In the story, “Everything will be okay,” by James Howe, The main character (Doesn’t say the name) is a nice one to know as a nice person. He is honest, Caring, and Scared about the cat. The main reason why is that he is caring and loves the cat. Throughout the story, you can see he really cares for the cat even if it is really sick.…
Gerald Posner’s Killing the Dream begins with a detailed description of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days and the detailed movements of his killer. The author arranges his book into three pivotal sections: The Assassination, The Assassin, and the Search for the Truth. He begins the book with a detailed account of the events that caused King to even be in Memphis, the chaos surrounding the Memphis Sanitation Strike. The Memphis Sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968, because of poor treatment, dangerous working conditions, and the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker, 1300 black sanitation workers walked off the job. At the time of Cole and Walker’s deaths, city rules forbade black employees from seeking shelter anywhere else but the…
The results of the 1994 United States midterm election shocked the political system in the United States. The power in the House of Representatives had not reverted from Democratic dominance since 1952.1 As the clear winners of the 1994 elections, the Republican Party, had lofty goals after winning back the control of the legislative branch after 40 years. As the new majority party, the Republicans used this victory as a platform to reinforce their “Contract with America” ideology.2 Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said a day after the election that the Republican success was based on “voters embracing Republican ideas of smaller governments, lower taxes and more individual freedom and personal responsibility.”3…
* Always a motive by Dan Ross shows the struggle of a man to prove his innocence despite strong evidence against him. The investigating officer does not understand him, and he is presumed guilty. The theme is portrayed that individuals may take surprising actions that are not known by others. This theme is effectively reviled through its characters, and title.…
1) Picciotto, Richard, and Daniel Paisner. Last Man Down. New York, New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2002. 1-243. A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center. This book is a firsthand account of what it was like to be inside the North Tower and knowing that the 100 stories above you were crashing down upon you. Last Man Down begins with a brief introduction that leads into a listing of all 343 firefighters who died that day – it goes on for pages.…
his journey with the help of a mentor. The mentor gives the hero a gift. The gift is something that is desperately needed by the hero and can be physically held, but does not have to be. It could even be self-confidence that will help start the beginning of his journey as a hero (Bronzite.) After receiving a gift, a sense of relief pours over the hero and is no longer worried about any setbacks that may appear in the path to his goal.…
In the media, black people and black men in particular are villainized and portrayed as disturbed and violent individuals. Statistics of incarceration and crime rates are often cited in rhetoric debasing the black community. Yet in just a few pages, Ta-Nehisi Coates expertly dissects how America’s institutionalized racism and eagerness to turn a blind eye to social issues contributes to the hostile environment many black people occupy in his book Between the World and Me. In his book he talks about the difficulties of being raised in an impoverished and violent neighborhood and his realization that these conditions are remnants of America’s history - such as the over-policing of black Americans and police brutality, which breeds fear and feelings…
In “The Future is Now,” Joel Achenbach exposes our inability to foresee the next big thing in science and technology. Achenbach refers to the internet as being an entity that was not foreseen. Within a relatively short period of time the internet has forever changed the way in which we live our lives. We buy, shop, learn, and enjoy entertainment differently since the inception of the internet. Achenbach uses the fact that the internet was not predicted to support his stance by explaining the origins of the word “internet” and how quickly the internet grew. As the pursuit of knowledge becomes increasingly stratified; applied science produces a series of inventions, heavily used by the masses, in which very few people fully understand how those…
In the article, A Change of Heart about Animals, written by Jeremy Rifkin is about how animals are very similar to human beings. Some animals are capable of having emotions and the mental ability to complete tasks as humans can. Rifkin emphasizes how animals should have better treatment due to the lack of compassion and acknowledgment among animals. He uses distinctive types of rhetorical techniques to persuade his audience to agree and feel his pain for these creatures. For instance, Rifkin uses pathos in his writing to get emotional feedback from the reader; he makes the reader feel some sort of guilt or pity for the animals. He also uses examples that have a great deal of credibility; such as using animals that are almost as intelligent as humans and including studies from universities and educational references. Rifkin also makes sure to include companies that supports animal rights that one would never imagine supporting. Lastly, Rifkin uses another technique that would leave the reader questioning their own concerns relating to animal rights.…
