An Analysis Of 'What Is The Worst That Can Happen?' By Bruce Coville Murphy

Tension filled the air while Terry made the decision to have a talk with his father. He tried to break the silence by giving his father some soda, but it was no use. Stalling was the only thing that Terry could actually think of doing at the moment. “I still can’t do it, Terry thought. Things are bad, but maybe not as bad as they could get . . .” (Paulsen 642) Terry here is

The book written by Joel Spring was based on the constant derogation and the oppression of the people that were not considered “white”. The constant segregation between races caused many fights for equal rights among Native Americans, African American, Asian and Hispanic people. The conflict was never easy because the United States demonstrated an ethnocentric attitude, which caused the idea of deculturalization for many of the incoming immigrant races. The book demonstrates accuracy in many of the historical struggles between education, language, culture lands, and equal rights for a voice among the people in the United States.

Brene Brown, a researcher in social interactions, takes an unexpected perspective in her ted talk called “The Power of Vulnerability”. She starts out her speech by telling a joke and explaining her education and experience in social work. A quote her professor put on the board led her to research the connection among people. However, this led to many other things such as shame, fear, and the most prominent factor, vulnerability. She realized that for connection to occur we must be seen completely for who we are. This led to 6 years of research, including hundreds of stories and thousands of pieces of data. Brown wrote a book about her findings but she felt that something was still missing. It turned out the missing component was worthiness. To delve deeper into worthiness, she did a study on people who think they are worthy and people who don’t. People who thought they were worthy had these four things in common, courage, compassion, connection, and vulnerability. Brown realized at this point that she needed to understand vulnerability thoroughly by facing it herself. A therapist helped brown face vulnerability head on for a year straight, and in the end, she potentially won her life back. Brown stated “…vulnerability is the core of shame, of fear and of worthiness, but it is also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love…” After facing her fear, she knew that vulnerability was the core of not only fear, but also happiness. Brown goes on to say that we

Criminal case is always tedious when it involves little or no information about the offender, like in the 9/11 terrorist attack which annihilated most of the workers in and damaged the New York Trade Center building. However, in an attempt to identify the offenders, government officials and investigators try out different ways such as criminal profiling and others. Thus, in the New Yorker article, “Dangerous Minds” by Malcolm Gladwell; the author informs the deeper problems with FBI profiling and argues that it is ineffective. He questions the usefulness of criminal profiling, “But how useful is that profile, really?” and uses other criminal cases, group research analyses, and analogies to refute

“The Power of Vulnerability” is one of Brené Brown’s “most popular talk” in TED (“About | Brené Brown, Ph.D.,” n.d.) Here, she discussed what she have found and learned from her long research in human connection, specifically about the concept of vulnerability and its essential role in our everyday life. Brown (2010) started off with the idea that we relate vulnerability to negative emotions and towards the end, she showed that it is the “birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love” as well and the “way to live.” Moreover, she suggests that if we “let ourselves be seen,” we expose ourselves to the different things in life that give “purpose and meaning” to us and live a better life out of it (Brown, 2012, par. 1).

There was nothing else to say. " your words can't actually choke you and paralyze your lips but the feeling of being so scared can also with such a dry throat trying to speak practically felt impossible. I believe that Elie Wiesel used this in the book to show how when your that scared and your throats that dry you cant speak, words are almost impossible to form and your lips feel like they cant move to make what you're saying eligible. " A prolonged whistle pierced the air." also personification just gives a vivid description of how loud and drawn out that whistle was.

In the story it says “It’s a real thought, a memory. About fear. And I’m thinking it. And the thought is simple. It’s simple: nothing to fear than fear itself. From a history class. Just words. Until now.” This shows that the main character is afraid that he will never get back to being visible and he is also afraid for his parents who are in the hospital from a car accident.

The book A Magnificent Catastrophe, by Edward J. Larson, narrates a story about how dirty and devious America’s first presidential campaign of 1800, how it became the most powerful election and how it molded America’s future in today’s society. Adams and Jefferson two great friends that shared one common goal. It is to obtain America’s freedom against the motherland Great Britain. They have remained close coworkers and friends throughout the American Revolution, but then in the 1800 each went thru their separate ways and had their own political parties and different ideologies. One believed that solitary “effective central government led by a powerful president could forge a stable, secure nation from a multiple of weak, wrangling states” (Larson, 2007, 17) and called themselves Federalist led by John Adams. Adams believed that America should have only one strong influential president that is in control of the nation. He does not want to give people too much power because he does not want them to have a lot of freedom. On the other hand, one wants America to be the “land of free, prosperous farmers and workers” (Larson, 2007, 17) called themselves Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson saw America as a country that is for the people. The people of the U.S is the President and that all people are born with individual rights. An individual rights that the government couldn’t restrict just because they wanted to control the people and create a central government. The

