“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic fiction short story about a boy named Michael who has to live with his Aunt Esther after his parents die. In the beginning, Michael is sad and grieves his parents. He has to live with his Aunt Esther because she was the only one who would take him. Soon, Michael buys a pet hermit crab to keep him company. His aunt tries to get closer to Michael by trying to have something in common with him.
The short story, “Good enough” by Rachel Vail, speaks about the main character Dori and how she starts as what the poem, “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco would say as a flower but transform into a weed at the end. Dori tries to impress or fit in with the popular girls by getting an Orion shirt they all wear for Dori’s birthday. However, Dori’s family is not in the best financial situation, so this makes it really hard on the parents to get this. On Dori’s birthday she opens a present to find that her mom has given her a fake, which hurts her, but she does not tell her parents, so they do not feel bad. When Dori wears it to school the next day one of the popular girls goes up to her and taunts her about it, Dori ends up crying but catches herself and remembers that even though its fake her mom had so much love behind it and did her best which makes Dori get over it and know that it's okay to not be in the popular group or be different.
Katherena Vermette’s novel The Break, is centered around a sexual assault. Through the perspective of eight narrators the story unfolds over the day leading up to the attack, memories triggered by the assault, and the recovery of all those involved. The novel’s two strongest themes are a juxtaposition of gender disparity and the strength and resilience of the women and girls involved. Gendered performance is common throughout the book, for both men and women, although the focus is on the female characters.
"Running for His Life" In the story "Running for His Life", Michael Hall explains the genocide Gilbert Tuhabonye experienced when he was in high school in East Africa and how he managed to escape and relive his life in Austin, Texas. Tuhabonye's teachers and the Tutsi teenagers were burned alive and beaten to death by friends of theirs. A couple of students tried eluding, but we're caught and killed by the killers. The building was on fire, burning corpses, and burning to death any students who remained alive.
The subject of the speech were the factories hiring children to work in their warehouses. The tone of the speech is very sad and down putting since she discusses the places that used to allow child labor such as Alabama. To get across her point, however, she uses the rhetorical strategies of immense pathos and repetition. The author uses heavy amounts of pathos to get her message across to her audience.
The passage “Clearing Paths to the Past” and “To Be of Use”, by Marge Piercy, share one common theme, respect for those who work. In the first passage we learn that the narrator shovels snow. He says he’ll never make tomatos like his grandfather did but shoveling the snow will have to suffice. This shows us that he knows how to find content in simpler things. He knows his job is important and he takes pride in that.
The Spirit Catches You The Spirit Catches you and You fall down centers on Lia Lee, an epileptic Hmong Child who is caught in-between care of her loving parents and the responsibility of her caring doctors. Her parents are traditional Hmong’s who are hesitant towards American medicinal methods compared to Hmong traditional methods. While on the other side stands her American doctors, who were educated in American Universities and are for the most part are very much against treating Lia with anything besides the practice they’ve been educated on. This paper will first provide a short summary of the book which will mainly include the Hmong involvement in the Vietnam War. Followed by two anthropological concepts.
It was the summer of 1991 and Jaycee Dugard was facing the typical issues an eleven year old girl would. She had plans to go on a school field trip to a water park and wanted to ask her mother if she could shave her legs. However, she was never able to present the topic to her mother. On June tenth, she was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido outside of her Lake Tahoe home, in central California, while she was walking to her bus stop. Dugard remained hopeful throughout her first days of abduction that she would return to her mother, step-father, and baby sister shortly, but the Garrido’s had a much different plan.
In the textbook Let's Talk written by Andrea Lunsford, new ideas and habits are introduced that will help people learn how to communicate better and interact with others. The first four chapters revealed concepts that were used by the authors of the following readings: "Arranging a Marriage in India," "Your Smartphone is making you stupid," and "Small Change". The concept that influenced the understanding of “Arranging a Marriage in India” is to get to know people different from you. Next, the concept that influenced the understanding in “Your Smartphone is making you stupid” is to research your views. Lastly, the concept that increased understanding of “Small Change” was to listen when people express their views.
Nothing quite triggers the recall of a memory more than a smell from childhood. The short story "The Inheritance of Tools" by Scott Sanders details a young boy's memories of being in his father's garage and creating towns with the sawdust garnered from his father's woodworking. The description of his father being a "colossus" lets us realize just how young this boy is. Sanders creates a vignette that shows through the use of precise diction, imagery, and figurative language a positive memory of a young boy playing alongside his father.
The arrival of European explorers and colonizers had a profound impact on the indigenous peoples of North America east of the Mississippi. The dramatic social changes that Native Americans faced after European contact created a world that was entirely new to them. Colin Calloway's book, "The World Turned Upside Down," provides insight into the complex processes of cultural, social, economic, and political change that Native Americans experienced during this period. In this essay, I will examine the ways in which Native Americans participated and coped with these developments, the various roles they played in this process, and how they attempted to preserve their culture.
In the first stanza, the speaker reflects bitingly on his father’s commitment to his joyless job in an “automotive warehouse”. The narrator attitude to his father's commitment is obvious primarily in the imagery he chooses to express his distaste at his father’s choice to work for a paycheque, rather than for his own fulfillment. “A pay cheque over his mouth” suggests that his father hates his job but does not complain about, perhaps because the money to support his family is more important than his own happiness. However, the son does not respect this choice or his father’s commitment to support his family. Rather, he sees this job as shackles, as slavery, the “clocks stretched around his legs” revealing his resentment at his father working to “get his time in”.
Director Sharon Davis utilises voice-overs for his documentary “Shooting for The Stars.” Cambridge describes the meaning of voice-over as “words that describe or comment on a film, advertisement or video, which are spoken by a person unseen” (Cambridge Dictionary, 2023). An example of this exists at 2:30 in the documentary, where Wright and Chagai comments on their understanding of a fight scene, entertaining the audience. The voice-over here gives context and backstory to the fight, informing the audience about the general situation. Another example of it is at 8:45, where it presents countless south Sudanese people in an area.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
Team Work - I 've felt like I work very well in teams, although I do also work well alone, it feels great working alongside people who can help you get a job done efficiently and easily, especially if you grow to like those people which in my past experiences has always been the case; so I 'm very used to working with teams. Maturity - I believe maturity extends far beyond what a lot of people would interpret it as. It accounts for more than just not laughing at immature jokes and being able to be professional when faced with a task. Sensitivity and empathy I think are two important traits which come along with the idea of maturity. Sensitivity, of course, accounts for how one talks to others, I 'm sure we 're all very tired of seeing staff members on other servers that are there just for the purpose of saying they got a moderator position on that server so when it comes to moderating, they 're very lethargic with their work and can be emotionless when monotonously speaking with you.
