Amy and Jon Kukla’s book, Thomas Jefferson:Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The book relives the story of Thomas Jefferson’s life and what he did to help shape america. It focuses more on his accomplishments, like the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and his term as the president. The book starts from his birth, all the way to his retirement and death. Many sources were used to help Kukla write this book. Such as Jefferson’s own writings and...
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Inequality is Killing the American Dream What kind of dreams has made people dream from four centuries ago till today? What kinds of dreams have been the most craved by people for 400 years? It is the American Dream. The American Dream can be traced back to the discovery of North America, and the definition of the American Dream has evolved from time to time: from the return to paradise to freedom, opportunities, equality, and achievement. Unfortunately, ultimately in the...
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Protagonist: The protagonist is Jonas. He lives in a family of 4, which consists of himself, Lily, Father, and Mother. He will later meet a baby named Gabe, who has a matching trait with Jonas that is very unique. They both had pale blue eyes. His best friend was named Asher, and he was also close friends with a girl named Fiona. They were all 11s. Antagonist: I think that the antagonist in “The Giver” would have to be the...
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Guy de Maupassant's most well-known literary work is the short story 'The Necklace.' This classic de Maupassant story is set in nineteenth-century France and is known for its unexpected ending. The plot centers on a young woman and her husband, who enjoyed a normal middle-class existence before becoming completely deprived due to an unfortunate tragedy. This is an irony of fate, given that the young wife's dissatisfaction with her social situation and her passionate desire for a life that her...
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Giving someone a second chance is like walking a tightrope. Many people will fall off of the tightrope, and only a few will actually walk it successfully. The purpose of giving out a second chance is to let someone have a shot to right the wrong they made, to give them a chance to change for the better. In reality, most people use a second chance as a “get out of jail free card,” and will never actually correct their...
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Ch. 1: According to Chapter 1, what main event changed Boo Radley’s early life? Predict: What kind of a man do you think he might have become because of this? According to Chapter 1, the main event that changed Boo Radley’s early life was when he was arrested and sent to court. The neighborhood legend that explains Boo Radley’s early life mistake was that “One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in...
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a vast example of how life can replicate or reflect on literature. The Mimetic Theory is a literary theory in which theorists analyze and evaluate work as an imitation, reflection, or reflection of the world and human life. Mimetic Theory claims that literature can reveal the truth. When applying Mimetic Theory to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, reveals how the novel shows people's prejudice and discrimination in real life....
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To Kill a Mockingbird movie tells the childhood experiences of six-year-old Scout Finch during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The movie recounts a period for Finch when her father an attorney, defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Scout and her brother witness the horrors of racism that plague their society and still have roots within our criminal justice system. Watching the movie To Kill a Mockingbird gave me a synopsis...
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Imperialism in “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Imperialism refers to the extension of one country’s authority or control over another territory. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” covers extensively the impact of colonization on Igbo society. The arrival of the British Missionaries in the 19th century caused great destruction of the Igbo lifestyle and culture and resulted in the collapse of the Igbo religion and caused social disorder among the Igbo people. The Igbo culture bestowed with much richness was...
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Musings of a Teenager: My favorite book Reading is my favorite pastime. Right from my childhood books have been my best friend. I feel books are dependable and are always there sitting where we last left them waiting for us to pick them up. They provide us with a secret getaway when we want to be alone in a room full of people. They can make us smile even when we have had the saddest kind of day. They share...
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How do the languages that one speaks at home influence social identity? In Tan’s article ‘Mother Tongue’, she expresses her recognition and concern over the difference in social attitudes towards her mother’s use of English and American society’s standard English. By introducing her recent realization of her use of standard English in public but not at home, and giving detailed examples of how she speaks with her mother in English and how her mother speaks in English, she reiterates her...
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Title of Work: “Mother Tongue” Author: Amy Tan Occasion: Explain the context of the piece. What has caused the speaker to say what s/he says? Minimum of 3 sentences. Include 3 quotes as evidence and explain what each quote tells us about the occasion. The Genesis of "Mother Tongue": A Personal Revelation “Mother Tongue” was inspired by Tan’s realization of the certain type of English she uses with her mother in comparison to her formal diction. As she was speaking...
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Self-identity is a fascinating term for a human being. The quest for identity is an inevitable process in man’s life. Humans though, established his self in economic soundness in the migrant land but, tracing ancestral rootedness and correlating oneself with ancestral inheritances enthralled human beings for their self-identity. An ancestral inheritance such as history, race, language, and religion values one’s mere existence in the world. Generally, Immigrant writers express a deep sense of identity crisis and they try to reclaim...
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The book that I chose to read this quarter is I am not your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez. This book is about a girl named Julia Reyes. She lives on the south side of Chicago with her parents. In the beginning, her 22-year-old sister, Olga is hit by a bus. She wasn’t very close to her sister because she is so different than her family. Olga was the perfect daughter that her parents wanted. Julia is exactly...
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According to Loewen, United States history is seen as the most irrelevant and boring of all of the subjects to take in high school. He believes textbooks are the reason why the majority of students have a negative view on the subject. Teachers are dependent on textbooks, as many plan their entire curriculum based on them. However, textbooks provided in schools across America lack critical aspects that are needed when teaching students about United States history. Loewen believes United States...
