Have you ever gone above and beyond to make yourself proud?Well in the book Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac you read about a navajo marine and his time in war. His name is Ned he was first sent to a boarding school for navajos and then he signed up to fight in war. In the book it tells about the many mixed emotions Ned has about being a marine. Ned wanted to be a marine for a while. He realized he wanted to be in the marines during boarding school.
In “The Code of the Streets”, Elijah Anderson go in details and shows us on how teens are getting killed on a daily basis. Dr. Anderson discuss some social intuitions that influence crime in the urban neighborhoods. The first one I would discuss is the “Decent and Street Families”. The Decent and Street Families represent two poles of value orientation, two contrasting conceptual categories Dr. Anderson stated. Decent residents judge themselves as for judging others in the streets as for streets families express themselves as a decent their not.
Avery’s father in the story “Avery’s Gift” is similar to Ellison’s father in the selection “Chicken Of The Sea Is So Wacky -- Of Course It Was Made By Kids” due to aspects that they share like them both being supportive of their children and both of them using the skills that they were good at to help make something that important to their children. Another similarity between the two is how after the children finished their project they both felt that they achieved something with their father. Both fathers went out of their way to help with a project that was important to their children. “Avery blushed but smiled back at Mrs. Vadakin, whose eyes glistened with tears. ”(paragraph 16 of “Avery’s Gift”).
The early horizon styles of Olmec, Chavín, and Hopewell convey how complex societies exchange culture. Culture is either exchanged intentionally or not, and in the case of Hopewell, it was not intentionally spread. The Hopewell horizon participated in conspicuous consumption to show neighbors who had a stronger tribe. In order to do this, they needed to trade for high prestige goods from far off places. According to Milner, this caused these people to travel long distances to find rare goods to complete lavish burial rituals.
It creates a standard to which people want to live up. Living up to these standards earns people honor in the sight of others. These three characters, Reuven, Danny and Mr. Galanter show characteristics that make them worthy of society. Culture forms the world around us, and keeps us in check; sets our standards and allows for good people. Reuven, Danny and Mr. Galanter all live up to culture’s standards; Reuven for his friendship, Danny for his respect and Mr. Galanter for his caring and guiding nature.
Bibliographical Information Daigle, Megan. From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press, 2015. Summary of the main thesis
Elijah Anderson’s commentary Code of the Streets describes the unwritten laws in urban neighborhoods. Anderson considers the code to be a response to the stigma of race, excessive drug use, lack of high paying jobs, and lack of hope for the future. Respect or “juice” is at the heart of the code and in this environment, an individual is defined by the respect he commands from others (Anderson 6). Anderson argues that the poor have a different system of values than the middle and upper classes. He describes families in the lower class as either “decent” or “street (Anderson 2).
A Night to Tell The true stories told in Life To Tell and Night have an inspirational effect on readers. Between the mass genocides and struggling with their faith, Immaculée Ilibagiza and Elie Wiesel tell two separate amazing stories that spark history forever. Whether being actually dead or being spiritually dead in their faith, both Immaculée and Elie provide hope in their experiences. Their specific experiences are different, but what they go through similar struggles.
In the memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist struggles with his initial important values while going through times of despair, urging him to abandon these morals for his own individual good. It is immensely imperative that he does not give in. Elie’s experience as a victim in the Holocaust threatens his loyalty to his father, relationship with God, and compassion with others to weaken. The main character is consistently pressed to discard these things, once the most meaningful matters to him, in order for him to stay alive. For most people facing the same situation as Elie, their one and only ambition is self-preservation, causing all of their other initial, now irrelevant, morals to go out the window in order for them to protect
Love & Espionage Formerly screened in New York on November 1942 and largely released in January 1943, Casablanca, a moving love story consisting of many emotional turns and slightly similar to the chaos surrounding WWII. A mixture of Love, politics, and war was the atmosphere created by the Director Michael Curtiz. Three of the top screenwriters of all times, Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein and Howard Koch wrote this award-winning movie. Casablanca was adapted from the stage play Everybody Comes to Ricks. The movie’s lead actors were Richard ‘Rick’ Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Report Passage #1: Pg 48, ‘“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” ’
Giovanni’s Room Love is a funny thing, it doesn’t always turn out the way we want it too and we can’t choose who we love. The main theme of James Baldwin’s story “Giovanni’s Room” is that love is difficult, scary, and not always what you expect. Although many people thrive on the love they feel for someone, David finds it to be a terrifying and confusing thing. In “Giovanni’s Room” David is reflecting on how he found love when he less expected it and was afraid, saddened, and even a little ashamed by it.
Gladwell, utilizes dialogue in order to portray his emotions and opinions about Paco Underhill while simultaneously allowing the reader to obtain some information about Underhill’s personality. In the passage, the use of Gladwell’s personal dialogue, allows the reader to assume a pleasant disposition from Underhill, as seen through his description, describing Underhill as a non-hostile being, with a gaze that makes an individual believe that they are an eminent acquaintance. It is through this descriptive dialogue that allows the reader to obtain a positive outlook on Underhill. By such means, one can assume that with his optimistic disposition, Paco will respond passively to rude or insulting comments. Dialogue not only entails such actions,
When I was first reading the story, I was somewhat discontent with the ending, as I thought that there was no decision and the topic was averted by the woman saying she was fine while they waited for the train. I then realized, after adding the themes that I uncovered during multiple re-reads that Hemingway attempts to provide an answer for the reader. When the man comes back to the woman and asks if she feels better, the woman responds, “I feel fine,” she said. “There’s nothing wrong with me.” (478)
Gender is a socially devolped meaning of ladies and men .It is not the same as sex (traits of women and men) . Sex is dictated by the origination of assignments , capacities and parts credited to women and men in the public eye in broad daylight and private life . Gender as socially constructed category : Our conception of what women and men are and what they are supposed to be do is a product of the society in which we live . Thus many people say that gender is a "social construct".
