Like Black Smoke By Diana Childress Analysis

"Like black smoke" by Dianna Childress and "a World Turned Upside Down" by Mary Morton Cowan like their main idea, purpose, and pattern of organization. (simple)The author's purpose In "Like Black Smoke" is to show how the Black Plague spread far. Dianna Childress explains, "Following the 14th-centuray trade routes, the Black Death swept across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East", showing that it spread across three continents. In contrast, in "A World Turned Upside Down" by Mary Morton Cowan, the author's purpose is showing the effects of the Black Plague on the people and their city. (complex)Mary Morton Cowan says, "Cities and towns lost people by the

Gabrielle Roy's "The Move", highlights a young girl's longing for adventure and travel toward unknown destinations. However, as she realizes what is truly present outside her imagination, a surge of disillusionment comes over her. The child's description of horses, spearheading an adventure, but then falling ill and tired, illustrates the girl's realization that excitement and joy in the world cannot amount to her vivid imagination. In the short story, the image of weary moving horses parallels the child's sudden grasp of reality, illustrating the naive character's loss of innocence.

The poem, “Hanging Fire,” by Audre Lorde was a very relatable and enjoying poem to read.

Born in 1956, Beth Johnson is a mother of three and the author of multiple dominant pieces such as Facing Addiction (2006) and Surviving Abuse (2006). She lives in Lederach, Pennsylvania and her occupations include writing, freelance editor, and college professor. Johnson graduated from Goshen College and Syracuse University. Her writing mainly focuses on encouraging readers to accomplish their personal goals as well as college texts such as Everyday Heroes (1996).

There was debate about where or how the Black Death has spread from China all the way to England. Michael Dols helped with where it traveled to, Michael was a traveler during this time period. Europe and the East had some causes and prevention of the plague. Some were odd and some even more. Both drank liquefied Armenian clay to prevent from getting it, most died from doing this but they had hope. Both thought that the causes of this is was miasma, both had different reasons why it was a miasma. The background essay was part of both religion responses of the Black Death.

In the short story “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the protagonist foremost values his pride, which leads to his demise. The story starts off with the protagonist taking a detour in the Yukon so that he could survey the trees in the area (he was doing this so that he could send logs down the river to the gold prospecting camp, where he would sell the wood to the prospectors for money). But, the protagonist’s pride blinds him from what could have and should have done to ensure his survival in the Yukon. About halfway through his journey, he accidentally breaks through the ice on the spring and his foot falls into the water. At the temperatures mentioned in the story (seventy below zero), if he did not dry himself properly, it could lead to serious frostbite and/or death. So, he was forced to build a fire, and the “fire was a success. He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The old-timer had been very serious in laying down that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had an accident: he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish” (London 8). The man keeps feeding the fire and gets ready to take his (frozen and potentially dangerous) footwear off, and feels content and a sense of satisfaction of disproving the old-timers. But, just as it seemed to be that the fire was stable and strong, snow that was on the branches of the spruce tree he was under fell

Compare the ways in which poets reflect on parental relationships – Daddy by Sylvia Plath and Mother Who Gave Me Life by Gwen Harwood

The three stories question what it means to be human by presenting different perspectives on how humanity deals with certain topics and also what may be flawed with some of the choices they make in each story.

In her essay “Throwing Like a Girl,” Iris Marion Young examines why women move differently than do men. She discusses the apparent observable differences in bodily comportment, physical engagement with things, ways of using the body in performing tasks, and bodily self-image of feminine existence. Young makes the argument that the differences between men and women are not caused by a mysterious “essence” or by any biological or anatomical limitation, but, rather, we are socialized into “being” in our bodily space by the situation surrounding our existence.

In the article, "Like Black Smoke" by Diana Childress, and the article, "A World Turned Upside Down" by Mary Morton Cowan, like black smoke talks about the similarities and differences of the two articles purpose, main idea, and pattern of organization. The authors purpose in "Like Black Smoke" is to show how the Black Plague spread far. Diana Childress explains, "Following the 14th- centuries trade routes, the Black Death swept across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East," showing that is spread across three continents. On the other hand, the authors purpose in "A World Turned Upside" by Mary Morton Cowan is to show how the Black Death affected Europe. Mary Morton Cowan explains, "The bubonic plague, which in just four years killed

Octavia Butler’s Dawn explores a world of the unknown after humans nearly destroy their kind along with Earth, causing an extraterrestrial species to intervene. The protagonist, Lilith, finds herself in a predicament as she is captured and locked in solidarity for a long. The extraterrestrial species that intervenes, Oankali, strip her of her clothes, mysteriously cut her and then tell her it is her role to mother a group of humans and prepare them for a return to Earth. In the novel Lilith is conflicted, she knows she has no control of her body and that humans have been “enslaved” by the Oankali but begins to trust and connect with them, especially Nikanj. Through the relationship of Lilith and Nikanj side by side with Humans and the Oankali, Octavia Butler explores the monstrous aspects of people and acts within the cultures.

Sometimes people hold on to our past which could cause us to lose understanding of others and in the world. For an example, the poem “To a dark Girl” by Gwendolyn Bennett is about how young black girls carry pain on the shoulders and they should let it go. This essay is about how the author’s use of tone , word choice , and imagery helps the following theme emerge in “To a Dark Girl”: that black girls should never hold on to their past.

Rosemary Horrox's The Black Death5 is entirely confined to Europe in the areas that presently comprise the United Kingdom6, Italy and France, and covers the plague through the first to the fourth outbreak. Horrox's book is similar to Aberth's Great Mortality in that it provides a selection of primary sources which, although they span the various outbreaks, also give insight to the medieval reaction. Additionally, Horrox subsequently goes into the reactions and consequences of the plague in the same way that Aberth does in From the brink of the apocalypse, only she provides primary sources for these. Before each selection of primary sources Horrox puts them into context consequently providing a set-up to each group of sources. This method comes across as much more organized than Aberth's Apocalypse from a research standpoint as it is much easier to isolate the information one may need. Like Aberth, Horrox maintains an impartiality in her book so that the reader can read the primary sources and experience the emotions uninfluenced and unbiased.

"My last night of childhood began with a visit home (Butler, 1995, p. 1).” In her short story Bloodchild, Octavia Butler presents the story of a boy named Gan raised in a dystopian society where two different species depend on each other to survive. From a psychological point of view, childhood is a process that marks a big part of your life. In Freud's subconscious theory, different events can be compared with the growth of Gan: the human mind structured as an iceberg, the memories of Gan and the last day of his childhood.

“They killed my son in cold blood,” lamented Eloise Armstead. Her husband, Add Armstead, was traveling to work with a companion on Saturday evening in the early 1970s. Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, responding to a call about a cabby that was robbed earlier that day, used this opportunity to rid the world of the wicked and gain a victory for the righteous. Walking along New York Blvd. in South Jamaica, Queens, Shea and his partner pulled alongside the two. Armstead says, as he recalls the incident, “We were walking, not saying anything to each other, and this car pulls up, and this white fella opens the door with a gun.” To him and his companion it looked like they were going to be robbed, so they ran. As the gunshots