In the book Shabanu Daughter of the Wind, written by Suzanne Fisher Staples, a girl named Shabanu starts to transform from a child to a woman. Shabanu is an independent and headstrong girl. As she grows, she starts to learn about the expectations of the society. She is expected to wear a veil and to marry a man, no matter she loves him or not. As Shabanu grows, she becomes more mature, and she shows it by caring for Mithoo.…
The movie is about four friends who have a musical group, named “The Four Seasons”. The movie begins with three friends who start the group, which it is a trio. They meet Frankie, who has a very beautiful voice and they invite him to join the band. Besides singing they are also robbers, they are caught in the act and send to jail. However, Frankie is set free because he is under age.…
“To the Other Side of the Sky” and the article from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines both talk about the issue of landmines because Farah’s story supports the organization’s claims. In “To the Other Side of the Sky”, Farah gets hit by a landmine as a child. This blow caused many injuries to her body, like to her legs. According to the book, “‘Finally, I caught one quick glimpse, just one glimpse, and oh my God! That wasn’t my leg anymore, it was just meat! Oh, the redness of it, the utter redness.” The landmine was so destructive that it blew off the skin from her legs, showing how powerful it was. She also lost a lot of blood, leading to her getting a blood transfusion from her older brother. She stayed in the Afghan hospital for…
Popular media in our society exposes what we have collectively decided is passable behavior. If it can be published in Hollywood without the backlash of its audience, then it’s socially exceptable. In the case of such movies as Tropic Thunder, as observed by author Patricia E Bauer, while those unaffected by the movie’s harsh language may not care, it shouldn’t be so easy to dismiss those that were. The apathy in regards to the mentally disabled is a testament to a past of fear and lack of understanding towards them. Though the taboo behind the word is recognizable to us at this point, to many it’s still ok to use as long as they “didn’t mean it like that”. Bauer doesn’t have an issue with the word in its intended form. It’s the twisted use…
Billie Jo is 14 years old when Out of the Dust begins. She lives near Joyce City, Oklahoma, located in the Oklahoma Panhandle, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with her mother and father. Despite the continual dust storms, Billie Jo and her parents struggle to make the best of a grim situation by living their lives as normally as possible. Her father, a wheat farmer, works what is left of the farm and her mother, a tall, skinny, rather plain woman, spends the majority of her time cleaning house. Billie Jo helps Ma with the house cleaning, a chore that is never-ending because the dust and grit seeps into the house through every crack. Billie Jo's mother is pregnant. The baby's arrival is a long-awaited event that her family is looking…
While reading Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, I came across many issues and conflicts. In the story, a Pakistani woman named Mukhtar Mai was a victim of gang rape. Six men raped her as a punishment due to her brothers supposed relationship with a woman from another clan. Mukhtar says, “when I tried to call the police, I received death threats that I would be killed if I went to the police station.” In Joel Christie’s article, they talk about a Norwegian woman named Monika Korra who was a survivor of gang rape. Three men abducted and raped her on her way home from a party. Monika says, “Before I knew it, I just had someone grabbing me from behind and I had a gun to my head.” They told her to strip down while sexually assaulting…
Monsters are not always furry beast that live under the bed. Monsters can be born as human children, hiding behind pretty faces and sweet voices. They are not solely the things found in nightmares, nor do they always leave when the lights turn on. They are real, and can be found in every one of us. The Bible says that every child is born with a seed of evil, that can be traced back to the beginning of biblical times. This seed is original sin, planted in the hearts of humanity by the devil himself. If that seed is let to cultivate, then it can take over a person, and push them toward the path of monstrosity. No matter what your were born as, monster or saint, it is your choice to chose the path you want to take. In the novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck uses both Cal Trask and Cathy Ames to symbolize the evil inside of humanity, and Cal alone as a symbol of humanity's choice to overcome it.…
For this class, we had to watch the first part of Half the Sky. The documentary went on to expose some of modern sex trafficking and slavery. We followed several famous actresses as they went to different locations around the world and zeroed in on specific regions and shined light on individuals and their truly unfortunate stories as many were forced into brothels. One of the persons stories that was really brought to light was Somaly Mam’s.…
Hello, my name is Brooklyn Kilgus and as a member of holy spirit catholic church, I have been preparing to receive the sacrament of confirmation. I am 14 years old and a freshman at bowling green high school. I am the youngest out of 3 children. In my free time I enjoy participating in cheerleading and BGSGA(Bowling Green student government association).…
Ashfall, by Mike Mullin, is the book that I read. The setting of the story takes place during modern-day times in Iowa and Illinois. The story is about the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupting and what would happen to society after the event. The main character, Alex, tries to get to his family, who are away at his uncle’s farm during the eruption.…
Consider and present factors such as storm intensity and track, fronts, jet stream and surface winds. I suggest using (mapping) some of the following variables: temperature, specific humidity (for moisture), vector wind and geopotential height (to show pressure disturbances) to represent the atmosphere at the surface, and possibly at other levels such as the lower troposphere (850 mb), middle troposphere (500 mb) and upper troposphere (300 mb).…
Air Transat is a Canadian airline based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1987, and is owned by Transat A.T. Inc. According to Air Transat’s website, their mission statement is:…
Journey Into the Whirlwind, a memoir written by Evgeniia Ginzburg, shines incredible light onto what took place during Stalin’s reign of terror. She takes the reader from before she was even arrested, through her entire trial, and then into the labor camp. Although it really opens eyes to what truly took place there is still room the question the validity of the story told by Mrs. Ginzburg.…
Raising the Roof has built their organizational narrative in a way that promotes authenticity by using character and time to their advantage. By manipulating characters and time within their narrative, Raising the Roof has been able to stand back and remove themselves from the narrative, and allow people who have experienced homelessness become the narrators. Because the narrator within a story often influences character, by allowing homeless people to become the narrators, bias is illuminated and stereotypes are dissolved. Raising the Roof allows the story to be told from the perspective of the organizations significant others. Also, by manipulating time and simply making people aware of what Raising the Roof believes the…
The old saying "great minds think alike" is not just an old saying. It was at least partially true concerning the minds of Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton. The significant scientific contributions of each man share some common concepts and methodologies, but they generally explored different topics of research. Each scientist based his beliefs on different mind sets.…