Throughout the documentary “Well Founded Fear” by Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini asylum seekers told their story about the reason they should be one out of every two hundred to be granted asylum in the United States. The search for asylum is one that is sometimes disheartening, uncertain, and unpredictable. As humans come to the United States in search of asylum, asylum officers are tasked with deciding the fate of asylum seekers. There are problems with the process of being granted asylum so it is necessary that some solutions are developed.
In response to a flaw found in the school system, the author of “The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade”, Nancy Kalish argues that in order for teenage students to reach their full potential and perform well throughout the school day, their early mornings should start later. In her article, she supports this argument by appealing to her readers using emotional appeals, asking rhetorical questions, and providing expert opinions. To begin, in the first paragraph, Kalish uses an emotional appeal, to appeal to her readers and impact their view of her argument. For example, she states, “many of them [teenagers] stayed up late the night before, but not because they wanted to.” Saying this she is relating to teenage students and emphasizing their frustration
It 's easier to put yourself on top and to dream happily than to live in fear. Although others will look at it like you’re living a lie and advise you to be truthful about your situations, that is not always the best step to take. In Fear by Gary Soto, Frankie keeps quiet about his situation, acts hard, and makes his life sounds better than it really is. Even though his peers know; empty refrigerator, father’s gone, mother’s sad and the beating, but none of them decides to stand up for him. It 's better to live in dreams than to face the devastating truth.
Until the day the Terrible Things came back” (Bunting 16) After some time had passed since the birds were forcibly taken, the Terrible Things returned. However, the remaining animals did not look at one another, and rather glanced
It shows that they are uncivilized and have to live like wild animals. With phrases such as “buried their stool like cats” and “crouched like owls,” it compares the animal-like characteristics of their actions. They had to work long hours and didn’t
As much as humans have diverged from their animal ancestors, it is part of human condition to resort to the most basic animal instincts in times of crisis. Human Condition drives behavior and decision making when humans are in a state of panic. In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the guests begin to act uncivilized while trying to escape the murderer’s wrath. Similarly the article “Iran Arrests ‘Agatha Christie Serial Killer’” illustrates a desperate woman who resorts to animal instincts during a time of crisis in her life.
In Tobias Wolff’s Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, lies a gem in the rough called “Soldier’s Joy,” which is a short story about a Vietnam War veteran named Hooper who is adapting to life on the base post-war. Hooper is trying to get his life together little by little, but nothing is going back together the way it should in his mind. This was a problem for a lot of Vietnam War veterans post-war because of all the things they saw firsthand and they had no idea how to handle the things they saw on their own. They had no idea how to handle all of the destruction, chaos, and death they saw, so most of them took to their own ways of coping with everything they saw or even did during the war.
In Hoffman’s The River King, the rabbit motif accentuates the idea that the passiveness of innocence corrupted in communities is a direct result of dominant figures holding power over the vulnerable individual. Gus and the Chalk House boys are a prime display of the relationship between dominant figures and the ones they take power over, and the torment of Gus and the rabbits portrays the innocence of the underclassmen being beaten down. The Chalk House boys are shown to be consistently injuring rabbits, and it’s seen as a very frequent and passive event for them—they exert their dominance by “suggest[ing] to the new boys that they look for one of the rabbits found in the meadows and the woods. These small, shy creatures were easily caught
Elie witnessed this type of animalistic behavior when he is crouched in the cattle car traveling from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald and another Jew dragged himself on all fours to hide a piece of bread under his shirt . “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me... you’re killing your father... I have bread...for you too… for you too” (Wiesel 101).
In both “The Night in Question” by Tobias Wolff and “The First Day” by Edward Jones, the authors describe characters whose lives have been transformed by the love of a close family member. However, Wolff suggests that this deep love manifests itself in a brother’s physical protection from an abusive parent, while Jones implies that it reveals itself through educational security ensured for the child by an illiterate mother’s persistence in her daughter’s school enrollment. Wolff establishes these instances of protection from abuse through flashbacks triggered by the retelling of a sermon. Jones approaches the story chronologically to prove the determination of the mother despite rejection. These two stories, both manipulate characterization
Mass shootings In the article, “The Fear We Live With” by Jeva Lange (2018) she explains how mass shootings have affected many lives in the United States. She points out that people are very afraid of how the shootings are happening too frequently and America does not care to do anything about it. Mass shootings happen too much in the world and there is not one way to fix them.
In the novel of Watership Down, Richard Adams tells a story of a peculiar band of rabbits and writes about an epic journey filled with danger, trials, and hope. One quote Adams says is, “Animals don't behave like men, he said. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a non-fiction introduction in the novel “They say, I say” by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. The New Jim Crow is written to educate society on the discrimination and exclusion that African Americans are facing in the United States; the same discrimination and exclusion they faced when the Jim Crow laws took place. Michelle Alexander forms her evidence from her own experience fighting for the civil rights of others and she also uses people of colors experiences with losing their civil rights from being labeled a “felon” and she uses statistics to help her readers better visualize the extent of African American incarceration, these techniques provide the readers with accurate
Gunnie Beacham Ms. Holliday Honors English 10 6 April 2023 Personal Pathways of Possibility The book The Truth Project by: Dante Medema features a girl named Cordelia Koenig and her journey when finding out shocking news through research from her senior project. Koenig thinks she can cruise through the project easily by writing simple poems about her ancestry, but the truth hampers that notion revealed from her DNA test: the dad she has grown up with her whole life is not her real dad. Her biological Dad is a suspicious man living in Seattle with a skeptical past. Cordelia faces several difficult choices throughout the novel and struggles as many normal teens do in handling the news she discovers.
Tim the enchanter attempts to warn King Arthur of the horrendous beast guarding the cave by stating “Well, that’s no ordinary rabbit. That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on... Look, that rabbit’s got a vicious streak a mile wide. It’s a killer”(Gilliam). The rabbit’s role of a monster is ironic because a rabbit is not stereotypically a villainous creature.
