(Con)trol Conrad Jarrett also known as Con or Jarrett, is the main character in the moving novel "Ordinary People" by Judith Guest. Con has just been released from a mental hospital after his attempt at suicide. The story takes us along with the Jarrett family as Con heads towards a full recovery with the help of his therapist Berger, and his father Cal. As Con works on achieving his goal to gain control he is able to become a more independent person.
The writer, Michael Peers, is upset about citizens being called “taxpayers” when they are sent their bills and in regular conversations. Nobody should be viewed as less than a person or as less than a citizen of Canada just because they don’t pay money to the government — I agree with his opinion. There are valid reasons to not pay taxes and I agree with Peers when he says that people shouldn’t be judged or thought of as “less than” for not being able to afford the pesky task that is taxes. If the government doesn’t acknowledge poverty-stricken citizens as citizens, then why would the government want to protect them? If the government doesn’t acknowledge the youth—the youth that is still being educated and not yet ready to pay taxes—why would the government protect the youth?
George Washington was a courageous, caring person who ended up becoming the first President of the United States. The author of “How to Be Presidential”, Edward G Lengel, truly believed Washington was the man for the job, and shows his claims by explaining his life in chronological order. By doing so, he makes people believe Washington deserved to be the first President because of his courageous life. Lengel carefully put certain timelines in the story to explain Washington’s life into chronological order. This is first directly showed in paragraph four where Lengel writes, “...which he experienced at Fort Necessity and the Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania in 1754-55,...”.
Killing Lincoln, by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard, highlights the backstory behind one of America’s most famous assassinations: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Within the book’s pages, O’Reilly and Dugard delve into the details involving the ending of the Civil War and the meticulous planning done by John Wilkes Booth in order to assassinate the President. What makes this novel most compelling is the incredible attention to small details that O’Reilly and Dugard make sure are included in the book. The book fully validates O’Reilly in the beginning of the book where he writes “the story you are about to read is true and truly shocking” (O’Reilly 1).
An uncharacteristic take on rural black politics, Steven Hahn’s A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration transports readers into a world of faith, power, and family across the rural South. Diving into a period that spans nearly one hundred years, Hahn, an author, specialist, and professor, addresses the political culture of newly freed slaves as they maneuvered through challenges of freedom, Jim Crow laws, and religion. Hahn pens, “ [A Nation under Our Feet] is a book about extraordinary people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult…” (1). The author successfully presents such book in this sequential timeline and geographical mapping from Texas to Virginia. Through his synthesis of vast primary literature on slavery, Civil War South, and the Great Migration, Hahn supports his arguments and presents readers with a new look into the past.
Two historical examples of crucial times in evaluation culture used were detailed accounts of a preventable Rwandan genocide, and then to NASA’s space disaster which held his foundation on evaluations being personal and situational. This while contributing
Name: ZhenLiang Sun Course: HIST 2010 Professor: Dr. Troy D. Smith Date: 06/14/2017 Book Review: The Founding Fathers Reconsidered Richard Bernstein’s The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (2009) presents a new look at a foundation topic in American history. There are two main perspectives utilized throughout the book: the first is an ideological perspective which places the history of ideas in a more prominent position than the history of individual people or individual events. The second perspective is the realist perspective which seeks to reduce much of the myth that surrounds important historical figures such as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun was a great politician of the 19th century. He strengthened the nation with internal improvements. Mr. Calhoun really wanted to charter a new United States bank t help the money situation and improve the economy. He was very supportive to all these national projects in Congress. John Calhoun was known as a very famous politician and was about to be elected president.
In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, the author retells the chilling, and oftentimes gruesome, experiences of the Vietnam war. He utilizes many anecdotes and other rhetorical devices in his stories to paint the image of what war is really like to people who have never experienced it. In the short stories “Spin,” “The Man I Killed,” and “ ,” O’Brien gives reader the perfect understanding of the Vietnam by placing them directly into the war itself. In “Spin,” O’Brien expresses the general theme of war being boring and unpredictable, as well as the soldiers being young and unpredictable.
The presidential election in 2016 has definitely been one to remember. A woman won a nomination and Donald Trump became the presidential nominee for the United States of America. Chris Matthews, who is a political commentator, wrote a book titled Hardball: How Politics is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game. This book lists several maxims, or rule of conduct, that he believes politicians use the most. A few of them seem obvious, like positioning or keeping your enemies in front of you.
Kaitlyn Glover AP US Government Period 1 How Democratic is the American Constitution? Critical Book Review In his book How Democratic is the American Constitution? Robert A. Dahl evaluates the scope of democracy that the American Constitution creates and compares our ultimate governing document to those of multiple other democratic nations around the world. His goal is not to change the Constitution itself but rather to change people’s perception of it.
Prior to reading the article Ezra Klein’s How to Stop an Autocracy, I was unfamiliar with the term “autocracy” actually meant in context. Undoubtedly, the United States finds itself in a divisive state; yet, I found it intriguing to read the Klein believes that Trump’s administration will not threaten America’s system of government and how the country will not become an autocracy. I agree with Klein when he says that, “His oft-stated admiration for authoritarians in other countries — including, but not limited to, Vladimir Putin — speaks to his yearning for power” [1]. Donald Trump wants to appear powerful and tough in front of his audience, a political tactic that has gotten him far as a businessman, perhaps this is because that is what he
James Madison stated that war is detrimental to the existence of freedom in society. His claims in “Political Observations” exemplify his respect for the influence of public thought. If all sides of an issue are shown to the public the truth eventually will come out. Some of the reasons why he classified war as the most dreaded enemy to public liberty include war is the guardian of armies, debts, and taxes, war disrupts the balance of the Executive and Legislative branches, and countries would have difficulty maintaining freedom with constant warfare. Madison alleged that war was the keeper of armies, debts, and taxes.
Within the Bly household as read in The Turn of the Screw, where the governess is the only person able to see ghosts, everything seems as it is falling apart. As the governess starts working at Bly, everything seems picture perfect, but is quite the opposite as the story progresses. As everything unfolds at Bly the governess seems to become progressively mentally incapacitated. As days pass by the governess believes she begins to see the ghosts on a daily basis, and she becomes so frustrated she accuses the children, Miles and Flora, of meeting with the ghosts. The children never admit to her accusations, which upsets the governess to sure a high degree that she even starts to blame the children of conspiring against her.
Review of literature Pyogenic brain abscess: Introduction: A brain abscess is defined as a focal sup¬purative infection of the brain parenchyma comprising of immune cells, pus and other materials of the brain. It may be bacterial or pyogenic, fungal or parasitic. Pyogenic brain abscess are the most frequently encountered in the clinical practice (1). It is one of the most serious and potentially a life threatening condition. In the developing countries, incidence of brain abscess is approximately 8% of the intracranial masses where as it comprises 1-2% in the western countries (2).
