Week 1
My first impression of "Lesson Before Dying," is that the novel will be good because I enjoy reading stories. On Chapter 7, two weeks before visiting Jefferson. Grant is preparing for the school inspection. All the kids are well dress and clean, classroom procedure are in order, and Grant is ready. They have been preparing for the past three days and there have been many false alarm. A kid was told to keep watch from a certain direction. There have been many false alarm,but finally the actual inspector came. It was Doctor Joseph from the previous year. He was overweight and short man. So he had problem exiting the vehicle and walking up the three stairs. The classroom was called to stand, shoulder back by an upperclassmen. When Dr. Joseph sat at the offered teacher desk and Grant sat down at a bench, everyone took their seat. Dr. Joesph call on each individual from each grade. A girl was called to be check with her hands, a boy, that should stay home, made a bad impression by saying "Yezar," and saying the pledge wrong, and everyone else was okay. When Dr. Joseph left, Grant explained how the textbook are being shared, missing pages, less supplies and how Grant have to end up using his own money. Dr. Joseph explained how the other white school are dealing with the same thing. After he left, Grant realize he made thing's from good to bad mood with the inspector.
Week 2
Title and author:"A Lesson Before Dying." By:Earnest J. GainesProtagonist: Jefferson, Miss Emma, Tante Lou, Henri Pichot, Inez Lane, Mr. Lois, Vivian, Joe Claiborne,Mr. Farrell, Sheriff Guidry
Major Protagonist: Jefferson and Grant
Point of View:1st point of view,when it was talking about Grant from chapter 2 through 10.
Setting of time and place:small Cajun community in the late 1940. Bayonne.
tone: sad,strong, and hateful.
Irony:Jefferson being blame for the crime that he didn't commit. How the inspector saying that all the school are experience the same thing with school funding.
Symbols:Bond,how Miss Emma won't give up on Jefferson and what she believe is the right thing to do.Hardship,Grant dealing and managing with family and school during hard times. Jefferson was called a "Hog," because they infer him as a animal, not a human.
Theme: How a family struggle to make a family member be a man before he die.
Major Protagonist: Jefferson and Grant
Point of View:1st point of view,when it was talking about Grant from chapter 2 through 10.
Setting of time and place:small Cajun community in the late 1940. Bayonne.
tone: sad,strong, and hateful.
Irony:Jefferson being blame for the crime that he didn't commit. How the inspector saying that all the school are experience the same thing with school funding.
Symbols:Bond,how Miss Emma won't give up on Jefferson and what she believe is the right thing to do.Hardship,Grant dealing and managing with family and school during hard times. Jefferson was called a "Hog," because they infer him as a animal, not a human.
Theme: How a family struggle to make a family member be a man before he die.
Week 2-Day 2
A Lesson Before Dying
A HOG or MAN?
Wrong Place,Wrong time
Jefferson Help Grant Learn
Dying is a feeling when someone experiencing depression or negative thoughts or actions. At times I think negative and going through tough times, but what keep me going is the people that is important to me. If I give up now, everything that I accomplish would be for nothing. I would rather live and do what's right, then do the opposite.
A man is a person that take his responsibility very seriously. A man that act with wisdom and courage. A man that will put food on the table for his love ones. What does it take to be a man? Dedication, commitment, good character, and responsibility.
Time is something that is precious to each and every individual. In the beginning of my senior year, I had been putting more time in my school work then I ever had, because this is the year when everything counts. What are you going to do after high school, are you going to college, or are you going to work at McDonald all your life? I am doing okay with school, but I need to look at what college I would like to attend. I like J.R.O.T.C., doing community service, or being more involve, but whats the best for me is important then everything.
Learning is something everyone is doing everyday. In school, at work, at a restaurant, everywhere. In order to be consider educated, a person would need to learn how to read and write. If you can't learn or willing to do so. It would be harder to learn everything no matter how hard you try. Learning is a life long experience.
A HOG or MAN?
Wrong Place,Wrong time
Jefferson Help Grant Learn
Dying is a feeling when someone experiencing depression or negative thoughts or actions. At times I think negative and going through tough times, but what keep me going is the people that is important to me. If I give up now, everything that I accomplish would be for nothing. I would rather live and do what's right, then do the opposite.
