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In the book ‘Two or Three things i know for sure’, Dorothy Allison who tells her story growing up in a memoir and she uses her experiences to explain the two or The things she learned. What makes this her story stand out is not just that it 's a memoir but also because the main point is beauty and how women in her family were put down and abused because of their appearance. Throughout this whole book Dorothy tries to send out one important message on beauty which from my understanding beauty is not based on what men say or society says, we live in a world where a woman 's beauty is determined whether a man find hers beautiful and that must stop. Timothy Dow Adams who read’s ‘Two or Three things i know for sure’ writes his review on it, and his understanding of Dorothy Allison 's points of views.

The book Max can be viewed in the perspective of many different people, the one that is going to be focused on is through the eyes of Max and Justin. Max is a military dog that watched his partner Kyle get killed in action while they were in Afghanistan serving a tour. Max’s job is to protect his partner and to warn him of any danger that may be ahead. After losing his best friend, hero and marine Max becomes traumatized and is no longer able to work with the Marines. Along with the setting that takes place in Afghanistan, there is characterization, conflict, foreshadowing, points of views and symbols throughout the book.

In Out of This Furnace, author Thomas Bell portrays the historic stories of Slovakian immigrants who migrate to the United States with the dream of becoming a millionaire or trying to escape the oppression in their old country (Bell, 1). The novel illustrates the struggles of three generation of Slovakian immigrants in America enduring poverty, discrimination, exploitation by employers, as well as the development of labor unions. As the story progresses, the novel provides a glimpse of diverse sets of perspectives from Kracha, Mike, and finally Dobie. In examining the character Dobie, his participation in civic labor unions, and in search of his own true identity reveals the more liberal and outspoken new generation of immigrants.

Loss affects every relationship differently. Sometimes it brings people together, and sometimes it tears people apart. The novel “Past the Shallows”, written by Favel Parrett, is an excellent example of this, as it focuses on less vocalised subjects that most people in our society see as taboo. The aspects of society mentioned are points such as child abuse, alcohol addiction, pain, loss, and change, but most obviously the family centred in all this drama and the dysfunctional relationships formed between them. The story follows Miles, Harry, Joe, and their father, living on the south coast of Tasmania, and the struggles in their life. The themes of familial relationships, and loss feature throughout the novel, and will be discussed within this essay.

The topics “Can You Use that Word in a Sentence,” and Racial Representation is significant throughout the book Long Division written by Kiese Laymon. The characters in this book will have to face racism and learn to defy racial representations, especially during the scene of the quiz contest. Overall, this essay will tackle the importance of language in the book Long Division and analyze the actions of the characters and the emotions they display. This essay will examine the words written and the racism experienced during the period using the two sources and research made to understand the importance of language in racism. Long Division, the book written by Kiese Laymon is an intriguing and gripping novel. It starts off with the main character Citoyen “City” Coldson a fourteen year-old boy; he participates in a nationwide televised quiz contest. However noticing that the contest is extremely racist, his outburst on stage goes viral. Shortly, City moves to live with his grandmother. He’s been given a book, before leaving, titled “Long Division”. The main character of the book has the same name as City yet it is set in 1985. A young girl named Baize Shephard has been missing in City’s new community. Yet, when Baize Shephard appears as a character in City’s strange book, both stories link and converge together. Citoyen “City” Coldson and LaVander Peeler are the only two black participants in the “Can You Use that Word in a Sentence” contest. There were many scenes that

A standout amongst the most fascinating advancements in nineteenth-century American writing school courses as of late has been the presentation of old well known books by ladies to the syllabus. Among works of this kind, E. D. E. N. Southworth 's The Hidden Hand is the book understudies appreciate the most.

Chapter one in the book Constructing a life Philosophy shows a variety of opinions on life philosophies. From what I understood from reading all four of the views was that they believe it wise for people to be flexible in the way we live our lives. I would like to discuss further what each of them had to say.

