3885 Wednesday Wars February “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. ”-Jack Ma. In The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt, the lead character, Holling Hoodhood has a dad who’s constantly agitated and distressed about his job. If you do one little thing that could mess up his business, it could affect the descendants after him. Holling’s dad finally has a chance to have his verge of happiness.
When the English arrived in Massachusetts in the 1700’s colonists were excited to see acres upon acres of open land. They saw great opportunity in this land, as they would be the first to farm and cultivate it. They also came upon Native Americans. These Indians, having different relationships with animals than the English, did not believe in owning livestock. When the colonists came, they tired to implement their values of owning livestock and transform New England into a civilized colony.
Day of Infamy was written by Walter Lord, an American author. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland son of John Walterhouse Lord. Walter Lord's father died when he was three years old, so he was left with his mother and his sister and then later on his mother died in 1929. He went to Gilman School, which is a private institution in Baltimore. He enjoyed writing for the school newspaper and also participating in track, debate, and theater.
The Life of Walter Dean Myers In the book Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers, he describes his life as an African American during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Myers grew up in Harlem with a speech impediment and was fairly short-tempered.
A long way gone by Ishmael Beah. The main characters name is Ishmael and he was very lucky in this story. Ishmael and his friends escaped from the RUF, He survived every place that he went to, Ishmael was caught by other people and was able to get away from them, and he was saved and brought to a doctor for help at the end of the story. Through the whole book Ishmael talks about the RUF, which is the revolutionary united front.
Villain- a cruelly malicious person. Throughout the entirety of the first book series and a few of the other books, Luke Castellan is perceived as a traitor. And there are good reasons to support that claim, however, what if he was not the backstabbing villain who only cared for himself? Luke was in fact not a traitor, and there are many reasons to prove it.
"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah, has permanently altered my understanding of "Civil War". Due to the way Ishmael Beah talked about his own near death experiences, children who read his book can now have knowledge of war, from a child's perspective. The absurd savagery Ishmael was exposed to, taught him lessons a child like myself should never have to learn. Reading this book has brought light of the many intentional and unintentional consequences of war. Ishmael had been born in Mogwemo, a poor segregated village, like most of the regions in Sierra Leone.
The first stage of the hero 's quest as outlined by Campbell is the ‘Departure’ that typically begins with a "Call to Adventure" in Campbell 's terms. The movie opens with the hero, Shrek, existing comfortably in his everyday ordinary world. In Shrek’s swamp he enjoys and has everything he needs to get by, for example the mud for bathing, the slugs for food, and a nearby village where he can horrify when he gets bored. In the film, we see that Shrek’s basic attitude and stance toward life is that of isolation- he just wants to be left alone. Unfortunately, the story folds into such that the exterior world would intrude into Shrek’s solitude.
In Marcus Rediker’s Villains of All Nations, pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny are represented as being vulnerable, emotional, extraordinary women. Both being born illegitimate children, Rediker poses an understanding, empathetic treatment of these women, despite their representation of ‘liberty’ emanating from the brutality of piracy. The constant referral to Read and Bonny as female pirates indiscreetly implies that Rediker interprets their participation in piracy as delicate, which is unjust. Females and delicateness were a dominant association in the 18th century. Rather than referring to the two women simply as pirates, Rediker uses the phrase female pirates to imply that their participation on ship was neither masculine nor violent.
Kaffir Boy Essay: Passbooks In Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane describes how a small stack of papers carried by people in Alexandra sustains control over their existence. These “papers” define the whole life of an African person without any type of documentary reinforcements. In Alexandra, people are forced to bear passbooks at all times to strictly limit the movements of black Africans.
Today was hot. Not just any kind of hot, but extreme temperatures soared high on the planet of Tatooine where water was scarce. Luke Skywalker, a blonde haired and blue-eyed boy, with lots of energy lived with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru on a moisture farm in the middle of a desert. Not only was today hot, however Luke’s life, as he knows it, is about to change right before his very own eyes. Luke can be classified as a hero under Joseph Campbell’s ten characteristics of a mythical hero because throughout his life, Luke illustrates each characteristic on the vast journey he partakes in to topple the Galactic Empire.
During the dark, gloomy days of Farkwal a hero is born, from the father of Shrek, a god, and the mother of Dove, the love dragon. Shrek, the king and ruler of Farkwal, all the citizens there love him. Shrek, who wished to be immortal, when to Peak Skyrim everyday to pray and give sacrifices to the all mighty and wish granting Donkey. Donkey sees that Shrek is very kind and a great ruler and accepts his wish but with a terrible curse put upon it. Shrek has to break up with his current wife, Fiona, for Dove the love dragon.
Tolkien’s Viewpoint on Heroism Authors give heroic qualities to characters within literature. Tolkien gives the characters in The Hobbit heroic qualities. The characters given heroic qualities by Tolkien are Bilbo, Beorn, Thorin, and Gandalf. Tolkien then indicates Gandalf is the is the most heroic because of the amount of wisdom Gandalf has, compared to the other heroic characters from The Hobbit.
In the novel, Tomorrow When The War Began, by John Marsden is about eight teenagers who confronted a situation that is out of their security and are trying to save their families. Fi, Homer, and Ellie are few of the characters that showed courageousness in the novel; finding out their unknown courage, taking risks, and not giving up to everything that happens. It is some of John Marsden’s message about courage. The characters also demonstrate it while they were in conflict with the soldiers who invaded their town and imprison their families in the Showground. Courage is what Ellie has that she never thought she had.
Did you know that cheer is almost as dangerous as football, but it’s not considered a sport?”When the activity began in the 19th century it was only for men. But it has evolved over the next hundred years. It is now a female-dominated activity forming the basis for the popular girls and women cheering in short skirts, and waving pom-poms.” (Devoe,2019) So cheerleading should be considered a sport because cheerleading is as dangerous as football, and is considered to be even harder.
