. If you let the outside forces dictate your actions, you will start to doubt your ability and as a result your self-esteem will drop. Furthermore, you will start to feel a sense of failure and stop trying to achieve your dreams.  In short, Paulo Coelho, through writing the Alchemist wants to convey the message that one should be able to follow their dreams and not let anyone or anything stop one from not achieving their dreams.

Many of the concepts from The Alchemist can be applied to the biography Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson which recalls the life of Steve Jobs and the struggles that he had to face in order to become the CEO of Apple. Steve was born to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali but was later put up for adoption due to religious matters and because Joanne’s father did not want his daughter marrying a muslim man. He was later adopted by Clara Hagopian and Paul Reinhold Jobs, who were two high school dropouts. Clara was a bookkeeper and Paul was a car mechanic. Paul had a fond obsession for cars and machines. He has always opening things and trying to determine how something works. Steve has said about his father, “I thought my Dad’s sense of design was pretty good, because he knew how to build anything” (Isaacson 4). Steve Jobs has said that his father has played a role in him being interested in computer and electronics. In that sense, Paul Jobs could be thought of as being similar to King of Salem who is trying to guide Steve to his personal legend as the King of Salem was guiding Santiago to his personal legend. Steve would spend endless hours with his father in their garage tinkering and fishing around with electronics and building new things from it. Once Steve Jobs that he was adopted, that started to have an impact on his life. “Abandoned. Chosen. Special” (Isaacson 4), these were the 3 characteristics that gave Jobs the foundation for the rest of his life. Jobs friends later said that once Jobs found out he was adopted, and the pain that was caused as a result of the abandonnement, Jobs learned to become independent. Jobs “followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different World than he was born into” (Isaacson 5). All of these qualities are reflected upon when Jobs become the CEO of Apple.  

*Those are Cows and Calves

There was an interesting moment in Jobs’s life that has influenced Apple’s product. He saw a calf being born, and he was amazed when the tiny animal struggled up within minutes and began to walk. “It was not something she had learned, but it was instead hardwired into her,” he recalled. “A human baby couldn’t do that. I found it remarkable, even though no one else did.” He put it in hardware-software terms: “It was as if something in the animal’s body and in its brain had been engineered to work together instantly rather than being learned” (Isaacson 15-16).  This could be looked upon as an omen, or as a sign that Jobs is receiving from the Soul of the World which is shaping Apple and the philosophy behind it.

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech

Steve Jobs first few jobs involved working with HP as a summer jobs in which he would repair old and broken computers. In 1969, Jobs meet Steve Wozniak, a person has will completely altered Jobs life. Woz was 5 years older than Jobs and similar to Jobs, had a huge passion for electronics, Bob Dylan and pranking.

Jobs and Woz were huge fans of Bob Dylan. Jobs said, “We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking” (Isaacson 25-26).

Jobs later decided to get involved with Zen Buddhism. He went to India to talk to sages and to meditate. He wanted to go on a spiritual movement. According to Daniel Kottke, a longtime friend of Jobs, the reason why Jobs went to India was because, “there was a hole in him, and he was trying to fill it” (Isaacson 45). This ‘hole’ that Kottke is referring to is not knowing his birth parents. He wanted to discover his true form and who he really was. This is similar to Santiago in the Alchemist. This all ties into the idea that Jobs not knowing real parents and the fact that ge was adopted is the reason for all of his actions. Jobs later had said that the meditation and the spiritual thoughts that he was received was directly reflected in Apple and has also shaped him as a person.

Soon after Woz and Jobs created a friendship, they started creating blue boxes which allows people to make calls anywhere for free. Jobs then started working for Atari, a video game company at the time. Jobs and Woz started developing the Apple I and selling them to company hobbyists. Later, they created a prototype for Apple II which impressed many executives. In 1978, Apple II becomes the first PC that is sold to the mass market, with impressive sales around the US. This made Apple a symbol of the personal computing revolution. After the impressive sales of the Apple II, Jobs and Woz began the creation of the Apple III. This will eventually prove to be a flop. This lead to the creation of the Lisa, named after the daughter of Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell. In 1985, Jobs was fired because he wanted to create a second-generation computer called the Mac and take money away from the Apple II which was a massive success.

At first, the executives at the time thought this was a brilliant move that they got rid of Steve Jobs because of the ‘dumb’ choices that he was making and plus he had gotten abusive with his employees due to the fact they weren’t listening to his suggestions. Meanwhile, Pixar, a company Jobs had given a lot of funding too,  was enjoying a lot of success. They were coming out with some good movies which were going well.

