As Hana cares for the wounded soldiers‚ she witnesses gruesome injuries and horrific deaths‚ and these experiences are so traumatic that her personality is unable to recover fully. The omniscient narrator describes Hana’s work during the war as extremely disturbing and harrowing: “Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them.... They would carry a severed arm down a hall‚ or swab at blood that never stopped‚ as if the wound were a well‚ and they began to believe in nothing‚ trusted
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“What was it like to be a captive? I can tell you I was soon sorry that I had asked the river what it was like to travel...For when I was given what I was given what I asked for‚ it was not something I wanted at all.” This is a story of the famous journey of Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea. At age sixteen she is already married‚ a mother and taken from her home community. Sacajawea must find a way to live her life‚ still being a child‚ and help navigate across America with strangers. She tells this
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Mali may not be a location individuals typically think about or have a vast knowledge of‚ especially if it is knowledge on ancient Mali. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane is a fascinating collection of history and stories of ancient Mali told by a griot‚ which is a history keeper and storyteller. This book is centered around Sundiata‚ the son of Maghan Kon Fatta and Sogolom Kedjou. The compilation of tales shows the growth and evolution of himself‚ from being a small crippled boy who could
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In the play Disgraced‚ by Ayad Akhtar‚ Emily and Amir’s friends Isaac and Jory call into question each other’s identities and values as they contradict each other’s views on Islam‚ racial profiling‚ and other cultural issues. Throughout the group’s conversation‚ the couple focuses on one other’s factual inaccuracies‚ preconceived notions‚ and moral judgments‚ calling into question their respective opinions and political ideologies. Akhtar uses Jory and Isaac’s questioning of each other’s credibility
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Steven Dodd Professor Kang English 101 28May2015 Peace Meets Ciaos The short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition‚ a society moving away from respect for
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Many years ago the colonization in Canada has made a situation and condition that violated the right of indigenous people especially indigenous women. Some of the consequences of colonizer’s act are the violence that indigenous women are still facing. When the colonizers came to Canada‚ they constructed first nation as uncivilized and savages‚ and by this attitude toward them treat them as inferior to themselves. Moreover by laws and acts like Indian Act took many of their freedom and their rights
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learn half of what they would learn without them. Knowledge and wisdom is shared across the world wide web‚ and it is visible to every single person. Technology has had a positive effect on students as too much screen time cannot harm them. In Nicholas Carr’s article The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our
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This book report is written for the Language Arts’ class and the professor Samuel Jaja. The novel "The Notebook" was written by Nicholas Sparks which is an American romance novelist‚ screenwriter and producer. This publication has 214 pages. "The Notebook" was published by Warner Books in October 1‚ 1996. The language of the book it is English‚ and it was published in the United States. It’s genre is romance with a hardcover and paperback. This novel has been on my required reading list by my professor
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In Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows‚ he talks about many things‚ including the titular topic of What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. He relates the story of the development of the written word‚ and the book‚ and the computer‚ and then the Internet‚ telling how the advent of each sparked a revolution in our culture‚ and‚ in the case of the internet‚ in the way we think‚ going on to say that “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (Carr
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The abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II brought light to ideologies that were present in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Sentiment towards that Tsar was negative as the USSR was ruled by a small nobility with a population that was composed of mainly peasants. The main groups trying to cause revolution in the USSR were the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both groups had ideologies that were based on Marxism‚ and they were anti-Tsar with the Mensheviks having a longer-term plan and the
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