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Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment.
Nicholas Carr introduces his opinion of automation through an example of the overused system of autopilots during an airline flight and questions our growing dependence to technology that is gradually beginning to complete task that we can do for ourselves. Carr moves on to reminisces back to his high school driving lessons, his experiences from driving automatic stick shift to manual stick shift and expresses his joy of being able to be in control of his own vehicle. He then focuses on the self – driving Google car that can effortlessly tours around the California and Nevada area, reporting that an accident did occur but was a manual drivers fault. Over the course of the chapter, he presents us with different scenarios of how technology plays
In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie is tortured by being dehumanized and isolated while being a POW. Throughout the book, Louie is being treated poorly by his captors, but resisted giving up. One example is in chapter 17, Louie was being transported to a camp and is put on the ground. The text states, “Louie said something to Phil and immediately felt a boot kick into him...” (page 181).
The next chapter was Carrie McCandless viewpoint on traveling to see where her older brother Christopher McCandless died. When Carrie was in the helicopter flying to the ominous bus, she could not believe that Chris had backpacked through such terrain and lived off the land for one hundred days. However, she always knew that if Chris put his mind to something, he would always achieve it. Finally, she saw the rundown school bus where her brother had died. She tried to be strong but failed, and wept.
The book 5.41, Randy Turner and John Hacker, is a story of a great devastation that hit the town of Joplin, Missouri on the 22nd of May 2011, where humanity saw the destructive tornado that hit their town, and people lost a large number of townspeople. It was the place of a great amount of people who survived the most catastrophic tornado they had seen in their lifetime. The President of the United States, the Governor of Missouri, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister gave speeches to the people of Joplin after the tornado was struck about a week later, and what did they need to hear from them that people of Joplin had to strive to help their neighbours b looking out to each other, they had to have faith in themselves that were strong
Bryan Stevenson’s a black man from a poor family in Delaware grew up to be a lawyer, whose legal career was focused on helping marginalized people wrongly convicted or punitively sentenced for non-homicidal crimes. This work of literature was mostly focused on his account of the injustices, blatant racism and discrimination that the Criminal Justice System inflicted on the poor marginalized people of Alabama and other southern states. Stevenson presented a variety of cases throughout the book, however his main focus was on the case of Walter McMillian, a Black man falsely convicted of murder and was sentenced to death in Alabama in the 1980’s. Stevenson was the founder of Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that provides legal representation
This book is about two kids both named Wes Moore and grew up blocks away from one another. Both grew up with no father figure, had a difficult childhood, hung out on the street corners, and ran into to trouble with the law. Although throughout all this trouble the author Wes Moore came out very successful. He was a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House fellow, and a business leader whereas the other Wes Moore is convicted of murder and serving a life sentence in jail. It is a fascinating experience to live down the street from someone who shares the same exact name as you and live very similar lives but takes very different paths in life.
Think Like a Freak “What’s Your Problem?” Jayla Helton ECON 202 Summary In this chapter, one will learn that we tend to pay more attention to what others think of us, rather than what we think of ourselves.
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.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, wrote this book to scavenge the documentary record in an attempt to show Lincoln as a revolutionary centralizer who used national sovereignty to establish corporate-mercantilist control at the expense of open economic liberty. Through lots of research and careful documentation, DiLorenzo describes the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in choice and highly dispersed as the Founding Fathers intended, to a highly centralized, activist state. Americans consider Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the greatest president has created hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington,
Out of the six chapters, I prefer to write about Chapter One: The Duel and Chapter Two: The Dinner. This book was very intriguing and helped to understand the post-revolutionary America and the lives of the founding brothers and what they went through. Chapter One: The Duel was a well-known duel in American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. July 11, 1804 is the exact date when the duel happened.
This entire book has lots of emphasis on how short and violent The Kid’s life truly was. Utley, just like any other historian, knows very little about the beginning years of his life. I found it hard to find a thesis for a biography, the best I can put together would be that Utley says how much Henry McCarty actually did throughout his extremely brief life. Going into detail about how he began his life as a “hoodlum” so to say. Growing up in 1800s was a time of evolution and people like Henry McCarthy led a life being a creature of his time.
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution is a nonfiction novel by A. J. Langguth. The title of the book reflects the theme of the book. The book focuses on the revolutionaries who played a significant role in the American Revolution. The work brings the combats, the treasons, and the vibrant characters of the individuals that forged the freedom of the United States of America to life. It features revolutionaries such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and John Adams.
In The Things They Carried: Field Trip, Tim O'Brien takes his ten year old daughter, Kathleen, to Vietnam around the twentieth anniversary of the wars end. This chapter is important to the story because it not only gives the readers some feeling of validity and peace, but it’s important to the overall closure to the story. The chapter starts off with the author reminiscing about the field of where Kiowa actually died. O’Brien compares the current day Vietnam land and culture to bloody, gruesome, and heartbreaking, wartime Vietnam that he was once unfortunately very familiar with. Although this trip was supposed to be for Kathleen, she did not seem to be very impressed with the scenery.
In chapter 9, Brooks introduces Samuel Johnson through a brief biography of his distressing life. Johnson’s life is seemingly one of hardship from the beginning as he is the son of an “unsuccessful bookseller” and “uneducated mother” (p 213). More so, he is described as a “frail infant,” one who was infected with tuberculosis by the wet nurses’ milk. Brooks subsequently discusses Johnson’s appearance, “ugly and scarred” (ibid), as a result of the small pox he developed. Eventually, Johnson becomes a Christian at Oxford (p 215), where he “emphasized that worldly pursuits fail to fill the heart” (ibid).
