Christa Parravani's Her Summary

When the author, Karen Vyverberg, refers to geocentric and anthropocentric she means to understand and look at things in perspective of the earth which has been around for billions of years rather than having the perspective of a human who's only been around for a few hundred thousand years.We see the earth and can better understand our impact and how the earth changes when looking at things from a larger scale.This ability is incredibly beneficial as we can compare the earth from before and after mankind to see how we've affected the our planet.We can connect are actions to problems such as climate change and sea-level rising to our activity as humans.We see increase consumption of fossil fuels which in turn causes more pollutants to be released

Nobody should go through what I have been through. I’m Dora Rivkina. I am 19 years old and am the second out of three girls to be born into a Jewish family. My sister Liesl is three years older than me. I look up to Liesl. She is my role modle. There is no movie star or pop star that can ever top her. My sister Elaine is two years younger than me. Sheis still learning to speak German because my parents tought her how to speak English first. She looks up to liesl also. We act like liesl and try to dress like her. Both of my sisters are really smart and are good at figuring things out.

In Anzia Yezierska's short story "The lost beautifulness," the protagonist Hanneh Hayyeh scrimps and saves to be able to paint her apartment white to make it look respectable for her son Ady when he comes home from fighting World War I. Hayyeh wants some kind of hope to cling to in her desperate immigrant's life. Although the dialect of the characters is Russian-Jewish and the setting is in an early 20th century urban environment, the idea of immigrant aspirations and the conflict between rich and poor is a common theme in American literature.

Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” illuminates the fact that history has shaped an unfair role for women in today’s society. Boland criticizes the gender bias with regards to the limitations placed on women and their job choices despite their ability to be just as successful in the workplace as men. Regardless of the fact that the bias against women in the workplace is often overlooked, Boland aims to show the shared reaction of women to the gender bias prevalent in our society by using short sentence fragments, repetition, and a fire motif throughout the poem.

Imagine a wife and husband being married for 44 years and having one of them not remember who the other is, or their past life together. The film Away From Her (Egoyan, et al., 2006) shows viewers how the disease can greatly impact your life, and how quickly it can form. The film was based off of a short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (Munro, 2013). In both works, the author and the director portray a significant struggle between a husband and wife dealing with Alzheimer’s.

The daughter of Japanese immigrants to the United States, Mitsuye Yamada was born in Japan during her mother’s return visit to her native country. In 1942, she and her family were incarcerated and then relocated to a camp in Idaho. The Executive Order 9066 signed by President Roosevelt in February 1942 was the reason Mitsuye and her family were incarcerated. The Japanese attack on Pearl Habor in December 1941, gave military authorities the right to remove any and all persons from “military areas.”

Adam Zyglis harsh portrayal illustrates the need of society to take action towards abused wives; his picture represents sadness, anger, and fright, all present on the mirror’s reflection: a young woman covering her face with makeup, her face is bruised, her eye bluish red, and her shirt with an NFL ( National Football League) logo with the word WIVES in bold letters written under which represents her identity as a football player wife. The woman’s facial expression cries for media’s attention to take a step and reveal her misery to the world. this drawing aims to give people the knowledge of what’s happening behind the scene’s of NFL football player’s houses,the middle aged lady in the picture has blond hair, which gives the generic

In The Art of Racing in the Rain, Denny, Eve, and Enzo were characterized by the major roles in filling this great novel with action, emotion, and drama. Many people can learn many things from this book, whether it be good or bad. It was filled with life, death and new beginnings that played a crucial role in the story. Denny showed his determination and love for his family throughout the story. Eve showed the transition from life to death in the most beautiful way. Finally Enzo showed how precious life is and how much you can learn on the way.

I have finished reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. This book is about a young woman named Cath and how college changes her relationships and creates new ones. In the second half of this book, the reader sees how Cath’s relationship with her twin sister, Wren, is on unstable grounds. The sisters’ differing personalities and different opinions on what college life should be about, causes this rift between them. Cath’s relationship with her mother begins to change also. Cath resents her mother because her mother left when she was eight. Cath then had to take over the matriarchal position in the household and lost parts of her childhood because of that, so when Cath’s mother asks to be a part of Cath’s life, Cath staunchly refuses. Cath also starts

Carambola is an artwork made by Beatriz Milhazes in 2008. I chose this artwork because the colors and design got my attention. Beatriz started this piece of artwork with a square and she added more to it until it was collage filled up with geometric shapes and swirly designs. I think that’s what everyone does because when I’m bored I’ll get a piece of paper and start off with one shape or design and continue to do it until the page is full. It is basically designs of Brazilian culture with different shapes. It is based on, church facades, ruffled blouses of Brazilian Mardi Gras costumes, the design of the serpentine walkway that stretches, the exotic plants that’s beside her studio in Rio. I think this art work is non-representational because

Does anyone remember “Samatha” in Spike Jonze’s academic award winning feature “Her”? I remember seeing it and wondering to myself whether the feature film depicts a future not far from realization. It will be difficult to refute the argument that technological innovations are the bedrock towards a future filled with possibilities that escaped our imagination not many moons ago. In every sector, professional world, is on the lookout for ways to make business more streamlined to the point that it has become an intrinsic culture in any forward thinking organization to be abreast of technological innovations.

One. Nadya: In this chapter, Masha Gessen tells us about Nadya’s upbringing and gives us a hint of insight with regards to what influenced the impromptu performance in the cathedral, which she referred to as a “a punk rock prayer for freedom.”Also, the author tells us of the struggles that she had when it came to communicating with Nadya in the penal colony. Due to the extreme censorship, Masha had to use an assumed name and there was to be no mention of the publishing of books or articles. When they were in communication, many words and phrases were written in a cryptic

Although the small Idaho town where I grew up had a population of barely eleven hundred people, it wasn’t as if we were all alike. My best girlfriend was a Jehovah’s Witness, a boy I dated in high school was a Mormon, and the town undertakers were Seventh Day Adventists. The prettiest girl in town’s father was black, and down the valley some Japanese farmers owned land, but that was about it, except for the Basque sheepherders who brought their flocks through Long Valley in springtime, and the original Finn settlers, some of whom generations later still spoke the language. I never thought much about how insular we were until the Walkers adopted Elvira from Mexico.

In this poem “Woman’s Work”, the mother is forced to do household cleaning which represents a domestic life and the impact of gender specific roles. This poem is written in the third person point of view. The speaker is the daughter of a mother who doesn’t work outside, but only inside of the house, and is forced to do household cleaning with her as she hears her friends playing outside in the street. Author Julia Alvarez uses imagery, simile, and alliteration to portray the meaning of the poem that women work harder than men.

How did Sarah come up with these extraordinary worlds. How did she come up with the legendary characters like Celaena Sardothien in the Throne of Glass series. Well, Celaena kind of just walked right into Sarah’s head the moment she had the idea for the series. She also thinks that Celaena was a by-product of her love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kill Bill, Han Solo from Star Wars, and Disney princesses. She also wanted to write/ read a book where the heroine got to do all the ‘fun’ thing that the boys usually get to do like; kick butt, kill monsters, save the world. Sarah wrote Celaena Sardothien as a kind of morally grey character, because she wanted to write a character with much more to her. Celaena is an assassin. She kills people for