Dr. Oscar Reiss’s, M.D., Medicine and the American Revolution is a complete history of revolutionary medical practices, medical leadership, and common diseases that plagued the army. Additionally, Reiss included medical evaluations on the leaders of each side, to give the reader further insight into the medical side of war. With nine times as many people dying from disease than from fighting, medicine played a key role in the American Revolution Reiss, a World War II veteran, is familiar with the tactical side of warfare. However, in his writing, Reiss examines war from a physician’s perspective, looking at how diseases and medicine impacted the war.
Serpico, the New York City cop who couldn’t be bought by nobody. Serpico is a book that tells a story about a cop that works in New York, that wouldn’t take any brides from anybody and who had to deal with a very corrupt police department. There was a big gambling problem going on in New York and there was nothing being done about it so Serpico being such an honest cop decided he would try to get rid of the problem. In the following book report over Serpico, by Peter Maas, I will summarize the book’s contents and give my thoughts over the book.
The documentary, “The Century: America’s Time – 1929-1936: Stormy” depicts the stock market crash which occurred in 1929. This stock market crash is known as The Great Depression. This time period resulted in most detrimental crash in economic stability in the history of America. For a decade, The Great Depression caused strife throughout the country; resulting in, poverty, hunger, and much more. The documentary covers the impacts of the Great Depression and events; for instance, the Dust Bowl, Bonus Army March, and President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Chapter 11 and chapter 12 is about grandpa Hillburn calling Hiram’s parents to explain why Hiram would not be returning home. Hiram’s mother was understanding and said “ just you remember who you are, Hiram Hillburn, and be sure you do what is right no matter what”. Also to help your grampa as much as you can. you’re not there on vacation anymore”. Ruthanne returned back the next morning looking very exhausted.
Author Dee Brown presents a factual as well as an emotional version of the relationship among the Indians, the American settlers, and the U.S. government. The massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, provides the backdrop for the narrative. In his introduction, Brown states the reason for his work. Thousands of accounts about life in the American West of the late nineteenth century were written. Stories are told of the traders, ranchers, wagon trains, gunfighters, and gold-seekers.
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,
Lizabeth hasn’t experienced anything that has completely changed her from her playful, childish ways. “Then I lost my head entirely, mad with the power of inciting such rage, and ran out of the bushes in the storm of pebbles, straight toward Miss Lottie chanting madly “Old witch, fell in a ditch, picked up a penny and thought she was rich!””(220) This is one of the major turning points of Marigolds. This represents Lizabeth when she still had her childish urges. It was one of the things that the children did not deeply understand.
That’s where Lizabeth snapped and angrily ripped out the marigolds from Ms. Lottie’s garden. After releasing all her anger she knew that she wasn't a child anymore. Collier uses symbolism and imagery to drive the theme when one matures it is not possible to poss both innocence and compassion. Collier uses symbolism to real
This was one of the differences between the film and the book. However, it does not change the development of the story. They might have changed this scene a bit to not waste any time into actually getting on with the story. There was another difference between the book and the film. In the book it states, “ I must explain to you!. . .Oh! '
The book starts off in England A.D 1377 with a 13 year old boy who went by the name of Asta’s son. When his mother died, he was given a huge problem. Unfairly, he was forced by the town steward, John Aycliffe, to use his only ox to pay his mom’s death tax leaving him with nothing to eat. Being so terrified, and confused he fled into the forest. When night came he realized that he was far from home and did not know where to go.
“They say I say” Chapter 1 summary Chapter one of “They say I say” is all about introducing a topic, with a counter point of view. It informs us that you are entering a conversation and need to start with “What others are saying” and then introduce your own ideas as a response. The sooner you summarize what “They say” the more likely the reader is to understand the topic. Graff and Birkenstein say, “The point is to give your readers a quick preview of what is motivating your argument, not to drown them in details right way.” You could also start your topic with an illustrative quotation, a revealing statistic or fact, or a relevant anecdote.(Nehring)
1 Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. That’s Not What I Meant!. Amazon, 1987. Reviewed by Shelby D. Slocum, Pittsburg State University, KS. This book provides an explanation of the common misconceptions in communication.
One of the themes that a reader can recognize in this book is “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” meaning don 't judge a person by the way they look or do something. This theme really fits into this story because America judged the prince in the beginning of the story. Judging him and saying he was stuck up, snotty and conceited. This was even before she met the guy. After actually talking with him she found out she had a lot in common with Maxon.
The imagery had much light and childishness to it. With images such as “it seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from her house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these”. As well as having lines such as “she felt light and good in the warm sun”, and “She struck out at random at chickens she liked” to create the feeling of child hood innocence, using all of this light to mean goodness and being unaffected by the harshness of reality. However she also uses the imagery later to show the loss of innocence when she describes everything as darker, when she starts using lines such as “it seemed gloomy in the little clove she found herself in” and “all his cloths had rotted away”. Alice walker is using this imagery to convey that the innocence has been lost at this point, taken by the harshness of reality and death.
Freedom. The importance of freedom is often forgotten as Americans live day by day taking this gift for granted. In this day and age, freedom seems as a “simple gift’ obtained by every American, but one forgets to think about those who were once unable to enjoy the freedoms one is promised daily. Back in the day, freedom seemed as nothing more than a dream to those of color. Everyday of a colored person’s life consisted of harassment and discrimination as no one cared to treat them as equals.
