Louie is a bombardier that was put in a prisoner of war camp during the war with the Japanese. Louie became a famous Olympic athlete. He also survived with his crew in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for 47 days on a raft after crashing there b-29 airplane. After surviving for 47 days the Japanese found them and dehumanized them for 2 years in prison war camps. Then after the war Louie Lived with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
The Holocaust was a terrible event that left few Jewish survivors. In the graphic novel “The Complete Maus”, (Maus I and Maus II), Art Spiegelman writes about his father’s personal experiences of surviving the Holocaust, while also showing Vladek and his problems in the 1970s-80s. The Holocaust stories consist of hiding in many bunkers and hiding spots, working in labor camps while starving, and using connections and bribes to survive just one more day. Vladek was fortunate to survive the Holocaust with his wife, who committed suicide later, and a few of his relatives. Close to 98% of Polish Jews were killed (Wikipedia), but Vladek managed to survive Auschwitz and other life-threatening situations.
Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” provides a unique perspective on the origins of America by structuring it as a story. The 932 page book covers history beginning in the year 1492, and explains our history’s events over more than five centuries. Lepore constantly questions whether our past events have proved these ‘truths’ or deceived them. These factors allowed the author to encourage the audience to hear an alternate interpretation rather than the standard facts of the history books, and it gave a more in-depth and contingent story of how our history transformed into the America we know today. Jill Lepore has a variety of purposes, the purpose of informing, challenging, and engaging her readers.
In the essay “Should everyone go to college?” by Owen and Sawhill published in They Say I Say, Owen and Sawhill talks about how people with a degree benefits more than someone without a degree. After reading the essay, the author proved me to be right with the amount of success that comes with having a college degree versus a high school diploma. Individuals with a college degree beat an individual without a college degree in every category. Although, Owen and Sawhill speaks about the benefits of having a college degree, the authors do not think college is for everyone.
Writing Style The Overachievers, by Alexandra Robbins, is Alexandra Robbins, is the empowering story of eight students, and a glimpse of their lives during the duration of one school year. Each student underwent an idiosyncratic situation, whether it is battling ADD, peer pressure, or stress. During the duration of the duration of the school year-and high and often times unrealistic expectations put on them by themselves and their parents-each student hit the lowest point in their lives, but manage to resolve their problems, and resume living their normal lives. Robbins uses a clear, bold language and tone along with intentional stereotypes, as well as powerful diction, and didactic language to help develop the story. Robbins uses a clear, bold language and tone in her unique style of writing to help develop the story of these eight young adults.
In Lynda Barry’s essay, The Sanctuary of School, she expresses her views on the economics of public education through her personal issues of being a neglected child. She describes her childhood involving neglectful parents and having only her brother to lean on. Barry’s personal testimony does deflect from her main point that budget cuts in public schools damage children of neglect even more. Her stance is not very effective since she does not elaborate on her main point with any statistics, facts, and data for support. Although, Barry has good diction and imagery, she deters from her main focus and did not support her central
Tara Westover, author of the memoir, Educated, describes her father, Gene, extreme mindset and radical beliefs. Growing up, Tara portrays Gene as a pious man who sees the world through a religious lens. Gene was a Mormon who believed in the prophecy regarding the end of time. Furthermore, Gene believed he was on the path of God, and to go astray from that path would lead to experiencing God’s wrath. Gene believed that the government would lead him astray, and as a result, would lead him away from God.
In Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, she is talking about her relationship with education. We are following her journey with it, so the timeline only shows the area where education is a focal point. We start with her at age seven and we end just a couple of years ago, when she receives her PHD from Cambridge. In the beginning of the memoir, Tara “according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, [does] not exist” (xiv).
Tara Westover's Educated is a memoir that tells the story of her life. It's written in a first-person narrative, where she shares her personal experiences growing up in a survivalist family in Idaho. The memoir format allows her to give us a glimpse into her unique perspective and the challenges she faced in pursuing education, despite her family's objections. What I really enjoyed about the book is how Westover uses vivid details and reflective insights to bring her story to life. It feels like you're right there with her, witnessing her struggles, successes, and the complexities of her relationships.
The book Educated by Tara Westover is a Memoir of Tara Westovers life. The Memoir Educated Provides a lesson that being educated does not mean being book smart, it also means learning from other life lessons. Stepping away from other people's views and opinions, choosing a different path from everyone else and not letting the past determine one’s future. Are all motivation for Tara Westover to leave her family and educate herself. In the beginning chapters Tara is intimidated by what Gene would say when she tells him she wants to go to school, Tara hears Gene's response and she puts the idea of school aside.
"Turning Education Upside Down" by Tina Rosenberg discusses ‘flipped schools,’ or schools where “teachers record video lessons” and students are required to watch these lessons at home, providing more class time to work in “small groups while the teacher circulates.” The trend of flipping schools began at Clintondale High School and is becoming more and more popular across the United States. Considering this is such a new strategy “to use technology to humanize the classroom,” (Rosenberg) flipping schools seems to have impressive results thus far, raising graduation rates and college attendance. The author supports this flipping tactic and encourages more teachers to flip their classroom by uploading videos, audio files, and readings online
As Helen Keller once quoted, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken tells the life story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini. Through his troubles as a child, emerged a strong-willed Olympic runner, who later became a military aviator. He was lost at sea and then captured by the Japanese as a prisoner of war. He endured years of abuse and suffering but still managed to stay true to who he was.
Abstract Natural selection is investigated in this lab with the use of varying plastic phenotypes represented by spoons, forks, and knives to determine if natural selection will occur. Each phenotype went through five generations competing against each other for food to determine if they will survive and reproduce. We hypothesized the spoon phenotype would be the most suitable trait to obtain food, therefore being the adaptive trait through evolution. After the simulation, it was confirmed the spoon was the dominant phenotype suggesting natural selection and evolution did occur. Introduction Natural selection is a major factor in determining which individuals survive and reproduce, often decided by limiting factors such as food, space, or
The History Teacher by Billy Collins, portrays a history teacher as thoughtful and protective over his students. From the beginning, it is shown that the teacher is not giving his students the full story to help maintain their innocence. The very first line of the poem states, “Trying to protect his students’ innocence” The author directly states that the teacher is trying to protect his students by telling them that “ the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.”, instead of telling them about how scary it really was. Similarly, the history teacher goes through many different historical events and downplays them to not sound as bad as they were. “The War of the Roses took place
Maycomb’s education system is depicted as a failure throughout chapters 2 and 3. Lee’s description of the student’s poor learning attitudes, the teacher’s unskillful teaching methods, all highlights the failure of Maycomb’s education system. Lee depicts the failure of the Maycomb education system through the description of elderly students in Scout’s first grade class. When the class was questioned about their knowledge on alphabets, Scout explained by saying “Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.” The adjective “failed” depicts that the students did not learn much in Maycomb and was unable to take in knowledge under the Maycomb education system.
