``The woman warrior`` written by Maxine Hong Kingston is a collection of memoirs. It has a hybrid form: it is a myth, fiction, as well as autobiography. ``The woman warrior`` is a book about finding and discovering yourself in the circumstances of a Chinese family and an American upbringing, always fluctuating between the two worlds, wondering about your true self. In ``A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe`` a very important theme is the Identity Plot.
“We wait for a miracle to end this nightmare. But no miracle comes. The sun rises warm and bright. The bloody Nazi raids begin again” (Sender 128). In the book The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender, Riva a sixteen year old girl has to take care of her younger brothers after their mother is taken by the Nazis to a brutal labor camp.
In the book “Maxed Out” by Daphne Greer the main character Max is a kid that likes hockey Max has a brother called Duncan, Duncan who needs to go with Max everywhere, due to the death of his father. Max can’t play hockey and watch Duncan at the same time. There is a big hockey game and the team needs Max. With Duncan, his mom won’t allow him to play. Max and the team were sad.
The memoir, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life by Rosie Perez, talks about how Lydia robbed a store. Lydia abuses her gun rights and she just using the pistol for fun. Lydia steal for fun and Rosie knew stealing was wrong. Rosie found out about her mother’s illness schizophrenia because Lydia always speak out her mind. Lydia is a open book.
she had a large family of her own with six children. some of the struggles during life had included and her oldest daughter that had passed way of emphysema at the age of 64 . lorettas. son jack benny that had drowned on their families properties in 1984 it truly is a sad situation to have to experience something like that.she had experienced much grief and it most certainly have affected her music. another struggle she had would be that she also had to undergo a surgery on her shoulder because of a fall they had some complications but it all turned out good in the end and was able to fully recover and could continue to make music.
HOOK. The podcast Serial is narrated by Sarah Koenig and is a story about a boy named Adnan who was trialed and deemed guilty to have murdered his ex-girlfriend Hae back in January 13th, 1999. He was accused to have choked Hae to death, but there was no trace of physical evidence left behind. The main things Adnan was held guilty for was motive and Jay’s statement of Adnan killing Hae and asking him to help bury her. Jay was only an acquaintance of Adnan.
Through the texts of Sabine Hyland and Jane Mangan one is able to see and understand the culture of Colonial Latin America. Hyland gives the account of Incan Religion before Christianity became part of the Andean culture. Mangan, on the other hand, gives an insight as far as how the economics were run in the town of Potosi and how women and indigenous populations impacted the economy. Both are completely different aspects of Colonial Latin American life, but are both extremely important in the understanding of how the communities worked.
In recent years, Loretta Lynn works as often as she likes and some problems have come up in her life. Loretta Lynn’s husband began to have complications from his diabetes, became wan, and had heart problems that led for him to become deaf and blind. Loretta says that it’s impossible to speak a couple minutes without saying her husbands name and listening to the songs that remind her of Mooney make her heart broken (Cusic, 1983). Besides that, she was lurid as she was being pushed off the charts so younger, pop artists can be admired as fans (Freeland, 1990). Also, Lynn is still dealing with her daughter’s death because of emphysema in 2013.
In fact, she worked so hard that her it started to take a toll on her body. She became very ill, temporarily retired, and moved to Europe for a
Lust for Disgust There is not a minute in the day where a news broadcast is not being televised. For twenty-four hours, the same repetitive and monotonous information is delivered by different news anchors. Even though they report nothing new, Americans will still watch for hours upon hours. The large majority of these television broadcasts deliver stressful and generally upsetting news, but in no way, is this a deterrent to the viewer.
For my final honors book, I read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly which covered the stories of four women who worked at NASA: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden. The women worked as human computers before some of them went into other areas in NASA. The book goes into depth about the scientific aspects of NASA while intertwining it with the stories of the various women and explains how it was due to the hard work of the all-black West Computing group and other black women at NASA that it was able to send astronaut John Glenn and rockets into space. I think Shetterly did a great job explaining the scientific aspects in a way that all readers would be able to understand it.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
The Program by Suzanne Young is an incredible novel. It details the struggles of the main character, Sloane, as she deals with the suicide of her brother. In a world where a quarter of teenagers commit suicide, children are monitored closely for any signs of depression. Sloane's school is enrolled in a program where depressed teenagers are placed in intensive care for six weeks. When they emerge, they are no longer suicidal, but they lose almost all memories of their life before.
The American Revolutionary War, which was during 1775-1783, was the prosperous military revolt against Great Britain. Originally there were the thirteen colonies that had become the United States of America, which were previously under Great Britain. By the time the American Revolution took place, the people were starting to get tired of how the British people were ruling. There were multiple reasons for the colonies to act up, but the main reason was the taxation issue. The people questioned whether England should be able to tax them, and had thought that England should no longer be able to tax them without representation.
Faces by Sara Teasdale is a sorrowful poem. The speaker is talks about the masks people wear to hide their pain. The “disguise” hide a person shame and embarrassment that is underneath the “city’s broken roar. ” When the speaker states, “the meeting of our eyes,” she is express that the stranger can see through her mask just as she can see through theirs.