A man is a person that take his responsibility very seriously. A man that act with wisdom and courage. A man that will put food on the table for his love ones. What does it take to be a man? Dedication, commitment, good character, and responsibility.
Time is something that is precious to each and every individual. In the beginning of my senior year, I had been putting more time in my school work then I ever had, because this is the year when everything counts. What are you going to do after high school, are you going to college, or are you going to work at McDonald all your life? I am doing okay with school, but I need to look at what college I would like to attend. I like J.R.O.T.C., doing community service, or being more involve, but whats the best for me is important then everything.
Learning is something everyone is doing everyday. In school, at work, at a restaurant, everywhere. In order to be consider educated, a person would need to learn how to read and write. If you can't learn or willing to do so. It would be harder to learn everything no matter how hard you try. Learning is a life long experience.
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Week 4-thursday.october.2012
Why the image backfired as a defense argument? The image made people realize that Jefferson couldn't plan anything. Especially not robbing, because Jefferson wasn't thinking when t happen. When he was the only one left, he didn't even bother to runaway from the crime scene. When the other attorney infer him as a hog, people realize that he can possibly did it. What was the attorney’s purpose in using that characterization? The attorney's was using that characterization because at that time, racism, segregation, and so on is still going on then. American think they are more superior then African-American, so they think they had the right to say and do whatever they want. So the attorney just finding ways to blame a African-American just because he is black. Why did the remark affect Miss Emma, Tante Lou, and Jefferson so deeply? Even though Jefferson suggests it, why won’t Miss Emma bring him corn to eat? Miss Emma is the one that raise Jefferson ,so a comment like that would really hurt. Like people would start talking bad thing's about the family, affect friends relationships, and community. Miss Emma is held responsible for Jefferson well being. Tante Lou is somewhat responsible for Jefferson well being because she is consider Miss Emma friend and a family member. Tante is Miss Emma friend, so she feel's responsible about Jefferson as well. Jefferson is a victim, accuse of something he didn't do, and that made him think negative about himself. Since American call him a hog, he starts thinking he is one, because the fact that he is look up in a cell like an animal. Miss Emma didn't bring the corn to eat because, she didn't want Jefferson to think that way. She really cares for him and she knows what should be done and what shouldn't be done.
October.31.2012
My name is John Nguyen and I am eighteen year's old. My year's in high school in my opinion is very experiencing. Besides learning new subject's, I learn how I can be better person by helping others and giving back to the community. I don't really have a favorite subject because either way I have to learn it to pass the class. I really J.R.O.T.C. because it gives me a reason to wake up so early in the morning. it gives me a reason to do my best in school and outside of school. I am not that athletic, but I am a smart intelligent person and a hard worker. At times I would ask myself, "Why am I here, Why do I do it, and what is there to prove?" It simple, I did it because it the right thing to do and not a lot of people would even bother to do it. Classwork, homework, and actually doing the work helps you in a way that you wouldn't even bother thinking about it. I did it because I have a reasonable purpose and at times it ends mostly good, and sometimes it gets bad. I would just always "Keep Moving Forward."
A novel or play that I read recently is " A Lesson Before Dying," by Ernest J. Gaines. The story took place in the 1940's, when a young man name Jefferson was accused of a crime he did not committed. Miss Emma, who is the aunt that is currently taking care of him, feels that she is responsible for Jefferson well being. Her desire is that when Jefferson is sitting in that chair, he would be a man. What disturb Miss Emma is that the lawyer in the courtroom infer Jefferson as a hog. So what Miss Emma did is that she ask Grant, a professor that just got out of university, to help Jefferson be a man. So the family had to go a lot of thing's so that Grant can visit Jefferson. In the end, Jefferson did become a man. A man that did made a difference. A difference that can change everyone point of view about one another. Grant did made a difference and he in the end become a educated man, even though he did went to a university, theirs still thing he have yet to learn.
