Memoirs should be written and read so people are educated on what to look for in slavery cases and when to report them. In the novel, Hidden Girl by Shymia Hall, Shymia Hall had been recently rescued out of slavery. She explains how a bystander, most likely in her neighborhood had saw multiple signs of slavery and contacted Child Protective Services to check on Shymia and her case. Shymia states, “The unknown person might have spotted me at midnight when I was hanging the clothes out to dry, or through the kitchen window at two in the morning when I was still washing dishes. However he or she learned about me, they questioned how I was being treated and did the right thing.…
I am writing in response to your request that I analyze Stewart Brand's “The Case for De-Extinction: Why We Should Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth” and make a recommendation for or against publication in The Shorthorn. I have considered the rhetorical appeals of Brand’s piece and determined that a large majority of students would find this to be unappealing due to the large amount of Christians, Catholics, Muslims, and other religious groups on campus, so therefore, it should not be published. This topic is very controversial and most likely will not persuade the UTA community in agreeing with Brand’'s viewpoints.…
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the distress that follows after a traumatic experience and the distress usually leads to the alienation of any experiences that might resurface any distressing memories. While a person with a persistent depressive disorder may experience negative moods and lack of motivation. Dolores Price is a woman who tells her story from age 4-40 in the book titled “She’s Come Undone” by Wally B Lamb. During her childhood her father abandoned her and she was bullied by her classmates because she was not like them. Then at the age of 13 she was raped.…
William Harness is a Professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Harmless exhibits the beginnings of monasticism in Egypt not only by the history of monasticism but through sample writings of the monks themselves. He lucidly portrays the history, politics, controversies, mores and the players involved in the background enmeshed with the formation of monasticism. Although, the author exhibits the false supernatural powers attributed to the monks but leaves little commentary about it. Moreover, Harmless presents them in their imperfect humanity with a tenacious scholarly approach. He untangles the origins of the legends and exhibits the development and maturation of the monastic lifestyle with subsequent contributions to theology. Incredibly, the author delays his criticism of the classical view of the origins of monasticism as a brief final chapter.…
Jane Jacobs starts off chapter nine with her second condition for the existence of diversity that is necessary for blocks to be short. For a city to be successful, small blocks with a lot of places where people can turn to is required. She begins by using an example of a man living on a long street and his daily struggles. She also uses an example of people that form a pool of economic use only where their long, separated paths meet and come together in one stream being Columbus Avenue. In that neighborhood, there is geographically so little street frontage on which commerce can live.…
“Wit” was written in 1955 by playwright Margaret Edson, Wit is also a one - act play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Drama. Edson engages readers of the play and audience members in many ways throughout the life of Dr.Vivian that include, Dr.Vivian’s experiences, from being a professor of the seventeenth-century poetry, to a victim of terminal ovarian cancer, and death. Wit begins with Dr. Vivian talking to the audience this is the first way Edson has the characters from the play engage with the audience. This is a good way to start the play so the audience will get to know the characters. Dr.Vivan is a professor of the seventeenth-century English poetry at John Donne’s Holy sonnets.…
Burned written by Ellen Hopkins Is a great novel, and worth the time to read. Burned is about a teen girl who was born and raised a Mormon; Pattyn Von Stratten she is like most teenagers growing up. Her family is extremely religious but in the same prospective her father is a drunk and very abusive. Pattyn is tired of living the fairytale of a Mormon lifestyle and ready to be energized with her own free spirit and way of life. Pattyn slowly starts to rebel against her family, school, church. While her father spends most of his time drunk; its left up to her mother to take care of the house hold and make sure everything is all in perfect running order to not upset Pattyn’s father. Pattyn begins rebelling even more so than she thought it would go. She gets suspended from school and gets sent to live with her aunt who she doesn’t even know. This is the beginning of it all the worst mistake her father could have made and where Pattyn makes decisions that are about to change her life completely. Pattyn soon falls in love with a boy names Ethan who she is bound to be attached to. Pattyn doesn’t see it but she is headed down the complete wrong path and when all she wanted is attention she’s going to get much more attention that she has intended to get.…
In her letter wirtten in response to an American woman, Marian Evans Lewes utilizes an array of rhetorical strategies to convey her belief that the development of a writer is an ongoin process which is pressed on by "some force." Instead of having a condescending tone, Lewes puts herself on the same level as the woman, taking a pathological route in addressing the woman. By using words such as "us" and "we", Lewes sympathizes with the woman and reassures her that she has been in the same position. This sympathetic approach not only informs the woman that what she is goin through is normal, but it lets her realize that no matter what status; well-known novelist or unknown woman; everyone goes through difficult times, and "the only hope is to try and unite the utmost activity with the utmost resignation." Supporting this pathological route, Lewes utilizes first-person enriched syntax to illuminate her experiences and her beliefs on the developmental process of the reader. By stating how she "began writing [works] with no great glory at all" and then flourished into the reknowened novelist she is now provides insight to the woman that, quite frankly, you go to start somewhere. This gives the woman "hope", which is a necessity to all writers. Moreover, Lewes uses chronological syntax to illuminate that the development of a writer is ideed a time consuming matter. Stating the she "entered [with] struggles", the "began writing" and the wrote "ficiton which has been thought a great deal of" conveys her belief that the development of a writer is not a mere overnight happening, but is a long, drawn-out process. In her response to Melusia Fay Pierce, Marian Evans Lewes illuminates the fact that the development of a wirter is not ephemeral, but , just like her synatax, chronological, and time consuming, and to be successful, on must have "hope".…
In Judith Butler’s essay Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy she discusses sexuality and what actually makes a world livable. Judith is a gay rights activist and doesn’t believe that your gender is not who you are skin deep, but it is who you define yourself as.…
Imagine your ride-or-die, your other half, the person you have grown up and shared so many memories with, unexpectedly dies. In the book, Untwine by Edwidge Danticat, Giselle Boyer, and her family´s life is suddenly flipped upside down. Her family and she encountered a car accident. That results in Giselle having to deal with the loss of her identical twin sister, Isabelle.…
The cost of any war is the people. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage, women are the cost of the war. In the play, a middle-aged women named Mama Nadi runs a brothel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during the Second Congolese War. She takes in many women in order to keep them safe, and in return, they work in her brothel. As a result, this creates many conflicts between characters and the war.…
Example: Your generation of humans was supposed to be better!” One of the robots yelled back. “But you’re not! You’re just as murderous as your ancestors!” (Haddix 295)…
In merely 200 years, the world has gone from the first car in 1800, to the first moon landing in 1969, and to the first major production electric cars (Tesla) in 2008. It is these examples that provide evidence of the exponential growth of technology. Furthermore, these inventions have served a great importance in today’s economy. Cars have become a staple point in society and space exploration and sciences have become increasingly more helpful towards society due to the first moon landing. However, how will the exponential rate of technological advancement affect the economic health in terms in scarcity and production efficiency in the future?…
Women make up half of the world’s population today, however the role of women in history has been limited. It has been noted that Latin American women in colonial times experienced more rights compared to other women in the world. Although these women had more rights there were still gender restrictions. Women in colonial Latin America had the option of choosing two roles. These roles were to become a married woman or to become a nun. The two primary sources of Santa Rosa of Lima, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, help explain the role and perception of nuns during this time.…
This amazing story of survival and dysfunction, of imagination and rationalization, and of shear ingenuity is a testimony to the flexibility and beauty of children. Jeannette Walls’ true story flashes back through a childhood with crazy addicted parents (the father to alcohol; the mother to art and idealism and the father) who raised three children in spite of recurrent poverty, nomadic tendencies, and a heritage of rebellion.…