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    Broken Promises

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    "Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free‚ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these‚ the homeless‚ tempest-tossed to me‚ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This is an excerpt from the sonnet by Emma Lazarus‚ New Colossus‚ which is located on the pedestal where the Statue of Liberty now stands. It is an invitation for all immigrants to come through the “Golden Door” and receive America’s promise of freedom and liberty from oppression

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    The Amazing Adventures of Spear and Shadow   Chapter One: Discovery “Done!" cried a young wolf named Spear‚ as he lifted a small dagger. He heard the leader‚ Rough‚ calling him. He hurried outside his tent‚ and he said‚ “Yes‚ Sir?” “Last night‚ I saw a young wolf steal our food. You must go to explore the woods. If you find anything‚ report back here. Understand?” said Rough. “Yes‚ Sir‚” said Spear. Spear went out into the woods alone. He heard many strange sounds. He heard CRACK‚ CRACK‚ CRACK! and

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    Love is a word that can be described in many ways. In the song “Toxic” by Britney Spears‚ poison is defined as love‚ an addiction that one cannot escape. When one is in love‚ one is usually in a state in which they are oblivious of all their exterior surroundings and can only focus on one thing: the person they love. In fact‚ that love develops into an addiction. That is where I believe the problem lies. Adolescents and young adults throw their lives away in the early stages of their lives because

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    Ifemelu Sparknotes

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    Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu‚ is a girl who travel from Nigeria to America for college. During her stay‚ she makes several accomplishments including a successful blog that talks about race relations and a prestigious award at Princeton. She has a few boyfriends during her time in America as well‚ each coming with their own good and bad times. While in America‚ she is not whole heartedly resistant to the American culture. The biggest issue for her is the void between people of different color. This

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    The Sympathizer Sparknotes

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    The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He

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    The Ceiling Sparknotes

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    I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger

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    The Brethren Sparknotes

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    The Brethren is a book about the evolution of the Burger Court during the years of 1969 to 1976. The Brethren takes readers inside the court for a fascinating view of how things really work: how justices build majorities for their points of view and‚ occasionally‚ how they lose them; how the chief justice can use his power to assign cases to impress their philosophy on the final decision; and the unique role played by the law clerks. This book is a balanced account of the inner workings of the Supreme

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    Incarceron Sparknotes

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    Incarceron Book Summary Finn is a prisoner in the infamous prison Incarceron. He cannot remember his childhood‚ or his life before Incarceron‚ but he is a star-seer. Finn can see things no one out Incarceron has. Incarceron is a prison no one can enter‚ and that no one can leave. The Inmates live in dark cells‚ dirt cities‚ and harsh wilderness. No one has ever escaped from Incarceron except for a man named Sapphique. Finn plans on following the legends of Sapphique with his oath brother to finally

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    The Viel Sparknotes

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    Who People Are Are people what they love or what they are told to love? The Viel written by Marjane Satrapi asks this question in her comic strip based on her own life in Iran. During “The Islamic Revolution” in Iran in 1979 plenty of transformations took place (343). Differences happened in Iran that Satrapi did not feel comfortable with. Similarities hold between her life and that of many children in every land. Revisions happen in a child’s life that have no relationship with that child being

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    Ondaatje Sparknotes

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    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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