The Artistic, Moral, and Inventive Progress of America A six month long fair with lights and technology that the world had never seen anything like, a charming, blue eyed killer, and the beautiful city of Chicago; all elements that make up the novel, Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. This book is a retelling of the events that transpired in the city of Chicago before, during, and after the building of the Chicago World’s Fair, also called the World’s Columbian Exposition. For the majority of the book, each chapter switches off between the production of the fair and the life of the killer H.H. Holmes (his real name being Herman Webster Mudgett). Holmes is considered by many to be America’s first serial killer, and his actions are covered
The school teachers are more laid back. They are described in the book as snakes uncoiling. The boys get away with things that are not allowed at the school. They get to jump from the tree into the river and miss dinner time with no punishment. The summer made the boys seem innocent.
In, We Have Taken a City, by H. Leon Prather Sr., we learn of the violence that occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898. Throughout the paper, Prather writes about the different aspects that ultimately caused the racial massacre. Prather makes an important claim in his short introduction about the events in Wilmington in 1898. He also makes several key points throughout the paper, one being that the racial massacre would not have occurred if it would not have been for the white supremacy campaign. He provides key information in his paper that supports the claim.
Living a dream gives a person the feeling that life it too good to be true. It’s bliss for a while, then things go right back to where they were before anything had happened. The Chicago World’s Fair gave people feeling of being in a dream because of it’s aesthetic, the wonderful inventions that came with it, and the freedom many people got to experience. Devil In The White City by Erik Larson describes how the people of America, and other visitors, were living in heaven for six months before the World’s Fair closed in the fall of 1893.
Tasha Spillett’s graphic novel, Surviving the City, focuses on the two teens Dez and Miikwan, both from Indigenous backgrounds, and how they face the complexities of living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Living in this urban city as well, I have noticed the struggles that the Indigenous peoples are experiencing to this day, especially the women who are still being outcasted and ignored. In this book report, I will be discussing the impact that I have received from this comic, as well as the art style and graphics used by its illustrator, Natasha Donovan. Before reading this book, I already had some knowledge of the foster care system as my mother’s work involves helping to provide funds for the needs of the Manitoba Métis Federation. From time to time, she would talk about how she felt seeing their struggles, and it would evoke
Humans and need love and attachments like we need water and air. As we move throughout our lives from babies to adults attachments, have essential roles to play from making sure our biological needs are met by providing us with comfort, trust, and a sense of interconnectedness. Since attachments are such an integral and emotional part of our lives, it makes sense why we are separated from or lose people we are attached to it can be such an excruciating experience. For children losing attachment figures can be an especially scaring experience leaving wounds that may last into adulthood and well beyond. Such was the case for a woman named Francine Cournos, author of City of One: A Memoir.
An anthropologist, Henry Lundsgaarde, provides excepts from his study of the legal and moral justifications for homicide in Texas in this chapter. He argues how moral codes can sometimes justify the means of committing a homicide. In his study in “Space City”, shows the correlation between law and custom in the act of homicide. The Texas penal code was used as reference of such crimes and how they were judged in courts of law. In the state of Texas, the homicide rate and executions are the highest in the United States.
I am reading Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs, and I am on page 200. This book is about A boy named Jacob, and his friend, Emma, and they are trying to rescue their friends who were captured by creatures called wights and hollowgasts. They are traveling throughout London, and they are facing danger and risking their own lives in the process. They need to rescue their friends before it is too late, and they are tortured or killed. In this paper I will be questioning and evaluating.
Kristen Koehler Professor David Smith History 2366 November 19th, 2017 America in the 1890s: Time of Transformation Americans have continuously incorporated the knowledge acquired from the past to transform the future of the country. The American Civil War forced this country to decide if it would continue to be a loose grouping of largely independent states with different moral and cultural standards, or a true country with a national culture. The dilemmas faced by the country in post-Civil War America helped shape what we think of as modern America. The nation’s values were shifting and its people could either evolve or remain fragmented.
The Devil in the White City The Devil in the White City is a historical non-fiction book written by Erik Larson that reads like a novel. The book follows two, real main characters, during the building and existence of the Chicago World’s fair. The first is an American architect named Daniel Burnham.
In the Deathly Hollows the book and movie both begin at the Malfoy manor. Both book and movie are similar in that thought; however diverge after this. For the sake of this paper, I am going to compare the two of them. In the movie and book, the both begin at the Malfoy manor with Severus Snape walking up to the manor and going to a meeting with the Dark Lord, and his Death Eaters, but at that they diverge after that. In the movie, Severus Snape marches straight up to the manor and strides into the house as though he owns it but stops as he soon as he enters the room and sees one of his coworkers suspended in the air upside down and hovering over the table.
On the island they’re on there is only one phone, it’s a pay phone, and Jacob doesn’t like using it because it’s in the middle of the bar/hotel he and his father are staying at. Since all the children have their own unique peculiarities, Jacob being able to see hollowgasts, Olive who levitates and must wear steel boots to hold her down, Emma who has to wear gloves at all times otherwise she will throw fire from her hands, and Millard who is invisible. They all come together to form a family. There are many different children with their own peculiarities, the movie seems to follow the book except for one difference. In the movie Olive has the power to manipulate fire, where Emma can levitate.
City of Thieves – David Benioff How has David Benioff explored the dehumanising aspects of war in his novel? City of Thieves is historical fiction set in the besieged Russian city of Leningrad during World War Two. Lev Beniov, a Jewish seventeen year old, details his story as the protagonist through his first person narrative perspective of the siege. Benioff’s focus is the desensitized attitudes and behaviour shared by characters throughout the novel as they contend with dehumanising situations which would appear horrifying under circumstances that have been unaffected by war. Through the utilisation of techniques such as characterisation, plot and first person narrative, Benioff explores the dehumanising aspects of war in his novel.
I like the book, The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare because of its theme, Jace’s and Clary’s interactions, and the story’s concept of the Shadow World relating to the conflict. First, I like The City of Bones for its theme. In fact, the theme is that thing are not always as they may seem. This applies to the main character, Clary, because she was swayed by her overprotective mother’s lies that her father is dead. In truth, Clary’s father is very much alive, and her mother is a Shadowhunter in exile.
“‘They’re searching the coastline, not the sea,’ said Enoch” (Riggs 33). Bronwyn then answered Enoch by asking him what he was searching for. “The answer was obvious and frightening and no one wanted to say it aloud. They were searching for us” (Riggs 33). This quote from Hollow City, by Ransom Riggs sums up the book exceptionally.
