In the article “The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker,” by Kristin Lewis, it talks about A girl named Jen, who had a disability, she was also adopted by the Bricker Family. Also a poem called “Can’t,” by Edgar Albert, talks about the word can’t and what it really means. The quote from Helen Keller, “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow,” means that you should always stay optimistic and determined, this relates to both the article and the poem because the both talk about optimism. First off, Jen had a disability that she overcame by being optimistic and determined.
Anita Selzer’s I am Sasha novel is written about a young boy named Sasha who lived in Poland during World War 2. This story is based around a single mother and son trying to escape the horrors that Nazi Germany were inflicting on them. With escaping Poland almost impossible, many people were left no choice but to remain in Poland, hiding from the dangers of Nazi Germany. Sasha and his mother, Larissa never gave up and had to sacrifice many things to stay alive.
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan is a book about the young girls that helped win World War Two. The book is based in 1942 in a rural area in east Tennessee. This city that was picked was rid of all of its current residents when the US government purchased all of that land. The town “Atomic City” was named Oak Ridge. The town of Oak Ridge stretched for a total of 59,000 acres.
The way that history is understood can change with a shift of perspective. The settler mentality in Canada has had an impact on the history of Indigenous people. According to Jennifer Hardwick's article Dismantling Narratives: Settler Ignorance, Indigenous Literature, and the Development of a Decolonizing Discourse, settler ignorance has an impact on the historical education of high school students in Ontario, and Canadians must unlearn what they already believe they know about Indigenous history to properly understand it. In her review of how students in Ontario are taught about Indigenous history, Hardwick demonstrates the flaws in the current system. In addition, Hardwick looks at the kinds of Indigenous literature that some students might
The Synopsis that I gathered from Haas and Flowers’ “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” was none the less another interesting read. Experienced readers might come to understand that both reading and writing can be “context-rich, situational, and have constructive acts”. Though a large number of students may find reading and writing more or less to be an exchange of valued or non-valued information. Continuing on, multiple studies that have been conducted have also found that on average 77 percent of experienced readers tend to use content strategies to expand their knowledge of the reading. These strategies usually include vigorous annotations of the reading/writing that have been shown to improve the readers/writers’ comprehension of the material.
Wilson 's declaration of war expresses that Germany was threat to the world. They planned to turn everyone’s government to their own. There were many ways they tried to take control and some of which are German spies and submarine warfare. Germany used spies to keep an eye on the other county and do to this many countries became worried that their freedom was being stolen. Germany struck fear into people and threatened democracy because of their controlling nature with other countries.
Mot: A Memoir by Sarah Einstein is about Sarah, who is trying to make the world a better place, meets a man named Mot who is homeless mentally ill; but he changes Einstein career. She is the director of a drop in homeless shelter for the mentally ill and homeless, everything was going just fine until the street drugs started getting into the shelter and the people that stay in the shelter started getting a lot more violent and using the shelter as a way to call there “connect” to get more drugs. They were losing a lot of their staff members because of the situation, which left them very short staffed and Sarah was there alone at night a lot of the time. She had been sexually assaulted. Her life was getting threatened on a daily basis and she was just a wreck she hated even getting up in the morning.
In numerous ways, Amy reveals herself to be resourceful throughout the short story Gore by Sarah Ellis. Her resourcefulness is demonstrated by her imaginative spirit and capability to think outside of the box, her intelligence and her willingness to persevere even when faced with obstacles throughout the journey. Amy shows that she is intelligent in many ways throughout the story. Since birth, Amy describes herself to be completely different than her twin brother Lucas. While her brother inherits the more athletic characteristics as he is much faster and stronger than she is, she is thought to have the brains out of the two.
While researching the jobs and roles of American women in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, ironically I stumbled upon the Special Operations Executive of Britain. I say ironically because the SOE was an intelligence organization in WWII that involved espionage, secret agents, and special reconnaissance. In Sarah Helm’s A Life in Secrets, the historian presents a quasi-biography of how Vera Atkins, one of SOE’s most mysterious and premiere secret agents, tracked down and investigated the fates of several missing female agents, women whom Atkins called her “girls.” Helm’s rich history and narrative, drawing from many primary sources, files, and interviews, describes the personalities, motivations, and perceptions of the women
Book Review: On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City Jaleesa Reed University of Georgia Book Review: On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a fascinating ethnography that seeks to expose and unpack the everyday lives of African American men living in Philadelphia. The author, Alice Goffman, examines the lives of these men who are “on the run” not only from the laws that seek to restrict their lives, but also from their own identities that have become synonymous with outstanding warrants, prison time, and running. Like ethnographers before her, Goffman immerses herself in the lives of her informants. Her study reveals the oppressive nature of neoliberal America and urges
Because, nowadays, e-readers are developed enough, her article could play an important role in making e-readers a significant tool for education. Moreover, the author is motivated to write the article as the number of the articles which discuss the impact of e-reader on reading practice of children is low. In addition to choosing the right time, Larson shows credibility in her article because of her experience as an instructor in the field of learning technologies. Furthermore, the case study, which is done by the author, makes the information believable. Also, the author is fair and respectful by not attacking people who read printed books to show the pros of e-reader.
This grants more creative freedom for the writer, while also instilling the different template methods through practice. In spite of the logical advantages that the templates give the writer, some people are still skeptical of this type of method. Many believe that these templates are a juvenile form that inhabits creativity. One student even proclaims, “I’m in college now, this is third-grade-level stuff.” (10) Regardless of these students claims that templates are too simplistic and less imaginative, Graff and Birkensteins’ idea that one must learn through template forms in order to enhance their skills in the future should be endorsed.
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The book Girl interrupted is a humorous nonfiction Autobiographical book about the author Susanna Kaysen experience in side a mental intuition with others in which she encountered. The story takes place in 1967 Massachusetts inside McLean Hospital. Kaysen, who voluntarily enters a mental institution after visiting her psychiatrist and discovers she is having a problem and offers her a place to “rest”. She plans on staying just a few weeks but ends up stay a total of 18 months were she meets many of other mental ill patients and is later diagnosis with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Susan Sontag, an author of the essay “Imagination Disaster,” explores the world of science fiction as she discusses the tropes in films from the mid-1900s. Throughout her essay, Sontag analyzes why these types of films were created, and basically ties her discussion with humanity. With the growing technological advances, science fiction films state specific things about how science threatens humanity. She also ties her discussion to how sci-fi films tend to serve an attempt at distributing a balance between humanity and the technological world. Sontag claims that science fiction films has suspense, shock, surprises, has an inexorable plot, and how they invite a dispassionate, aesthetic view of destruction and violence.
As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”