In the book “A Magnificent Catastrophe” author, Edward J. Larson examines all aspects of the events that occurred during the First Presidential Campaign in the 1800s. Larson discusses the Presidential Election rivalry battle between Thomas Jefferson of the Republicans and John Adams of the Federalists. In 1776 both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were sent to Philadelphia as delegates to the second continental congress, they joined a five-member committee, which drafted a Declaration of Independence for the United States. They later then voted to adopt and sign the document their committee drafted which was the Declaration of Independence. Adams was more active when promoting independence and argued the longest and the most effective, but

As said in the movie Surviving the Game. These are rules Rainsford has to follow or he will die. Richard Correll wrote “ The Most Dangerous Games” which is about a man who loves to hunt humans not animals. Rainsford is on an island and he does not know what to do and then goes to General Zaroff. The general loves to hunt people it is like a sport to him and ask Rainsford if he wanted to join him and he said no. Rainsford has to win a battle if he does not win Zaroff will kill him or if he does win he can go back home said general Zaroff he said I will find you a way home. Richard Correll uses mood/ tone in his story “ The Most Dangerous Games” to convey the theme of competition enhances a person’s character.

A Magnificent Catastrophe is written by author Edward J. Larson. This book was paying attention to the First Presidential Campaign in the 1800s. The United States had not presidential election in prior to 1800. However, electoral politics are re-oriented United States in it are definite direction and solidified the two party system since 1800, so that is a reason why this book is meaning detect. During the critical 1800 election, the author has written regarding Founding Fathers of America who are Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr. They have contributed in the country’s principal documents. Primarily the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were influenced by philosophers Hobbes and Locke. Even though election could be pursued in harsh adherence to law and principle with not turn into a battle of political ideology, in spite of the scheming between Adams and Jefferson, they remain as representations to be respected in the history of America. This book is pointing out extremely well about their unbridgeable breaks and the differences of their political devices.

After losing his sight for a short period of time, he realized that stuttering was just a lesser difficulty of life. If he wanted to survive he would be forced to speak. It is at this point he realizes that he can speak without stuttering when he is forced to and he comes to terms that we all run into to obstacles we must overcome.

She is harsh and demeaning in her words, telling him he “always does this” and she “can’t believe he hasn’t learned this yet”. He lays the puppet down and hangs his head as he walks slowly towards another room where the voice seems to be coming from. The viewers are now left with a saddened emotion as the music has become depressing at this point because the violin has changed its tone to a slow tempo now. As the boy leaves the room the puppet slowly rises to stand looking extremely sad because he has lost a playmate. The next scene is the young boy sitting on his bed with a blackened eye and you see the puppet enter the room and approach the boy. He picks it up and holds it snuggly against his chest as if that’s the only thing that loves him. SFHSA uses pathos in this scene to connect with viewers and make them feel sorry for the young boy.

In Steven Brill 's Are We Any Safer, an article which appeared in the September 2016 issue of The Atlantic, the rhetor attempts to educate the audience on the issue of post 9/11 security, and weather or not it has improved safety or not. The author makes his rhetorical response effective by using ethos, pathos, and logos to appeal to the audience. Ethos is the credibility of the rhetor, an essential part to any rhetorical response. No audience would waste their time listening to an unclarified rhetore. Pathos is emotional appeal, this can be used to influence the audience 's opinion, or to gain solid audience engagement. Logos is the logical appeal of the response. Does the piece make sense to the audience? If logos is lacking the rhetor has failed. In Steven Brill’s article, he expertly balances resources and constraints, while using ethos, pathos, and logos to write a fitting response to the exigence of post 9/11 security efforts.

“Hell no, we won’t go!” was a slogan that many of the drafted soldiers chanted all over the United States. This slogan was a way for American people to stand up to the government by stating that they will not kill for a cause they do not support. However, many of the soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War were not sympathetic about the cause, nevertheless, they were forced to attend this gruesome war due to the pressure put on them by their government, family and peers, one of those soldiers is Tim O’Brien. O’Brien was pushed to doing actions he would've never thought of committing until he entered this war. Moreover, O’Brien had to kill a young vietnamese soldier to ‘protect’ himself and his platoon, which shows