Talitha L. Leflouria discusses and describes her Grandma Leola of Troup County, Georgia. Initially, Leflouria informs the reader that she would spend most of Saturdays at her great-grandparents home. Grandma Leola was renowned for efficiencies at various skills related to traditional country living in the South during the 20th century. She also describes her mother as someone that was loving, inviting, and rugged around the edges too. Grandma Leola would share stories to Leflouria about her life, and sometimes she would even tell her about life in the Rough Edge.
Assassination- the act of killing a political leader, often due to strong, differing beliefs. Sarah Vowell’s novel, Assassination Vacation, acutely explores three of the four American president assassinations; Lincoln, Garfield, and Mckinley. By strategically following the historical paths of the presidents and their killers, Vowell discovers a deeper understanding of the motives and causes behind each assassination. Throughout the book, Vowell travels to museums, historical landmarks trying to get a better grasp on these assassinations. One similarity between the three assassinations is they all relate to at least one of the four broad themes of social studies.
The purpose of Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio writing this book was to inform people of what happened in Tehran after the American embassy was seized.
Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis lasting from November of 1979 to the day Reagan’s inauguration. During this period of time, sixty six Americans were held in captivity by Students Following the Line of Imam after the United States allowed the Shah to undergo medical treatment amidst the Iranian revolution. Americans, after a tough decade of inflation, gas shortages, lack of trust in the government, and the defeat in Vietnam were yet again brought into a situation in which required their complete faith that the Carter administration would save the captives. The hostage crisis was a complete shock to the American people in addition to the heightened tensions because of economic decline, government mistrust, and energy
An Unredeemed Captive was written by John Demos and is about the Williams family and the trails they were put through. In the preface of the book John’s first sentence was “Most of all, I wanted to write a story.” He had taken an interest in Indian captivity and how they treated their captives. It took him awhile to choose what he wanted to write about and eventually settled for the Williams family. He writes about how the Williams family got abducted and eventually all were released except Eunice, who would come to embrace Catholicism, marry a Mohawk Indian, and eventually come to forget her heritage and even her first language-English.
Farewell to Manzanar is a book that was written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. This book depicts the early life of a young Houston who was forced into a Japanese internment camp during World War II. She writes of the horrors that she found there, but also of the revelations she had as a person living in such a harsh environment. The reason Houston wrote Farewell to Manzanar is because she wanted to share her experience with the world.
“A Woman Doing Life” is a unique book that describes and understands the experiences of incarcerated women. The author, Erin George, herself got arrested with charge of murder of her husband and was sentenced to prison for 603 years. She portrayed the true picture of how women, especially those with no criminal backgrounds, seek their identity in this ‘no exit’ place and find ways to adapt harsh painful circumstances in female correctional setting. It is a common misconception that officers of such institutions are always taking advantage of incarcerated women for the satisfaction of their own sexual desires. But, the real picture is not as bad as it is perceived.
Living in Manzanar, Jeanne had to go through a lot. Whether it be death, fighting, or family issues, there was always something going on .The novel, Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston , includes several tragic or difficult circumstances. Difficult circumstances can make a novel so much more interesting, conveying different emotions, and really emphasizing hardships and struggles in the storyline. In Farewell to Manzanar, tragic circumstances really gave the reader insight on what Jeanne and her family had to go through during her life.
For Freedom Freedom is like nothing else. Freedom is a very delicate idea. In the late 1800s freedom was highly sought after. For a slave like Amari, taken from her village in Ghana and made to work as a slave, freedom was all she could hope for. The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper illustrates how freedom may not be what people expect and may be taken for granted but is still worth all the work.
This creates a feeling of compassion in the reader and draws them in. She also at the end talks about how even though english was not her strong suit she still became a successful writer. In this section she is mirroring the common rags to riches story that is so prominent in our culture. This makes the piece end on a slightly brighter tone and leaves the reader feeling
Society thinks of someone’s identity as a stagnant object that is un-swayed by the environment around them. However, there are many factors that go into what someone’s identity is. The novel “The Return of Martin Guerre” by Natalie Zemon Davis, discusses how gender roles and identity can affect a person. Both topics, gender roles and personal identity, have individual issues as well as compound issues in today’s society. They exist on their own but additionally, they influence each other.
The good things were people wanted to know where she came from. What it was like there. How it felt to be there and to switch between the U.S. and Iran. Then there was others who made fun of her and where she came from. How she was just going along with it and did care.
It is possible to say that a stereotype is nothing more than a weapon. It exists merely in thought, but is able to hurt a person as well as a nation. Yet, it is what many people believe to be true, even despite the overwhelming lack of evidence. One of the more accepted stereotypes are those of the people of Iran, in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, the author tries to redefine Iranian stereotypes by illustrating that when individuals and their hopes are taken into account, stereotypes are not as simple as they seem. Throughout the book, Satrapi portrays, dispels, confirms, and challenges stereotypes all to show that people are much deeper than stereotypes and to get to that truth, sometimes rejecting stereotypes is necessary.
iran to the park. And then I jumped up and down and up and down until I was totally dizzy and my mom cae out to see what I was doing and I said that I was just haveig so much fun outside wih the birds and animas. I aso love coca cola it is my favorite drink to drink in the morning while I take a run with my dog. I just haved a bowl of soup with my chocolate I got from my favorite teacher in the whole entire world I eat it all up until my stomach started to talk to me
Everything can be viewed from two perspectives; A fist fight, a murder, bullying, just to name a few situations. This is still the case with Iran and it’s people. Iran and its neighboring countries are often portrayed negatively as terrorist, or failed nations. This is not always the truth, however, and one can learn that through Marjane’s coming of age story, Persepolis. The personal nature of the story is told through Marjane’s loss of innocence, her opinions on religion, and her observation of the prominent gender roles.