All that Heaven Allows by Douglas Sirk

In the Pulitzer Prize winning civil war novel Killer Angels, Michael Shaara covers five days of the historic battle between the Northern and Southern United States at Gettysburg. Both the North and the South fought for freedom, although they did not have equivalent definitions of freedom. The North and the South were unwavering in their beliefs and their hope for a better United States, but what the two butted heads the most on was slavery. The South was a primarily agrarian region which relied heavily on the agriculture of crops like cotton and sugarcane, both of which required intense manual labor, unlike the North who was more so industrialized; however, as William Preston said, it was not cotton that was “the south’s king” but it was slavery that made them so prosperous. The South relied on slavery because having many workers to tend to these cash crops without having to pay them saved farmers and plantation owner’s money that they could use to buy more slaves that put out more work leading to more land for more crops, or to have more money to pay their taxes. Many Southerners like William Preston thought that owning other people was their divine right as white men. The Civil War was started over the North and South’s conflicting views on whether they had the “civil” right to own or not own slaves. The Northern and Southern states developed themselves much differently than one another because of their agrarian versus industrialized economy. As the states developed they

The Vietnam War in the late 1960’s was described as a tragedy, a victory, a win, and a loss, but for whom? The millions of people who loss their lives or the millions of people who fought to save others or is it for the millions of people who had to make that decision every time that they were in battle, but as for Richard Perry, a seventeen-year-old, African American just out of a Harlem High School, had to ask that question solely to himself. Perry, a talented and bright young man put away his dreams of college and becoming a writer because of the unfortunate circumstance he is in. He lives in poverty in the slums of Harlem. His single mother is abandoned by her husband and this leaves Perry and his younger brother Kenny without a father

Evident in All That Heaven Allows, Douglas Sirk was highly critical of mainstream American society during the post-war era (Sirk & Fischer, pg. 135). As a renowned exponent of classical Hollywood narratives, his mastery of mise-en-scene and storytelling critiqued society through timeless and influential films. Starring Jane Wyman as Cary Scott and Rock Hudson as Ron Kirby, Sirk’s adaptation is a narrative of love that defies social conformity in an era where politics of class and gender were highly oppressive. Set in suburban New England, Cary, an affluent widow whose life revolves around her children and country club peers, falls deeply in love with Ron Kirby, her non-conformist gardener. Their rebellious and dichotomous relationship soon cause friction and Cary is forced to end their relationship. Sirk’s blunt illustration of the effects of social politics calls attention to the underlying social structures of Ron and Cary’s society. Through the use of precise cinematography, Sirk effectively adapts a screenplay that creates a piquant critique of social politics within 1950’s America.

Over the summer I was given a choice of several books to read. I chose The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Alborn and Bad Boy by Walter Dean-Myers. I had never heard of either author before this assignment. The reason I chose The Five People You Meet in Heaven was because it had been recommended to me many times. Bad Boy on the other hand had a title that seemed interesting. Originally I had thought the book by Mitch Alborn was going to be about a guy who had to prove himself to be let into heaven, while the book by Walter Dean-Myers was going to be about this rebellious kid and his life (at the time I didn’t know what a memoir was) and in the end I wasn’t exactly wrong.

Flannery O’Connor short story entitled “Revelation” was swayed by her personal upbringing in the South. She lived in the time where people from the South were very intolerant and narrow-minded towards people who had a different lifestyle and who were of a different race. Because Southerners believed people who did not live up to their wealth or status were inferior, it offered O’Connor the exact descriptions she wanted for the characters in this story.

Hello everyone! I am greatly looking forward to spending this semester learning and growing with each of you as we study the New Testament together. It will be a great pleasure to meet those of you that I do not know, and reconnect with those of you who I do know.

