Death Be Not Proud By John Gunther

In Robert Cormier’s novel, We All Fall Down, is a young-adult thriller that explores the evil side of humanity through a number of corrupt characters. Cormier, to a large extent, accurately depicts manipulative and dishonest behaviour whilst also showing the evil lurking within the prominent characters of Harry Flowers, Buddy Walker and Mickey Stallings who showcase the dark side of humanity. Cormier explores this through Harry Flower’s manipulative actions that result in the suffering of others. Additionally, the constant dishonest behaviour is shown predominantly through the main protagonist of Buddy Walker, who deceives the one he loves. Cormier continues to depict the evil lurking in society through the theme of appearance

Cry, The Beloved Country by Allan Paton shows the theme of “the broken tribe” (Paton 104) throughout the novel. Paton shows the brokenness through the travels of the main character, Kumalo. Kumalo’s trip to Johannesburg and back to Ndotsheni signifies the novel’s theme, the broken tribe. Paton uses a poetic writing style to give the reader an insight into the brokenness that Kumalo sees. The broken tribe ultimately refers to the brokenness in the individual, in the land, and in the community.

Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs is a crime fiction book, where, a forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan tries to unveil the identity of three skeletons that were found in the basement of a pizza parlor in Montreal, Canada. Brennan works with homicide detectives Luc Claudel and his partner, Michel Charbonneau, and Andrew Ryan, who is also her lover. Throughout the book, both Brennan and Claudel doubted each other’s competence to solve the case. According to Brennan institution, she believes that the three skeletons might be recent, however, Claudel speculates it to be century old due to findings of three antique buttons near their bodies. As a result, Claudel puts very little effort in this case, whereas, Brennan is determined to identify the year of death so to validate her inspection and to drew attention of Claudel and her other colleagues to this case. In the process of solving this investigation, she finds herself dragged to other homicides that were affiliated with the three skeleton remains.

Divided we fall book is about a private first class name Daniel Wright trying to serve his country and do his duty to protect and served his home as an Idaho Guardsmen. The author, Trent Reedy served in the Iowa national guard for 7 years and a tour in Afghanistan. I believed the book was well written by the author by giving us dramatic moments and good postures. The plot of the story was great by giving us details and action to give us an answer. Trent did an excellent telling us a story of a young soldier who’s trying to do good for his country. The story is mostly about a 17-yr. old private in the Idaho Guardsmen who’s going to High school somewhere right by a lake. Daniel was not just a guardsman, he plays for his school football team for

In many ways throughout the short story Saki reflected very obvious experiences a soldier’s possibly have experienced during WWI. One of Saki’s example of what could happen to a soldier during war is when the two men get trapped under the tree. A different example that Saki shows that a soldier possibly could be in is when both of the men bluff and say that they have men coming to save them and no one shows up.

Live your life to its fullest, if I had to mention one thing I learned from Mary Oliver 's beautiful poem, "When Death Comes", that would be it. Specifically not letting time pass you by, or letting things like anxiety or anger control your life. The comparisons to death also help with understanding the magnitude of our mortality, and the importance of not taking each and every day for granted. With many fitting and unique metaphors I found it easy to be engaged with the poem. This leads also to a lot of relevant and surprising imagery, employing a more detailed vantage point for the reader. In "When Death Comes", Mary Oliver uses persona, metaphor, and imagery to speak not only of death, but more specifically living life to its fullest before death.

Parent’s Expectation for their Children Parents in the world are all different; they have different personalities, faces, and characteristics. Every humankinds are all unique, but there is one fact that society is in common, people do not want to fail, they want to succeed and that is why that they wish that their children to accomplish something, again that is the reason that all parents tell their kids to study and try to educate them properly. The short story Dear Brother reflects to this, the author Bernice Friesen describes the conflicts between kids and their parents very well like in modern days. The awkward truth is students have to study and work hard to become “successful person” and most students do not like studying in fact some

Not much is know about Theognis of Megara. Many historians have studied his works and findings and have estimated him living around c.550-540 bc (Theognis 2015). Others, like authors Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland, describe Theognis writing around 640-600 bc (Dillon & Garland 553). They also reveal that he used poetry as a vessel to channel his political and ideological views unto the various poleis and its residents at the time (Dillon & Garland 539). What is known about Theognis is through his writings that describe him as an upper class citizen who was conscious of his mortality and that wanted his writings to survive into the future (Theognis 2015). He also saw himself as an upstanding citizen in Megara who did

I strongly believe leading by an example is a reality. The words you speak often have no effect if you do not follow through with your actions. "People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." That is a brilliant quote by Lewis Cass, and I agree with him completely. It may be more difficult to model by your actions than it is to simply voice your opinion, but that is how true leaders are set appart from the rest. When you physically show people that you are not afraid to be different, it often gives others the confidence they need to shine their light. Actions speak louder than words. I see so many people proving this to be true everyday in multiple areas of my life.

We say we’re given one life but once death comes, how do we know if there is another after life. Atheist poet Dylan Thomas is a firm believe that there is no after life, and portrays this idea through paradox and symbolism.

In '' My left foot ,'' The author was fighting to overcome a inability whereas

This book has made me feel both very happy and very sad at various points. I felt both sad and happy when his brother Jack died.

“Sind es Schumerzen, sind es Freuden”(“are they sorrows or are they joys”) is a song from Brahms’ song cycle Romanzen aus L. Tieck’s Magelone, Op. 33 No. 3. As text for his song cycle, Brahms chose excerpts from the novel Die schöne Magelone by Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853). The novel tells a love story between Peter von Provence and Magelone, the king’s daughter. In this particular song, Peter and Magelone falls in love with each other. Though Brahms is most widely known as an instrumental composer, more than half of his opus numbers are devoted to vocal works. In Brahms’ song cycles, he avoided the traditional strophic forms. Instead, he chooses dramatic shifts in music material, unpredictable harmonies, and sudden changes in tempo and rhythm.

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel with remarkable lyricism written by Alan Paton. Born as a white South African, Alan Paton grew up during a time period marked by racial inequality and later became an activist against apartheid. He was a devout Christian so many of his writings reflect Christian faith. As an activist, he wrote many books about South Africa and racial injustice. While traveling around Europe, he began writing Cry, the Beloved Country, which was published in 1948. That same year the national party implemented apartheid, a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race (“apartheid”). Cry, the Beloved Country takes place during the historical period of growing tension that led to the political policy of apartheid. In the beginning of the book, Paton depicts the effects of racial segregation by showing economic inequality such as lack of land and resources causing people to move to urban areas. This novel brought worldwide attention to the increasingly segregated society of South Africa during the mid 1940s.

Mankind has always looked towards progression in all ways of life. Advancement requires change to a criteria’s state of being. In the short story, “Dead Men’s Path,” written by Chinua Achebe, we read about an ambitious headmaster wanting to instill modernizations into his area of operation. The story concerns the boundaries of tradition that are overstepped by the headmaster of an “unprogressive school.” (Chinua Achebe). We can often see modern-day governments overstepping public boundaries. The governing bodies that have overriding powers over the outcomes of historical and protected lands, often produce unfavorable protests by public groups that evolve from environmental concerns and public rights. With the smallest rebuttals by these protesting groups, we can sometimes see the power in which community contains.