However, soon after, Apple started deteriorating and their sales started dropping due to the absence of Jobs. As a result, they called back Jobs and had him take over again as CEO. In July 1997, Jobs comes back as Interim CEO. This reinforces the idea of falling down but then being able to get back up. End though he was ousted once as CEO, he came back later on and was able to redeem himself. In the fall of 1997, Apple comes out with the "Think Different" campaign in an attempt to restore the losses that have plagued the company for the past few years. The PowerMac G4 Cube is unveiled by Apple in 2000 but later discontinued due to low sales. Apple later releases the iPod Touch which goes on to reinvent the music space. In the fall of 2003, Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August 2004, Jobs surgically removes his pancreatic cancer. Apple then unveils the first two intel-powered Macs, the MacBook Pro and the iMac. Then in 2007, perhaps the most memorable keynote presentation, Jobs unveils the first iPhone, a revolutionary product that completely changed the way we view the cell phone today. In 2008, Apple unveils the MacBook Air, the World's thinnest notebook. In 2010, Apple releases the iPad, the biggest thing Apple has done. It completely reinvented the tablet space.

The 2011 WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) is the last keynote presentation before Jobs steps down as CEO and is succeed by Tim Cook. On the 5th of October in 2011, the World lost a true hero, a true innovator who changed the World for the better. The World would have a completely different place if it had not been for Jobs.

In short, there are many things in common between The Alchemist and Steve Jobs. They both tell the story of two individuals, who despite many distractions along the way, were able to find their ultimate treasure.  I do believe that Steve Jobs has pursued his personal legend which was reinventing the way we look at science and technology. He was one ordinary man with big dreams. It is quite evident that he has accomplished a lot in his short life. He always wanted to try something new, he was willing to take risks and go beyond his boundaries. That is what made him the person who he is today. On a personal note, Steve Jobs has greatly influenced my life all together and has been a major role model in my life. The World has lost a true icon, a true visionary, a true man who had one goal which was to change the World. In reading Steve Jobs and The Alchemist,  I hope more people get motivated and encouraged to live out their own Personal Legends. We all have a unique one, and the choice is truly ours to pursue it or let it pass. Thank you for all you have done Steve. You will be missed by me, and millions of your other fans Worldwide. RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Works Cited

Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print.

Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Print.

Thomas Pritchard                            May 13, 2014

All through Thomas Jefferson's  life many events occur that relate to the symbolism present in Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist. All of these events and situations helped make him the man who had the power and experience needed to shape the future of America. In order to understand this amazing person we must first know who he is.We learn in Natalie’s Bober biography, Thomas Jefferson Draftsman of a Nation, that Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 on a 1400 acre plantation in Virginia. He was born to Jane Randolph, a rich aristocrat, and Peter Jefferson, a middle class Virginian. He was one of the first people to have been born between the social classes. This gave him a unique viewpoint on life. In the Alchemist Santiago discovered his personal legend with the help of many people and events. The same holds true for Jefferson. I do believe that Jefferson has a personal legend and that his journey to it is smiler to Santiago's.

map of showing the size of Virginia
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Early in Jefferson's life, he had a life changing encounter similar to Santiago’s encounter with the King of Salem. This is the first of many such encounters for Jefferson. While Jefferson was attending William and Mary college in Williamsburg, Jefferson encountered a man by the name of Dr. William Small. This man was one of the few smart teachers at the college at the time and did much to liberalize the school. Dr. Small and Jefferson became friends and Jefferson credits Small as the person who ignited his love of math. Small’s similarity to the King of Salem, in The Alchemist, is shown when Jefferson said that Small “probably fixed the destinies of his life” (Bober 23). Small did what the King of Salem in The Alchemist did to Santiago, they helped get Jefferson and Santiago going down the right path. Small did this by suggesting Jefferson become a lawyer. Jefferson took this advice and unknowingly began his journey to his personal legend of fighting for people’s freedom through writing.

    At this time in his life, Jefferson also began to see the beginning of the Principle of Favorability. This was seen in Jefferson’s romantic interests. The Principle of Favorability comes into play when one of Jefferson’s friends introduces him to an aristocrat friend who Jefferson becomes friends with. This friend shortly after introduces Jefferson to Francis Fauquier, the current Governor of Virginia. This may not be just the principle at work but also fate. Jefferson, who later became a powerful lawyer, could benefit from being friends with a Governor. It would supply him with knowledge that would be invaluable later on in his life. In this time, Jefferson started to become more and more interested in romance. He had a situation similar to Santiago and the merchant’s daughter were he loved her but could not bring himself to tell her. In Jefferson's case it was a young lady by the name of Rebecca Burwell. In the end he never told her he loved her, just like Santiago, and she went off to marry a man named Jacquelin Ambler. Jeffersons fear of getting rejected kept him back from telling her that he loved her, the same as Santiago. Later on in his life he would meet his future wife, Martha Wayles Skelton. She would be Jefferson’s Fatima. To Santiago, Fatima was the person that kept him going and the same is true for Jefferson. When Martha died Jefferson became so depressed he entered a coma immediately afterwards and when he awoke he destroyed every letter they had sent to each other. Also during this part of his life his Personal legend began to grow, he has been elected to the House of Burgesses, Virginia's governing body. His personal legend showed it's self at this point when Jefferson was in court, he would typically defend slaves. In one case he was defending a grandson of a mulatto, a mixed race person. The law says the grandmother and mother are bound to slavery until 31 but the law is silent on grandchildren. Jefferson says "Under the law of nature all men are born free, everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person {...}

which is called personal liberty and is given him by the author of nature" (Bober 58). Here Jefferson is defending the rights of a person bound into slavery because of linage. He is standing up for those that cannot do it themselves, he does this by fighting for them in court even though it is not popular to do this. He also does this by not charging the grandson anything. Even thought he lost the case he still was following his personal legend by fighting for the grandsons rights.

