Brief Summary Of The Book 'Maximum Ride'

Jerry Renault, the lead role of the story, who is a freshman at Trinity High School confronts the schools’ gang. The schools’ gang is called The Vigils, and the leader of this gang is Archie Costello. Archie is specialize in making assignments for the students to complete. The assignments can be difficult or easy: it depends on the person.

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha. The greatest adventure in life is discovering your inner self and finding the purpose of it, It is the roots of everything that we do and where we base our actions on. The book “The Uninvited” written by Tim Wynne- Jones, is a story set in the modern time in a remote and distant little town in Ontario, Canada. It is set in three different points of view of the characters Mimi Shapiro, Jackson Page, and Cramer Lee. Mimi Shapiro is a quirky and bold student from New York, she comes from a wealthy divorced family and is using this opportunity to escape from a weird relationship with her professor. When she arrives at the cottage where she accidentally discovers her half brother Jackson Page who is a musician and songwriter. They spend the summer together along with Iris Wu, Jackson’s girlfriend and discover awful secrets about the little town. Cramer Lee is an awkward boy who often breaks into Mimi and Jackson’s cottage and steals a few valuable items. Cramer also follows around and stalks Mimi every so often but he sincerely cares about Mimi and wants to love and cherish her. During Mimi’s visit, they become mature over the experiences and occurrence while looking for the answers along with Jackson and Cramer in “The Uninvited”. By using the examples of the setting of the story, the narrative point of view and the character development it contributes to the story’s development

In 1962, the movie, Ride the High Country directed by, Sam Pechkinpah, Steve Judd takes along one of his partners that he has known for years to a job delivering gold for a bank as a bank guard. His partner insists on taking a friend that, Steve has never met before. This man is young and naïve. During the journey partner, Gill Westrum convinces him to take the money because it’s the most money they have ever had. Steve Judd, never leaves the side of good during the journey to deliver the gold. As many turning points occur tension is created when he discovers that his partner and his friend want the gold for themselves, and man vs man conflict is created as the make their way through, The High Country.

Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing is a Western of subtly crossed borders. Vanderhaeghe elicits a sense of blurred lines between opposites, giving the illusion that boundaries are not so statically fixed. The historical figure Jerry Potts illustrates that the division between Indigenous and white is not so easily distinguished by ways of appearances, languages, and relations. The lines of health and illness intertwine as the reader follows Addington’s syphilis, Custis’ mystery ailment, and the Indigenous peoples’ struggle with smallpox. Justice, punishment, and the law become subjective in the novel with regards to Madge’s death, Addington’s military massacre, and Indigenous resistance against unfair treatment. Distinctions between

“Bloom,”p402 A beginning, a new start of something beautiful. “Riding Is an Exercise of the Mind,” written by N. Scott Momaday, a short about himself when he grew up as a child in the vastness of Jemez Pueblo, N.M. When reading this passage, I noticed how he described adventures he had lived through and how he had begun to see his world in color. “One November, on the feast of San Diego, Jemez took on all the color of a Renaissance fair.”p402 In a bloom you can see some of the brightest colors of the world in a single glance just as Momaday saw here. When his family moves to their new home he does not only see it in color but smells and almost becomes one with the landscape. “Riding is an exercise of the mind.”p402 (A quote from

Paul Revere's Ride is a collection of historical accounts centering around Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the countryside of the battles that occurred. The novel is made up of narrative accounts that tell the whole story of the midnight ride. David Hackett Fischer goes to great lengths to cover every possible angle in telling the story. "Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man far more complex than a simple artisan and messenger"(3). By adding different perspectives he allows the reader to see not only the American idealistic point of view, but we get a chance to hear British accounts of these particular events. In this way Hackett Fischer paints an accurate and unbiased picture not only of Paul

The book, “The Devil’s Highway,” by Luis Alberto Urrea tells of the story of a group of men who tried to get to the United States using this long and dangerous pathway. While this book was written in 2005, some of the problems mentioned in the book still go on today, as do their reasons for taking part in this dangerous journey. This book opens up people’s eyes to what people will do for even just a little glimpse of something better, something that they can be happy with. Urrea’s telling of these men’s story relates to many things and teaches us how things are in places a lot of people in America don’t pay attention to.

