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The Fifth Wave is set in present day Ohio where 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive an alien invasion. Separated from her brother, Sam, she vows to find him. Along the way she meets Evan Walker, a silencer, who she forms an alliance with to help reunite her with her brother. Evan and Cassie fall in love despite the fact that he is a silencer. Cassie gets into the military base and locates her brother. In the base she encounters Ben, aka Zombie and her high school crush, who is also trying to get Sam out of the military base. Evan breaks into the base and shuts down all their systems giving Cassie, Ben, and Same time to escape. Evan bombs the base, but doesn’t make it out; however, Cassie still believes that Evan is alive. The exposition…
I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973," Susie Salmon tells us in the second sentence of The Lovely Bones. She shows us who did it—a neighbor everyone thinks is weird—and describes the horrible scene, a brutal assault and dismemberment in an underground hideout in a bleak winter cornfield. Sebold's triumph is in making Susie's voice so immediately compelling that we don't want to let her go, even after she's dead. We want to know what happens next. So does Susie.…
At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I have selected “The Last Drop.” The painting was painted by Judith Leyster on 1609. It is done in oil on canvas and the size of the painting is almost the same like any others that about a foot wide, length and width. The condition of the painting seems to be in a new condition, as if the painting was never touched at all. The texture of this painting have a smooth and rigid touch to it. The painting is consisted of one man is sitting on a chair binge drinking that looks like an alcoholic beverage, the second man is seen standing wearing a flamboyant dress as he is seen dancing while smoking and holding a cup, as he seems to ignore the first guy. The third one is a skeleton lurking behind the man drinking,…
In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand argues that the allied servicemen and prisoners of war in World War II contributed immeasurable sacrifices for humanity. Hillenbrand’s biography about Louie Zamperini provides an authentic portrayal of a soldier and prisoner of war (POW) during World War II. The New York Times bestseller novel focuses on the importance in family bonds and friendship throughout the struggle. Likewise, optimism and hope serve as vital coping mechanisms in warfare circumstances. Hillenbrand explores the effects of physical and mental conditioning for self improvement and during times of inhuman cruelty. The author elaborates on PTSD and life after the war for Zamperini until he finds absolution. Overall, Unbroken is an empowering informational text, telling Louie’s story against the major world events of the twentieth century.…
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand released a brilliant tribute to a resilient national hero, Louis “Louie” Zamperini, whose story was not widely known at the time. Fast forward four years and this tribute, Unbroken, has been made into a major motion picture and the remarkable story of the Olympian-turned-soldier has reached the masses. In the book Unbroken, which I read shortly after it was released, Hillenbrand chronicles Zamperini’s epic and, at times, terrifying odyssey. Raised in California, he was the son of Italian immigrants.…
While I read There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz, I had literally had…
In Bonnie Tsui’s, Choose Your Own Identity, she discusses the flexibility that lays within racial identity. In Tsui’s essays she states that even though our race has such a huge roll in the way we make our political and societal decisions, racial identity has become fluid. In her mind, we are making a come back and prioritizing the importance of who we identify as, rather than focusing on what we are. In Tsui’s own words, “In a strange way, the renewed fluidity of racial identity is a homecoming of sorts, to a time before race - and racism - was institutionalized.” (Tsui, 2)…
In the future, Earth as we know it will be taken over by comprehending technology and will become a staple of everyday life where humans will intermix with machines. Technology will be the future's new version of society. In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, in the year of 2026, technology had taken over the world when one house remained standing after a nuclear attack in Allendale, California. The owners of the house have disappeared due to nuclear blast which left nothing left but the house. Bradbury explains the daily routine of the house until something came across and left the house burning on the ground.…
In the reading “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, the author describes his own experience of how kids and himself were treated by society during his childhood for being part of a different background. In the reading I noticed how the author shows us ways that he has become the person he is by the influence of his family, particularly his dad who sparked his passion toward reading books. In my essay I implemented an additional family factor other than my father and sister; I included my brother. He impacted how I treat people that are constantly looked down by society. In addition, I have grown from my brother’s death and as an effect I have matured as a person and a writer.…
The book starts out on December 6, 1973 when Susie Salmon is raped and murdered in the cornfield by her house by her neighbor George Harvey. The story takes you through her experience in heaven watching her friends and family try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. It takes you through as her spirit leaves her body, brushing past her friend Ruth; as she sits with her father in his study each evening; and as she watches her friends and family grow over the next eight years. Also as she tries to communicate the events of her murder to those trying to catch her killer. Susie finds peers and even friends while in heaven and discovers that heaven is not the same for everyone. Susie’s heaven grows and changes as she does. Initially, she…
The media demonstrates to viewers their idea of what they believe an apocalypse could look like through many forms. We could see apocalyptic societies in television shows, video games and movies.…
Jealousy is the key factor that pushes us to do better or it can overpower our thinking abilities because we want to be the best, so we don’t think about how it can affect the people around us. This is exactly what happens in the story, “MVP,” by Clare Mishica. Derek wants to be the most valuable player on his basketball team instead of Cole so much that he forgets to be a team player. When Cole gets hurt, Derek realizes how much more important the trophy and being a part of the team is than getting MVP. Teamwork is always more efficient than trying to achieve something individually because a person can do very little alone, but together we can accomplish a lot. The saying, “Two heads are better than one,” goes along with this perfectly.…
In A Time to Kill, a little African American girl is abducted, raped, and murdered by two white supremacist men. After her father discovers that the criminals will likely walk away freely due to racism in the South, he decides to take things into his own hands. Carl Lee Hailey kills the two men who wronged his daughter, and expects to be incarcerated for his crime. His lawyer, Jake Brigance, delivers an amazing closing speech at Hailey’s trial. Although the jury believes that Hailey is guilty, Brigance uses ethics as a last resort. Brigance asks the all-white jury to close their eyes as he tells a story. He then tells the story of “a little girl” who was abducted on her way home from the grocery store. Using brutal and specific details to…
Rap and hip hop historically served as a vehicle to recognize and empathize marginalized voices. Conveying a sense of dissatisfaction with personal, communal, and global conditions, rap music becomes a mode of edutainment and a calling for social change. However, the grating deliverances of rap songs can ironically alleviate the anger of the community simply through representation and shared narratives. Filipina American rapper and producer Ruby Ibarra continues to rise in fame and engages in this musical therapy. In an interview, Ruby Ibarra committed her work to representing minorities and females on stage (Kollaboration, 2014). However, to represent minorities, typically Asian Americans, becomes too broad as Filipino Americans are racialized…
The main characters are the president, his wife, mistress, and his bodyguards. Before the president in the show became president, he was running for office and the other main characters knew he was going to lose so they rigged the ballot box by fiercely making the group of people make a computer program vote for him. Another thing is that everyone with power by politics use’s their power for wrong. The main body guard orders a special agent to kill people because he doesn’t want the U.S. people to know whatever he wants to hide. The mistress threatens people to insure the satiety of the president and to keep her and his secret really secret. The wife of the president blackmails him to become the senator. Overall, this show has a lot of Interpersonal violence as well as construction perspective because there is a lot of labeling as to who is who and even though people are getting blackmailed or even killed, a lot of the time the characters have some…