A character that I choose from the novel, whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences is Grant Wiggins. Grant purpose in the story is to make thing's right. From that person sitting in prison to the people in the outside. Grant didn't know if he can do it. His mind was telling him to just give up and runaway from all of this. He was trying to runaway, but what keeping him there is the people. Vivian, Auntie's, love ones, pretty much everyone that he cares about. Runaway won't solve the problem, but facing and dealing with it can make a huge difference. Another reason why is because Jefferson seem so hopeless. He refuses to talk, thinking negative, and acting like he is in another world. Also, people with segregation, no equal of right's, violence, and such as is making Grant angry and sad. Grant wanted to runaway, but in the end he learn what really important.
The two compelling forces that I identify is Vivian and Jefferson. Vivian is a reason why Grant didn't want to leave. At times he would ask her, but she won't because of the children and her commitment to the school. Grant really love Vivian and he would pick her over helping Jefferson any day, but Grant had a request and a responsibility that he must do. At times it would get hard and he would give up, but he kept going and it was worth it. Jefferson in the end became a man and so is Grant. Jefferson is one of the two compelling force because he at first refuse to acknowledge that he is a human being, not a hog. Jefferson refuses to communicate, eat, and cooperating with the people that really cares about him. Grant helps him by talking to him and giving what he requested. Jefferson is another reason why Grant can't runaway. It something that someone like Grant should be able to do to Miss Emma.
My conclusion is that the story is brilliantly written, very descriptive in a way that gets people reading, and discussing. "this majestic moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of out lives," Chicago Tribune. Grant act made Jefferson a man, a man that did made a difference in that very courtroom. People then would probably think differently from one another in a way that people can live equally.
A novel or play that I read recently is " A Lesson Before Dying," by Ernest J. Gaines. The story took place in the 1940's, when a young man name Jefferson was accused of a crime he did not committed. Miss Emma, who is the aunt that is currently taking care of him, feels that she is responsible for Jefferson well being. Her desire is that when Jefferson is sitting in that chair, he would be a man. What disturb Miss Emma is that the lawyer in the courtroom infer Jefferson as a hog. So what Miss Emma did is that she ask Grant, a professor that just got out of university, to help Jefferson be a man. So the family had to go a lot of thing's so that Grant can visit Jefferson. In the end, Jefferson did become a man. A man that did made a difference. A difference that can change everyone point of view about one another. Grant did made a difference and he in the end become a educated man, even though he did went to a university, theirs still thing he have yet to learn.
A character that I choose from the novel, whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences is Grant Wiggins. Grant purpose in the story is to make thing's right. From that person sitting in prison to the people in the outside. Grant didn't know if he can do it. His mind was telling him to just give up and runaway from all of this. He was trying to runaway, but what keeping him there is the people. Vivian, Auntie's, love ones, pretty much everyone that he cares about. Runaway won't solve the problem, but facing and dealing with it can make a huge difference. Another reason why is because Jefferson seem so hopeless. He refuses to talk, thinking negative, and acting like he is in another world. Also, people with segregation, no equal of right's, violence, and such as is making Grant angry and sad. Grant wanted to runaway, but in the end he learn what really important.
The two compelling forces that I identify is Vivian and Jefferson. Vivian is a reason why Grant didn't want to leave. At times he would ask her, but she won't because of the children and her commitment to the school. Grant really love Vivian and he would pick her over helping Jefferson any day, but Grant had a request and a responsibility that he must do. At times it would get hard and he would give up, but he kept going and it was worth it. Jefferson in the end became a man and so is Grant. Jefferson is one of the two compelling force because he at first refuse to acknowledge that he is a human being, not a hog. Jefferson refuses to communicate, eat, and cooperating with the people that really cares about him. Grant helps him by talking to him and giving what he requested. Jefferson is another reason why Grant can't runaway. It something that someone like Grant should be able to do to Miss Emma.
My conclusion is that the story is brilliantly written, very descriptive in a way that gets people reading, and discussing. "this majestic moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of out lives," Chicago Tribune. Grant act made Jefferson a man, a man that did made a difference in that very courtroom. People then would probably think differently from one another in a way that people can live equally.
Writing Prompt Essay
There are so many people in my life that had made a big impaction, from my family to the people in the street. This person is not famous, rich, or popular, but to me he is someone that should be respected as a person of good character. When I have problems, I would talk about it to someone I really trust. Honestly, my dad isn’t always around, so I would talk to my mentor instead. He would give good reasonable advice that I can relate and comprehend. He also uses his real life situation to make me understood that it happen to him as well. That person is MSgt. Gaudin.
