Animal Dreams By Barbara Kingsolver By Anna Deavere Smith

Though sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that there was a man named Rodney King and he was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers on Los Angeles concrete. The media portrayed the riots as black rage on the streets due to the

The book that I read was called All Creatures Great and Small by Jame Herriot.

Animals help humans in our lives for sharing their features. Every new experience can make a person change; sometimes the changes are positive, and other times it is negative. Either way, here is no avoiding change. Animals are kind, helpful, and playful.

After realizing that all of the food and water consumed by their family was either piped, shipped, or driven to them in the middle of the desert, novelist Barbra Kingsolver and her family decided to pick up their lives and move from Tucson, Arizona to to her childhood home of tobacco and dairy farms in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver and her family intended to spend the next year living in a more connected way to their food and where it comes from, and this book is the result of that experience. Part journal, part academic inquest, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, tells the story of their project to live sustainably in a place “where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles right up out of the ground” (p. 3). Their year would consist

In Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” there are a lot of characters who have different thoughts of what happened and why it happened. The LA uprisings happened after the video of a black young man being severely beaten by four white policemen was released to the media for everyone to see. During the uprisings people were getting shot by stray bullets and businesses were being destroyed, especially Korean stores. It was said to be one of the worst riots in U.S. history.

The creation and inception of Twilight follows very shortly after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. An important event leading up the riots in 1992 is when “On March 3, 1991, an African-American motorist, Rodney King, was pursued for speeding” (Jacobs 1239). A total of twenty-one police officers pursued him. Once they tracked him down, “King was severely beaten down by three white LAPD police officers as a sergeant and and the remaining 17 officers looked on” (Jacobs 1329). As King was beaten, a man named George Holliday proceeds to videotape and record the incident; such a recording becomes available to the public striking outrage in the community. This had been one of the few times where police brutality was recorded and broadcasted for public

Chapter ten flashes forward to McCandless death, and it was published in the New York Time and Anchorage Daily News. The media wrote of how foolish and ignorant McCandless was for going into the wilderness so unprepared. Once the death is being investigated by the police the police begin to question Sam, McCandless’s half-brother. To identify him he shows them a picture with long hair and a beard. This made me question who was the man in the picture, was it really McCandless? He wasn’t reported as having long hair, ever. As the half-brother informs his parents of McCandless death the parents respond in devastation. I find it weird that the police contacted his half-brother first and not the parents. Oddly enough I find myself agreeing with the media more than I do with the author. I cannot seem to grasp the thought of going into the wilderness, and not being overly prepared. While I understand that it is a brave action, it is also foolish and somewhat stupid on his part. I also find him to be very selfish. In chapter eleven the author starts to interview McCandless parents, and starts to question the family’s dynamics. The father is very similar to McCandless in the aspect that he is very intense and highly intelligent. Chapter twelve is a continued exploration of McCandless’s character. The author wants to know what made McCandless, McCandless. He finds that he took a road trip to the desert the summer before his freshman year of college, and nearly died of dehydration. I

“A Dog’s Life” The autobiography of a stray by: Ann M. Martin, a book i’ve had since the 4th grade, I can never stop coming back to it at least once every year though. A dog named Squirrel goes through many changes in her life with losing her mother, then her brother, being abused, surviving on her own, making new friends losing those friends and finding a good home for good where she can live her elder years. To me the book basically covers the life of a human, as I got older and repeatedly read the book I realized that it has substantial similarities with the way humans generally go through life. People lose their family, get in abusive relationships, have to go to college and survive on their own, we make friends, lose friends and hopefully

(Rodney King) Although Rodney King later admitted to attempting to outrun the police flagging him down, blame cannot be laid on him for this because of the lack of trust already in place from the systematic abuse of the african american population, especially in the los angeles area. “After four days of grand jury testimony, the Los Angeles district attorney charged officers Koon, Powell, Briseno and Wind with use of excessive force on March 14, 1991” (Rodney King). However, in a blatant show of discrimination and favoritism, all four officers charged with excessive force were acquitted of all charges at a state level. It was this event, where even the jury was excessively biased towards the Obviously guilty LAPD officers since there was video evidence, which spiked the 1992 los angeles riots. (1992 Los Angeles) These riots where the minority peoples who could relate to the discrimination and illegitimacy of the ruling against the LAPD officers and the excessively brutal treatment of rodney king, as they are exposed to these daily. These riots united the minority against the majority, uniting and rising up against the greater evil, surpassing all petty grudges they may or may not have held against each other. This is why people disobey authority. Authority is only ever disobeyed, when the people the authority HAVE

From the first day that we can walk, talk, and think for ourselves, we are dreamers. These dreams can be nothing more than an illusion, or the foundations to the very lives we live daily. The American Dream is no exception to this, shaping the lives of millions of Americans each and every day, as it has done so for decades. We can see this through the works of many notable authors and their works. Some examples of these people are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lorraine Hansberry, Thomas Jefferson, and even some more recent writers like John Meacham and Lena Williams. While all of these people may have been alive at different time periods, they all, for the most part, share one common ideology: the American Dream is still alive,

Popular and well-known writer Jacqueline Susann wrote the book “Valley of the Dolls” in 1966 which Hollywood made into a movie in 1967. The movie starred three top actresses at that time Barbara Perkins, Patty Duke and Sharon Tate. I must say that I read the novel and thoroughly enjoyed it but the movie was a disappointment to me. As much as I tried to relate the book to the movie it was lacking a lot for me.

The Lady? The tiger? Who came out you may be wondering? Was it the beautiful maiden or the blood thirsty tiger. In the short story “The lady or the tiger” by Frank Stockton, a man’s fate was tested.

Just saying something or doing something might change another person's mind into being your friend. This theme has showed in both of these stories, The lion and the mouse by Rob John and The Ant and the Dove by Kate Stonham. In the lion and the mouse and the Ant and the Dove, both stories are about animals who help each other even though they aren’t like each other. There is always something you can do to make a good impact on someone else's life.

"Mom I need go I left the door open and Bell is gone." Lizzy said with fear

In Davon Custis’s book The Memory of Lost Dreams, it begins with a naïve seventeen year-old boy named Malik Soules who is described to be “long haired and brown-skinned – and wearing the heritage clothes of his primitive lifestyle…eager and curious.” (2016, p. 7) He lived in a primitive village where he was deemed to be a traitor amongst his village. Because of this, he stumbles across an ancient city. Within the city, he finds a machine, also known as the REQUIEM, and presses a random button. He then becomes trapped to the machine and could not escape. The computer machine puts a helmet onto Malik and he becomes unconscious. His body remained at the same place for the entire story; however, his mind traveled through various places. He first traveled to a society where the citizens praise their leader, Chief Lord, for simply being their leader. He soon learns that the society is a dystopian place such that there are tyrannical groups that oversee the land for Amerika: Chief Lord, Royal Guards, and the Order Government. For example, Malik was conversing with a person named Mr. O’Reilly, when they were suddenly approached by a Royal Guard. The Royal Guard, Sergeant Dang, merely mentioned that “[he] appear[ed] to be drunk…[he’s] in violation of Martial Code #2557, under the public drunkenness ordinance.” (Custis, 2016, p. 28) He finds out about the “antagonist” Zara where Zara rebelled against the tyranny. He first met the creator of the REQUIEM world, Jean-Pierre, and