Life As We Knew It Summary

Greed plays a huge part in some families especially between siblings. Sharing family heirlooms can be the cause great conflict in families, this is one example, through which sibling's greed becomes evident. This and other types of greed tear one family apart in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”. In some cases, one may feel as if they would be able to take better care of the desired heirloom instead of their sibling or siblings. This and other forms of greed are destructive to the family in, “Everyday Use”. This small family that includes a mother and her two daughters go through some trying different word times in life. The oldest daughter, Dee, is extremely different than both her mother and her younger sister, Maggie. Dee wants nothing but the best in life and does not seem to care about what she must do to get what she believes she needs. The world has never told Dee no, until her mother refuses to give her their family quilts, but insists on giving them to Maggie. After this conflict, Dee leaves her mother and sister’s home.

In “Life According to T.V.” written by Harry Waters and published in Newsweek in 1991, Waters examines the effect that television has on everyday lives. He says that TV has given Americans an unrealistic view of how life works. From jobs to minorities to how women are portrayed to crime rates nearly all aspects of TV are unrealistic or exaggerated. George Gerbner was used to back up Water’s theory on how television impacts people. Water states that heavy viewers of TV are more unrealistic in their view of the world than light viewers because they are exposed to more of the unrealistic ideas portrayed in TV shows than light viewers. The jobs on TV are often expressed as high ranking jobs like lawyers, doctors and athletes rather than blue collar or service jobs such as small businessman or teacher. According Waters the elderly are depicted as being sick and weak when they are actually the opposite. Women are also portrayed as mothers and lovers more often than successful working women.

"Life as We Knew It," is a book by Beth Pfeffer, which is known to be science fiction. The story involves environmental changes, which involves science but can be fictional as well because it is not likely to happen in reality. So this story was written by Beth Pfeffer and she had decided to write this book after watching a show about a meteor. She asked herself, what it would be like to be a teenager living in a catastrophe. Beth later came up with the story, writing it as a 16 year old girl's diary. The story first main point starts out with everyone getting ready to watch a meteor pass and ends up hitting the moon.

I especially enjoyed seeing how Anne talked to her parents because I liked comparing the way she spoke to her to the way I speak to my parents and how my friends speak to their parents. Even in the play Anne talked about how she wasn’t going to be like her mom talking to her parents, no “yes ma’am”s or “of course mother”s. Just seeing that showed how much even at that time families had changed, and then looking at how much we’ve evolved since is amazing.

In The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao the narrator, Yunior, has a couple of symbolic dreams after the death of Oscar. One of his dreams involves a masked man holding a book with blank pages. The images that appear in the dream give the reader insight to Yunior’s hope for the de Leon family, who experience many tragedies as a result of the reign of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Although much of their history is lost or destroyed due to this bad luck, or fukú, Yunior seems to believe that he can bring the family zafa. It is through his dream that he is able to realize that there is still hope for the future through remembrance of the past, as opposed to avoidance or silence.

The narrator in Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is a high school aged girl named Miranda, who longs for adventure and has a kind heart, even if she can blow her top occasionally. The motivations behind her actions shift in big ways throughout the book as she matures and fights for survival.

They arrived from Hong Kong with nothing but debt. That debt was to no one else other than her aunt Paula. There was a saying: “Blood is thicker than water”, but unfortunately, this saying was not true in Kimberly’s case. Her aunt thought that Kimberly and her mother owned her a life debt that could never been repaid, because she had brought them to America (256). She gave them an illegal place to live. The author described the way they lived so vividly that filled the readers with emotion. Their apartment was in a terrible state. It lacked heat and real furniture. The wind can blow through the windows where “the windowpanes were missing or cracked” in the middle of New York City winter. They had to live under the same roof with roaches and mice running around. They had to keep the oven on during the winter days as it was their only source of heat. They had to cover their body with layer and layer of clothes but still, that was not warm enough. What really helped her family survive that winter was the cloth used to make stuffed animal in the toy factory trash. They wanted to take the warm material home right away but they were afraid of being late for work. It is very emotional when they kept worrying that other people might take it, that it might not be there when they finished their job. The material, which only was trash to other people, was really a treasure to them, made

The Future of life, written by Edward O. Wilson, developed a novel with a plethora of ideas, theories, and problems within in our world today. Wilson breaks down concepts into greater context which gives the reader in depth description to show the reader a better outlook on issues in our society today. The author lectures in chapter two, The Bottleneck on how and why the world is overpopulated. Wilson gives great insight, facts and solutions that will lead into what the future looks like for an overpopulated world. Wilson begins by opening chapter two with questions regarding the population shift around the world.