How is this person important to you? There are many people that are important to me, even though I don’t know that person. It’s only natural to help one another. MSgt. Gaudin is one of those important people because he helped me in times when I question myself. When at times it happened, it would bother me thinking of a solution. How I should act in a situation that can affect the opposite? Thinking possible actions that can occur overtime, how I should really think before acting on thoughts. It wasn’t something that I didn’t think would happen, but it did. It wasn’t exactly the best experience in the world, but it made me a better person.
Why is this person important to you? If that one person wasn’t there in my life, thing’s would never be the same. It like a big piece of your life just vanished in thin air. Memories that can’t be replace or taken, knowledge that can’t be learned in class. If MSgt. Gaudin wasn’t there, I probably wouldn’t be who I am today. Every day is the same to me. Learning, reading, writing, and why I am here. When a person had a reason to do something, it makes the person want to achieve it. My life isn’t like some average high school teenager, because J.R.O.T.C. made me a better person at home and out in the real world.
How is this person important to you? There are many people that are important to me, even though I don’t know that person. It’s only natural to help one another. MSgt. Gaudin is one of those important people because he helped me in times when I question myself. When at times it happened, it would bother me thinking of a solution. How I should act in a situation that can affect the opposite? Thinking possible actions that can occur overtime, how I should really think before acting on thoughts. It wasn’t something that I didn’t think would happen, but it did. It wasn’t exactly the best experience in the world, but it made me a better person.
Why is this person important to you? If that one person wasn’t there in my life, thing’s would never be the same. It like a big piece of your life just vanished in thin air. Memories that can’t be replace or taken, knowledge that can’t be learned in class. If MSgt. Gaudin wasn’t there, I probably wouldn’t be who I am today. Every day is the same to me. Learning, reading, writing, and why I am here. When a person had a reason to do something, it makes the person want to achieve it. My life isn’t like some average high school teenager, because J.R.O.T.C. made me a better person at home and out in the real world.
Writing Prompt Essay #2
A school is a place to learn how to read and write, but it more than that. It is also a place to experience friendship, relationship, managing, and being responsible. My year’s in high school is very experience and challenging. I had responsibility at school, home, and in J.R.O.T.C. It’s not easy, but once I am done. I’ll be a better person than I ever was then.
My purpose in school is to be educated enough to be ready for college. Also to have fun and hanging out with my friend. Every day at school, I would attend my classes, finishing my class worked, and turning in my work on time. It not exactly tiring, but at times I had other things to do besides projects and homework. I don’t like to make excuses, so I have to learn how to manage and getting the work as soon as possible. I don’t like how people are not doing their work, but then again that’s their problem. That’s their choice to make, not mine.
The purpose of school is to get you ready for life once you walk across that stage to get that diploma. You think life in school is hard, wait till you have your own life. Your basically on your own, everyone is on their own mission, everyone will be busy, and everyone is heading on their next chapter of life. I am not that hopeless, my G.P.A. is fairly decent, but now I need a good ACT score, start planning what college I would like to attend, a career, etc. It’s not easy, but if you think it time to stop and take a break. The world will revolve and go on with or without you and I want to be a part of it.
My purpose in school is to be educated enough to be ready for college. Also to have fun and hanging out with my friend. Every day at school, I would attend my classes, finishing my class worked, and turning in my work on time. It not exactly tiring, but at times I had other things to do besides projects and homework. I don’t like to make excuses, so I have to learn how to manage and getting the work as soon as possible. I don’t like how people are not doing their work, but then again that’s their problem. That’s their choice to make, not mine.
The purpose of school is to get you ready for life once you walk across that stage to get that diploma. You think life in school is hard, wait till you have your own life. Your basically on your own, everyone is on their own mission, everyone will be busy, and everyone is heading on their next chapter of life. I am not that hopeless, my G.P.A. is fairly decent, but now I need a good ACT score, start planning what college I would like to attend, a career, etc. It’s not easy, but if you think it time to stop and take a break. The world will revolve and go on with or without you and I want to be a part of it.