Once I began reading “The Grace of God” by Andy Stanley, I’ll be honest; it sounded like an uninteresting read. How many different occasions have I sat in church over the course of my life and have heard about “The Grace of God” and how His mercies are new every day. I actually thought to myself, seriously what else is there to grace? Then I actually started reading the book and I must say that I was blown completely away. Comes to find out, I knew a very limited amount about God’s Grace before reading Mr. Stanley’s book, but now I can sincerely say that I have a far more broaden admiration for the Grace of God. Most people in Christianity, including myself, before reading this book, think that Grace is a “New Testament” thing and really can’t see Grace in the Old Testament.

Have you ever wondered what happens after your life on earth, do we fly into the sky and watch as the city around us continues to move without us or do we wake up to a white room waiting for something to happen or someone to come along? Well in Mitch Albom's, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Albom describes every event that occurs to Eddie and introduces Eddie to his new surroundings. In the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, readers are introduced to five people that teach Eddie five key lessons for heaven. The people Eddie is introduced to are The Blue Man, The Captain, Ruby, Marguerite,and Tala. Eddie meets each of these people at a random time and in a different point in his life. Every place he arrives at has some sort of

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom is known for its great amount of symbolism throughout the book. As Eddie, the main character, was killed while he worked at Ruby Pier, before he could go to heaven and live a happy place, he had to meet five specific people. Symbolism is a greater sense of meaning to what is written, beyond what has been described. Mitch Albom uses symbolism to show how each person Eddie meets in heaven impacted him in some way or another.

Aren’t we all sinners? We all have committed acts of violence at some points in our lives, and our answer we are human, we are wired that way or it is our instinct. People have a habit of hurting one another and it comes naturally to them. After reading Flight by Sherman Alexie, violence is a prominent theme throughout the novel. This idea of aggression is represented in many different ways, shapes, and forms. For instance, the novel is filled with hostility at every point, from emotional to physical abuse. Zits, the protagonist, goes through these flashbacks where acts of cruelty are committed. Although Zits, comes across genuinely kind people throughout his journey he witnesses and commits acts of violence that teach us that

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it, you’re just passing it on to someone else. ”(Albom 94). The novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom is about an 83 year old crippled veteran of World War II, named Eddie, or Eddie Maintenance. He had suffered a hard life, beginning with his birth to an abusive smoker and now earns his living maintaining the equipment for an amusement park named Ruby Pier. He soon ends up seeing the last bit of earth on is 83rd birthday after saving Amy, a little girl

The minute I logged into the computer, I opened up a Google page and typed in: “Colored letters and numbers.” The page returned about a million hits of colored refrigerator magnets.

Mitch Albom’s “The five people you meet in heaven” is a phenomenal read. In contrast to most books, this novel begins with Eddie’s death. The most intriguing element Albom used was detailing Eddie’s life using the five people he met in heaven. This story could have easily been a biography on Eddie where his most memorable life events were listed. However, his story was told through five people, whom’s life was changed forever after meeting Eddie.

In the novel, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom creates a beloved character named Eddie. The story begins with him doing his job at Ruby Pier, and he hears an unusual noise. The rollercoaster’s cable is coming loose, and people are on top of it. The cable is about to snap and he sees a little girl under the coaster, not knowing what’s going on. He tries to save her, but he dies in the process. After this, the part he is in heaven starts to roll in. When he gets to heaven, he meets five people who he has intertwined with in his life. He either affected them, or they affected him somehow. One of the people who he meets in heaven is his Captain from when he was in the war. The lesson the Captain told Eddie was, “Sacrifice… Sacrifice

In Nigeria where Anatsui lives, recycling is a way of life as no scrap of material goes to waste, inspiring him to create using discarded metals. In this art piece “Between Earth and Heaven” Anatsui used thousands of aluminum seals and caps from liquor bottles that he transformed into strips with help of up to 20 assistants at time. Each individual cap and seal was bent, flattened, folded, and twisted into strips and then woven them together using the copper wire. And if you look closely each piece reflect its original color and the brand labels are still legible.