The Character Jake in “Cowboy Up” The main character in “Cowboy Up” written by Jake Maddox, is a young boy named Jake. The problem is Jake broke his arm riding a bull and learned how to be more flexible with his left arm. The problem is Jake rode a bull and the bull came towards the wall and threw jake off into the wall and broke it,so now he has visions of that day. He feels like he is useless until his friends come and sees that his friend is left handed so Jake had a idea.
Stories from the Civil War often are told from a man's perspective and rarely from a woman's point of view. In 1902, Susie King Taylor wrote her memoir, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers, to explain her role in the war as a wife to a soldier, the regiments' laundress, a teacher, and a nurse. Taylor is famously known for being the first black nurse during the Civil War, but her memoir gives historians a closer look at her life and multiple roles during the war. In 1848, Taylor was born into slavery in Savannah, Georgia.
The Army went to great lengths to safeguard the health of its prisoners as mandated in the Geneva Convention. Of immediate concern was preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Shortly after arriving at his first POW camp in America, each prisoner received a complete physical exam. It included vaccinations against smallpox, typhoid, paratyphoid, and tetanus. At least once a month thereafter, Army medical corps officers inspected the prisoners for communicable diseases and vermin infestation.67 At Camp Cooke, POWs with minor medical problems were treated at the camp infirmary.
Along with the regionalistic narrators, both stories show regionalistic qualities in their themes. In “The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the theme is cunning and cleverness. Jim Smiley shows he is cunning and clever by winning every bet he ever made. Although, after making a bet with a stranger in which he believes knows nothing about frogs, he bets him forty dollars that his frog can outjump any frog in Calaveras county, but he surprisingly doesn't win. After making the bet, the stranger claims he doesn't have a frog, so Simley leaves his frog and the forty dollars he bet behind with the stranger to go down to the swamp to fetch him a frog.
Asian Americans came to America with hopes and dreams of a better life in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Ronald Takaki's book, “Strangers From a Different Shore,” he mainly focuses on Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Indian, Korean, and Southeast Asian immigrants. The mass Asian immigration began due to the desire for cheap labor. Plantation owners needed more workers in Hawaii, while labor demands in the mainland came from industrialization and railroad work. As a result, many Asians came to America for the better life and began looking for jobs.
The Analysis of the Stranger, John Wilson in The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson Heroes in literary works were once referred to as the "rebel"; however, the rebel has been replaced by the "stranger" in recent literature. In Lois Simmie's The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, the novel centers on the title character who is alienated, disaffected and an outsider. The author’s depiction of the central character of Wilson as a stranger engages the reader in a different way, by having the reader want to know more about this mysterious and striking figure.
Camp-X, a WWII spy training facility located in Whitby, Ontario, was a key part of the allied forces efforts in the war. “In fact, it was a finely tuned machine turning highly qualified recruits into fully trained secret service agents of all ethnic backgrounds, readied and made available to the SOE (Special Operations Executive) on a moment’s notice.” Although it was a highly secretive undertaking during and after WWII information finally started to be made available over the last 20 years. This essay will outline the role Camp-X played in the war, how spies for many allied countries were trained, and why it was an important location for British and American forces. Camp-X was a paramilitary training installation run by Sir William Stephenson
1. What is the SUBJECT of the text/communication act? Be specific. (Don’t say “potatoes” if the subject is really “ten easy ways to prepare potatoes a family dinner.”) • The Subject of the text The River is ways brian can survive and keep Derek alive in the forest all alone.
I think the Spanish-American War was an example of both realism and idealism. Spanish-American War was an example of idealism has two reasons. First, the yellow press dealt a blow to the mutual hatred of the Americans against the Spaniards, and therefore the atrocities of the Americans in Cuba. The second reason is the outbreak of Maine ships in the port of Havana. It makes the Americans claim that this is the Spanish foul.
Interning Abused Families “I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One” is a powerful response article written by Satsuki Ina. In this article Ina compares her experience in several World War Two Japanese internment camps to modern family detention facilities. Ina begins her article by explaining she was born in a Japanese internment camp, and spent most of her childhood in one, then moves into her body paragraphs where she graphically describes her visit to a family detention center and her corresponding emotions and reactions. Throughout the article it is crystal-clear that Ina is horrified that America falls back on such cruel and damaging ways of handling people. I agree that the similarities of World War Two internment camps and
Wheelers story applied to the real-life scenario between the narrator and him. The story was about how Smiley wasted his time on Dan’l the frog and how he could jump higher than any other frog could ever do. Just like Wheeler was there with the narrator wasting his time with an unimportant story about a man and a frog. Wheeler, the “hick”, essentially out-smarted a sophisticated man who purely believed of Wheeler’s inability to tell a good story. Harte:
The story Camp Harmony by Monica Stone is about a young Japanese American girl that writes about her and her family's adaption so far at Camp Harmony. The girl and her family sat on the bus quietly only hearing a chatter from a group of university students who began to sing college songs. Some of the other people on the bus stared angrily at the group of students which caused them to raise their voices only to wake a baby up. At noon, the bus had arrived to a small town. Some of the passengers were excited to see what it looked like and others just commented on what they had thought about it.
Are you truly living without happiness? One could live a plentiful life alone, and who are we to say that the happiness that comes along with belonging to a community is essential to life? Consequently, if a problem were to arise, one would have to be prepared to face it alone. According to the film Stranger Than Fiction directed by Marc Forster you can live a life of contentment by yourself, but to overcome the obstacles that life presents, you need a community to support you. Harold Crick is perfectly satisfied with his life of numbers and being alone.
Thesis: (rough) too many people a moral code is important in life, but in the stranger, the lack of moral code or no moral code shows the characters in their true form. Point 1: Raymond abusing to his girlfriend and making her apologize, show how his character lacks moral in society’s standpoint. When Raymond uses the excuse of her cheating on him to beat her up. At the same time he makes himself the victim and uses that against her.
When I finished reading “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” I felt that this story was very well written and funny which made me enjoy it, however, this short story was very difficult to understand at some points; and I felt that way because english is my second, or even third language, and this story has words that are not used anymore so I had to stop and search the meaning or these words so I could have a better understand of what was happening in the story. In this story, Smiley is struggling with a stranger because he says that his frog jumps higher than any other frog in Calaveras County, but the stranger does not agree with Smiley and says that the frog is just like any other frog and that he does not look special or anything. The conflict between them is not resolved because the stranger puts a liquid in the frog’s mouth while