Modernize Version: Act 3, scene 2
It is dusk, and the two murderers, now joined by a third, linger in a wooded park outside the palace. Banquo and Fleance approach on their horses and dismount. They light a torch, and the murderers set upon them. The murderers kill Banquo, who dies urging his son to flee and to avenge his death. One of the murderers extinguishes the torch, and in the darkness Fleance escapes. The murderers leave with Banquo’s body to find Macbeth and tell him what has happened.
In the evening before sunset, two murderers and a third person, slowly walk outside the palace. Bamquo and Fleance got on their horses and got off. They use a torch as lighting, and they went to kill. The murderers have slain Banquo, who plead his son “Run Forest run. When you get the chance avenge me!” One of the murderers hid the evidence, and in the shadows Fleance fled for his life. The murderers leave with the dead target to find the god farther and tell him that it was taken care of.
In the evening before sunset, two murderers and a third person, slowly walk outside the palace. Bamquo and Fleance got on their horses and got off. They use a torch as lighting, and they went to kill. The murderers have slain Banquo, who plead his son “Run Forest run. When you get the chance avenge me!” One of the murderers hid the evidence, and in the shadows Fleance fled for his life. The murderers leave with the dead target to find the god farther and tell him that it was taken care of.
Resume
Education:
-Johnson Gretna Park Elementary(2000-2005)
-Gretna Middle School(2005-2007)
-Marrero Middle School(2007-2008)
-West Jefferson High School(2009-2013)
Awards/Honors:
-Gold Presidential Award
-Knight of Columbus
-Kitty Hawk Air Society
-A/B Honor Roll
-A plaue for Outstanding Service to the Community
Experience:
-Community Service
Interests/Activities/Skills
J.R.O.T.C.
Books
Math
Reading
L.O.L.
Community Service
Reference:
Lt. Col. Hart Senior Aerospace Science Instructor
SnrMSgt. Richards Senior Aerospace Instructor
MSgt. Gaudin Aerospace Science Instructor
MSgt. Bush Aerospace Science Instructor
-Johnson Gretna Park Elementary(2000-2005)
-Gretna Middle School(2005-2007)
-Marrero Middle School(2007-2008)
-West Jefferson High School(2009-2013)
Awards/Honors:
-Gold Presidential Award
-Knight of Columbus
-Kitty Hawk Air Society
-A/B Honor Roll
-A plaue for Outstanding Service to the Community
Experience:
-Community Service
Interests/Activities/Skills
J.R.O.T.C.
Books
Math
Reading
L.O.L.
Community Service
Reference:
Lt. Col. Hart Senior Aerospace Science Instructor
SnrMSgt. Richards Senior Aerospace Instructor
MSgt. Gaudin Aerospace Science Instructor
MSgt. Bush Aerospace Science Instructor
Monday, November 26, 2012
Should School have a vocational track? It gives teenager more options on what he/she wants to do after high school. It either joining the military, college, or a job career. Going to college requires financial obligation to meet the requirements. Money can be a troublesome to most parents. It better to focus on something a person would want their career to be. Vocational track gives teenager the opportunity to start learning on thing's they want to do. Nurse, mechanic, and so on can be learn within the program. Exceeding in life is so easy when you think about it, but when you actually doing it, it's harder then you think. Everyone is equivalent on education. It just matter what choices you make and how it can affect your future. In my opinion, school should have vocational track.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
If you were a parent, would you buy a doll that misrepresented your values? It depends on the scenario. If my daughter would really want a doll, then most likely I will have to comply. If my daughter would undergo a surgery to look like a Barbie doll as she gets older, then I will talk her out of it. My job as a parent is to support, care, and advise her to feel confident in herself. Empowering good thoughts and feeling is powerful. It makes one person mind think positive on everything he/she does. People implications of Barbie's body-type as an ideal. A company called Mattel, that makes Barbie, denies that the doll hurt girl's self-esteem. Instead, it calls Barbie "a girl-empowering pioneer" who is supposedly an inspiration to millions. My role as a parents is to take care of my children, advise them, and never give up on them.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Should handguns be illegal? In today modern world, violence are happening almost everyday. People robbing, fighting,and shooting for their own selfish reasoning. Actions speak louder then words, but why couldn't it be discussed before using violence. If the world was perfect, people wouldn't have to make weapons, but then technology wouldn't improve. People would plot scheme on how to get a gun. Other countries would import legal guns to other countries for money. It happens so subsequently that the military are watching over sea to stop it from happening in the U.S. If people would stop commission guns to people without a certified license, then countless innocent death would've been avoided. People use handguns for self-defense, but wouldn't a pepper spray be less more painful or a bat. In a way, handguns should and should not be, because we live in a crazy world.
