For this week’s assignment‚ we were assigned to read Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong. An exquisite novel‚ many of the themes and motives relate closely To Kill a Mockingbird from earlier in the semester. Not to mention‚ Monique Truong’s background was captivating. Born in Saigon‚ Vietnam‚ Truong moved to Boiling Springs‚ North Carolina when she was seven. She spent the next four years here learning English as well as experiencing first hand racism and discrimination. On many accounts‚ Truong
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Everyone has their own way on how they value life whether it’s cherishing friends‚ traveling around the world‚ or learning as much as you can before the day it all ends. Some people take minutes figuring out how they value this human life and some people take hours. There are so many voices that are very confident in their opinions such as Roger Ebert‚ Hamlet‚ Steve Jobs etc. Chris Jones interviews Roger Ebert after Ebert had surgery to remove his cancerous tissue near his right jaw. In the article
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I am reading Skipping Christmas by John Grisham and I am done with the book. This book is about Nora and Luther Krank skipping everything about Christmas to go on a cruise. They decide this because their daughter‚ Blair‚ is going to be in Peru on a mission trip. They also want to take a break from the expenses and the busy season. When Blair decides to surprise them by coming home for Christmas‚ they give the cruise to a couple whose wife was recently diagnosed with cancer. After a lot of haste and
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Mr. Holland wasn’t excited to be a teacher and that really reflected his teaching ways at the start of the movie. Burning the beginning all he was focused on was getting in and out of the school without having to put any extra effort into the job‚ he was mainly focused on making his music and wasn’t worried about anything else. After his wife had told him that they were having a baby‚ he realized he just might be stuck working as a teacher for more that the 4 years that he originally planned. But
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‘’Copper sun by Sharon M Draper is a literary masterpiece that depicts the horrors of salary is told through the eyes of amari‚ a fifteen year old african from the Ewe tribe‚Amairi and her family lived in a village of ziavi‚untroubled‚and kind village but one day unexpected visitors described an strange milk faced men turned the village into a living nightmare with the help of the Ewe people trusted all the ashanti‚manny was slaughtered including the village chief‚amiri parents and siblings‚and most
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The Consolation of Philosophy is a work by the sixth century philosopher Boethius‚ written in prison after his drastic fall from power‚ that has often been described as the last great work of the Classical Period. It is a combination of Menippean satire and apocalyptic dialogue that resonates in structure to a classical Greek Dialogue‚ with a more pronounced personal‚ religious and mystical significance. It is impossible to ignore the impact that Consolation had on Medieval Europe‚ with numerous
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The topic and the main theme of the movie is about How many missing/murdered aboriginal women are there how the RCMP and another organization called the SOWC have a different information on the real statics of missing and murder indigenous women’s the SOWC also claims that RCMP officers are sexual assaulting and physically assaulting aboriginal women but the RCMP said how could there be such claim if hasn’t been reported. The main discussion is what are the real number of missing aboriginal females
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Psychoanalytical Literary Analysis of Chris Butterworth’s Story “Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea” When parents send their children to school‚ they expect the school to condition their kids to fit societal expectations. Most parents would be disappointed if their children failed to learn different social skills like cooperation‚ collaboration‚ and sharing while at school because elementary school is a prime atmosphere for children to develop their understanding of the world. An influential part
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The Forever War‚ written by Joe Haldeman‚ is a fiction book about a 1‚143 year long war between humans and Taurans that takes place in space. Protagonist William Mandella is in the world’s top percentile in terms of intelligence and physical fitness‚ so he is conscripted into the United Nations Exploratory Force in order to fight the Tauran aliens in 1997. Despite this war having lasted as long as it did‚ William had experienced the entirety of it due to relativity and the time differential caused
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The setting of the book starts off in the city of Herat‚ Afghanistan then continues in Kabul Afghanistan and briefly in Pakistan. It begins in 1964 and ends in 2003. The story is told from a third person omniscient narrative‚ alternating between the viewpoints of the two female protagonist‚ Mariam and Laila. The story begins with Mariam who lives with her mother‚ Nana‚ and is an illegitimate daughter to her father‚ Jalil. Mariam has green eyes‚ pale skin‚ a long face‚ and dull features. She is described
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