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The Army went to great lengths to safeguard the health of its prisoners as mandated in the Geneva Convention. Of immediate concern was preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Shortly after arriving at his first POW camp in America, each prisoner received a complete physical exam. It included vaccinations against smallpox, typhoid, paratyphoid, and tetanus. At least once a month thereafter, Army medical corps officers inspected the prisoners for communicable diseases and vermin infestation.67 At Camp Cooke, POWs with minor medical problems were treated at the camp infirmary.
Cati Nelson, she is from Joliet Illionis, born November fourteeth. She atteneded Joleit West high school. For Cati, high school was not her thing, she actually hated it. The reason why she hated it because people were too immature for her level of mature. Cati grew up with a Stiffed- neck background.
Going After Cacciato Every soldier deals with one common enemy during the course of their duty: fear. While most imagine what their lives would be if they deserted, few act upon this fear-induced fantasy. In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato, Paul Berlin, a soldier in the Vietnam war, must go on an adventure to find an AWOL boy from his squad. The squad, after seeing Cacciato (the boy who went AWOL)
Some people believe that characteristics of a person never change and that a person acts a certain way for their whole life but really it's the experiences they go through in their life that changes them whether it be good or bad. This is true in life and in literature in Ally Condie Matched where the main character Cassia’s characteristics and the way she acts change almost completely because of the things she's overcome and been through. She overcomes many things in this book and at the Engels results is her changing he overcomes harsh and overpowering rules that at first she followed obediently but she comes to realize the rules are more than what they seem and they're stopping her from the one thing she wants which is love. cassia, in the beginning, may have started out as an obedient pupil p her society but by the end, cassia turns into a brave courageous character that knows what she wants
Whoever said you can't be friends with your maid? In Harper Lee's book To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finch family's negro maid, Calpurina, is known as a family friend. Calpurnia plays a very important role in the lives of Scout, Jem, and Atticus. While Calpurnia does have a life outside of her job, a majority of her time is spent in the Finch home. Because so much of her time is spent with the children and Atticus, she has an effective impact on them.
“After one altercation when Jem hollered, ‘It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!’ I burst into tears and fled to Calpurnia. ‘Don’t you fret too much over Mister Jem-’ she began… ‘Baby,’ said Calpurnia, ‘I just can’t help it if Mister Jem’s growin’ up. He’s gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin’ whatever boys do , so you just come right on in the kitchen when you feel lonesome. We’ll find lots of things to do in here,’”
Culture is something that is important to everyone. When a person goes from one place to another, the shock of the different culture can be considerably large on a person’s character and their identity as a whole. In Into the Beautiful North, Urrea illuminates cultural collision and its affect on character’s sense of identity through Nayeli’s naivety and her reaction towards how America truly is throughout her journey. Nayeli’s naivety really stems from her home of Tres Camarones.
Throughout “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy, the main character John Grady Cole is submitted to many evils as he tries to find his own place in the world. In his own personal quest for a happy ending, John represents the idealized cowboy of the Old Wild West uncovering the truth of the violent and deadly landscape he encounters. John Grady attempts to mesh together his romanticised cowboy honor code into a land that concedes nothing to nobility and the only winner is the one who survives. Only through his many trials and beatings does John Grady begin to accept the world for what it is, a place that does not contain only pretty horses; however, he still manages to remain true to himself and what he believes in. From the beginning of “All the Pretty Horses,” John Grady Cole faces threats from the modern world towards the cowboy life he admires so much.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play which contains many different obstacles that the characters face. One character, Beneatha, faces an obstacle that is out of her control. This obstacle is gender inequality. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, gender inequality is experienced by Beneatha and reflects the struggles women faced in the 1950s. One of the issues that Beneatha faces in the play is her relationships with two men in her life, George Murchison and Joseph Asagai.
In the book “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, it’s about a little girl who is pressured by her mother to become something she doesn’t want to be. Jing- mei , the daughter, is forced to become a prodigy(child actress), by her mother, and she doesn’t want to be one. In the story, Jing- meis’ mother uses allusions such as Shirley Temple to push her into becoming a prodigy. Although at first Jing- mei is excited to become a prodigy, she later realizes its something she just doesn’t enjoy doing. Consequently, the uses of allusion in the story help Jing- mei discover to not be a prodigy and that what her mother wants for her is not always important.
Third Take Home Questions Question 1: Market power is considered a market failure. Please answer the following questions about market failure. A) Explain why this is a market failure. Since resources are limited and not distributed evenly nor used to there fullest potential in a market power that leads to a market failure since the use of resources are inefficient. Market powers over price their products and produce less than the consumer demand at an inefficient level, thus doing more harm to our economy than good.
“The ways in which the characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A raisin in the sun, are affected by racial imbalances and respond to the injustices engendered by such inequities are solely influenced by their gender.” I agree with this statement to an extent. Although it is correct that gender plays a big role in this play, there are other factors to consider. Context:
The play “ A Raisin In The Sun “ wrote by Lorraine Hansberry is a inspiring play about the Younger family. A typical African American family in the late 1950’s trying to make life better for themselves. They’re a family trying to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that comes with being black in America in that time. Obstacles such as lynchings,segregation,racial discrimination and overall the difficulties that comes with being black in America. With external problems within the family the characters also internal conflicts within themselves.
Leon Kuwata -Leon Kuwata hates baseball. So much, in fact, that he has never attended a practice session in his life. He enrolled in Hope’s Peak as an excuse to quit. However, after attending Hope’s Peak for a short time, he realized that he enjoys the game aspect of baseball, and he hopes that his former coach will welcome him back to the team upon his escape. -Kuwata’s dream is to become a musician.
Heroes have always stood out in time as wondrous beings. In literature they possess certain special traits. These traits are ones such as courage, strength, selflessness and intelligence. Theseus an Athenian hero possess some of these great qualities,“... he was as compassionate as he was brave and a man of great intellect as well as great bodily strength” (133).
