The book “The Other Wes Moore” talks about two young kids that has same name, lives in the same neighborhood, but has different destinies. The author Wes mother Joy was a single mother, as the other Wes mother Mary by different circumstances. Also, an important play roll at the book is that both mothers wants to give them education and be successful for the author and the other Wes. Both Wes are going in the same path of getting into trouble and being rebels. They are acting unreasonably by taking the wrong decisions they might.
The documentary, “The Century: America’s Time – 1929-1936: Stormy” depicts the stock market crash which occurred in 1929. This stock market crash is known as The Great Depression. This time period resulted in most detrimental crash in economic stability in the history of America. For a decade, The Great Depression caused strife throughout the country; resulting in, poverty, hunger, and much more. The documentary covers the impacts of the Great Depression and events; for instance, the Dust Bowl, Bonus Army March, and President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
While people participate in various methods of everyday reading and writing, there are extensive benefits to be gained from extending the experience to apply these abilities to literature. In the beginning chapter of Literature: A Portable Anthology, third edition the benefits of reading, analyzing, and writing about literature is explored, while also explaining literature class expectations, at a college or university level. Reading literature expands horizons by exposing readers to various perspectives, locations, and interactions, which molds opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Taking this a step further to include analysis of the reading serves to train the brain to contemplate information and expand attention spans. Finally, writing about
In the chapter “Don’t Get Mad; Don’t Get Even; Get Ahead” Matthews discusses ways one cannot waste energy trying to get back at an enemy. It states how one should focus efforts on getting simply ahead of the enemy. The chapter cites the dilemma of former Speaker Newt Gingrich who attempted to shut down various government institutions after Bill Clinton forced him to exit Air Force One from the back. All this did was ruin Gingrich 's political spine. Others like Pat Sullivan, who helped Herbie win but did not receive help in return, tried to get even but fail in an eight year struggle.
The epigram before chapter 10 is an excerpt from the New York Time’s story on Chris’ death, headlined, “Dying in the Wild, a Hiker Recorded the Terror.” The following chapter recalls the police’s attempts to track down Chris’ next of kin but because Chris chose to abandon his identity, the police had trouble finding his family. The Epigram has a lack of detail, which leads to speculation over who the dead hiker is. Chris’ lies throughout his adventure made it difficult for his family to get the news of his death, but it is only because of the paper that his family got word of his death.
Danielle L. McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street, “an important, original contribution to civil rights historiography”, discusses the topic of rape and sexual assault towards African American women, and how this played a major role in causing the civil rights movement (Dailey 491). Chapter by chapter, another person's story is told, from the rape of Recy Taylor to the court case of Joan Little, while including the significance of Rosa Parks and various organizations in fighting for the victims of unjust brutality. The sole purpose of creating this novel was to discuss a topic no other historian has discussed before, because according to McGuire they have all been skipping over a topic that would change the view of the civil rights movement.
Stoichiometry is a method used in chemistry that involves using relationships between reactants and products in a chemical reaction, to determine a desired quantitative data. The purpose of the lab was to devise a method to determine the percent composition of NaHCO3 in an unknown mixture of compounds NaHCO3 and Na2CO. Heating the mixture of these two compounds will cause a decomposition reaction. Solid NaHCO3 chemically decomposes into gaseous carbon dioxide and water, via the following reaction: 2NaHCO3(s) Na2CO3(s) + H2O(g) + CO2(g). The decomposition reaction was performed in a crucible and heated with a Bunsen burner.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a novel in which a carnival arrives in town with malicious plans. The values of life are put to the test as horrific change comes to Green Town, Illinois. It begins with two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Calloway, born two minutes apart but on different days confronted by a lightning rod salesman. He claims that lightning will strike Jim’s house at 3:00AM that morning. Bradbury then fits a lot into the next hours, as 3am didn’t come until many chapters later.
In this chapter, narrator O 'Brien talks about how the men in the platoon were looking for Kiowa 's body after the rain had partially ceased. We find three different perspectives in the chapter: Lieutenant Jimmy Cross 's, the young soldier 's, and the rest of the men in the platoon. This quote belongs to Jimmy 's perspective. In it, we readers sense his feeling of guilt for loosing one of the men of his Company because he feels that Kiowa 's death was his mistake due to his lack of intuition that something bad could happen near the shit field and his lack of courage for refuting the higher
Eleven by Sandra Cisneros is a story about how a girl named Rachel gets accused of owning the ugly sweater that's been sitting in the coat area for a long time. It shows how the sweater makes Rachel uncomfortable and physically pains her to put it in. The story uses literary devices to show Rachels's complex reaction to the event that happened in her class with the red sweater. One literary device used in simile is when she explains how awful the sweater is “I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese”. Cottage cheese is known to be terrible smelling so it further represents how terrible the sweater is and how much Rachel hates it.
In “Chapter 12”, Linda Sue Park begins to bring the book to a close. At this point, Tree-ear is still traveling to the city Songdo. He walks and walks, making only one stop. Tree-ear stops to view a beautiful scenery of a valley cut through by a river. Furthermore, he continues voyaging until he finally reaches his destination: Songdo.
Stereotypes, could potentially affect oneself performance still in today's society. Claude Steele, the author of Whistling Vivaldi, a research book base on research of stereotypes, stereotype threat, social identity, and social contingencies, reports that there are remedies to stereotype threat, including self affirmation, creating identity safety and changing your narrative. Expanding on steels remedies, my contribution on dealing with stereotype threat, are based on what he shared in Whistling Vivaldi. In chapter 9 of Whistling Vivaldi, titled "A New Hope", was filed with ways of reducing stereotype threat. One of the main concepts Steele's introduced, self affirmation, which is very similar to the concept of having a backbone.
The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques in “Eleven” to characterize Rachel by using metaphors, comparisons, and repetition. In the beginning of Sandra Cisneros’s short story, she states that when a person becomes an age older they will not feel a difference. The character Rachel explains that in different situations, for example, “Like some days you might say something stupid, and [you will feel ten]” a person might feel different from their actual age. She then competes growing old to layers of an onion, rings of a tree, wooden dolls that fit inside each other because, according to her, “that’s how being eleven years old is”.
In her story, “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros tells a story about a little girl named Rachel and the different type of emotions she s feeling on her 11th birthday. Cisneros purpose is to reveal the fact that young adults want to speak up but are afraid to and don't have the authority as adults do. Cisneros builds Rachel's character for the readers through several literary techniques: smilie, juxtaposition, and her actions. Cisneros uses several similes in order to show the audience how she feels about getting older.
What core elements define the essence of humanity? In Mandel’s novel, one is compelled to reconsider the defining characteristics of humanity. Mandel structures the plot of Station Eleven around the main character Arthur Leander’s life. Throughout the novel, Mandel explores a series of sub character’s perspectives of the flu pandemic and each of their roles in the post-apocalyptic world it creates, encouraging the reader to delve into the relationships between humanity and art. Book reviewer Justine Jordan from The Guardian summarizes the book perfectly by claiming that “Station Eleven is not so much about [an] apocalypse as about memory and loss, nostalgia, and yearning” (Jordan, par. 5).
