Summary Of Guts By Gary Paulsen

Countless people around the world listen to various styles of music. Despite the genre, whether it be country or hip hop, these songs deliver a message onto it’s listeners daily. Same songs could have a different meaning to different people depending on the experiences that they go through or the tribulations that one is currently facing. Spotless Minds by Jhene Aiko offers a message about love and how although love could be a blessing, it can also act as a curse. This song should not be viewed as merely a song, but more like a lesson that is teached using only a few lyrics. The deeper the context, the more meaning the song will have on particular people. The art in the way these lyrics are carefully composed, when sung, conveys a bittersweet message that reminds listeners of the joys and miseries of love as well as the experiences that Jhene went through. The lyrics, the deeper meanings hidden behind stanzas, and the relatability of this song are reasons why Spotless Minds is an interesting yet harsh reality that love isn’t how people see it in the movies. This song carries in it a meaning of true love that yearns to be heard around the world. Whether heard by a married couple or a high school relationship that is still blossoming, this song speaks to all who are willing to listen.

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, it's built around the class division between the Socs and the greasers. The kids in the Socs came from privileged and wealthy families while the greaser grew up in a unstable and poor environment, and it shaped who they are and how they act. The novel deals with issues important to urban teens, and the obstacles that are part of their daily lives, showing realism in Hinton's writing. In the article ¨The Urban Experience in Recent Young Adult Novels¨ by Sandra Hassell and Sandy Guild, it discuss the importance of urban teens worlds represented in literature. The article consists of many characteristics that are established in urban youth books such as, the usage of slang, strong sense of community,

The Outsiders Essay – Describe an interesting theme from a text you have studied. Explain why this theme is interesting.

Hello, John here, broadcasting from Lexington High School. Today I will be talking to you about the book All-In. All-In is written by Pete Hautman, it is all about poker, and more poker. All of the suspense involved with gambling and poker in this book makes it a thriller.

The Outsiders is a book about two gangs who are continuously fight each other and are at war. This book has many lessons you can learn from it. Along with all these lessons are quotes and this one is the one I like the best.”16 years on the street you can learn a lot, but not the thing you want to learn.” this this quote applies to Dally, Darry, and Johnny.

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.

Anti-Semitism is the hatred and discrimination of those with a Jewish heritage. It is generally connected to the Holocaust, but the book by Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale shows the rise of anti-Semitism from a grassroots effect. Smith uses newspapers, court orders, and written accounts to write the history and growth of anti-Semitism in a small German town. The book focuses on how anti-Semitism was spread by fear mongering, the conflict between classes, and also the role of the government.

Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from the 20th century, and slaves from the 19th century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel allows the author a sort of freedom when writing this "slavery narrative" apart from her counterparts. Butler is able to judge the slavery from the point of view of a truly "free" black woman, as opposed to an enslaved one describing memories.

66). Susan Marshall believes this was the moose's final stand, the moose believing these action displayed by townspeople actions were “to tame, ridicule or control it” (77). The moose “interpreted” these actions and begins to “reassert itself” displaying his strength (Marshall,77). The townspeople react to his action and let fear conquer them, believing the animal is a “threat” and firing a rifle killing the moose (Marshall,77). Also, David Fraser would argue that the townspeople would have no practical ethics towards animals. Fraser explains in his philosophical article on how humans impact animals into four sections. The townspeople broke section number three "Causing direct but unintended harm to animals” (Fraser,1). Both actions performed by the townspeople led to the animal feeling in danger, forcing the animal to stand its ground causing its

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“Thick as Thieves”, by Peter Spiegelman is a high suspense novel about a group of thieves who plan a robbery, that will score them millions of dollars. The reader first learns about the main character, Carr. Carr is an ex-CIA member, who has a bad relationship with his family. He is the leader of the crew who plans all of the thieving activities. His crew consists of Valerie, who works behind the scenes, Dennis, the computer wizard, Mike, handyman, and Bobby, the youngest, yet most promising member of the group.

Gary (Sherman) Snyder was born in San Francisco on May 8 in 1930 to the parents of Harold Alton and Lois (Wilkie) Snyder. When Gary Snyder was growing up, he lived in west part of the United States surrounded by nature. While he was living there, the destruction of the Pacific Northwestern forests began, even at such a young age it still caused him sorrow (“Gary Snyder”). While growing up in such a rural area, where Snyder had a farm with chickens and cows and even an outhouse as a bathroom; he thought that this was just another way of living. Gary Snyder is okay with living in the city as well, even though he prefers living in a highly rural area (Martin). He started to examine and appreciate the American Indian culture around him.

Body and Soul is a book about the Black Panther Party and their struggle for social justice against medical discrimination. The party used many tactics to reshape health politics, create equality in the healthcare field, and to reduce poor health in African Americans. The origin of the Party had an influence on their ideas and also emerged new ideas. The Party created new healthcare facilities and educational institutions to decrease medical discrimination. The Black Panther Party also attempted to demystify medical authority through the upbringing of the People’s Free Medical Clinics. They created campaigns in order to publicize different diseases to help prevent them as well as educate people. They fought against research groups to stop the medicalization of issues, including violence, that were the cause of sociological factors. They fought to desegregate the healthcare facilities and bring equality into the healthcare field. In this book review I will discuss the summary of each chapter, the connections that were made between the book and our class, Health, Biomedicine, and Society, an evaluation of the book, and lastly a conclusion that sums up the book and my recommendation of Body and Soul to other students.

Based on my research the university I am most interested is St. Thomas University. A discussion about St. Thomas University by my one of my travel softball coaches who is also the head coach at St. Thomas was the first thing that attracted me to the school. She frequently talks about the school and therefore I already know a great deal about it. A few times I actually had the opportunity to play scrimmage games against the St. Thomas University softball players and sometimes they come to our practices and help out; it is obvious in observing their behavior on and off the field that they are leaders because they carry themselves in a mature and diligent manner. These days those qualities seem tough to find, and it surprised me to see a whole team with type of character.

Gender is the state of being male or female. The word is used to describe, but gender does not define who a person is, or what they believe. Written on the Body, written by Jeanette Winterson gifts an example of a protagonist who 's name is unknown, who’s origins are unknown, and who’s gender is unknown, but even without all this needless exposition, which as little effect not the story, we are able to learn and enjoy the trials of our main character, and learn who they are without the need of knowing their gender. To achieve this Winterson uses writing techniques like Point-of-view, stream of consciousness, and conflicting character traits in order to create a world where one does not need to know the gender or name of the protagonist in order to relate to them or pursue a continued interested in their lives.