Midterm Project
Heckington Windmill
The Heckington Windmill is the only 8-sailed tower windmill still standing in the United Kingdom. In the 1830, it was plan and built by millwright Edward Ingeldew. The structure is composed of the outer walls being tarred, a five-sailed windmill, and providing longitudinal shutters on both sides of the back. The mill has six story’s called “floors”: ground floor, meal floor, stone floor, etc.
At the time, the Heckington Windmill sail-cross drove three pairs of stones and milled grain for a 60-years period of time. Evidently, the owner Mr. Hare had died in 1834, so the mill was handed over to Mr. Sleighton Nash. Then apparently, it was handed over to Mr. Joseph Nash, who became its last miller before its dysfunction in the 1890. After the destruction of the fantail cause by a lightning storm, the horrible tail-wind made the sails run backwards, which then blew off the entire cap with the curb smashing it with parts of the upper gear, and destroyed the tower rim? Mr. Nash had to abandon the wrecked mill.
In 1891, Mr. John Pocklington of Wyberton mill brought the eight-sailed mill cap with gear of the 78-year-old defunct Tuxford's mill for just £72 in an auction in Boston, without planning. The condition of the deal is he had to remove all the machinery from the mill site. So he was in an urgent need for a suitable mill stump to mount the cap on, but he didn’t have a place to put it, but luckily he came across the wrecked Heckington mill. In 1891 until the early 1892, he fitted the white onion-shaped and fantail-driven Tuxford's Mill cap to the Heckington Mill and set it working for the following 54 years. Later on, he installed a large circular saw-mill in a shed on one side, also driven by wind-power using line-shafts. It was used to make elm boards for coffins. John Pocklington was very successful in milling, baking, building, sawing, and farming. In that time and even up today, the mill was also called the Pocklington's Mill.
After John Pocklington's death in 1941, the mill stopped working in 1946 the next 40 years. The shutters were removed from the sails. In 1953 the mill came into the hands of Kesteven County Council, who made the first restorations preventing the fine old mill from being dismantled and restoring it as a rare landmark. When the mill changed hands to Lincolnshire County Council in 1986, the mill was finally restored to working order. The cap's overhang assures the fact it’s from a mill with a much wider tower top. As a rare feature with post and smock and common with “sail windmills” the sail-tips are linked together by steel rods or cables to prevent sagging in the sails. Parts of the bigger timber wheels have iron teeth instead of wooden ones. Among the six floors, the third one, being the lower of the two bin floors, provides two grain cleaners-a modern one driven by an electric motor and the other an old wind-driven separator. On the second floor, the stone and stage floor, there are the original three pairs of stones and a drive down to the first floor with a fourth pair of stones. On the ground floor, a fifth pair of stones was installed which could also be driven by wind. The mill houses a mixer on the first floor and in addition an elevator from the ground floor. Due to its large sail area supplied by its eight sails and its well-winded site, the mill is able to drive four pairs of millstones - now 2 pairs of French quartzite stones and 2 pairs of so called Peak stones and is able to work in very light breezes, when other local mills don't. An additional dresser is used to make white flour from time to time.
Now the distinctive eight-sail windmill is run by Friends of Heckington Mill and was reopened in 1986. In 2004 the mill underwent its last larger restoration.
That’s all the information that I can possibly find about the Windmill. Past owners, events, and restoration/upgrade, but I was told to do five pages. So I will now type fillers to complete that. The windmill is now a historical landmark and a tourist attraction site. If you are traveling by car, then it’s located at approximately South Lincolnshire, between Sleaford and Boston on the A17, whatever that is, and it apparently bypasses the village. The mill stands at the south of the village on the B1394, opposite of the railway station. If you are getting there by train, it should be self explanatory.