In the two version of the the story, the movie and the book, this age passage is treated differently. First of all, in the movie, children have more

One of the things it can be seen as is a coming-of-age novel. If you just look at their age and the way Finny and Gene present themselves they seem to be mostly mature. However, as seen in the book, Gene features almost child-like tantrums. On page 55 Gene says “I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless job, or intolerable promise-”. In contrast, Finny is more emotionally stable. He always tries to see the bigger picture and consider everyone else point of view. Gene

The most important chapter in Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann is the one that brings different classes of people together. In the chapter titled “Those Who Saw Him Hushed,” New Yorkers of all walks of life, all races, all genders stop to watch the figure of a man balanced outside a window of the World Trade Center. “Doctors. Cleaners. Prep chefs. [... ]Wall Street,” stood together to crane their necks towards the sky (McCann 4). People who would not interact on a usual day are standing and talking to one another. Because they happened to be in a specific spot at a certain time, they met and were friends with perfect strangers. The social classes had no effect on the tightrope walker and why he was walking between the twin towers.

The background of the film is that we are not far from the future, genetic engineering has changed the world. After accurate pairing, human descendants will inherit the excellent genes of the previous generation and remove the inferior genes. Since then, the birth of human beings will determine the fate of DNA is the only curriculum vitae, naturally

Like all great stories throughout time, a compelling villain is the key to making a story worthwhile. In short stories like, “Where have you been, where are you going,” and, “Love in LA,” a though provoking antagonist was used by the authors to really give the stories some depth. The antagonist of, “Where have you been…”Arnold Friend takes on the persona of temptation to the protagonist Connie and really emphasizes the theme of be careful what you wish for. Connie was a young girl who repeatedly met up with older more mature boys; but one day Arnold Friend arrives at her house and coerces her to leave with him. The story abruptly stops there leaving the reader hoping for more. The antagonist of, “Love in LA”, Jake, an unemployed dreamer,

The man from snowy river is a very descriptive poem about a very precious horse that joins the wild bush horses. The owner puts a hefty reward for its capture and all the riders around prepare to pursue the valuable horse. The riders cut the horse from the mob and the horse goes into rough terrain. The bush defeats all but the ‘man from snowy river’. His experience and courage drives him to go everywhere man and horse could go.

An increase in social standards, placing pressure on people to pursue perfection could very well lead to the demise of social integrity. Although society in the film was sterile and genetically enhancing embryos was necessary, in reality significantly altering nature could very well lead to the demise of our humanity. We live in a world of freedom and choices, the opportunity to pursue our dreams. It is ethically wrong to limit a person’s potential and oppress their desires simply because of their genetic makeup. We as a society have worked very hard and continue to work hard for social freedom, equality and the right to

Sexuality and violence is an integral part of human nature that is distinct yet at the same time linked in many ways to each other. In nature, the majority of alpha males have dominance over the female counterpart whether it is in their daily lives or sexual interactions. To some extent, it is similar in human beings, where power, aggression and authority may force the weak to be subjects of their abuse. Without the protection of law and order, as seen in past human societies, immoral and unethical events would occur. While women had always been the target of sexual abuse since the early ages, males and as well as other gender identities are not uncommon targets. Perpetrators and victims may not always be the ones who we expect them to be. Speaking from a psychological perspective, it is believed by some, such as Sigmund Freud and his followers, that it is the nature of human beings to be motivated by primitive sexuality needs (Mannoni 1971, 146-147). The ones that are weak, physically, mentally and socially are often victims of sexual abuse. Art history had depicted many instances of sexuality and violence that reflected the view of society at that time, since sexuality in text did not simply analyze an already constituted area of cultural knowledge; rather, they actively defined cultural knowledge (Nead 1990, 326). The purpose of this research paper is to review the perspectives of selected art pieces from different eras and compare the impact it brings to the society on