In the story The Last Duel by Eric Jager, fourteenth century in medieval France, a knight by the name of Jean de Carrouges challenges a squire, Jacques Le Gris, to a duel. The reason for this trial by combat, a court-ordered duel intended by fate of God to determine the truth, was to seek vengeance for the sake of his own honor. The wife of Jean Carrouges was the "young, beautiful, good, sensible, and modest" Marguerite. She was expected to maintain a ladylike mannerism and remain loyal to her husband. When the couple traveled to Capomensil to visit Carrouges mother-in-law Marguerite stayed under her watch while Carrouges set out on a journey in desperate need of cash. While away on his journey Marguerite claims to have been raped by the knights old friend and squire Jacques Le Gris, and given the information throughout the story I believe it was true. To demonstrate my theory why Le Gris did brutally rape Marguerite I will take evidence from the historical material and explain my perception on this true story of the "duel to end all duels".…
In Jonathan Kozol's book, The Shame Of The Nation, he presents the idea that the racial segregation and isolation of schools across America causes harmful effects to the children immersed in segregated schools. Throughout the first chapter, "Dishonoring The Dead," Kozol masterfully draws the reader in to listen to his message using the stories of real people and the shocking facts and figures that he has collected in his experience in the schools in our nation. He is persistent in his efforts to educate his audience about the horrors that exist in urban schools across America.…
The animals had already thrown out their oppresive government but, in doing so they created an even worse form of it. The animals revolt, and take over to create a new and more pure form, but not without the death of a few key characters along the way. Death and power are more cloesly related that we might originally think. Many people fear death, because when you are dead you have no power, voice, or emotion. But quite the opposite is true. Governments use death to inflict fear, and to keep people in line, like snowball does with the chickens. But the oppressed use death as something to inspire. When boxer dies, the animals use his dearth as a reason to fight back, to regain the power they lost. When people are fighting for someone who has died, and justice for the future, they are more passionate, and more likely to succeed. In Ferguson, the community rallied behind Michael Brown’s family and friends and spoke out for justice. And even though their message may have sometimes gotten lost because of violence, the point was made to the Government; we will not stand for such an injustice, a change needs to be made. This struggle with the government took a long time, but the fight never stopped, and today we know that what they fought for was just, and…
The South Africa depicted in Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One is a magical one, with its medicine men, genius chickens, and prophetic dreams of snakes. It is also certainly a superstitious one. The main character, Peekay, is a prodigy, seeming to succeed in everything he does. After he finds the power of one one day on a train, he learns the single-minded determination needed to achieve his goals. With that determination, he has a number of accomplishments that are often perceived as miracles. In his narrative, Peekay reveals the truth behind the remarkable events of his life. He shows how his own actions and the actions of others cause the phenomenons he experiences, and demonstrates that to achieve a goal, it is most effective to take action…
ow did we get to the point where we are running out of the resources (such as oil) that support our way of life, and others (such as clean air and fresh drinking water) that support life itself? And how did entire industries, such as fishing and agriculture, find themselves in trouble as well, as chronic overfishing and the drive for ever-higher crop yields led to widespread depletion of fish stocks and a historic loss of topsoil? how on earth did we get here? the short answer is because of our success, success beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. In the first stage of the Industrial revolution (1750 to 120), the rise of large-scale manufacturing caused labor productivity in England to…
“One Last Time” by William Newell is the last book in the series. John and Katie are slowly starting to drift away from one another again. In the last time travel Katie was the only one that went. During the time travel Katie was stuck there for three years and had ended up marrying a man. When she returned she didn’t mention the man she had married to John.…