Writer Frank J. Barbiere (The Howling Commandos of SHIELD, The Precinct) along with Artist Francesco Manna take a crack at John Carter of Mars better half in DEJAH THORIS #1. Dejahs has popped up in other Dynamite reads, most recently the excellent Swords of Sorrow saga. (I recommend buying the complete saga. It's on stands now). But I don't believe she's ever had a tale of her own. Probably should check nexus lexus to be safe. Anyways, it's long over due... Burroughs Barsoom is such a rich place to explore. It's space Shakespeare almost, big characters, high emotions, violence...what's not to love. It's the perfect place to set a story of a political and military coup. Essentially, that's the plot of DEJAH THORIS #1. DEJAH's father,
Growing up from a different culture, Richard Rodriguez looks back on his experience on how he faced the situation as the child of Mexican immigrants. According to his 1982 memoir, “Hunger of Memory”, Rodriguez uses his own observation “to argue that if the children of immigrants are to succeed in the United States, they must separate themselves from their home culture and immerse themselves in the English oriented atmosphere of the American school” (980). In “Aria”, Rodriguez has created an autobiographic essay of his childhood. In his essay, the author is against bilingual educators, who believe that children in their first years of school should be educated in their native language. According to Rodriguez this education method is wrong, it won’t be helpful, therefore children should be knowledgeable in the same language as the public one. The author’s main point is to strongly motivate children of immigrant parents to adopt English as their primary language in order to comprehend public society and have a better future.
11:00am- IRTC spoke with assigned CPS, Christina Davis, who reported that she observed the subject child and no visible injuries were present. CPS expressed that she reviewed a doctor’s notes the subject child’s mother had which states that the child was medically assessed and diagnosed with “pink eye.” Based on the above documentation, this case does not meet the criteria for an IRTC.
On September 11th 2001, 70 years old Rita Laser lost her brother. Along with Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber who as well lost someone special to them in the attack. Many of the victims families hid in silence after the attack, full of sadness, the government was trying to get revenge for the victims that were lost in the attack. However Rita Laser had a different outlook, she and others did not want revenge by killing other, her, Kelly, Colleen, David, Eva, and Amber were all trying to install peace into the world not start a war. In Sue Halpern’s “A Peaceful Mourning” describes that in the aftermath of the attack they have all devoted their lives into advocating peace throughout the world, in their lost one’s name.
In the essay, "Westbury Court," by Edwidge Danticat describes his past experiences in Westbury Court. An otherwise undesirable place to live with no consistent hot water and trash pilled up in front of the apartments, as his home. Danticat uses expressive and literary purposes, along with classification and narration, to convey his theme that individual experiences shape us and how we interpret things.
I am a member of the Butterfly Project Program. In class I painted a ceramic butterfly in memory of Yolanda Debax, a girl who died in the Holocaust.
Bethany Hall-Long story gives the reader a perfect example of what a day-to-day activities consists of when running a campaign. Campaign activates entails phone banks, literature drops, door-to-door canvassing, and house parties (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee, 2012). After reading Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee (2012), this student understood that running a political campaign requires hard work and dedication. As Bethany states she juggle caring for her family, legislative work, and nursing education (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee, 2012, p. 581). She spent three days in meeting which runs at least 8 to 12 hours long. As she states, the rest of her days were focused on doing community work, speeches, and working as a nurse educator (Mason, Leavitt, & Chaffee,
“For my part, I felt that I had somehow committed a sin of betrayal by learning English.”
Michelle Alexander makes some very interesting claims in chapter 4. We can honor the validity of her clams because she has the proper credentials to argue her points. “Michelle Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity” (back cover of The New Jim Crow). In order to teach these laws, you must thoroughly understand the issues that you have studied and we know Alexander understands the laws very well because she is teaching them. As a result of studying and teaching these laws, she can see the flaws in these laws more clearly that we can.
