Analysis Of These Shining Lives By Melanie Marnich

Radium Corporation opened their first factory in Orange, NJ and began making glow-in-the-dark wristwatches in 1917 in response to a growing military demand for a time piece that could be read in the absence of light and the harshest of conditions. This glowing substance was developed by German scientists and was the result of chemical interactions between radium salts and a zinc compound. Blum recorded that when the radium salts were mixed with the zinc compound, the particles emitted by the radium caused the zinc atoms to vibrate. This vibration created a buzz of energy, visible as a faint shiver of light.3 (p180) After WWI ended, glowing dial faces were all the trend. The U.S. Radium Corporation hired young women to do the work of painting the delicate numerals on the faces of the watch dials. Dr. Claudia Clark, a professor of history at the University of Michigan estimates that approximately 4,000 girls, as young as fifteen, were watch dial painters.4 These women worked in studios where they mixed their own paint. They worked more than five days a week, painting 250 dials per day, and earning around $20 each week.3(p181) Maggie Fergusson, a literary advisor to the Royal Society of Literature, found “they were paid up to three times what they might have earned working in a factory.5 They employed a method called “lip-pointing” to procure an extremely fine and pointed tip to the end of their brushes. With each number, the women would put the paint brush

Being hurt emotionally by death is by far the worst kind of pain in the world. It causes one to completely shy away from doing what is right. Alice Dark’s In the Gloaming, illustrates selfishness in one character, and righteousness in another. Although this story is written in third person, it is out of Janet’s perspective. Janet plays the role of the protagonist character. She spends all of her time taking care of Laird and making him happy. Dark gives her readers many symbols and metaphors throughout her story to explain her theme. She tells a story about a family that is being pulled apart by their brothers and sons homosexuality as well as his death from AIDS. According to David Caron, “The family is an institution, and like all

The city of Mumbai has seen much growth in the past years. A string of elegant hotels have been set up for travelers and high-class business men. An ever growing, top of the line airport has been built for those coming in and out of the country. From the outside, Mumbai seems to have taken a liking to being internationally integrated with the rest of world, otherwise known as globalization. This is not the case, however; as seen in Katherine Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This novel is set in a slum right next to the Mumbai International Airport called

The Birth House by Ami McKay tells the story of a young midwife named Dora, living in rural Nova Scotia during the early 1900’s. Dora is trained in midwifery by Ms. Babineau, the midwife of Scots Bay until her death when Dora takes over. Dora is challenged by Dr. Thomas, a professional doctor who opens up a modern hospital in the community who encourages the women of Scots Bay to abandon traditional midwifery as a means of giving birth. Dr. Thomas persistently attempts to convince the residents of Scots Bay that modern medicinal technology is a safer and cleaner means of giving birth than allowing Dora and Ms. Babineau to deliver their children, despite their vast knowledge and experience of women’s reproductive health. The novel discusses

The article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

The article “What is a Life Worth?” By Amanda Ripley gives support to Feinberg on the issue of placing a value on a human life. Ripley includes evidence of two different social class families the Sparacio family and the Fields family. Sparacio family included a current trader and a part-time school psychologist as the occupation of the parents. While the Fields family only had one income which was from a security guard. Even though the Sparacio family holds a higher social class than the Fields family, The Fields were awarded $444,010 due to having three more children than the twin two-year-old sparacio family which were only awarded a small compensation of $138,000. The widow Cheri Sparacio states “This was just one screw-up after another”

When people look at two extremely different stories such as Night and Life is Beautiful, they would not expect there to be many similarities. However, these two devastating tales are more alike than suspected. Both Night and Life is Beautiful may be two accounts of the holocaust, but that does not mean that they bring the same thing to the table. They both may include a somewhat similar father-son relationship, yet they still aren’t that same. Night, a tragic memoir of Eliezer Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful, a humorous and still somewhat depressing movie of Guido and his family, have numerous similarities as well as drastic differences between them.

