Analysis Of The Book ' Oliver Sack '

From “Inside Rikers”, written by Jennifer Wynn, Wynn shares the lives from the “world’s largest penal colony” the inmates from Rikers Island. She really humanizes criminals by giving them faces and names because she does what most American are unwilling to do because they are afraid, that is forgiving people and giving them second chances. She really does see the good in the hearts of some staunch criminals. At the same time, she is a clear sighted humanist on how hard it is to leave the criminal lifestyle. Drawing all the difficulties and complications that our society has placed in the way of the newly released inmate. Not to mention the persuasions of the criminal lifestyle itself. The first chapter is Welcome to the Rock, where Wynn introduces the narratives of Angel, Kenny, Charlie, Alfonso, and Benjamin. Chapter two is titled, From the Belly of the Beast to New York Streets where both Frank and Mike are introduced here. In Chapter Three, the Captain and Harry tell the stories of Keepers Of The Kept, Convicted At Birth with Rico, Napoleon, Hilton, and James in Chapter 4.

The Red tent is a book that follows the life of a woman named Dinah. The stories that are told throughout take place in biblical times, and follows some of the lineage of the bible itself. The book begins by telling the story of Dinah’s four mothers, along with their relationship with Dinah’s father Jacob. After being introduced to Dinah herself, the book follows her life story from beginning to end, all the way from Haran, through Canaan, Shechem, and into Egypt. Throughout this paper, I will be describing and comparing events of the book verses modern day, in relationship to child birthing practices, family dynamics, personal life experiences of characters, along with discussing herbs, spices, and medications used by

Although the title suggests a comical book, Oliver Sacks presents an entirely different look on the mentally challenged/disturbed. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book that explains why a patient shows signs of losses, excesses, transports, and simplicity. Coincidentally, the book opens with its titling story, letting the reader explore the mind of an accomplish doctor who seems to have lost his true sight on life. In the following context, the seriousness of the stories and their interpretative breakdowns should only cause a better understanding of how the ever-so-questionable human mind truly works from a professional perspective put into simple words.

Similarly, Denver’s Emerald Closet functions as a holding space that allows Denver to reflect on her trauma and experience her own pleasure. Morrison uses the environment to demonstrate how Denver is able to feel comfort for her trauma. The narrator describes the closet as being, “hidden by post oaks, five boxwood bushes, planted in a ring, had started stretching toward each other four feet off the ground to form a round empty room seven feet high, its walls fifty inches of murmuring leaves” (Morrison 34). While the closet is a part of environment’s natural creation, it is described as being a house, very similar to that of 124 Bluestone. The descriptions of the “round empty room” and “seven feet high walls” demonstrates how the closet

The book Black Hearts opened my eyes to how leadership from a single Officer can have a grappling effect on such a wide range of soldiers from the lowest of ranks. One of the best takeaways from Black Hearts is to never do anything: illegal, unethical, or immoral. Although this is a easy statement to repeat, Black Hearts demonstrates the difficulties that lie behind these words. It has also painted a picture of how leadership can topple extremely quickly from a top down view. The Army is portrayed in a bad light throughout the book relentlessly. This is due to the concentration of poor leadership of the 1-502nd Regiment (Referred to as “First Strike”), a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division.

The Cabin is a fiction book written by Natasha Preston. I read at my house after school on weekdays and I did a little reading on weekends.I spent 4 hours reading and I spent 8 days reading 30 minutes in those days. The environment that is most helpful for my reading comfort is a quiet environment and the location doesn't matter. I read 78 pages.

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.

Alister McGrath, from the very beginning of this book, plainly states what the dangerous idea is all about. “The dangerous new idea, firmly embodied at the heart of the Protestant

Matt Fowler is a store owner with some sort of prior education. He is a father of not only Frank, but Cathleen and Steve as well, and is married to Ruth. Frank was going to school to earn a degree during the time when he was viciously and senselessly killed by a man who is older, but definitely not wiser. Richard Strout, on the other hand, dropped out of school at UMass due to grades and is currently a bartender. His priorities weren’t as well laid-out as Frank’s were, and Matt appears to resent two main characters, Richard and Mary-Ann Strout. Matt resents Richard for not only taking away Frank’s chance to live his life the way he was meant to, but also resents Mary-Ann for getting involved with Frank, knowing that Richard has violent tendencies and would get jealous. Matt has changed after the murder of his son, and Richard and Mary-Ann are to blame.

Dry September is a story where citizens of a Jefferson, Mississippi have heard a rumor that Will Mayes, a black man has raped a white woman named Minnie Cooper. The story explores the reactions of the town’s citizens as this rumor is spread. Individuals begin to make individual conclusions and assumptions drawing hasty ideas based on insufficient or miniscule evidence, even going as far as to make up some of the evidence to draw a conclusion. There is a relationship between racism and violence in the world of the text.

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

In his book Elijah Anderson tries to describe how life is, living in a black poor community in an American town known as Inner-city. In this area everyone is struggling financially and seem distant from the rest of America. The main social class in this town is the “decent” and the “street” families as the community has labeled them. The labeling by the local is as a result of social contest between the inhabitants. The line between a decent and street family is usually very thin, it’s based on a family evaluation of itself labeling itself decent and the other street. The irony is that families bearing a street label may value itself as decent and still valuing other families’ street. However, this labels form the basis of understanding inner-city community lifestyle. The community has many of the white society middle class values but they know the values don’t hold water in the street. They say it does not provide the attitude of a person who can take care of themselves in the street.

The people that Sacks studies are both “patients” and subjects to him I believe. In one perspective when he has a case that he studies it can be classified as a subject because he has so many cases that he studies and observes patients in. Although, on the other hand it can be classified to him as patients because he actually cares about each and every one of them and tries to hang out and spend extra time with them. Not many doctors these days show such emotions and attention as

One thing that affects judgement is cognitive abilities. This is one thing that Dr. P really struggled with. To him nothing had names but only detail. The detail of a person or object is the only thing that Dr. P could regonize. He continued to be successful is music because there is no right or wrong for music. Music is completely abstract and not cognitive so Dr. P could still succeed in that. Music has no names or labels such as objects that Dr. P can’t tell things from another. Sacks was showing pictures and object to Dr. P

The intended meaning of narratives is always constructed, regardless of the closeness of the relationship between the real events and the representation. “There is no such thing as just a story. A story is always charged with meaning; otherwise it is not a story, merely a sequence of events.” (Fulford) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is based on a real experience Oliver Sacks had while working as a neurologist. Although the narrative is ostensibly an honest retelling of Sacks’ medical encounter with a patient, the narrative is a construction, a representation of the real events, not the actual events themselves. Brian Moon refers to representations as “…versions of reality that different cultures construct and which people work within.” (Moon) It is important to separate the events in reality from the representation of the events that is the short story. Analysing the elements and conventions of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat makes it more obvious that the story is indeed a construction, that elements have been chosen and omitted to create meaning: “... texts offer a selection which conforms to certain limited beliefs and values.” (Moon) The selections in the text are also organised into a plot. The plot is “... a set of events structured to achieve an effect.” (Moon) As The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat selects and organises material from Sacks’ perspective, the text is to some degree fictional and positions the reader in relation to the