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    During the middle part of Jefferson's life is when many correlations between The Alchemist and Jefferson's life begin to take shape, like the Tree of Sacristy and the oasis. When Jefferson’s good friend Dabney Carr died he had an agreement that whoever was to die first was to be buried under the old oak tree at the base of Tom’s mountain (Shadwell). In addition to Carr, Jefferson also buried Martha and four of his children their. The bandit chief in The Alchemist say’s  to Santiago as he searches for the treasure that “In my dream, there was a sycamore growing out of the ruins of the sacristy, and I was told that, if I dug at the roots of the sycamore, I would find a hidden treasure” (Coelho 163). This draws the correlation between Santiago and Jefferson, that beneath a tree at their homeland a treasure lies. They both have gone far away in search of something else but their treasure remained at home. For Santiago it was treasure's of gold and riches. For Jefferson it was his beloved wife, children and friend. In The Alchemist,  Santiago finds a home at the Oasis in the desert during a long journey. He goes on to love the oasis and makes it his home. He says that he is happy here because “I’ve found Fatima, and, as far as I’m concerned, she’s worth more than treasure” (Coelho 118). He has all he needs. This is the same with Jefferson. He expressed the same sentiment at Monticello. At Monticello he is happy and at peace. He  has all he wants, safety, isolation, beautiful sights, and most impotently, Martha.

    As Jefferson gets more involved with the revolution,  he begins to think of  things that are similar to the symbolic meaning of Alchemy. The Soul of the World, fate and his personal legend all make a major appearance in this part of his life as well. The relationship between Alchemy and Jefferson's belief in natural rights is a very similar one. In The Alchemist , alchemy is symbolized as the cleansing of Santiago from his impurities and the search for a secret treasure. The relationship here is that to Jefferson his alchemy is the natural rights of man. He is taking the old corrupt British laws and transforming them into new universal laws of man. While he is doing this he is also cleansing himself of his British ways and becoming more American. To Jefferson his treasure at the pyramids that drives his personal legend is the hope of freedom for all. This is like Santiago’s even in the aspect of not finding what he wants because in the end Jefferson gets his freedom, but not his ideal freedom for everyone. The treasure Jefferson pursue’s is the driving force behind his personal legend to bring freedom and equality to all. Their is one time in Jefferson's life when he began to go astray of his personal legend. This was when he became Governor of Virginia. Just like Santiago and the Crystal shop, Jefferson got distracted from his personal legend.  And also like Santiago, the Soul of the World sent Jefferson messages that he was going astray. For Jefferson the Soul of the World’s hints came in the way of the British. When Jefferson took office as Governor in 1779 the British decided that they were going to take the war to Virginia. This, in addition to Jefferson’s inability to be an effective governor, is the Soul of the Worlds way of telling Jefferson that he is suited for the legislative. Their he can follow his legend of freedom and equality.

    Thomas Jefferson was undoubtedly a great man, perhaps the greatest man who ever shaped America. All through Jefferson's life he knew his personal legend was to fight for freedom and equality through writing, in The Alchemist, Santiago’s was to search for treasure. One is in search of physical wealth, the other is another form of wealth. In the end, they are both in search for treasure, treasure in different forms but treasure all the same. In Santiago’s life there were many people and ideas that helped Santiago to his legend. Many of those same people and idea’s come into play in Jefferson's life, some people like the King of Salem, the idea’s of the principle of favorability, fate, and the Soul of the World. They may be two different people, but they are more alike because of their experiences than you would think.

 

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Works Cited

Bober, Natalie S. Thomas Jefferson Draftsman of a Nation. N.p.: U of Virginia, 2007. Print.

Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. Rio de Janerio: Editora Rocco, 1988. Print.

 

Personal Legend Biography Assignment

For this project you have selected a biography based on a famous individual and you are actively reading this individual's life story to identify whether or not the person's goals, actions, experiences, and accomplishments fall in line with the paradigm or system of belief that Paulo Coelho develops in his novel, The Alchemist.

The Blog Post Written Component and Presentation:

• Write a 3-5 paragraph response relaying your understanding of the major concepts present in The Alchemist and whether or not your believe your selected individual's biography reveals the pursuit of one's personal legend.
• Provide at least 2 specific passages from The Alchemist as you establish your understanding.
• Provide at least 2 direct quotations form the biography.
• Include use of multi-media in the form of pictures and/or video to enhance your project.
• Highlight key moments from your paragraphs or form a key point bullet list at the end of your post.
• Include the works cited at the end of the post.  Please maintain MLA format.