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Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ traces central protagonist, Dana Franklin’s genealogy by physically ‘returning’ her to her slave past in antebellum Maryland. By deconstructing the body of the female slave Butler uses Dana’s body as the site for historical markings, so that she is literally and symbolically scarred by her ancestral past. As Michel Foucault notes, the purpose of genealogy is “to expose a body totally imprinted by history and the process of history’s destruction of the body”, so by using Dana’s...
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The book I will be reviewing is ‘One Child’, written by Torey Hayden, which is based on a heart touching true story. The author, Torey Hayden, really did an excellent job in showing how a teacher must be willing to do more than just be a teacher. The main topic of the story is about Miss Torey and Sheila that forms an unbreakable, unique, special bond and impact each other for the better. Sheila is a young, bright, 6-year-old girl...
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“Rufus had done exactly what he said he would do: Gotten possession of the woman without having to bother her husband. Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble and now he had been rewarded for it” (149). This quote from the book ‘Kindred’ reveals the powerful theme of the corruption of power, after Rufus inherits the plantation, he gains a lot of power over...
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You can go and study in the most prestigious universities or colleges and learn from the most brilliant professors in the world, study through all the religious organizations and even go to the best cosmetic surgeons ever to use a surgical blade, but none of them can ever turn your heart into a heart of gold. In Jon Kaufman’s book, ‘Long Walk on a Dry Road’, you meet the man who has spent selfless years to try and give clean...
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The book that I have chosen to review is titled ‘Where Rainbows End’. This book has been suggested to me by a good friend. The author of this book is a famous Irish writer, Cecelia Ahern. This is the second book of the author, the first one being ‘PS. I Love You’, which was published in 2004. This is the bestselling book of the author internationally, and even ranked number 1 in Ireland and United Kingdom. It was also awarded...
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‘Questions Are the Answers’ written by international best-selling author Allan Pease. Known for his books on understanding and interpreting body language which has allowed thousands of people to gain a new perspective on the way they handle interactions with others and how they view social situations. Published by Manjul Publishing House this easy read book is only 94 pages and guarantees that with “2 hours of study and dedicated practice” you can become a successful network marketer or business man...
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‘Why Liberalism Failed’ provides insight to the beliefs of author Patrick Deneen. Deneen is a political philosophy and constitutional studies professor at Notre Dame, believing that liberalism has failed by succeeding. He believes the contradicting principles have allowed our citizens to take on individualistic beliefs and therefore succeeding in that sense, however this fails to unite the nation and produce an effective, long-term result in American society. Inspired by today’s governmental and societal structure, Deneen wrote this book to call...
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‘Freedom Road’ by Howard Fast is a historical fiction novel based on the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War. This novel emphasizes the racial impact on the African-American society transitioning from slavery to living a civil life. It elaborates on the superiority of racism during the 19th and 20th centuries. The events that occurred in the novel are fiction but they took place during a distinctly important and problematic time period in history. In the novel, Gideon Jackson was...
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Prejudicial behavior is often based on ignorance and fear which leads to significant consequences for marginalized individuals. ‘Jasper Jones’ by Craig Silvey is a bildungsroman about an adolescent boy, Charlie Bucktin, which illustrates the concept that choices are a powerful part of human behavior. The text is a realistic representation of the replete discrimination, conformity and racism of the 1960s in rural Western Australia, allowing the reader to understand how racist societal values lead to the marginalization of those perceived...
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‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ was my chosen book for this term and it was an exciting yet full of nonsense read. Published in 1979, by renowned author: Douglas Adams. The novel is filled to the top with complete and utter nonsense and would be found funny from all audiences, from children to adults. The story’s main plot line is a normal relatable character with the name of Arthur Dent, who faces troubles in his day-to-day life later to...
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‘The Promise of the New South’, a non-fiction mid-Reconstruction literature piece by Edward L. Ayers. To start, the first half of the book is filled with perspectives on the South itself, with no specific character but perspectives from almost every part of the South. Ayers is able to accomplish that by minimalizing his own perspective. Detailing the race relations, religion, stores to mills. There are arguments spread throughout, these arguments being: lumber mills are their importance, forest products in the...
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This is a book review of the book “Abraham Lincoln The Image of His Greatness” which is authored by Fred Reed forward by Dr. Thomas R. Turner. Abraham Lincoln was our sixteenth President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. Thomas and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln were the parents of Abraham Lincoln. Both of his parents were born in Virginia of undistinguished families. His mother died when he was ten...
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The book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln is a series of books called “ The Library of Political Assassinations.” This book was written by Deborah A. Marinelli. The book discusses many aspects of the lives of Lincoln and his wife. It also discusses the main concepts of his presidency. Finally, the book talks about details of the civil war. Throughout this book, the reader learns a sufficient amount of information about Lincoln, his death, and the details of the Civil...
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In the introduction Harvey C. Mansfield explains the book’s contents and what to expect as you read one of the “most famous book on politics ever written”(intro page 6) and I for one don't disagree at all. Niccolò Machiavelli goes into depth on various subjects in the book such as the different types of sovereignty and principalities, the distinct type of armies and how to properly lead them as a military leader, the debate about the aspect and behavior of...
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Most people hear the word “disability” and what immediately comes to mind is, mobility, visual or hearing impairments. Even so, disabilities may be physical, mental or unseen; disabilities can result from various causes. The American’s with Disabilities Act of 1990 defines disability as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; a record of such impairment; or being regarded as having an impairment.” According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, disability...
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