The biography, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about the life of Louis (Louie) Zamperini, a POW surviver during World War 2. The book has a multitude of heroes. Some demonstrate heroism throughout the book, while others evolve into heroes towards the end. Then there is this hero who puts his life in danger to save people he doesn't even know—Louis, our protagonist. He sacrifices himself to save others continuously.
In Chapter 9 of Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley describes two very different reactions to liberty she witnessed while working among freed slaves. Some freedmen and freedwomen were miserable in the North, and even wished to return to their southern homes and their old lives. Others began building new homes and new lives for themselves, happy to be on their own and free. Keckley states that some slaves had exalted views of what freedom was going to be like.
Rough Draft Ever since grade school, Melinda and Rachel had been best of friends. In the book it talks about how Melinda was raped. With multiple other people, Rachel thought Melinda just called the police to crash the big end-of-summer party. Melinda’s biggest inspiration to open up about her story is Rachel. Once she finds out Rachel is Andy Evans new victim, she felt obligated to speak.
Throughout history there have been multiple life changing events that have lead to many life lessons. As humans, we are far from perfect; we must go through challenges to learn and prosper. We often follow the example of others, when sometimes you need to take a stand and follow yourself. Leadership is a huge role to humans, especially in the sake of treatment for others. Throughout the book, Unbroken, by: Laura Hillenbrand, it showed great deals of men mistreating others for inhuman reasons.
In November 9 by Colleen Hoover, Fallon, a flawed woman, struggles to love herself and Ben. In the beginning, Fallon is arguing with her father over her choice of occupation. After she was incinerated in a fire when she was 16, the option of acting went out the window. Fallon starts recording audiobooks; her father thinks it is a waste of potential. All of a sudden, a random guy slides into the booth next to her and starts sticking up for her.
“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson was first recognized as an inappropriate book in 2001 by Wesley Scroggins. Speak is about a girl named Melinda who is raped at a party by Andy Evans during the summer and she calls the police. She is socially rejected by her old friends. Her friends don’t know the whole story but only know that Melinda called the cops and ruined the most important part of the summer. But Melinda manages to find solace in her art class taught by Mr. Freemen.
Michelle Alexander in the first chapter, reviews the history of racial social control in the United States. She describes the different forms and patterns of the racial caste system. The author maintains that the racial prejudice and hierarchy has been sustained as a result of the insecurities of the lower-class whites. Her main point was that "racial segregation would soon evolve into a new caste system" (p. 40). Alexander explains that even though slavery ended after the Civil War, it left a big impact on the American community.
Jennifer Morgan’s Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery is an examination of the construction of gender and race and the ideas of black women’s production and reproduction in West Africa, Barbados, and colonial America. Similar to historians before her, Morgan places gender at the center of her study in order to underscore the importance of black women’s productive and reproductive roles in New Word slavery. She argues that the duality of these roles contributed to black women’s experiences in slavery vastly different than black men. She states, “[g]ender functioned as a set of power relationships through which early slave owning settlers and those they enslaved defined, understood, and adjusted the confines of racial
I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, which gave me a new perspective regarding World War II. Unbroken was written from a soldier’s point of view, which inspired the reader and caused empathy towards the soldiers who were the victims of war. Silvie Zamperini or “Louie” grew up running from trouble and home. With help from his older brother Pete, Louie stops running from the law and starts running from his opponents as he develops his skills in track and field. Louie is no longer viewed as a criminal but a fast athlete with a bright future.
On March 9th, I went to the convocation event titled “Representations of Women and Children in the Bible and the Ancient Near East,” lead by Kristine Garroway. This lecture provided an insight on the women and children in the Bible. Garroway started off by saying that this type of emphasis is a new and growing field that is just beginning to be explored. She labeled it two ways: Child-Centered Interpretation and Childist theory. This theory’s intent is to find the silent voice by reinterpreting previous findings of Israel.
On May 20,1996 I was born Damione Freeman growing up in a small city named Pell City. Growing up wasn't easy for me father was never around just leaving me with my mother. As a child I was always happy, caring, and well mannered. When I turned five I started living with my grandmother, Dianne Freeman and my uncle, Akeem Freeman. At the age of five I was torn away from my mother because of her husband and his issues.
In the video of the girl named Beth. I thought the video was a little disturbing due to the fact she was literally try to kill her brother Jonathan and her parents. Though as it goes on in the movie clip it shows how she was abused in her childhood, and how her father was abusive to her and did inappropriate things to his own daughter. Causing her to have bad dreams of what he did to her when she was about one years old. Though as in the movie clip she and her brother were later put up for adoption.
My name is Mildred Owens, I am 13 years old and my father had to go and fight in World War I. Today was the day that he finally got to return home to us. He had been away for almost a year. It was 1918, the end of World War I. The Last Battles had ended and we the americans had won the war.
Summary According to Deborah Tannen, agonism refers to ritualized opposition, a situation when a party in a debate wins rather than an argument that comes up when two parties disagree. She claims that the academic world is very agonistic. We tend to think that intellectual inquiry is a metamorphic battle and to show our skills is to criticize, find fault and attack and foster this in students. Students are often taught to criticize and find the weakest point from one’s work to support their view while ignoring the strength and other important facts of the paper that would support other’s viewpoint.
In order to absolutely understand a character, one must spend an arduous amount of time studying it, as there is always more than what meets the eye. Humans are the same quantity of transparent as they are complex, which makes a character with an intricate backstory and personality much more alluring than one that complies to stereotypes. The novel “Dead Ends” by Erin Lange delves into the lives of Billy D, a tough yet tender freshmen with down's syndrome, and Dane Washington, the kind hearted resident bully. This extraordinary novel finds the way to blend humor, friendship and pain, blurring the lines in what the audience believes is someone “bad” and someone “good”. The type of characters our society has learned to hate are the ones to love
