Paradise Road Creative Essay

(E) The motif of the entire novel revolves around fire. Fire is used as a literal object as well as a

was a new route and this was only the second time that Mendez had taken it.

The Effect of Rituals on Identity Rituals, in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, can bring back one’s former identity after a traumatic event due to the spiritual connection it creates with one’s sense of self and the role rituals have in actualizing strong beliefs. In the second paragraph of the passage, Niska lays out food on three separate rocks without a thought to what she is doing. Niska’s faith in her culture allows her to prepare the food by placing salted fish on one rock, “on another some moosemeat and on a third, blueberries picked fresh from the bush” (Boyden 9). The way Niska prepares the food highlights the number three as a symbol, which is used to represent the relationship between life and death. In Cree culture, the number three signifies the three day journey a soul

I stare eerily at the horizon in front of me, as the boat lurches back and fourth across the sea sickening waves. Struggling to stand up, I finally give in, and sit down amongst my fellow comrades, The Queen’s Royal Lancers. Outranking the rest of my men entitled me to stay with the Japanese officers, our captors, but I refused to leave my men. Three weeks ago while running a simple scouting mission on a naval supply depot the Japanese possessed, my second in command Jack Merridew decided to trade sides, and dessert our scouting party. He willingly gave up the rest of us in exchange for money, and for the status of an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Now the dastardly traitor wines, and dines with the Japanese as the rest of us are

Freedom Road is book written by the renowned novelist Howard Fast. Fast has written many novels including Citizen Tom Paine, Spartacus and April Morning. Fast’s career was a bit controversial because of his affiliation with the Communist Party USA and his time spent incarcerated because of this affiliation. This did not deter Fast from utilizing his creative abilities in writing novels. He wrote his most famous novel Spartacus while incarcerated. Howard Fast died on March12, 2003.

“I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?” (General Douglas Macarthur). In the fall of 1944, World War is nearly coming to an end in Europe, but still rages in the Pacific theatre. American soldiers are going up against an opposition that will not stop at nothing until they are dead or victorious. All members of the Japanese army strictly follow the samurai code of Bushido that is heavily against surrender and sees it as dishonorable. One of the themes of Killing the rising sun, is the Pacific front of World War

It has come to my attention that a few fillings done by you had to be re-done by another provider. For instance, on your first day working at DAMC you did a filling on a patient in Jimmy Carter. However, the patient came back very upset because his filling came off and we lost him as a patient. Subsequently, a patient in Tara Blvd complained that a filling came off and it had to be re-done again. We understand that this happens from time to time, but being that it has happened in patient’s that you have seen. I am asking you to please make an effort and to take appropiate measures, so this issues won’t be repeted

The Meiji Restoration was a time of trouble for Japan. Battles were fought and lives were lost. During this stage, women aided by caring for warriors. In accordance with Yamakawa Misako’s account, the women’s duties were to “cooked rations, made bullets, and tended to the wounded” (2721). They were discouraged to fight, however. Women in battle looked bad on the country (2708). Nevertheless, in a time of incredible need, the Aizu

Tanimoto, a simple man with a kind heart, was deeply affected by the Hiroshima tragedy. He felt an obligation to do more to prevent mass destruction. This feeling lead him to met a group who would be known as the Hiroshima Maidens. Resorting to America after being turned down by the Japanese, Tanimoto toured the United States to raise money for those affected in Hiroshima with the help of Cousins. To his surprise, Tanimoto was accused of doing it all for the publicity. This accusation hit close to home because not only Americans, but even some Japanese people believed Tanimoto did it for the fame. When his past is taken into account, one would think Tanimoto had good intentions by helping victims of the atomic bomb, but Cousins and others took advantage of Tanimotos sincerity by twisting his story into a commercialized show.

Upon finishing Three Day Road I find myself in an almost state of shock from the concluding events of the story. This is due to the fact that I would not have guessed that Xavier would be the cause of Elijah’s death, especially under the circumstances in which Elijah was in turn attempting to kill Xavier. Moreover, this caused some disbelief on my end as the pair appeared to be the perfect friends from what we learnt starting from their relationship when they were kids. One can see this through how the two worked together and taught the other the information they were lacking. For instance, Elijah taught english and Xavier taught hunting. In addition to this, I personally feel that Three Day Road adequately represented the discrimination and

Dubbed as “inhumane”, “cruel” and “barbaric”, the results of the post war Tokyo Trials concluded the nation of Japan and officer’s action on her behalf were guilty of “inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and others” and the “murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the

Contrary to popular belief, the passionate optimism of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience directly contradicts the cynical view found in Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”. On the surface, Thoreau and Frost have similar viewpoints, and their works are complementary. However, although “The Road Not Taken” is often believed to be a celebration of thoughtful individualism, Frost actually intended it as a mockery of indecision and boastful retrospection. Thoreau and Frost assert contradictory outlooks, which they personally practice, leading to works of literature which explore the opposite worldviews of the two authors. “The Road Not Taken” seems on the surface to applaud casual individuality, but the infamous last two lines have been quoted in congratulatory cards and at graduation speeches for almost one hundred years: “I took the road less traveled, / and that has made all the difference” Four stanzas long, the poem

“Comfort women”, or the idea of women a, is neither new nor was Japan the only country to utilize this practice during the 20th century. The sheer number of women and girls used for sexual compliance is where Japan is something close to unique. The exact number is widely debated, though sexual slavery went as far as the Philippines and Indo-Dutch territories. One survivor, the Dutch Jan O’Herne, recalls being told by the Japanese army that she and other women were being conscripted for factory jobs. The realization of what was actually to occur came at an instant of panic. For other cities and villages, less deception was used and more blunt force. The Filipino city of Mapanique was pillaged, and sisters Mileng and Lita recall being forced to carry loot into a villa known as “Red House.” From there Lita recounts the soldiers relaxing for a brief moment in time and then “I was really struggling because I didn’t want my clothes to be stripped off. I kept my legs together. . . they punched my thighs so that they could do what they wanted (McMullen, BBC).” Reoccurring again and again in today’s arguments about the compensating comfort women is the word coercion. Language surrounding “comfort women” is often euphemistic, even the very term itself obfuscates the shared trauma of rape and

This paper is a review of the book Japan’s Comfort Women-Sexual slavery and prostitution during WWII and the US occupation by Yuki Tanaka. This book was published in 2002 by Routledge. The book deals with the thousands of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian and European women who were victims of organized sexual violence and prostitution by means of “comfort stations” setup by the Japanese military during World War II.

     Many people wonder if heaven exists, and if so, what it consists of. There are many theories that will tell you different stories of heaven. In the bible heaven it is named Eden, where man can walk and talk at the side of God. Heaven is an intangible place where only the true ideals of life can be realized. On earth there is no way to know the true meaning of life. People can never fully comprehend the reason behind existence. The human world is full of many outside sources, such as evil, corrupting many lives. There will never be peace on earth due to that corruption. Many people are envious of other lives and are bound by senseless ideals. They spend much of their life with the want for