What I really adore about the film is that the characters seem to represent the real people awfully well. I don't know how the real people acted, but the characters pulled off the whole "coy and southern" act. I love the how the southern culture was shown and how the movie scenes showed the green land, It reminded me of when I moved to Arkansas and how everything was different from New York. I made a connection to the Loving's when they moved to a totally different area. My situation was less drastic than theirs, but I could relate to the feeling of moving away from all your family and friends and not knowing when you will see them again. That is why I understood why they secretly moved back there and started a new life in hiding, even though it had me on the edge of my sit. Both the characters were relatable on the way the feel about the situation. Richard was very paranoid of other people and was more cautious. That seems like a splendid idea, but Mildred was right about wanting them to get more publicity, so their story could be shared with other

While the men were off looking for evidence besides what they considered trifles, the women explored what was the life of Minnie, they saw her anxiety in the sewing and knew how upset she would be about her preserves. Besides this, they understood how lonely it would be to be all alone with no one besides John Wright, who most knew as a cold man. Even if they didn’t see the abuse in the Wright’s relationship, they still saw that he was insensitive and didn’t care about her feelings. The two women begin to “participate in this vision of solidarity,” (Holstein) after they understand why Minnie murdered her husband, they decide to cover it up. When talking about the items Minnie requested, the two women remark how she wanted items that wouldn’t be very helpful in a jail cell, however, these items are to provide a sense of stability for Minnie, Mr. Hale remarked that she looked like “she didn't know what she was going to do next” (Glaspell, 1006). Victims of abuse commonly gain a dependence towards their abuser, as they are the largest controlling factor in their life. Her wanting of an apron or her sewing projects is just something for her to hold onto the

One scene that was emotionally engaging for me to watch is the scene between Officer Ryan and Christine when he was saving her when she was in an accident. The previous scene between these two characters was a harsh scene as Officer Ryan abused his powers by having a pat-down against Christine and violated her. In the scene that Officer Ryan was saving Christine she panics even more seeing him and screams "don't touch me" as she feel traumatized from their past encounter. Officer Ryan convince her that his motives is to save her and eventually gets her out of the car. Editing adds an emotional scene due to the music.

In “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck, the theme of “greed as a destructive force” has been shaped strongly throughout the entire book. My thesis statement is that if Kino had the ability to change himself, his life could have also been changed. As written in the book, “The sun was behind them and their long shadows stalked ahead, and they seemed to carry two towers of darkness with them.” (Steinbeck, 88). Being a parable, “The Pearl” provides examples of greed and the role of fate in a human’s life.

For this week's post, pick a character from Anna in the Tropics and tell me what you think is their most interesting scene in the second act of the play. It could be the most emotional, revealing, tragic, comic, etc. First, set it up by describing the events that led up to this scene and the other characters involved. Then describe why you find it so interesting.

• -I would say the two scenes that stood out to me the most were the theater scene which was designed by Shoshanna to burn all the Nazi's in the theater, and the reason why that stood out to me the most was that she changed her image while remaining under the radar from the Nazi. She remembered how her loved ones were killed and when she had the opportunity to look (for) revenge she did. So when she heard that the Nazi would like to have a viewing at her theater, she took advantage and was able to devise a plan using the films to burn down the theater with the Nazis in there. And it was very smart because I didn't know how quick film could accelerate and catch on fire so quickly. Another scene that stood out to me was when Lt. Aldo Raine marking the Nazi soldier with their logo and the reason why I find that scene so fascinating is that this was a changing point in the movie because of Lt. Aldo was able to motivate and inspire his crew and it also introduced Sgt. Donny aka "The Bear Jew" who was known for slugging Nazi soldiers with a baseball bat.

Islam means surrender before the GOD, because they have faith only in Allah and nothing else and Islam is the complete code of life of the human beings on the earth, it does not only cover the social life of the human beings but it covers also the economy. GOD means generator, operator and destroyer, Quran came through the Revelations made by God to the prophet Mohammed (P.B.U.H) and was compiled in a book form in the life of the third caliph and provides the direction to the human beings for the right actions on the earth. The business is also the part of the right actions for all the Human beings and for the first time on the earth the Mudarbah system meaning Profit and loss Sharing business was performed by the Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H) for his Wife khadija (Rajiallah anhu); before the commencement of the Islam the Mudarbah types of business was not performed by the world business groups and the business transactions were performed by the small and big Merchants on that time only for the sake of benefits and with the motive of acquiring unreasonable interest. In the holy Quran, the four chapters are governed for the business transactions relating against the interest such as Sura Baqra, Sura Nisa,Sura Al Rum and lastly Sura Al Imran and emphasize on the principle of the Free interest economy. In the Islam religion the interest word is used in the Arabic term” Riba” or usury which means excess,exorbitant,pre-determined and unreasonable, because it increases the