"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
In James Gilbert’s book, A Cycle of Outrage - America’s Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950’s, he cites examples of why Americans were “puzzled and distressed by the activities of postwar teenagers.” In an excerpt from his book, he describes that the increased worry about the changing culture of American teenagers is partly due to the rise in technology during the 1950’s (12). Unlike in the past, teenagers were able to rapidly shift their speech, fashion, taste in music, and overall attitude in a uniform manner due to access to mass media. As technology was on the rise, so was the number of students attending high schools. () This, in turn, allowed for even more solidarity amongst the teenage population.
In chapters 1-9 of The Wave by Todd Strasser Mr. Ross, a history teacher, has always tried to teach his students at Gordon High School in ways that would make them feel like they were living through history, but he has noticed that majority of his students are not interested and do not really try. One day, Mr. Ross showed his history students a short documentary on Nazi concentration camps that disturbed many students. After the film, many of the students began to question why the Germans did not try to stop Hitler and his Nazi regime, but Mr. Ross could not answer their question. Ever since class that day, Ben Ross had been intrigued in finding a way to answer his students’ question. He spent many nights studying and coming up with an experiment
In south sudan a civil war broke out that shut down refugee camps killed thousands and one of them killed by being tied to a tree and shot. The main character in the long walk to water by Linda Sue Park is a young boy named salva. Salva is a young boy that gets separated from his family and is picked at random to go start a life in the U.S. in his journey for safety he crosses through lion country, fast rivers, and the Akobo desert all with only the support of his uncle. Salva manages to overcome many dangerous animals, dangerous territories, and the lose of many loved ones through his journey to safety.
Economics and Psychology in Appalachia, An Analysis of the Novel: Above the Waterfall In the novel Above the Waterfall, Ron Rash decides to focus on the main theme of Loss. The culture within the beautiful ecosystem of Appalachia is encased with family ties that are hard to deny. Rash writes, “In a county this rural, everyone’s connected, if not by blood, then in some other way” from the relationship between Darby and Gerald to the friendship between Les and Becky, their relationships show a true loyalty to the ones they have grown up with and show that Appalachia is a tight knit community (Rash 90). The characters within the novel: Above the Waterfall demonstrate signs of loss of self, domestic violence, as well as poverty.
Regret is an incurable disease caused by lies, distortion, and falsehood. People often try to find a cure for this disease or try to believe that regret is something that is easy to cure, however, it is not. Once an individual make themselves believe in a lie they tell themselves, the pain and suffering that comes with regret will continue to linger for a lifetime. Sinclair Ross’s short story, “The Painted Door” highlights the idea that individuals who deceive themselves in the chase for happiness often create a lifetime of regret.
He is a musician, composer, writer, historian, and film make up extraordinary; he is Don Nardo. He has written and published close to four hundred fifty nonfiction books on various history and science subjects. Most of his books are for the children though young adult age groups. One book in particular is Braving the New World, 1619-1784: From the Arrival of the Enslaved Africans to the American Revolution.
Far too often in history, a person’s negative or evil views have influenced others to commit terrible atrocities. In the 1930s, Adolph Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for the declining economy, high unemployment rate, and other ills in the world. Because he was a master orator, he easily convinced the German citizens to agree with his views, including the belief that Jewish people should be punished, causing their mass execution during World War II. In recent years, leaders of various terrorist cells have used similar tactics of vengeance, brotherhood, and patriotism, recruiting impressionable young adults, promising eternal salvation as a reward for torture, murder, and even suicide. Closer to home, in massachusetts during
At some point in everyone’s lives, they get the opportunity to name something. Whether it is a toy, a dog, or a kid, people usually put in a grand amount of effort in making this decision. The reason for this is people acknowledge that names can influence us on how others interpret or act towards someone or something. We also just try to pick the right name to describe the object. In the article, “What’s in a Name?” by Roger Dooley, he talks all about the importance of naming in the world of advertising and in our general lives.
Ken McElroy, generally referred to as the town bully at Skidmore, Missouri was born as the 12th child of two unsuccessful farmers. McElroy grew up resenting and bullying kids with more success than him. While McElroy committed multiples of crimes such as stealing a pig and threatening people’s lives, he continuously found a way to avoid charges. I believe that the lower-class reaction theory, power control theory, and social bond theory take control in explaining McElroy’s behaviors.
Throughout this essay, the ideologies that surrounded the events of the Holocaust, the slavery of black people, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the Asch Conformity Experiment have been examined with a clear understanding that they all have one thing in common – the choice to conform to the beliefs of the majority have proven detrimental or even fatal to a group of people within the society. It is extremely difficult to question authority figures, especially when many individuals have been brought up to believe that authority figures are the cornerstones of society. It is also extremely difficult to reject the beliefs of the majority of a society or population out of fear of causing unrest or becoming alienated from society itself. The whole concept of believing what others believe simply because they are the majority can be exceptionally dangerous for a society, however, it would also be quite difficult to uproot an entire psychological and political norm throughout the
The Power of the Sea by Bruce Parker Throughout the novel, Parker brings in historic examples to show readers specific events, then discusses the scientific reasoning behind it. This method allows him to move out to discussing politics and religion at times because, in many cases, unexplained phenomena would be called an act of God. The first described topic is tide tables because of their importance to all civilizations living near a sea, with the exception of the Mediterranean Sea because it had practically no tide. Galileo, Newton, Marquis de LaPlace, Edmund Halley, and many other scientists determined tides were based on both the sun and moon, and the reason the some tides are higher than other tides in the same spot.
For this written task, I created a pamphlet that could be handed to new members of the Spies. My idea was based off of how chastity was conditioned into children through “rubbish that was dinned into them at school” (68 Orwell). I believed that if chastity was taught in schools, other values and beliefs must be drilled into children, for the Party wants complete control. Thus, I chose to focus on how the message of the Youth League and the Spies may be introduced into schools. More specifically, I wanted to showcase how the Spies may introduce the idea of reporting parents for committing a crime.
In A Clockwork Orange, the dystopian England envisioned by Burgess serves to exaggerate the evils of both youth and adult society as a way to highlight the futility and the recklessness of youth rebellion. Given that the interactions between the young and the grown up words is one of the primary reasons for the development of rebellious youth cultures, the most effective way of communicating the opposing worldviews of both sides is to take them to their logical extremes. Youth culture is not just carefree and naive, but anarchic and infantile. Adults are not just reactionary and strict; they are antipathetic and authoritarian. It is this extreme clash between the generations that serves to perpetuate and even encourage the rise of youth counterculture
In 1984, George Orwell writes about a dystopian society called Oceania with a totalitarian government. Winston, the main character, is an Outer Party member and works for the government who is under the rule of “Big Brother” and the Inner Party. The Party’s purpose is to rule Oceania with absolutism and have control over its citizens by using propaganda, censorship, and the brainwashing of children. Today, many modern-day countries use these techniques to maintain their power including: North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Nazi Germany. First, North Korea and Oceania use propaganda to encourage patriotism to make themselves look better to citizens in order to keep a totalitarian rule.
