A long way gone by Ishmael Beah is a story about his experiences as a child soldier in a civil war in Sierra Leone. He vividly showcases his life during the war by writing about his memories and his emotions in those particular situations. By displaying such scenarios, Beah indirectly explains his audience and purpose of his writing.…
Ishmael Beah is an unsettled thirteen year old boy. With no family to comfort him during the war, he is apprehensive. Images of violence, as cold as ice, constantly run through his brain. While circulating through villages, Baeh and his friends find dead bodies, burnt houses, empty bullet shells, and a variety more. By this point, it barely phases him. An empty village that the rebels have already raided is where the boys reside, at this time. This has become normal, because one may never know what the next day is going to give you. As stated by Ishmael Beah, "One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. I didn't know what I was going…
The conclusion drawn by Keith Hess in “Sure It’s Aliiiive, but Does It have a Sooooul?” is that we are non-physical beings. He best proves this point when saying that the Monster recreated its self to have a better body, much like our bodies do every day with the breakdown, repair and creation of new cells. In the third section of this paper, I argue that the author is correct and that we as humans or monsters are non-physical beings.…
In the novel Don’t Call me Ishmael language plays an important part. It is thought, “Language has the power to shape different realities about people, places and events. This can be clearly seen in the novel. Throughout the novel there are many examples that demonstrates how language can be empowering. However, the novel proves that language can be both used negatively or positively. The novel also emphasizes how one word can have an impact on someone.…
Ishmael Leseur is the main character in “Don’t Call Me Ishmael”, a book by Michael Gerard Bauer. He courageously steps up to Year Nine only to be bullied for his name, embarrassed in front of his first love, and to become a complete social outcast. This leads to him naming Year Nine as “the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful and the best year” of his life.…
In Janelle Monáe’s “Hell You Talmbout” she talks about people living in poverty. She first starts with the first verse saying that in poverty there is a lot of violence, from bombs being thrown, guns being pulled out, and a body lying on the streets from police brutality. In the chorus she repeats “Now what the hell you talking ‘bout?” this could be seen as Janelle speaking to an outsider who does not see all the violence and poverty, while those who live in those conditions experience it every day. In the second verse, Janelle addresses the topic of how fast drugs are traveling in poverty and how they are stealing from one another to get money for drugs. In the line “the poor man eats off of the rich men’s dollar,” Janelle refers to how many…
Michael Gerard Bauer dealt with a topic that relates to the age group I’m in now. “Don’t Call Me Ishmael” was written about teen hood: Bullying, coping, low self esteem, self consciousness, the list could go on and St Daniels College is the place where it all happens. Ishmael is a fourteen year old boy who goes through the problems that I see teens face every day. His mates are nonetheless social outcasts themselves. All the characters in Bauer’s book deals with their own individual problems.…
Throughout Michael Gerard Bauer’s Don’t call me Ishmael, the author frequently displays the contrasts between the two characters Ishmael Leseur and James Scobie. The two characters help each other find themselves throughout the book. They teach many valuable lessons and prove to us that being yourself rules over all.…
Our focus of the topic is to analyze the problem and how we – League of World Social Health Organization, under the leadership of United Nations help to cope with this problem. I am the CEO of the organization and am responsible for introducing the topic – bullying to the audience and the 5 basic questions of bullying. Then, Anna, being the researcher of the team, proposes a case study of bullying, which is a novel “Townie” written by Andre Dubus III, illustrating his childhood of being bullied by street gangs and schoolmates. Yet in this case, it showed positive consequence that he became more independent and physically strong to overcome the difficulties. She then showed a suicide note written by a victim, showing the worst result ever of being bullied and isolated as mentioned in his note. Joseph is the next speaker, who is an expert and professor for analyzing information and characteristics of bully and victim. He showed data of the occurrence of bullying during our early stage of life and the pattern of bullying like gender distribution. Personalities of the bully are the opposite of the victims; such as being submissive as a victim and possessive as a bully. The purpose of outlining the significant of the bully and the victim is to arouse the attention of audience and identify whether people beside you have the similar problem. The earlier the discovery of these problems, the easier to reach the solution. The stage is then passed on to Anson, who is the manager of our team. His job is to show the short term and long term effect of bulling, with the resolution to pin-point. Last but not least, I will be doing the wrap-up of the whole presentation – call for action. We believe that the problem – bullying is still there if we don’t fix it, yet if we could take the first step or stop bullying, more victims will be revealed and minimized the impact on society. “Where…
I have a standard deal with my students that if they recommend a book to me, I will read it. One of my students recommended Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, which turned out to be my least favorite book ever.…
Dalton Conley talks about the sect-church cycles in “You May Ask Yourself”. She separates the term sects and churches. According to her book sociologist consider different religious organizations as churches or sects. She states “churches are religious bodies that coexist in a relatively low state of tension with their social surroundings. They have mainstream, safe beliefs and practices relative to those of the general population.” Conley 644. She basically says that they are groups of people that have the same belief and come together in one place to share those beliefs. She describes sects as “high tension bodies that don’t fit so well within the existing social environment.” Conley furthers her discussion about…
In "yancey's "book Jesus I never knew" in the last chapter titled "what he left behind". When I first read the title I could releate a lot to this title. I remember after graduating high school I was at home applying to college. My little cousin was in elementary school she brought her assignment from her Christian religious study class and one of the question was "what did Jesus leave behind for us?" my little cousin said to me "what's the answer" I said "he left so many things behind for us to know that he came to this world he left the church and so many things." she said "I don't believe you at least he should have left something I can see and know he was and things he did on earth" I felt really sad I couldn't explain much to her…
In “Bullying as True Drama,” writers Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick describe how adults need to listen more to the dialect of young people during discussions of bullying. Upon hearing the story of a 14-year old boy committing suicide after being mercilessly bullied, they felt compelled to write the article for the New York Times in 2011. Their desire was to communicate toward concerned adults the differences between their thoughts and the teenagers. By sharing their research, they wanted adults to see the need to listen more carefully to what was being said by teenagers.…
When it comes to bullying in our schools there are so many different things to think about. For the child being bullied all the way to the bully themselves. There needs to be solutions to how to handle each situation so that it does not make it worse. This paper will discuss the many different situations for bullying and the some solutions that will help everyone on how to handle the bullies and victims.…
Bullying is a serious matter and should be strongly dealt with. Even if the child has not yet faced any such situation it is important to explain him such prevalent behaviors in the society and ways to tackle it. If left unattended, this childhood problem can have serious effects on the personality of the child throughout his life. This explains the situation and measures should be taken to prevent this prior to it becoming a serious…