Chapter Summary Of Jared Steel By Jared Diamond

In Chapter 5 Mike Rose starts working with the Urban Teacher Corps in East Los Angeles. Of all the chapters I read from this book, I found chapter 5 as one of my favorites. Rose provides us with a look into the academic and personal lives of his students. He integrates pictures and music with his teaching methodology to get his kids to think creatively. And of course, it helps him to understand their lives and complications better. I really enjoyed reading about his idea of taking photos of the kids and let them write about what they see in those photos. Their answers show how they see life. I think Rose tries to show us that education is more complicated than just teaching the syllabus. He seems to be more enduring with his student’s like

What does the novel say about materialism? What, if any, are the similarities between the 1920s American society and the 21st Century American society with regard to materialism?

Fledgling is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl, whose alarming unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion. She is in fact a genetically modified, 53 year old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, at the same time learn who wanted and still wants to destroy her and those she cares for. This is a very interesting parable that tests the limits of otherness and questions what it means to be truly human.

full ride about the history of our Corps as well as why we are who we are today. Krulak tells

3.) Everyone is treated equally, and this idea is called “sameness” in regards with the book. This takes out the daily stressors in life, such as reducing anxiety due to social differences as well as prejudgement.

From supporting evidence and three quotes, shows my thinking that the theme of the book is that not everybody is like you think they

The first example of society behavior is used through the story of a late thirties white man name Benhard Goetz who shoots four black youths on a subway cart in New York. This anecdote is significant to the novel because it takes place in the mid-80s where society is pointed by drugs, and violent brutality wreaks havoc through the city of New York. Leaving his Manhattan apartment, Goetz hops on the subway and notices four African American youths “horsing around,” and “acting rowdy.” According to the story, Troy Canty, one of the boys, asked Goetz for five dollars. Out of instinct James another one of the boys, “gestured toward a suspicious-looking bulge in his pocket, as if he had a gun in there.”

The general argument made by Robert L. Heilbroner in The Master of Steel: Andrew Carnegie is that Andrew Carnegie was a Captain of Industry. More specifically, Heilbroner argues that Andrew Carnegie was a benevolent industrialist who capitalized on opportunities to amass a fortune in which he would later donate towards the benefit of humanity. Andrew Carnegie grew up in a radical environment in Scotland where the arrest of his uncle shaped him into a Republican that despised privilege. Due to the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of steam mills, Carnegie’s family was forced to sell their looms and move to America in order to find new opportunities. Heilbroner points out that young Andrew Carnegie had a negative view on wealth

From the ideas shared in the novel, it is evident that the writer defines his ideal society in the form of an antithesis of existing society. The author takes the initiative of informing the American population - using the novel’s romantic medium - on matters concerning individualism, which is notable in an argument by Andrew Carnegie who claims

I am reading Blades of Glory by John Rosengren and I am on page 179. This book is about a hockey team from Canada. The name of the hockey team is the Fighters. The main character is named Blake. Blake is 16 years old and is the captain of his team. Blake is a very positive leader but he has serious family problems. Blake’s dad passed away when Blake was ten. Blake was extremely upset about his father’s death and Blake considered quitting hockey. Blake’s mom did not let Blake quit because she knew that Blake’s dad loved watching him play. Blake was elected captain of his high school hockey team. Blake was determined to be the greatest captain he could possibly be. The team is doing very well, and made it to the section championship game. Blake was injured, but he

Acceptance and security. These are the two things that every human being wants. How they gain those two things varies from person to person.But most of us are privileged enough to not worry about these two very important necessities.However there are people in the world who are not so lucky. Those are the people who are failed to be understood by the rest of the world. However a lot of us are asleep to those people and their problems.Sometimes it takes a piece of art or literature to wake us up to those problems and a piece of literature that can do that is the novel written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders.In her novel Hinton, writes about two socioeconomic classes, the greasers and the Socs, who live their lives on the two ends of social status, near-poverty and full on rich, respectively.The cloak of money shields both sides to understand the others problems and the society is unable to take off the cloak as well. The novel is also a good eye-opener to how social,emotional,and economic forces can shape a person’s life and how if one can truly understand a person for what they are the world might just be a better place.

Milton Kuyers is a son of factory worker who grew up in Jenison, MI. He attended Calvin College and graduated with an accounting degree. He worked in the public accounting atmosphere for more than 5+ years when he realized that he wanted more of a life with his family. In order to make this change happen he took a 40% pay cut and joined Sterling manufacturing company as its new CFO. He later became the President of this company at the age of 33 and has been president of companies ever since then.

Tim O’Brien, the author of “Heroes”, discussed and elaborated his emotions and reactions to receiving his draft notice as a young man. He looks to Elroy Birdall as his hero, not for his advice, but his silence. He portrays his message on heroism by explaining that heroes don’t always give advice; however, they can sometimes be heroes just by listening. Tim O’Brien appreciates and admires the “mute watchfulness” of Elroy (O’Brien 278). He composes this argument through rhetorical elements and syntax.

to disengage from meaningful human connection. The realease of this book created a wave of disagreement and contreversy but many saw this book as a symbol of cultural

The author, Jared Diamond, is asked a question by a local politician,Yali, while studying birds in New Guinea. His question is, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?". This question leads Diamond to write a book attempting to answer why some humans in certain environments developed faster than others. Food production, writing and government had already started to develop by 11,000 B.C. in many areas around the world such as the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia. Many Native Americans and Africans were still using wood and stone tools while Europeans had steel by A.D. 1500. Many people and historians believe that Europeans are biologically