The article by Avital-Cohen and Tsal (2016) discussed the flanker task experiment, which asserted that distractor interference happens unconsciously as a result of focused attention toward the target. The results from the original flanker task indicated that participants had slower responses for incongruent trials, since the distractors are inconsistent with the target and would require a different response (Avital-Cohen & Tsal, 2016). However, Avital-Cohen and Tsal (2016) questioned the findings from the flanker task experiment. They decided to challenge the idea that only the target stimuli receives top-down processing, and not the distractors (Avital-Cohen & Tsal, 2016). The first experiment aimed to test whether the distractor interference is purely bottom-up processing as claimed in the flanker task. The experiment manipulated participants’ expectations of the target using the context effect - a type of top-down processing - by changing the distractors to be either letters or digits (Psych 240 lecture, 9/21/16). Then, the researchers conducted a second experiment and eliminated the ambiguity of distractors. They wanted to test whether the result from experiment 1 was caused by an overall bias or the ambiguous distractors. In experiment 2, the researchers predicted that they would obtain similar results to the first experiment only if the results were due to an overall bias effect (Avital-Cohen & Tsal, 2016). This study allows us to deepen our understanding of available

The idea of the uncanny was first discussed during 1906 by Ernst Jentsch in his essay of “On the Psychology of the Uncanny”, and was further explored by Sigmund Freud’s essay, ”The Uncanny”, in 1919. In Freud’s essay, this psychological phenomenon is further explained through aesthetic investigation. Since his publication, the essays have brought considerable influence on many visual artworks, especially surrealist works. In Freud’s essay, he had mention “…the word (uncanny)

Reading? Writing? Pfft please. Who likes to read and write? In fourth grade, we were given a topic and had to write a creative story about it. However, I would just want to slap my face against the keyboard and prayed that I will get a story out of that or it would type a story for me. Unfortunately, neither of those worked out for me. I was close minded. I really did not care if you enjoy horror movies or if you prefer comedy. Opinions? I really did not care for any. I did not even care for my own, in which lead me to reading. Honestly, who can read the first page and not blank out? Give me a book series, such as Twilight and I will read each book and still blank out until the novel Eclipse, which is the last book out of four. I still will not have a clue of what is going on, even though each novel has a story of its own.

The artwork, “Number 10,” by Mark Rothko displays two rectangles (top, yellow and the bottom, white) with a baby blue background color. Seeing the painting for the first time was surprising since I didn’t understand how it correlated with the title. It was easy to look at, but it didn’t catch my attention right away! I felt confused and frustrated while observing the piece because I didn’t know how I was going to find the meaning that lay behind the painting. This reminded me of my first-born nephew; I had such a difficult time trying to understand why he would cry so much. However, I was aware that crying was his way of communicating how he felt, just like painting this abstract piece was Rothko's style of communication.

One of his best known works that falls under this description is “The Scream”, completed in 1893. Using oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard, this work presents a figure in black on a bridge as a setting sun appears bloody red. His eyes are wide eyed seeming hopeless, and his mouth is open while ears are cupped by his hands, giving the impression that he is possibly attempting to buffer the sound of his own screams. In the background, two figures on the same bridge stroll in the opposite direction of the central figure, seeming unaware or perhaps uninterested in the subject.

Even the thought of starting a business one day and investing your time and money to see all the efforts burn to the ground paralyzes many from pursuing their dreams. Everyone has at least one brilliant idea in them that if they were equipped and felt confident in pursuing it, it could certainly change their lives and the world. So why don’t people do it? Maybe it’s just that. Many people don’t know where to begin when it comes to starting a business. Guy Kawasaki, author of “Art of the Start 2.0”, has attempted to write a great compilation of wisdom, encouragements, and guidance to take action on an idea. This book report will attempt to unpack exactly what Kawasaki was trying to do with this book and what I learned from it and how I can

In this book written by Peter F. Drucker, he provides an insightful and timely information for individual and organization alike as they work toward common goal of dealing with the tomorrow hot issues, though this he specifies that this is not a book of prediction and certainly not a book of the future then this book in essence a call for action. The challenges he is discussed in this book already appear in all of the develop countries and most of the emerging one, affected all organization of today society and that he argues that it can only be solve by management. Drucker also challenges the seven major assumptions that have been held by experts such as the scholars, the writers, the teacher and also held by the practitioners in the field of management for the most of the 20th century and he also pointed out why such assumptions are no longer valid and are now obsolete.

This lesson can be divided into five parts. The first part is the warming-up. The teacher displays two sentences at the beginning of the class ‘When is your birthday’ ‘What did you get’. Firstly, he asks students to repeat the sentences after him and then he asks the students the two questions. He tries to draw students’ attention by using the topic of birthday in which some students may be interested. And then he asks students to ask and answer the questions in pairs and looks around to listen to the words they say. After a few minutes, he checks the feedback from a few students and corrects the mistakes which his students made. The conversations offer students chances to