Many Children in the world face challenges that most people don’t have to. For example, two of his people face very hard challenges, Abdul, and Kundila. Two people who have it harder in life then us.In these stories, Doris Pilkington, and Katherine Boo amazingly show the challenges these two people face. In Katherine Boo’s story, Abdul has to work for his family to raise money to move to a better neighborhood. In Doris Pilkington’s story, Kundila has to protect his family from the white raiders.

Radium City is a 1920s documentary about the Radium Girls of Ottawa, Illinois. These young women were in high school or just graduated from high school and went to work at Radium Dial; it was a plant where watches and clock dial were painted with radium. In order for the women to paint the best fine point font, they were to bring the paintbrush to a point with their lips, dip the brush into the radium, and begin painting the numbers. The watches and clocks were painted with radium because it was known to glow in the dark, so the young women also painted their faces, and even some painted their teeth, with the radium. During this time period, it was unclear to the public the danger of the radioactive chemical. It was not until these young women began to

In Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo is more successful than Doris Pilkington, author of Rabbit Proof Fence,in conveying the challenges faced by the main character. Boo uses mood to develop the idea of the main character’s harsh life. She also uses word choice to show the difficulties in Abdul’s life. By doing this the reader deeply understands how difficult Abdul’s life is in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, better than the reader could understand the difficulties of the Aboriginals in Rabbit Proof Fence.

“Talladega College, I have you by the reigns!” says Pauline Hunter. Although she is a first year student at Talladega College, Pauline is confident that she has the school figured out, for the most part. Owing to the fact that she came from a high school that demanded a great deal of time and an enormous amount of dedication, she’s accustomed to maintaining outstanding grades while still having a social life. Considering that she resides on campus, she has the benefit of exploring the buildings, having encounters with several professors, and meeting countless students. With the assistance of noteworthy grades, understanding professors, and self-disciplined friends, Pauline believes that she has the school

Good Afternoon Ms. McCafferty, I made this appointment because I passionately believe that the book, Life is so good written by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman should be on the Carey booklist for Year 9 students. Life is so good is a magnificent part biography, part autobiography of a 103 year old black man named George Dawson who went to school to learn to read and write when he was 98 years old.

Is there a difference between the quality of a life lived forward, and a life lived backwards? In the book Elsewhere, by Gabrielle Zevin, Liz gets to discover if it is better to live a life forwards or to live it backwards. I decided to read this book because a friend recommended it to me. I have never read a book like this one, and I have not read any other books by this author.

Have you ever read poetry that can inspire you in your everyday life? Poetry that discusses the deep truth about our world and the people who wander it? Well, there is some poetry that can give you a better understanding about life,ourselves, and how to handle situations that come across our path. Inspiring you and motivating you to do your best. These types of poetries can really give the reader a deep knowledge about how to challenge the unknowns. Guiding you on how to work on your up and down moments. Poet Erin Hanson writes poetry that explains the cruel reality of life and also poetry that attracts all walks of people and their everyday challenges with life itself. This essay will present Erin Hanson's excellent poetry motivating many

Giving an Account of Oneself, a compelling piece of work written by Judith Butler, digs deep into what it means to give an account of oneself and how it is nearly, if not entirely, impossible to do such an activity without becoming “a social theorist” (Butler 8). Butler states “the story of my origin I tell is not one for which I am accountable, and it cannot establish my accountability,” (Butler 37) since the story is always changing. We are not able to give our accounts as the accounts we give will always be told in different lights and we, as beings, are always changing as the norms around us change. The sense of being ties into us not being the same person we were when we came into being, and nor are we the same being as when we begin to tell the story of our origin of being. However, other notable influences, such as Levinas, believe that fully exposing our origin of being would act as a sort of “surplus” (Levinas 79) meaning those we expose our origin of being to will be so overwhelmed with the situation that we would never be able to give an account of ourselves overall. Levinas’ views coincides with Butlers’ on the topic of norms and how we will never be able to act outside of norms when he states, “the moment I realize that the terms by which I confer recognition are not mine alone… I am, as it were, disposed by the language that I offer” (Levinas 26).