The concern of Herb towards the farmers is an example of Christian values. For example, Herb says: “I’m not poor as I look. Go ahead, get all you can.” This quote shows how herb has achieved his American Dream. He is self-made and prosperous who could lose a few farmers as he is prosperous. This also foreshadows the family’s murders.…
A Spike Lee documentary looking into the tragic event of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. It shows camera footage and interviews from various people such as: residents , politicians and police men who were all caught up in the disaster.…
Almost every religion in the world has a story about the “Great Flood” which destroys the earth, and each teaches its followers a different story about this disaster. While the Babylonians have the story of Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Judeo Christians have Noah from the Bible. Both men save a few people and many animals. In these stories, Noah and Utnapishtim seem to have similar situations, but a further analysis shows how truly different the two stories are.…
It represents a refresh, a change not only on the surface, but within. Rose of Sharon's attitude towards the end of her pregnancy contrasts with her earlier slew of complaints and whining. She realizes that she, just like everyone else, needs to help. When Al announces his engagement, she leaves as to not burden her family and bring down the celebration. She insists on working in the fields even though she is nearly due, and she sacrifices her humility to feed a starving man. She has a realization because of the violent events around her, and the flood is Steinbeck's way of creating a physical manifestation of this cleansing; it is a purge of the land and mind.…
In August 2005 there was a massive storm brewing and growing into a storm like no other storm, Hurricane Katrina. In the days before the storm hit, there were many agencies gathering information and trying to give a good guess on when, where, and how bad this storm was going to be. Some people listened and prepared and some did not. Why? Why didn’t some people even know the storm was coming? Why did some leave? Why did some stay? Who were these people? Not too sure how much critically thinking was going on here, or was there, and the people of New Orleans could not do anything else but stay. The documentary showed that most people that left were the ones who could afford to leave and the rest were left to fend for themselves. By law if there is a mandatory evacuation ordered, then all must be given ways out of the area by government help, which by the movie said never happened.…
Mary Pipher addresses the dramatic changes handled by adolescent girls. With tone, Pipher clearly relates how she feels about her topic. Words like “dramatic,” “chaos,” and “shattered” show the writer’s mood as serious, sad, and slightly dark. She uses heavy descriptions when describing how the girls feel and change. Her tone depicts the readiness of what the young girls deal with, and how it affects the people around them. Pipher’s tone in “Saplings in the Storm” is enough to make her readers think about what some adolescent girls might be hiding under the surface.…
The sounds of a siren crushed the hearts of an entire city as water overcame the dikes and flooded the streets. The people of Minot, North Dakota heard the siren and knew that their lives were about to greatly change. The Souris River topped the dikes in Minot on June 22, 2011. About twelve thousand residents were evacuated out of their homes after a desperate attempt to build sandbag walls around their houses and neighborhoods. All that the residents were able to do was watch from afar as water rushed into and destroyed their homes.…
3a. While the story does not go into great detail the reasoning behind the husband and wife's behavior, it also does not give little evidence as to why they act the way they do. The husband and wife behave the way they do mostly because they want to protect their family and their workers, but also want to heed the mother of the husbands advice of "not to take on anyone off the street." Speaking of the mother, the story does not provide a motive to her behavior, but it can be implied that she wants the best for her family just like her son does. It is also possible that the mother has had experience with robbers in the past and wants to share her knowledge of what to do in such a situation. While the audience reads next to nothing about the gardener, the trusted housemaid suggests that the family get burglar bars because she doesn't want to be held responsible for her employers possessions being stolen. The other workers who were laid off and still hung around the suburb were given a clear motive, they all wanted jobs so that they could get…
Times have changed since the writing of "There Will Come Soft Rains", when the threat of nuclear extermination seemed more real than it is now. But should we read it only as a chilling view of what the future might have been? One thing in man's favor: he is ingenious; and in inventing new ways of making his species extinct he has in many ways surpassed himself.…
The effect of the harsh environment sustained by the drover’s wife is clearly seen through Lawson’s description of her physical appearance, “The gaunt sun-browned bush women”. This is then reinforced by the cruel and provoking imagery used to portray her children “ragged, dried up look”. Powerful imagery of the physical toll on this “once young city woman” is applicable in establishing a strong impression of the woman battling against isolation of the bush.…
“The plague will make heroes of us all... and these times, they do make monsters of us all. The plague brings out the very best and very worst in people” is this how you see Year of Wonders?…
‘Anna Frith, a women who had faced more terrors than many warriors…’ It is the women in the text that prove to be stronger in the face of adversity. To what extent do you agree?…
The Water of Eternal Life from Myth & Knowing chapter 6 | | 1. Social 2. Theological 3. Moral 4. Cosmic | |…
The Johnstown flood is tragic story. Almost a myth these days, thousands of lives were lost only hundreds saved. David McCullough artfully tells the story of the dam that broke, because of ignorance and neglect, and the individual lives that it affected, he crafts together the facts of the disaster with the emotion making you see and feel the pain and hurt. When the huge dam broke and hundreds of thousands of gallons of water went rushing down into the valley there was nothing anyone could do to save the lives of those caught in its path. There were many lucky ones who managed to get to high ground out of reach of the, “wall of rubbish”, but there were an unbelievable number of victims who were crushed, drowned, injured fatally or burned alive. McCullough’s thorough investigation of the flood leaves him with the ability to write from the perspective of the survivors. He easily creates a way for us to connect with the story by not making it all just statistical facts, but also journalistic facts.…
Nurturing plants can teach us how to care for other living things. In general people garden because it helps to relax, to gain social skills, and make some friends. In Paul Fleischman’s novel Seedfolks, two main characters who are dynamic are Sae Young and Maricela. Fleischman’s vacant lot garden changes the lives of SaeYoung and Maricela, because the garden helps them [Sae Young and Maricela] gain social skills and helps them [SaeYoung and Maricela] express their voices.…