In “I am Writing Blindly,” Roger Rosenblatt analyzes why a man would choose to write to his wife during his last dark moments aboard a submarine. If I were faced with a similar situation to those Rosenblatt describes in his essay, I would write to three individuals who have had an impact on my life. The first person I would write to would be my grandma. I would choose this person because my grandma raised me since I was born. She treated me with an abundance of care that I thought she was my mom. Whenever I’m sick, I would go to her house and she takes care of me. My grandma is always my number one fan. She never missed a basketball game, concert, award ceremony, homecoming, prom and my birthdays. I’ve always celebrated all of my birthdays…
The last possible theme that I think is good for this book is to never have fear and if you do have fear, you won’t survive. One event that supports this theme is when Uri tells the other orphan boys that if you have fear you won’t survive on the streets. This is true because if the boys had fear to steal the food from stores and people they would mess-up a lot or not even do it. If that happened, they would either get caught and killed, or just end up…
This article is an analysis on student’s food journals while in college. Harris used one hundred and thirty-six different papers to find out why students were failing their diets. This article goes on to debunk how college life is why people’s diets are bad. Harris points out that students are just using this as an excuse to eat more and not feel as guilty. Students continuously made excuses throughout their papers as to why their eating habits were so bad.…
“Living in Two Worlds” by Marcus Mabry is a short story in which he writes about the discomfort he experiences traveling between the two worlds of poverty at home and richness at Stanford. Mabry goes to school with a full scholarship and lives a pretty decent life while his family live in poverty in New Jersey. Some of the things that the author compares are geographical differences between the two world, social differences, and his guilt feeling toward his family. The author writes about geographical differences between New Jersey and Stanford.…
In the article "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?" by Mark Edmundson narrates the experience of studying at college. Mark Edmundson says, that the first day of college is a major achievement not just for the students attending to their classes also an achievement for parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts who helped to get at college. He says, education in America is a fight against the drugs, violence, slime-based culture and big fight against the institution and education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play. Mark was taught that a person goes to college only once and he must study what he wanted.…
In the media, black people and black men in particular are villainized and portrayed as disturbed and violent individuals. Statistics of incarceration and crime rates are often cited in rhetoric debasing the black community. Yet in just a few pages, Ta-Nehisi Coates expertly dissects how America’s institutionalized racism and eagerness to turn a blind eye to social issues contributes to the hostile environment many black people occupy in his book Between the World and Me. In his book he talks about the difficulties of being raised in an impoverished and violent neighborhood and his realization that these conditions are remnants of America’s history - such as the over-policing of black Americans and police brutality, which breeds fear and feelings…
Dinesh D’Souza, the author of Staying Human, is originally from Bombay, India. In 1983, he earned his Bachelor’s degree from Dartsworth College. D’Souza is known as a leading conservative thinker, who wrote for numerous magazines, notably the National Review (McGraw-Hill 816). Dinesh D’Souza has generalized Staying Human to inform as well as voice his opinions about the rapidly changing inventions among the human race today, which serves as a rational project to human life in its entirety. D’Souza aimed to point out the specifics in racism and cultural relativism.…
“Paul’s Case,” by Willa Cather tells the story of a young boy who is disillusioned by his suburban lifestyle. A constant nuisance to his teacher’s, Paul belittles the world around him with a sort of arrogance. He sees his life as gray and ubearably plain; he only takes comfort in the luxuries of the world as is evident when he is dressing for his job ushering at the theatre; he was “always considerably excited while be dressed”. There, Paul is no longer the suburban boy from a lackluster life; there he is at ease, at home. This work exemplifies short fiction in that the elements work well together, Paul’s situation or, for the sake of the story, his case is plausible and the story bears new insight at each read.…
Between the World and Me is a book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published three years ago in July by Spiegel and Grau. This book is structured as a letter to the author’s 15- year old son. In this letter, Coates speaks to his son about his overall place in America as a young Black man, being that this is a nation rich in racism and discrimination. To further delve into this topic with his son, Coates uses an excerpt from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin as well as his personal experiences growing up as a young Black man in America. This novel has found continued success because of its level of relatability within the Black community; in so many words, it is everything many Black men needed to hear for themselves,…
Perfect By Ellen Hopkins The book Perfect is an extremely accurate and realistic interpretation of the struggles many young people face during their unpleasant years as teenagers. Centered around the lives of four very different high school seniors; they all have one thing in common: hardships. Some more severe than others, but all in all, they are hardships. Cara Sykes is dealing with not only her parents awful idea of what is right and what is wrong, but also the fact that her brother Conner attempted suicide.…
Who am I without him? In the story of, “Who am I without him?” by Sharon Flake, deals with character in my perspective. I chose to deal with character because there was a lot of character in this story.…
Life is not simple. You won’t know what challenges come to your life in the future so you can only think what you had been through in the past. When I was a student in High School, I was a shy person; just doing what my parents wanted me to do and never cared about what was happening around me until I was encouraged to participate in a contest. The Nguyen Thuong Hien Prize in presentation was the most important event that changed my life.…
What was a main theme in the novel and how can it be applied to my lifestyle?…
In cultures that value outspokenness and overt confidence, shyness can be perceived as weakness. To a heartless observer, a shy individual may be mistaken as distant or arrogant; it is quite unfortunate that shy people get treated like this. It sometimes starts within their families. Interesting intro so far. What’s thesis, and what are points that indicate cause or effect?…
References: Carducci, B. (January – February 2000). “Shyness: the new solution.” Retrieved July 15, 2011, from http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=38&did=47642272.…