Kido Chapter Summaries

Baca reveals a lot of background during the first chapter of the story. He describes all the dysfunctional things about his family, thus getting audiences that can relate to his past. He targets people that have similar backgrounds, so it’s easier for them to relate to the story. Baca, revealing in details of his background, also creates curiosity to those that can’t relate to his past. They read the story wondering what he did to survive the chaos, which was his family.

From the waves of the Gulf of Mexico to the plains of Indiana, from a barn in the Ozarks to the White House, this is a sweeping depiction of the effect of a major catastrophic change on the USA.

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

Sampson, George, and Rameck were three kids from the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey. They came from low-income families, and grew up without father figures. All three of them always did well in school, but others around them made a lot of bad choices. This caused many events that them caused them to go to jail. When they met each other in University High School, the three doctors decided to promise to each other that they would all go to college and become doctors. After they made the pact, there were a few problems, but these incidents never stopped them from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors. Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton

Chapter 5 from On The Rez informs the reader on different cultural as well as historical information regarding Native Americans. Frazier explains historical information that pulls emotion from the reader. Throughout the book, Frazier continues to bring up Native American traditions, conversely, chapter 5 explains situations different tribes went through. Reading chapter 5 in On The Rez has changed my opinion of the reasons behind Frazier’s book.

Imagine living in the midst of the Great Depression without a mother! That's how Bud felt in the book Bud, Not Buddy. Ever since his momma died when he was six, he has lived in an orphanage and at age ten went to live in his third foster home with the Amoses. However, after they treated him cruelly, he ran away and went through many hard and trying experiences before finally finding his father, who actually turned out to be his grandfather. He ended up staying at Grand Calloway Station with his grandfather's band, and learns how to play the saxophone. Bud, Not Buddy would be different if written in a modern era because Bud's mother wouldn't have died, he wouldn't be hungry all the time, blacks and whites wouldn't

A job as a parent can be hard, especially when the parents have lots of activities. They have to balance their time with the child and their own personal activities. Some parents choose to go do their own activities and not to spend more time with their child just like Chip’s parents. Jonah’s parents chose the opposite. Also, parents who are fine with talking about the child adoption probably loves the child more. Varying by how busy the parents are, the child will be loved at a certain strength or level. Jonah’s parents are nicer than Chip’s parents.

Chapter 1: “Tough and tuff are two different words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff mean s cool, sharp-like a tuff-looking Mustang or a tuff record. In our neighborhood both are compliments.” (Hinton, 12). After being beaten up by the Socs and almost experiencing death, his scars are TOUGH!!!

They are numerous aspects of Meyer’s book that specifically intrigued me. One was the weaving of the historical background about the creation of the Hutongs and the difficult process by which they were torn down. Another aspect of the book was the Olympics’ influence in diurnal life. Meyer portrays a fascinating and intimate portrait of the Beijing through the explanation of the Hutongs and the people residing within them. For example, the Dazhalan and specifically the Red Bayberry and Bamboo Slanted Street. It intrigued me to learn how people in Hutongs get to experience a more sense of community because of the lack of large spaces, the shared courtyards, and the shared lavatories. Meyer was able to connect with the Chinese people better and lose his title of foreigner because of the sense of community he had with the Widow,

This few chapters mainly talked about the past of Jackie's grandfather, Frank. In 1962, James Lanier, who also called jimmy, was walking on the street with his cousins, Curtis and Cory, and their mother, Alma on Santa Barbara after worship. While they were walking, they saw an Asian male, Kenji, was looking out the street, and they asked Kenji that how and what he was doing. Then, Kenji told them that he was trying to control the traffic on Crenshaw. After the conversation, James told his cousins that he thought Kenji was a crazy person because he didn’t understand why Kenji had to sit in there and control the traffic, there didn’t have any traffic. After Curtis heard that, he was angry and didn’t let James to say any bad thing about Kenji

The book describes that many homes of people who suffered from pellagra were unsanitary when removing sewage waste, thus transmitted by a microorganism, which is believed to have carried the disease, by direct contact with infected human excrement. But this explanation was not quite right. Many people failed to see alternative explanations. People also then observed that individuals who were pellagra victims were also malnourished. To pinpoint the cause of pellagra, a surgeon, his wife, and his assistants ate a ball of flour and small amounts of feces and urine from two pellagra patients. Not one person came down with the disease and so the surgeon looked for individuals on a more malnourished diet, prisoners at a local prison. The surgeon

Clary Fray is a normal 15 year old girl. One night, while she is out with her best friend Simon at the Pandemonium, her world gets turned around. When Clary notices a boy with blue hair and green eyes. She watches as a beautiful girl comes his way and watches as they go to a closet. Clary then sees them being followed by two other boys, one has a knife. Clary follows them to the closet and witnesses the three people kill the blue-haired boy. He then disappears. She realizes that no one else can see the three teens when simon comes in with security, and see nothing. Later, she follows one of the boys outside and confronts him. She learns that he is a shadowhunter, a demon slayer. He cannot be seen by others because he has cast a spell on himself. she is shocked when he tells her the fact that she can see him proves that she is not an ordinary mundane girl.

Conspiracy 360 setting is a place is a little town called Big River. The character of the story is a boy named Callum Ormond. He is fast and he is going need to run because he is a hunted fugitive. Even though he is hurt and people are also coming after him, he is on the run. The conflict is that Callum crashed a plane and he is trying to get to a little town called Big River near the plane crash when he is hurt.

As I stated earlier the Namesake focuses mainly on the upcoming of Gogol Ganguli. However, the story changes hands and is told from multiple peoples point of view as the book continues. The main people who narrate the story are Gogol, Mrs. Ganguli, Mr. Ganguli, and Moushumi. The book which covers a significant time gap or about thirty years starts off with Mrs. Ganguli pregnant with Gogol. Gogol was names so after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. He is named so because his father Ashoke had been reading a book written by Gogol years prior while on a train ride that we find out ended up crashing. Ashoke had survived the train accident by dropping the page of the book he had been reading which rescue workers had found. Per traditional values their family believes

Her brother's death, together with her own ingenuity and hard work, soon allowed her to take Nhamo's place at the mission as the family scholar and benefactor. In the end, it is her coming into her own feelings, feelings about the way she herself deals with the new world that had been opened up to her, both its rewards and costs, that does as much to shape her life as any of the education she receives at school.