Dr. Smead’s book, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker gives an investigative and in-depth account of one the last lynchings in America. The book tells the story of Mack Charles Parker, an African-American victim of lynching in Poplarville, Mississippi during 1959. Parker is accused of raping a pregnant white woman named June Walters. He is also accused of abducting Walters and her four-year-old daughter Debbie. Eventually, Parker is apprehended and later murdered by an angry mob of the town residents in order to prevent a trial.
To many, the 1970’s was a time of large hair and an infatuation of disco music, but underneath all the bold, vibrant colors were a variety of social and political movements with the same objective, equality. Blood Done Signed My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson is mostly set in that time. In his memoir, he tells a story about a young man, Henry Marrow, getting brutally beaten and murdered and the after effect (Tyson). Tyson interviews many people from his past on the Marrow incident and shares with the reader their understanding of the situation in addition to his own. As well as the incident, he asks about their view on how the town and its people work and interact with each other, especially during the Civil Rights Movements (Tyson).
My Bloody Life; The Making of a Latin King, by Reymundo Sanchez, Chicago Review Press: Chicago, July 2000. 320 pages. Reviewed by Kayla Kees. My Bloody Life; The Making of a Latin King was an enthralling, full-detailed autobiography that was well written.
In the book The Merciless by Danielle Vega, a new girl joins the school and her name is sofia. On the first day of school she cuts her finger while getting lunch and when trying to get to the napkins, she gets stuck behind a good looking guy who she thinks is a frat-boy. Soon after, a girl named Brooklyn gives sofia a band-aid for her finger when what looks like a popular girl stands up and asks for everyone's undivided attention. Brooklyn makes it very obvious that she does not like Riley, the girl speaking about a food drive. Sofia looks for a place to sit among the bleachers when she starts to smell something almost dead.
In this book I find, Jake, the popular jock who starts off as the leader of the group, to be the most interesting character because when the hopelessness of their situation gets to him, he crumbles apart and becomes a depressed drug addict instead of persevering through. My favorite part of the book is when the group has
I really dislike Megan, the main reason is she killed her friends but there were other little things that she did throughout the book. It's not revealed that she was the killer till the very last chapter. Within the book Megan's character was very shady, she seemed as if she was hiding something but was really trying hard to hide something. Mackenzie wasn't entirely a fan of her but she was still friends with her even though she preferred the others over her.
I was rooting for Paige because, she needed to step away from those who projected negativity and spend more time with those who made her happy. I think the night of the crash needed more explanation because sometimes you had to figure out if you read about a certain detail. I would recommend this book to any high school student because it opens your eyes to the fact that drinking and driving can change your life! In the story, there were multiple characters that sounded like myself or someone I know.
Mercy, a concept describing compassion or forgiveness towards someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. As a humanitarian, future world leader and citizen of America I’d like to think that the world I live in is a forgiving place where everyone gets a second chance. Unfortunately, in the court of law, this is not always true. By reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson I found that it is very hard to acquire justice and redemption to many civilians who have been incarcerated. This book explores various stories of injustices in the judicial system by incorporating people from different racial groups, socioeconomic background, mental disabilities and more.
When talking about war, there are many books with few answers to what war truly is. Barbara Ehrenreich brings forth not only the possibilities towards understanding war but also the passion people from history have had towards it. One key issue she brings to light is humanities love for war, so much so that people would use excuses like holy wars to justify their need to fight in a war. She declares that war is as muddled as the issue of diseases and where diseases came from around 200 years ago. More so than that she even goes further on to state that these rituals that date back to prehistoric times are the cause of human nature during times of war rather than human instinct.
It has been seen so far that there are religious beliefs in the Victorian era, yet those beliefs are affected by the development of science and technology in the Enlightenment era. McLean in his book The Enlightenment mentions that the Enlightenment era has started in the eighteenth century and has been a period where knowledge expanded in the world. Also, scientists have started studying the universe and conducting experiments (19). In Bram Stoker’s novel, the reader sees the scientific development for the first time when Van Helsing suggests giving Lucy blood by blood transfusion. Since the blood transfusion is new to the characters other than the doctors, Van Helsing has had to explain its meaning to Arthur Holmwood.
She has had many books published receiving numerous awards for her mystery writings along the way. Her first published book, “Blood will have Blood”, was released in 1982. In 1983, she presented her second book "Bitter Finish”. The following year, her novel “Dead Heat” was published, and in 1986 her fourth book “Cities of the Dead” was released, and “A Trouble of Fools” was circulated in the following year. “The Snake Tattoo” was released in 1989 and in 1990, her book “Delacorte” was printed.
This book was interesting for me because it allowed me to relate to a character. I love reading novels that not only allow me to feel a connection with a character, but allow me to relate to their personality or
The character that i admired the most out of the whole book was Lily. I really admired lily because she had gone through a tough passed and even though she has gone through a lot of bad things between her parents and her she has still managed to keep a smile on her face and continued to be happy. Lily is a very strong person because besides all the things she had going on with her parents, she began to learn new things and in a different environment. She had it tough she had to keep on living knowing that she killed her mother, and that she had to spend the rest of her life with an abusing father. Lily’s father T.Ray was really messed up to her that’s why she decided to run away from her home, because she didn’t
Susie is the main character, she is murdered at the age of 13 and the book is her watching her family and friends deal with her death well they try to find the murderer. well susies in heaven she doesn't actually like all that much she wishes she could be back on earth growing up with her family, well in heaven she wonders “Heavens where a girl like me didn't fit in. Where they horrific, these other heavens? worse than feeling so solitary among ones living, growing peers?”(119).
I disliked your book a lot. The plot was boring; it was more of a drama book rather than crime. The characters were stupid, there actions were stupid. the only thing I liked about your book was that Jane proved that women are as good as men when it comes to solving murder cases. I also liked Jane's personality, she is an aspiring women and I hope in the future to be more like her.
