1987 ANWR Coastal Plain Report says that there is only a 19 percent chance of finding…
Tears of a Tiger was a tragic book written by the author, Sharon M. Draper. The Publisher of this book was Atheneum Books in the year 1994. This book was a realistic fiction, which is something that could be real but was fictionalized.…
Heda Margolius Kovaly’s Under A Cruel Star is a captivating memoir that provides historical accounts during the time period when Czechoslovakia was under Nazi control and faced with Stalinism. Kovaly gives her personal first hand accounts on experiences in concentration camps, post-war struggles, and the life that she lived while under Communism. Contrasting with Under A Cruel Star, John Merriman’s A History of Modern Europe uses clear and concise mundane facts to provide the accounts of history during this era. Presenting history in a memoir makes the read effortless and alluring but it also takes away some of the factual significance that the textbook offers. History presented in this form differs from accounts during this time era written…
Ruth Pierce was an American citizen who found herself in Kiev during the time of the Soviet Union. In her book Trapped in “Black Russia” Pierce collected the diary entries and letters she wrote to her parents and Peter, between the time of June 30, 1915 to sometime in November 1915. Though her stay in Kiev she was arrested for espionage, forcing her to delay her travels in the fight to get her passport back. In these letters and diary entries she explains what is going on in Kiev, the movement of the German front line, and the struggles she faced. Remarkable personality traits are revealed from Pierce in her writing from her humanity, her significant other, Peter, and her constant update on war time needs without focusing the war going on around…
Ruth Pierce was an American citizen who found herself in Kiev during the time of the Soviet Union. In her book Trapped in “Black Russia” Pierce collected the diary entries and letters she wrote to her parents, between the time of June 30, 1915 to sometime in November 1915. Though her stay in Kiev she was arrested for espionage, forcing her to delay her travels in the fight to get her passport back. In these letters and diary entries she explains what is going on in Kiev, other parts of Europe, the negotiation with military officers, and the struggles she faces. Remarkable personality traits are revealed from Pierce in her writing from her humanity, her significant other, Peter, and her constant update on war time needs without focusing the…
S. A Novel about the Balkans, by Slavenka Drakulic, is a story about a Bosnian woman, named S., who was tortured by the hands of brutal soldiers during the Bosnia war. The novel mainly centers on a series of S.’s flashbacks, as she recounts the horrific ill-treatment she endured throughout this time period. Through telling S’s story, the author creates a vivid image of how deep and dark human nature is during wartime. The story is a revelation of the terrifying aspects of war, which include torture, rape and mass murdering/genocide by the occupying forces. Slavenka Drakulic’s story depicts how S. rose above the war crimes and on top of injustice to show the true meaning of human life. During war, almost all men and women involved suffer immensely, however, as portrayed in the novel S., women suffer more through mistreatment, sexual abuse, mishandling and irreversible traumas acted upon by the inhumane soldiers. The events that occurred in Bosnia during the 1990’s will go down in history as one of the most inhuman and cruel time periods ever. Through the character S.,…
Sileena is very respectable and a good worker. She is respectable because she is blind and yet still tries her hardest to please her mother and her grandfather. She does this by waking up extra early and cleaning, making coffee, and breakfast. She does this while being blind and they still act they she isn't even there sometimes.…
The text is a short story by Zora Neale Hurston describing a little girl filled with joy and is constantly doing things that she wants without letting the color of her skin hold her back from living her childhood days to the fullest. The short story was first published December of 1924 in an issue of Opportunity. The reader would most likely be someone who reads issues published from Opportunity or someone who was looking for articles, poems, and short stories related to African-American studies and literary pieces related to the Harlem Renaissance. The author is a prizewinner for her short story Drenched in Light. Hurston made her debut in the Harlem Renaissance with that same prize winning short story. Hurston was raised in Eatonville, which…
Introduction: Virginia is a teenager who is brought up into a well put together family that rarely has any problems. Virginia is overweight and does not have a social life at school. Her only friend, Sharron, unfortunately moves away for a year and she promises to move back because she abandons Virginia in her home town, New York City. As you read the first few pages of the novel Virginia discusses how she has a boy over, named Froggy. She is self conscious about her weight, and doesn’t go very far with Froggy. She has a fat girl code of conduct…
Danielle Fritz was born November 29th, 1993 and was expected to be a facile subject due to the familial relations she has with the author, but as more questions were asked more was discovered and she became more than just a simple topic. Every life affects another and her interpretation of her life and family was different when compared to the way the author perceived her.…
Life is filled with the unexpected, good and bad, however the stronger the wind, the stronger the root. We grow more as individuals during the hard times as we push ourselves to become stronger people. In the novel Stolen Child by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, you will be introduced to several characters, one being the stolen child who identifies herself as Nadia. A young child of war with an identity crisis, whom we watch grow into a brave, mature and confident being . Nadia first arrives in Canada after the end of world war II with a woman Marusia and a man Ivan, who pose as her parents. Nadia was kidnapped by the Nazis and her real parents were murdered. Nadia had first met Marusia after she was stolen from her family and placed in the lebensburg program, a program where hitler tried to create a pure race which consisted of "aryan looks'. During the program Nadia was sent to a camp where she was taught ' how to be German'. She was stripped of her identity and separated from her sister Lida who did not resemble the idea of a pure race. After Nadia served her time in the camp she was placed with a German family and this is where she met Marusia (the cook). Nadia eventually puts her fear behind her and builds up enough courage to flee to Canada with Marusia for a better life. Throughout the chapters we see the turning points in Nadia's life that influence her character changes. During the course of the novel stolen child Nadia's character goes through a distinct transformation, which could be seen through the development of her courage, self-awareness, and self-sufficiency.…
It's Christmas Eve and Arthur is at home with Esmé and her children when the boys begin telling ghost stories.…
In "Two Kinds," Amy Tan writes a coming of age story about a young girl in…
The director of Diary of a Mad Black Woman is Tyler Perry and he specializes in comedy-drama movies. The movie Diary of a Mad black woman is considered a comedy because though the plot is very serious it emphasizes humor. Unlike most dramas the director is trying to make the audience laugh through the delight and exaggeration of the different characters for humor. Comedies very often have happy endings. Diary of a Mad Black Woman fits this description because the plot of this movie is set around a wealthy couple. The wife finds out her husband wants to divorce her after 18 long years of marriage to be with another woman. The wife’s grandmother Madea who is a hilarious character helps coach her grandbaby in getting back into the swing of life…
“Seventeen and half” (11) below zero and that is a warm day in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The climate is not the only challenging part of the Gulag; the fight to survive also includes a battle with one’s self and one’s fellow prisoners. If I were in the gulag, I think that the virtues of fortitude and hope would help me to survive. Two virtues that I would need to grow in to survive, I think are humility and charity.…