Deep Down Dark By Hector Tobar

All the light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, chronicles the lives and relationship between Marie and Werner, two children who grew up in France and Germany. The society around them forces discriminatory ideals that cloud their perception of the world, but they find its meaning through their own self-definition. In this, they are both guided by a single radio and the message and legacy that it contains. Throughout the book, the author isolated the two characters, but also created subtle connections between the two. The most important of which would be the radio. It created a bond between the two where they learned from each other’s experiences and struggles. All the Light We Cannot See recreates a new picture of the world by contrasting the two separate journeys taken by Marie- Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig to gain that image, which is guided by the power of a radio and the message it contains, ultimately leading to the meeting of the two characters that officially forms an image of the world where one’s actions are valued more than one’s physical features.

When thirty three vastly different men are trapped in a mine for sixty nine days in a situation in which both their physical and mental abilities are pushed to the limit, the results are an eye-opening experience for both the miners and the world raptly following their amazing journey. While reading Hector Tobar’s Deep Down Dark, which chronicles the ordeal, it is hard not to empathize with the thirty three miners. Each of the men reacts to the situation very differently and as the book progresses, it is easy to begin to relate to the miners’ personal stories. For me, the most relatable and engaging man was Edison Peña. While it may not seem like it on the surface, as I am not an alcoholic and Edison Peña is not a college freshman, in spite

In the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, is about the conspiracy of how the CIA had monitored the selling of crack cocaine in America to help fund the Nicaraguan contras secretly. And also during this process the Nicaraguan drugs were being sold to inner cities to create a drug known as crack that harmed the black population drastically.

On Thursday, August 5, 2010, A collapse of one of the shafts in the Chilean copper mine left 33 workers trapped approximately 300 meters underground. At once, rescue efforts began but just two days later another collapse in the mine halted the efforts of the rescue

In the book Night over Day Over Night, Paul Watkins tells a story about a boy named Sebastian, who signs up for the SS in 1944. Sebastian’s reason for joining is simply because he believed that you either join the Navy, Army, or the SS when you reach a certain age. Watkin’s book takes you through the boy’s life before he signs up, during his training and combat experience, and what he’s like after all of it.

Throughout the novel, Touching the Void, the author, Joe Simpson, describes his perilous journey through the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It is through the two key turning points in the story that humanity 's greatest struggles, fears, and revelations can be discovered through how Joe and Simon react in their varying situations.

To the families of the 33 miners that are trapped in a copper mine that collapsed in Chile:

For a reader to become truly involved with any book or novel, the characters must be relatable, if not by age or gender, then by the details into their lives. To create the illusion of people rather than just non-descript characters, whether in fiction or non-fiction. In Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar, the reader becomes connected with the stories these men, even as their story is dissimilar most of the audience through his incredible writing. The prologue of Deep Down Dark was informational, giving the reader not only a personal connection with the characters, but it also giving a history on the environment, while my rewrite is choppy and non-descript, making it more difficult to connect with the characters.

In Paul Bogard’s “Let There Be Dark” builds a persuasive argument to persuade his audience that natural darkness should be preserved. Bogard uses a personal story, appeals to people’s emotions, and states benefits of natural darkness. He also uses features such as touch, feeling and seeing. Touching all of these features within Bogard’s essay will make his argument stronger on whether natural darkness should be preserved. Bogard begins his argument by providing a story from his personal experience, appealing to the reader by adding imagery.

In the article, “Let There Be Darkness,” Paul Bogard argues that our world is losing darkness, and this should be stopped. He builds his argument by using several different means, appealing to credible sources as well as emotion.

Over the years, societies of all shapes and sizes have focused their attention toward basic fundamental living. Clothing, housing, occupation, and food are among these basic necessities. Humanity’s existence has been so concentrated, that the likelihood of global catastrophe has been deemed inconceivable. However, this blindfold of oblivion unveils in a recent short story. Ray Bradburry’s “The Last Night of the World”, uses dialogue to express the theme of consciousness in efforts to awaken readers of the possibility of natural disaster.

This emotional image shows one of the 33 miners being evacuated after staying underground for 69 days. The 2010 Copiapó mining accident was one of the worst natural disasters of Chileans history and the story made international news. This tragedy helped unite Chile, and it raised awareness to the dangerous mining conditions. Organizations and countries including Canada, United States, Australia, NASA, and FC Barcelona helped out by providing resources and raising the men's spirits.

On September 11 , 2001 millions of americans were astonished by the horrible news that the World Trade Center was hit by two planes. With nearly 3,000 people dead and hundreds injured in America was under a terrorist attack .In the novel “Falling Man” by Don DeLillo, it focuses on a businessman by the name of Keith Neudecker who had survived the attack on the World trade center. Throughout the book you get a vivid image of Keith life from when he’s walking through the streets during the attack on the world trade center to seeing his life transition after the attack happened. Even though this was a dramatic tragedy this wasn 't America 's first and also not the last . We’ve seen America at its best and also its worst from Pearl Harbor to helping stop communism in Vietnam. Even though these events made a huge impact on America, we still find ways of rebuilding ourselves and also our country and give you a different outlook on how 9/11 was for the survivors.

This motif of “the play of light and shadow” referenced by Chiaroscuro was seemingly extended by Program Eight of the Here/Now Festival throughout the evening. Two ballets representative of “shadow”--Funérailles and Oltremare--were interspersed between the three (Ash, Common Ground, and Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes) in which “light” was predominant.

Our mental health is just as important as our physical health. When our body is damaged, we seek treatment and more often than not the road to recovery is easy. When our brain becomes damaged however, the answer to treatment is not always clear and what may work for one person isn’t guaranteed to work for the next. Advancements in scientific research have forged a new path for possible methods of treatment, though we are still left not fully understanding why our brains react the way they do. Free the Mind by Phie Ambo follows Dr. Richard Davidson, Emma Seppald and some of their research patients, as well as a young boy named Will. In the film Davidson expresses that he believes meditation could play a key role in improving the mental health in both veterans suffering from PTSD and children facing disorders like ADHD. Phie Ambo’s film Free the Mind (2012) persuades the viewer to choose meditation for the improvement of mental health by providing emotional triggers and scientific research.