While reading "The Rememberer" by Aimee Bender was very powerful and had the most effective tone and style. I felt the joy that Annie felt when she talks about making love to Ben. I also felt the pain Annie felt through each phase of Ben's transformation. The way Annie is hopeful that one day Ben will come back to her makes me have hope for her. You can almost hear the sadness in her voice as she looks at Ben in his slamander form and asks if he, "remembers her." (341). The way Annie talks about Ben's reverse evolution is so descriptive, yet simple. Annie was open and honest to herself about what was happening to Ben. She was so calm, almost as she was at ease with everything.
I believe that everybody is right. Today, if people have different political views, one will be looked down upon. All I hear on the news is how the right is wrong or how the left is wrong. Instead of bickering, we need to practice civility. Instead of the yelling and screaming, we need to sit down and have respectful and reasonable conversations about our political differences.
In the book “The Memory Keeper's Daughter” by Kim Edwards a doctor and his wife have twins and the first child is a healthy boy but then the second child that comes out is a little girl with the signs of down syndrome and he asks his Nurse to take the baby away to an institution while he tells his wife the baby girl died. Through out the entire book it is a struggle for Dr. Henry's wife Norah to have closure with the fact that her baby girl is said to be dead and she never saw her, held her, or cared for her. Kim Edwards shows through the whole book that we are only human, the themes that life is beyond our control and through the connection between suffering and joy.
By late the nineteenth century the world was in an Age of Imperialism. The foremost European powers were all competing and swiftly increasing their territorial claims. Americans have always felt the desire to grow and expand the United States, they ultimately proved that with Manifest Destiny, when they settled from the east to the west coast. The idea of expansion overseas was something not new to the United States. The war against Mexico had allowed the United States to be carried into the Pacific and the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine allowed the United States to expand their sphere influence well beyond the Caribbean and into Latin America. American Historian Howard Zinn (1980) says that the Monroe Doctrine was, “Issued in 1823 when the countries of Latin America were winning independence from Spanish control, it made it plain to European nations that the United States considered Lation America its sphere of influence” (p. 297). Also, the very idea of imperialism is deep rooted and is expressed through that very ideal of Manifest Destiny. Bowles (2013) states that, “Many believed it was God 's plan for the United States to control the continent from sea to shining sea” (p. 8). With the outbreak of the Civil War, the idea of expansion and Manifest Destiny would be nonexistent, but this very idea of expansion outside the continent would return into the hearts of many American politicans and leaders at the end of the nineteenth century.
Chivalry as a necessary characteristic for Knights and brave men, heroes and aristocrats as depicted in early British literature provided a philosophy around key mix of values to readers, students and humanity at large.
In Ben Johnson’s “To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us”, Johnson dictates a dramatically sycophantic poem in honor of the late William Shakespeare. With his superficial, dramatic style, Johnson unveils his own envious attitude within the unbegotten admiration he appoints throughout the poem. By complimenting Shakespeare through this ironic voice, Johnson insincerely praises Shakespeare’s legacy in a clever attempt to highlight Shakespeare’s minute but mentionable flaws. Throughout the commemorational poem, Johnson cleverly praises Shakespeare’s seemingly incomparable success as a poet by incorporating other famous poets as a belittling contrast. While meant as a friendly coup de grâce, Johnson’s assessment of Shakespeare is Johnson’s ultimate attempt to align himself with Shakespeare, bearing praise unto himself as well. In a poem meant to highlight and enunciate Shakespeare’s unparalleled skill and talent, Johnson instead attempts to expose his faults in hopes of bringing Shakespeare closer to himself.
Racial equality means different things to different people. Often people aren’t aware that unconsciously they have developed preconceived ideas about race and equality. Ethnic groups, who’ve not experience race as an issue, don’t feel it’s a problem that needs addressing. However, identifying some of the characteristics of bias behavior based on race or ethnicity is the first step in minimizing the problem.