Alyson Noel's Blue Moon

The Artslink Queensland production of Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron can be described as an example of the Australian Gothic dramatic style. Ruby Moon, set in picture perfect Flaming Tree Grove, is about the tragic dilemma of a couple, Ray and Sylvie, trying to cope with the earlier disappearance of their young daughter, Ruby, while on the way to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac (Queensland Education, 2014).

A Taste of Power was written by Elaine Brown who grew up in a poor neighborhood in Philadelphia and sensed what it meant to be black people, female, and poor American. Elaine Brown described her experiences as a woman in the inner circle of the Central Committee. In contrast to the black men 's narratives of their experiences, Elaine Brown points up defects of the revolutionary vanguard. The Black Panther Party 's buildings of a revolution were actually self-righteous; a revolution without the liberation of Black women from patriarchy would never lead to equality for all. Brown acknowledged, like many other women in the Black Panther Party that systems of racial and classist oppression were indeed intertwined with sexism. Though this lens

What is the obsession with people’s need of identification? People need to understand that we all are different, not everybody can fit into a group. In her article, “Being an Other,” Melissa Algranati gives a personal narrative of her life and her parent 's life and how they faced discrimination and her struggles about being identified as an “other” even though she was an American born jewish and Puerto Rican. Michael Omi’s article “In Living Color: Race and American Culture” reinforces Algranati’s article since in his article he discusses about people ideas about race the stereotypes that they face. They have the same thought that Americans is obsessed with labelling people, they both discuss people’s assumptions of others based on how

The title of this short story is called “Two Kind”. The title is referring to the two types of daughter Jing-mei’s mother talked about after Jing-mei refused to take piano lessons after she had failed at the performance show, “‘Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese. "Those who are obedient and those who follow

Waverly was going to tell Lindo of her and Rich’s engagement, but whenever she mentioned him, Lindo cut her off and began to talk about something else. Waverly was convinced that her mother did not have any good intentions, and that she never saw good in people. Due to this, she was afraid of what her mother will say when she would meet Rich. According to Waverly, she and Rich shared a “pure love”, which she was afraid her mother would poison. Waverly planned to go to Auntie Suyuan’s house with Rich for dinner, knowing that her mother would then invite the two over for dinner to her house, and this would give her mother a chance to get to know and warm up to Rich. However, when they went for dinner, Rich did everything incorrectly- he didn’t understand Chinese customs and made several mistakes that were seen as

Culture defines humanity. Culture makes humans different than any other living organism ever known. Culture is what makes humans unique, and yet culture is easily the most misunderstood characteristic of individuals. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan develops the theme of incomplete cultural understanding leads to an inability to communicate one’s true intentions through juxtaposition and conflict between mothers and daughters and their cultures.

Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Chinese population had expanded dramatically from having only about 55 people to 151,000. Most of the population has immigrated to California as the livelihood in China had became awfully difficult for them by sacrificing most of their valuables in order to improve their lives. The majority kept the Chinese culture with them and expanded it through establishing Chinatown, a community full of Chinese influence, with their presence in a new environment. In the remarkable novel, Outrun the Moon, Stacey Lee describes a teenage girl named Mercy Wong with a unique historical backdrop who chases after her dream in becoming an entrepreneur to create a better life for her own family. This book is astounding

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

The discussion of immortality went all the way back to Adam and Eve because ever since they took from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they were banished from the Garden of Eden. Being banished from the Garden of Eden put them out of reach of the Tree of Life, which would make them immortal and god-like. Chappell explained how the Tree of Life is a metaphor for human mortality. Humans can use science and innovation to prolong life, but they will forever be out of reach of immortality. Immortality, according to Chappell, is possibly a modern-day myth. Scientific possibly leading to immortal life is something that humans can only hope for much like finding the Fountain of Youth. However, this desire to find a way to live forever is something that only exists in the minds of human beings. I believe that animals do not have the same awareness levels that humans do, which can often leave humans jealous because animals most likely do not have the same fears of dying or growing old that humans possess.

Night is a story that reveals some of the worst of the human race. It is a re-telling of a young Jewish boy, Ellie Wiesel, coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. The book is quite short and very clearly written, but it is still a very hard book to read. The young boy who is also the author of the book makes us, the readers, accompany him through many in-human and near-death experiences. These are written in such detail that anybody taking the time to read the book will be left with an in-depth knowledge of what we as humans are unfortunately capable of and a desire to contribute in any way possible preventing this part of our history to ever repeat itself. This, I believe, is the authors goal, to teach us, make us aware through his own experience, and hence give us a reason to hopefully prevent it in the future.

Coming from a different county was difficult for me because it was hard to fit in with others. And also because there was a language barrier between other people and that was detriment for me from communicating with other people. When my dad transferred here in Hawaii to work, he was by himself with his siblings. He started petitioning us so that he could bring us in the US. It took years for the process to be over because there were complications with visa, passport information and birth certificates.

“My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mom left us one April morning” (Creech 3).Sal went through tough times. In the book, Walk Two Moons, By Sharon Creech, Sal the main character, goes through tough times when her mother disappears, When she moves to ohio, and when she leaves Bybanks. Sal’s view of Bybanks, Kentucky is important to sal because she made a lot of memories there. My first piece of evidence is, “I’m a country girl at heart, and belong at this fro farm.(1)”

One of my summer reading books was a nonfiction called "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", by Rebecca Skloot. I found this book in my brother's room and the title immediately grabbed my attention. I was confused about how anyone or anything could be immortal. I read the description on the back of the book and discovered that her cells have been perpetually multiplying and dividing since 1951. I was hooked and intrigued to figure out the life story of the women behind the immortal cells. I finished this book in a matter of two days, completing a great portion of the book in a car ride to Albion college. I would recommend this book to my peers because HeLa cells (named after the first two letters of Henrietta Lacks first and last name)

‘All The Bright Places’ is a story about love and depression, where a boy, Finch, helps Violet find the will to live, while he has trouble keeping his head above water. My family has gone through the stress, anger and sadness of depression, too: my cousin, Mitch, committed suicide by hanging himself. Although it has been two years, the pain has still not completely gone away.

“An Unknown Girl” by Moniza Alvi is a free verse poem about the author’s experience getting her hand hennaed in an Indian bazaar. Throughout the poem, Alvi makes use of structure techniques like end-stopped lines, occasional rhymes, language, imagery, and changes in tone to explore different aspects of the concept of identity.