note. Jones was inspired while attending College of the Holy Cross when he learned that a few free blacks owned slaves in pre-Civil War America. The author spent about ten years developing the story idea and reading books about slavery before writing the novel in late 2001 and early 2002. While The Known World includes the truth about black slave owners and captures the essence of the era‚ its people‚
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our daily lives and the lives of those before us. And like I was expecting‚ every element did have a story to tell‚ and I was intrigued the whole way through. The Disappearing Spoon‚ as mentioned before‚ taught me about every element‚ from Hydrogen (1) to Ununoctium (118)‚ and about the uniqueness and backstories of every element. It describes the major scientists behind the stories of the elements like Marie Curie‚ Dmitri Mendeleev‚ and Ernest Rutherford‚ and their personal upbringings and problems
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year 1855 to about 1889 when many immigrants from all over the world came to North America. In Jacob Riis’s book he breaks down the immigrants in to different race groups. This book is also about the overcrowding and the unhealthy living conditions of the tenement and how there community changes to become a healthy place to live and work. 2. The author Jacob Riis proved that the saying ‘’one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.’’ Although we are not talking about the other half
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In chapters 7 and 8 in Enrique’s Journey‚ Enrique has finally made it to America. He is now living in the same house as his mother and has found a job in North Carolina. During this chapter I also found a few more key points that made me start to think about different aspect about coming to a new country. The first key point in the chapters with Enrique and his mother dealing with their kind of rocky relationship. Their relations begins well and then it begins to go up and down‚ almost like a rollercoaster
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narrative chapters‚ there are intercalary chapters as well. These chapters are inserted between the main storyline of the novel. The intercalary chapters are helpful to the novel; the chapters provide insight on the setting and living conditions of the time period; they also give readers a better chance to connect with the novel by fully understanding the story. The first chapter of the novel is a prominent example of how the intercalary chapters help readers understand the setting. The chapter portrays
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INNER FISH CHAPTER 1 1. The author and his colleagues wanted to use 375 million old rock‚ because in the 385 million year old rocks they found what look like fish. In the 365 million year old rocks they found amphibians that did not look like fish‚ so to find the change the look at the 375 million year old rock to find transition between the two. In their paleontology work in 2004 they found sedimentary rocks in Pennsylvania and on the east coast of Greenland‚ but their most successful rock was
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Of the two assigned chapters in the Betrothed‚ I found chapter 34 to be the most interesting. Alessandro Manzoni‚ the author of the historical novel‚ begins chapter 34 with the character Renzo trying to find his way into the heavily guarded‚ plague-filled city of Milan in order to find the love of his life‚ his fiancée Lucia. Renzo finally finds his way into the city by paying the guard a half-ducat. However‚ one obstacle that Renzo often encountered in his journey to find Lucia was
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have pointed out as the essential attitude in writing history: being self-reflexive and letting the reader participate in the process of writing. It can therefore be stated that Scott provides an example of how writing history should look like. In chapter 4.2 it is elaborated how literature can occupy an important role in rethinking how the past should be processed. It is also mentioned that for some marginal groups‚ e.g. Aboriginal Australians‚ literature is the only way to tell their version of (his)story
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The chapter comes from a book titled‚ “Big Chicken” by Maryn McKenna. Chapter 1 of the book talks about how the poultry industry transitioned from antibiotic use to industrial chicken and the outcomes. This is a story about a man named Mr. Schiller who is known to be athletic and healthy. Surprisingly one day Mr. Schiller became ill and needed to be hospitalized. After some recall Mr. Schiller concluded that he had been food poisoning after eating fast food. Doctor diagnosed Mr. Schiller with
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1. In this chapter I get the idea of why Assata is the way she is‚ she takes us to her childhood‚ she makes us see the way her grandmother practically trained her and showed her to be the independent and strong woman she is now. I like how she compares her life in the south with her grandparents and the life in the north with her mother‚ in the south you can tell by the chapter she learned how to work hard and be very observant person. I really like reading this chapter because I imagined myself
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