John Grisham's Controversy

If someone was to hurt another person physically or mentally, they would want forgiveness to get some sort of closure. In a way, both Coach Rake and Neely Crenshaw wanted to wake up with a clear conscience from each other. In the state title game in 1987, Coach Rake had physically and verbally assaulted Neely

To start, Skidmore's loathing to Manchester caused him to act impulsively and kill him. Paul Haven outright stated that Skidmore hated his brother in the quote, " Skidmore hated his brother so much." Due to the fact that Skidmore was allergic to bubblegum, something his brother was notorious for, he had taken Manchester's business as a personal insult and wanted to get revenge on him by poisoning something Manchester liked. Moreover, Skidmore was jealous of his brother's wealth and success that came from something he detested. After Manchester’s death, Paul Haven used words to underdetermine Skidmore’s sincerity for killing his brother. "Skidmore insisted that he felt terrible about the tragedy." This example illustrated how although Skidmore desperately attempted to tell people that he was innocent and felt horrible for his brother, he was actually privately joyful for Manchester as he later inherited all of his brother's fortune including his baseball team. Additionally, the author added how the Sluggers had not won a championship ever since the Skidmore inherited them, encouraged the fact that this was a punishment for Skidmore for murdering his brother. In the final analysis, the author advocated Skidmore's wrongdoing through examining his

Joe Ehrmann describes how he has developed his philosophy of coaching by relating the story of his life in his youth, high school and in college describing two different types of coaches he had played for. The first are coaches who were impersonal, authoritarian, and sometimes abusive which he calls transactional coaches; this is in contrast to the humane coaches he calls transformative coaches. Coaches must face this responsibility because we all remember our coaches. “This is the awesome power and responsibility of coaching: You give your players memories, for better or for worse that stay with them until the day they die” (Ehrmann, 2011 p 46-47). Joe Erhmann goes on to ask, “What is the moral and ethical composition of their program?

Pete Rozelle was the greatest commissioner National Football League had, and he was not even the first or second choice for the job, but before being named commissioner Rozelle had a distinguished youth. Officially named Alvin Ray Rozelle, was nicknamed “Pete” by his favorite uncle, who just like his father, always supported Pete’s interest in sports and the outdoors. As a high school student he played basketball and tennis and was the sports editor of his school paper, and worked at the Long Beach Press Telegram newspaper. He also left his home to serve our country in the U.S. Navy in WWII, when he returned home to Los Angles he enrolled to Compton Community College in 1946. During his time there he worked part-time for the Los Angeles Rams as a public relations assistant, which lead him to meet and impress Pete Newell, head coach of the University of San Francisco Dons basketball team. Pete Newell was so impressed by Pete Rozelle he was able to help arrange for him to get a full time scholarship to work at USF.

Nat adjusted well to the newfound cowboy life on the Duval Ranch going from a slave boy to a cowboy he lost all sense of fear that could’ve been gained through the years of a slave. Nat soon became an excellent ranch hand advanced in shooting a .45 revolver. He earned a reputation as being one of the best all-around cowboys in the Duval outfit beating anyone in riding, roping and shooting. Nat soon became the Duval outfit’s chief

“As I watched that team rally against enormous odds, I have never felt such pride, and such pain. That victory was my finest hour. Please forgive me boys” (Grisham 204). Rake was a tough coach but he wanted the best for his players. He was so happy when they won the state title game.

In the stories he tells, the word hate appears quite frequently. It is sometimes used about his father. “I saw nothing very clearly but I did see this: that my life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.” (72) This hatred he talks about exists towards his father. Other factors contribute too, but are not as often told.

Why do people that hate each other so much work better together than people who love each other? People who love each other never get the job done it seems, but people that hate each other get the job done fast and efficiently, have you ever wondered why? You may say maybe they get it done so fast just to get it over with so they don’t have to work side by side anymore, but maybe it might be because they take their work seriously and rather work together side by side rather than do it alone and fail. In George Orwell’s Novel 1984 the society they live in is based on hate yet it survives because they hate their ruler so much they end up confusing it with love and they become loyal under Big Brother's watchful eyes, fighting to please him and continue with his bidding. If any one person in the society is to express their hate for him they are sent to a place like a prison or more like a reform center to learn to disguise their hatred again by basically confusing the people into thinking they love him they manipulate their minds and they create a loyal subject once again, this is why I believe a society based on hate can survive because can easily be confused for love and hate can make a loyal person besides their negative feelings for the society.