My conclusion of this project is it was exciting. Who really wouldn’t want to learn about windmill? It’s very interesting and I should read a book about it. No, what I should have done is read all of the choices provided and picked the one that wouldn’t be plain boring. I learn from this lesson, and now I am going to move on.
The Heckington Windmill is the only 8-sailed tower windmill still standing in the United Kingdom. In the 1830, it was plan and built by millwright Edward Ingeldew. The structure is composed of the outer walls being tarred, a five-sailed windmill, and providing longitudinal shutters on both sides of the back. The mill has six story’s called “floors”: ground floor, meal floor, stone floor, etc.
At the time, the Heckington Windmill sail-cross drove three pairs of stones and milled grain for a 60-years period of time. Evidently, the owner Mr. Hare had died in 1834, so the mill was handed over to Mr. Sleighton Nash. Then apparently, it was handed over to Mr. Joseph Nash, who became its last miller before its dysfunction in the 1890. After the destruction of the fantail cause by a lightning storm, the horrible tail-wind made the sails run backwards, which then blew off the entire cap with the curb smashing it with parts of the upper gear, and destroyed the tower rim? Mr. Nash had to abandon the wrecked mill.
In 1891, Mr. John Pocklington of Wyberton mill brought the eight-sailed mill cap with gear of the 78-year-old defunct Tuxford's mill for just £72 in an auction in Boston, without planning. The condition of the deal is he had to remove all the machinery from the mill site. So he was in an urgent need for a suitable mill stump to mount the cap on, but he didn’t have a place to put it, but luckily he came across the wrecked Heckington mill. In 1891 until the early 1892, he fitted the white onion-shaped and fantail-driven Tuxford's Mill cap to the Heckington Mill and set it working for the following 54 years. Later on, he installed a large circular saw-mill in a shed on one side, also driven by wind-power using line-shafts. It was used to make elm boards for coffins. John Pocklington was very successful in milling, baking, building, sawing, and farming. In that time and even up today, the mill was also called the Pocklington's Mill.
After John Pocklington's death in 1941, the mill stopped working in 1946 the next 40 years. The shutters were removed from the sails. In 1953 the mill came into the hands of Kesteven County Council, who made the first restorations preventing the fine old mill from being dismantled and restoring it as a rare landmark. When the mill changed hands to Lincolnshire County Council in 1986, the mill was finally restored to working order. The cap's overhang assures the fact it’s from a mill with a much wider tower top. As a rare feature with post and smock and common with “sail windmills” the sail-tips are linked together by steel rods or cables to prevent sagging in the sails. Parts of the bigger timber wheels have iron teeth instead of wooden ones. Among the six floors, the third one, being the lower of the two bin floors, provides two grain cleaners-a modern one driven by an electric motor and the other an old wind-driven separator. On the second floor, the stone and stage floor, there are the original three pairs of stones and a drive down to the first floor with a fourth pair of stones. On the ground floor, a fifth pair of stones was installed which could also be driven by wind. The mill houses a mixer on the first floor and in addition an elevator from the ground floor. Due to its large sail area supplied by its eight sails and its well-winded site, the mill is able to drive four pairs of millstones - now 2 pairs of French quartzite stones and 2 pairs of so called Peak stones and is able to work in very light breezes, when other local mills don't. An additional dresser is used to make white flour from time to time.
Now the distinctive eight-sail windmill is run by Friends of Heckington Mill and was reopened in 1986. In 2004 the mill underwent its last larger restoration.
That’s all the information that I can possibly find about the Windmill. Past owners, events, and restoration/upgrade, but I was told to do five pages. So I will now type fillers to complete that. The windmill is now a historical landmark and a tourist attraction site. If you are traveling by car, then it’s located at approximately South Lincolnshire, between Sleaford and Boston on the A17, whatever that is, and it apparently bypasses the village. The mill stands at the south of the village on the B1394, opposite of the railway station. If you are getting there by train, it should be self explanatory.
My conclusion of this project is it was exciting. Who really wouldn’t want to learn about windmill? It’s very interesting and I should read a book about it. No, what I should have done is read all of the choices provided and picked the one that wouldn’t be plain boring. I learn from this lesson, and now I am going to move on.
