Azra Faulkner Chapter Summaries

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

High school is a big time for change in a teenagers life. They go through problems with friends, family, grades, and sports. For Andy Jackson, a 17 year old student at Hazelwood High School, he went through all of those troubles. He plays for the basketball team with his friends Rob Washington, Tyrone Mills, and B.J. Carson. One night after basketball practice, Andy was drinking alcohol and driving which led them to get in a car crash. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped the car with a few cuts and bruises, but Rob got stuck and burned to death. Rob’s death brought Andy to blame himself. He turns away from his friends, his girlfriend, Keisha, and his family. Andy changes negatively after the car crash; he becomes insecure, he closes up his feelings, and he turns emotionally weak.

Some people love change, but others absolutely dislike it. When something big changes in one’s life, will it change who they are, or will they fight back? This short story shows how when a person grows up relying only on one person when they leave, it will change everything about that person. In the southern gothic story “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner uses characterization, allegory, and allusion display the idea that the toll that death can take on one’s life could be drastic.

Ezra Faulkner believes that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, a single moment after which, everything that really matters will happen. After his personal tragedy he realizes that the things people expect of you aren’t always the things that make you happy. Ezra finally understands that he always talked about being popular but deep down was so tired of it and he found himself when he became friends with other people in his school. In this book, social classes play a huge role, this is shown numerous times throughout the novel. Some of the most notable times are when Ezra finally realizes that he is no longer popular, nor was he happy being popular, when Ezra begins mending his relationship with Toby, and throughout

Amazing Grace is an informative book published to inform the people about conditions in one of the nations poorest congressional districts. The book is centered on interviews among children and their family members that live in the area of Mott Haven, located in the South Bronx. One can interpret that living conditions in this area of the wealthiest nation in world are considered subpar to say the very least. Is anyone listening? Is anyone paying any attention or caring that there are people dying everyday of deaths that could be prevented?

Who knew a high school dropout would become one of the most well-known authors still known today? Even though William Faulkner did not finish school (“William Faulkner – Biographical”), he certainly knew how to capture a reader’s attention and drop them into a new world with just a pen. The style in which he writes is unique. With only three semesters of college, he was forced to create from nearly a blank slate; college had not brainwashed him in to a repetitive nature with writing a certain way. He was forced to think outside the box and this makes him stand out from other writers. The building blocks of his stories can be derived from his life. If a reader had a collection of his literature, it would not be hard for them to take a guess at what his personal life was like. Faulkner lived an interesting life and incorporated its aspects into his short stories, two of which, “A Rose for Emily” and “Dry September,” have similar characters, symbolism, and themes. Critics have explored the meanings behind his work and thus given readers a better insight.

Allie moves on with her life attending college, volunteering as nurse’s aide for wounded soldiers. While in the hospital she meets a solider that is acceptable to her parents, and they become engaged. Meanwhile, Noah has joined the Army, lost his best friend, and returned from war to find out that his father has sold his house. This allows Noah the funds to buy a run down old house that he has always wanted to restore. It was Allie’s dream

In the book ”Give Me Liberty”, Foner discusses The Battle of the Alamo in Chapter 13.The Battle of the Alamo is between the Mexican Army and the defenders of the Alamo. Texas was actually part of Mexico in 1820 until the Texians wanted independence from Mexico. The battle occurred in 1836 when Santa Ana’s Army reached The Alamo and started to fight with the defenders of the Alamo. When the battle ended the Mexican Arm y( Santa Ana) defeated The Alamo’s defenders leaving numerous men dead. Later on that year the defenders followed the Mexican Army and captured Santa Anna. When they captured him they forced him to sign the treaty of Jacinto or else they would kill him. He eventually signed the treaty and Texas was now independent.

William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” describes a typical relationship between wealthy people and poor people during the Civil War.

Short Plot Summary Tina Fey starts her section off with explaining “One of my five hundred nicknames for my daughter is Miedge, which is short for Midget, because she was a very small baby.” (239) Tina Fey went into a “deep depression” after having her baby. (pg 240) The best thing for moms to do that the author writes about is “carve out a little time for yourself” (243) There can be some weird things in motherhood but it's well worth it.

Furthermore the relationship between Connor and Lizzie bloomed, and they set off on a journey through secrets that got exposed and love that is cherished. Lizzie’s determined to understand Connor of all his lies and betrayals. Lizzie understands that forgiving Connor will help him feel less guilt for lying. Kindness is one of Lizzie’s best traits that she has, because she took Connors dog Verlaine in to care for while Connor could not. All of these traits are evidence that their relationship will continue after book has ended. In that, Lizzie becomes a stronger person and opens her heart to Connor. Although their relationship had its ups and downs, in the end Lizzie’s fondness for Connor is so strong that she will wait for him to

We’ve all created many memories with our fellow brothers over the years, and Lee O’Connor ’76 recently shared a few of his favorite ones from his days at Rockledge. Although his initiation to the chapter was certainly not standard, he was welcomed with open arms and quickly bonded with the brothers. “One of the special parts of living at Rockledge was moving into a house with 30 new people, all with very different backgrounds, getting to know them, and building lifelong bonds and memories,” he said. Lee (known to the brothers as Sarge) said that he received a bid to join the Iota chapter when he was a freshman, even though he didn’t really attend any rush events. He never responded to his bid that year, but decided to show up the next fall. “I just

It was the 8th of November, the year 2040, and 24 years after Hillary the Horrible was elected. Since then Hillary has made memes illegal and anyone in possession of them will be executed. Hillary also has a corrupt police force, knowns as the Deleters, working for her to enforce her laws. But there is a group of people called the Resistance, who are devoted to stopping Hillary. Sadly they are failing causing them to go into hiding. But soon a kid would join them…a kid who would take down Hillary. Now our story starts at an orphanage with a kid named Timn Tim. Timn was no average teenager, he loved memes. But since memes were illegal they were difficult to find and he had to keep his love for them a secret. Timn had a pet frog, named Pepe. Pepe was a victim of Hillary’s evil tyranny when his raced was attacked by the Deleters, for

Faulkner’s works consisted of many dark touchy topics such as war, racism, mental illness and suicide in all of books, short stories, William Faulkner wrote about almost every part of life, from something that could be absurd at his time, to something real like racism in the American South. Throughout his life, Faulkner was kind of a rebel, notorious for his confidence, drinking, and he would often make up stories about himself. Faulkner wrote from experience and as a person who lived in the south during times of racism, he wrote about a lot of things in the south. To be exact his specific genre or style in which he wrote in is what some call “southern gothic”. Southern gothic is a unique style of writing and only expressed by very few authors. These stories usually take place only in the south and have darkness to them. His stories would use irony to examine the values of the American south. Instead of solely trying to add suspense with the style it is also used to explore social issues and cultural character of the south. Which leads me to one of Faulkner’s first important novels “Sartoris”. In Sartoris Faulkner focuses on a family during the world war era in the south. In the book the Sartoris family is one of the more important families in Yoknapatawpha County where the book is set. The Old Colonel, John Sartoris, represents an old and dying out order dating back to the mid 1900’s. His world revolves around his plantation home, his slaves and his

Craig Mullaney definitely made many challenges for himself and accepted challenges from others with no questions asked. Being the thriving Valedictorian of his high school class and earning other prestigious accolades he stood out from the other entire student. But at West Point, Mullaney would be intertwined with hundreds of other classmates with the same, if not more achievements, making it seemingly impossible to be any kind of a predominant student.