A Great Author By Norman Vincent Peale

In this passage from her autobiography, “One Writer’s Beginnings”, Eudora Welty recalls early experiences of reading and books that had later impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. Welty’s language conveys the intensity and values of these experiences with the use of imagery, with the use of diction, and the use of details.

The person we are today is a reflection of how we were raised as children. Everything we learn and experience as children shapes us for the future. In this passage of her autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty wrote about the library and how her becoming of a writer stemmed from her love of reading. Welty is able to convey the intensity and value of these experiences while connecting to her audience.

After several weeks of my Grandmother passing, I came to realize she wasn’t coming back. The feeling of shock had left and now I felt intense amount of emotional suffering. The continuous feeling of pain and unanswered questions lingered about in my mind. I began to wonder how it could have happened and what people could have done differently. At this time, my whole family was grieving over the loss as well.

Being an 9 year girl living in the year of 1930 along with being said that your father is a “Nigger lover” How would that make a child feel? In Harper Lee’s Novel,To Kill a Mockingbird, Two young children from Maycomb county in the late 1930’s experience trail which in involves their father defending an African American in an injustice court.Throughout theses events the children interact with society.Society displays these universal themes.Harper Lee’s Novel explores the 3 most important themes to kill a MockingBird: Evils of racism, females roles and growing up-pain or pleasures.

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, where the fight for equality is strong. For Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, a seven year old boy, the events in this small town will change his view of the world. Although he is originally from Meridian, Mississippi, he spends his summers in Maycomb, with his Aunt Rachel.

Malcom Gladwell’s book tells a good story, but that’s about all it does. While this book is supposed to be researched based, many reviewers believe that he is just telling a good story, whether it is factual or not. It is almost as if Gladwell makes up facts just to have a good story. It is frightening that an author like Gladwell is influencing thousands of people with his book, but most of the information is not correct. When looking at the reviews of Gladwell’s book, there seems to be a pattern of critiques. The most popular critique of the reviewers is that Gladwell does not illustrate enough proof in his books. Gladwell is also accused of stretching the truth of topics in order to make them fit in his story. Many of his relations do not make sense. There is also a pattern showing that Gladwell takes information that is already known to the world and makes it his own. A big issue with most of these reviewers is Malcolm Gladwell’s stance on the types of people who make an idea tip. Throughout the reviews, people counter argue Gladwell’s Law of the Few with up to date science. Many of Gladwell’s examples are unfinished or do not have enough information and data to support his initial claim.

"Remember it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This astonishing statement which Atticus had said it to his daughter scout in one of their boring days expresses the story of the innocent people that Harper Lee introduced in her wonderful novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, the sleepy town in the south of America, where poverty reaches most of the families from privilege families such as the Finches, to the African Americans such as the Robinson 's. In this novel, Harper Lee paints a vivid picture of how the bigotry and segregation was spread all over the Maycomb town in Alabama.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, (2014), a Swiss-born American psychiatrist, introduced concept of providing psychological counselling to the dying. In her first book, On Death and Dying (published in 1969), she write about the “five stages of grief”, they are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. based on her studies of the feelings of patients facing terminal illness, and have being generalised to other types of negative life changes and losses, such as divorce, loss of property or job, and offered strategies for treating patients and their families as they negotiate these stages.

Nights I attended a funereal of a friend or a relative and asking myself what are the feelings and thoughts of the people surrounding the deceased person and how can they really let go. I remember my life-time friend seeing his wife fighting breast cancer while she is pregnant and gifting a new soul when she is fighting for her own, being a dying patient when she is a physician, married to a physician and a daughter of physician in one of the greatest hospitals in the world at the prestigious Harvard medical school and the battle ends with a loss of a life of a great person, who before she dies gifted the world with a daughter – Mariam “Marry”- , a great book explaining what she went through to help others and an open free online blog named after a verse of her holy book – and her believe as - “A goodly tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reach) to the heavens, It brings forth its fruit at all times, by the leave of its Lord”. I remembered How such a young women write as a part of an answer to who am I as “God Gifted me with breast cancer, which gained me sympathy and a sense of human pain”. Her “gift” is teaching me is how you plan to die and what matters as Leonardo da Vinci once said “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die”. Her gift reminded me with a sentence that Dr. Hayes mentioned in our first lecture “You need to be in peace with your own death”. Her death was not the end of her life and was not only about her own but it is far beyond that. She touched thousands of souls and her legacy is there after we all die. Her husband confirmed to me what Elisabeth Kubler-Ross explained when saying “Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither

Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations" first saw the light in 1860. In it the English novelist raised and criticized important issue for the time of social and psychological dissociation between the higher crust and simple working class. The genre of the novel features are located in the plane of the classic era of realism, generously spiced with the original English humor and a bit of European sentiment. "Great Expectations" - a novel of education, because it tells several stories of becoming a dignified young person:“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” It proves all above statements about ambiguity and depth of moral, which was described in it.

To Kill a Mockingbird is basically a novel about growing up under remarkable circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a compass of three years, amid which the fundamental characters experience critical changes. Scout Finch lives with her sibling Jem and their dad Atticus in the invented town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a little, affectionate town, and each family has its social station relying upon where they live, who their guardians are, and to what extent their precursors have lived in Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author 's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

Over the second half of this semester, we have learned many different concepts and phases regarding the death of a loved one. Overall, we learned and recognized the difference between funeral rites and body disposition, the five stages of bereavement and how different survivors may respond to the death of a loved one, the different options of support groups available for families, how to support the bereaved and what death might be like in the future, etc. Everyone is different, every culture is different and every religion is different, so it is important to learn the psychology surrounding these areas when regarding the death of a loved one. Throughout this paper, I will be outlining some major topics we have learned thus far in the semester

Children mature and grow up at different stages of their life for different reasons. The children may mature through tragic moments in their life or just through time passing. Jem and Scout are two characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” that have matured throughout the whole novel. These two characters went through a crucial trial and had stereotyping, racism, loss and big learning moments. Jem and Scout were just like any other child but were in stages of maturing and growing up. Children including Jem and Scout mature through the influences of family, how they deal with loss and a rude awakening to the cruel unfair justice of the world.

Every morning I still wake up thinking that she is there drinking her tea in her room , watching tv. Then suddenly the truth comes rushing up to me and I realize that it is just a dream hanging around me still, and a cold despair fall upon me. I feel empty inside. My mother’s death was a really sobering experience I’ve passed through. It was the most devastating loss in my life.