In John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief, he correctly identifies how the criminal justice system works and shows how it can be corrupted for favorable outcomes. The criminal justice system is the set of agencies and processes established by the government to control crime and impose penalties on those who violate the law (TCJS). “The ideal result is making offenders pay for, and repent, their criminal acts while delivering recompense to the victims” (USCJS). John Grisham had a career within the criminal justice system, so most of his books are about or include the criminal justice system. He uses his knowledge to make his books feel realistic and that is one of the reasons he is such a great writer.

For example, Jonas gave his time to mentor him and loved him like a son to Gabe. “ ‘I felt it when you were very young, Gabe’ Jonas said, ‘When I took you and escaped the place where we were. I’ve been waiting for it to make itself known to you.’ He looked at Gabe as if something might become apparent at that moment. Gabe shifted uncomfortably on the couch. (342) As stated, love is stronger than hate because people who love are closer as time goes on leading to have a stronger bond that cannot be broken unlike people who have hate are spread apart by hate not brought together, therefore, love is stronger than hate and has a bond. Time is a key element in life, people would rather be loved and be loving than be hated and be hating, this goes to show the power of love than the power of hate. “It's not even a real boat. It's just a bunch of boards tied together. That's all it is. He wiped his face with one dirty hand and looked angrily at Jonas, defying him to disagree” (332). As stated, love overpowers hate through the time it takes to love but for hate people can get angry towards each other leading to a grudge growing into hate, That taking the time span to one to two days. In closing, love is stronger than hate because through time a connection made with love will strengthen, however a bond made with hate will not instead spread them

It is obvious that she loves this person very much because of her passionate word choices. It is actually love that engulfs her completely, not hate. She is being ironic when using hate not love. The title itself is ironic. “My sign in the background as you explain relational databases hates you. My hesitation when you invite me for a drive: hate. My pleasant “good morning”: hate. You know when I am sleepy I nuzzle my head under your arm? Hate.” (Kennedy and Gioia) The tone of these words are very gentle not hostile or angry. You do not sigh at people you hate. You do not sigh when you are angry. Most of all, you do not cuddle with people you hate. If you notice she never refused the offer to go for the drive, more like she looked forward to going. This is not a tone of hate, but of love and companionship. When hating someone there is no hesitation, thoughts are stern and decided. Then to add to the tone she goes with raw

The emotions of love and hate are at the forefront of the theme in this play by William Shakespeare. The Oxford Standard English Dictionary defines ‘love’ as ‘to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family’ and defines ‘hate’ as ‘a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action dislike intensely, to feel antipathy or aversion towards someone or something’. However, words cannot portray such wide and powerful emotions. Love and hate include elements of life, passion, long-term bonding and dislike, disgust and loathing respectively. It is because

Rake was sitting in his history class learning about what he could barely discern as what might be The Civil World War II of 1812 B.C. He was impressed that he picked up that much from the teacher’s lecture given that he was about to pass out from boredom. His dreams were pretty interesting; he could live with that. Rake wasn’t sure why he thought he needed to listen to this in the first place. He was going to make a perfect score on whatever test this would pop up on in the near future.

Love and hate are both very powerful emotions. The abundance one can feel inside when feeling them can be overwhelming at times. I think everyone can relate to the feeling when you love someone so much you would do anything and everything for them. We can also understand that feeling when you can’t even stand the thought of someone being in the same room of you. When we look at what emotion is more powerful, I think hate is stronger than love. The reason being is that love can quickly turn to hate, but hate doesn’t change to love very fast, if at all. I think Othello is a great example of this. His love for his wife, turned to hate so fast because he thought she was cheating on him. He murdered his wife in pure cold blood which shows how hate can be such a powerful emotion that it can actually cause someone to want to commit murder. The feeling of love and hate can change someone, and they both can be very powerful. However, I think that hate is an emotion unlike no other in which the feeling is very stable, in the since that it is very hard to change someone’s mind about you when they hate you.

“Love always overcomes hate, but love’s effects and hate’s effects are no different in magnitude.” -Anonymous. No one ever doubts the power of love or the power of hate. For as long as time has existed people have loved and people have hated. Strong emotions persuade everyone to act on their inhibition. Everyone wants to be a hero in every situation whether it be trying to save someone or the simple act of finding a winning lottery ticket. These actions are what lead to love overcoming hate even if they are the simplest of acts. The mistake people make is them trying to hard to be the hero. This leads to one traveling great lengths to achieve their goals, but at what cost. Throughout Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, his main