Review: A Worldwide Smile By Shelby Kohl

In the short article “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tim she talks about a child hood memory she had on Christmas. This minister’s son named Robert who was not Chinese but American was Amy Tim crush. Her parents invited them over for Christmas Eve dinner. Amy didn’t want Robert to see there shabby looking Christmas. Amy Tim’s mother was making all different dishes for dinner, some like cod and tofu. When Robert and his father arrived all of Amy’s family came to the door to greet them. Robert said hello softly wile Amy pretended he was not worth noting. Dinner through her into despair, she had her crush sitting at the same table as her and she didn’t know what to do. All of Amy’s relatives were digging into the food. Her father took the fishes cheek and

Most curriculums being taught to students withhold a mass amount of history. Some may do this because they feel some events do not have the same importance as other topics being taught. Such topics for example would be the rape and sexual exploitation of thousands of African American females during the time periods where racism and segregation was the norm. It is important for people to be educated about the horrific events that these women went through without justice. It is also essential because it shows the amazing activism Rosa Parks took part in. Most people are often just taught about Parks’ actions on the bus. At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire shows how Rosa Parks and many other dedicated their lives to receive equality not only for themselves, but for all African Americans in the south. Danielle L. McGuire’s work is an amazing way for people to not only learn more of Rosa Parks story, but to get a better understanding of what all African American woman had to deal with during this time period. The realism of sexual violence and its dominant impact on the African American women was one of the many events that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement. McGuire wrote At the Dark End of the Street in order to resolve the negligence of this reality.

In the novel Blindsided, by Priscilla Cummings, the main character's name is Natalie. Natalie is a 15 year old girl living in a normal life in Boston. She had gotten into an accident on day and couldn't se how she normally did. Natalie described her sighs as” putting the hand binoculars to her eyes” and seeing the haze of the world. Although she had been seeing like that for a few month, her parents decided to take her to the doctors to get it looked at. Dr.Rose, Natalie’s eye doctor, had explained to the family that Natalie was going to lose her sight in roughly the next few month.With that news being said, the family went on a vacation to Florida to see the beach since she had never been. Along with preparing Natalie now had to go to a different

A nation's success and standard of living is determined by its economic growth, which is measured by percentage in real GDP. Capitalism is an economic system that yields strong incentives for rapid increases in output of commodities. The most advanced capitalist economies have been more successful in raising productivity, as a result of their low unemployment rates and ability to adjust to new and improving economies. Developed countries in general, contain a lot of natural resources, which can be used as income. As stated in Sarah Ahmed’s book “Why Happiness, Why Now?”, developing countries are shown to be happier than undeveloped ones (3). Would this supposed happiness be due to the progression of their country? A country’s growth and advancement

In the article "Why Happiness is Healthy" by Elizabeth Landau, she elaborates about why people want to be happy. Landau agrees with this concept and approves Happiness' choice as a lifestyle. She explains the main reasons why you should consider happiness in your life. Then she introduces the origins of happiness and uses logos to prove scientifically how genes and environment affect the levels of your happiness. She defends herself using a naysayer using money and time, people think that money can't buy them happiness but it can satisfy them, she then proves that money doesn't make you happy but has the power to satisfy you. Lastly her last paragraph consists of her proving how machines can't replace human emotions and encloses

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan follows multiple Chinese-American women who struggle with their self-identity and creating a balance between American and Chinese culture. Because of their immigration and many hardships in life, many of the women feel like they cannot truly tell who they are anymore, and throughout the novel these women are portrayed as ghosts. Ghosts are used to symbolize these women because they share many parallels including being only a remnant of who they once were, or who they could be. Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the women, who has a daughter named Lena St. Clair, she has had a troubled past in China, which has made her lose her fighting spirit, and her spirit in general. Ying-ying is fully aware of her loss of spirit and is embarrassed because she considers ghosts to be shameful and weak, and wants to save her daughter, Lena, from her fate.

Angela Kydd has her expertise in frail older people and people with dementia. She worked as a nurse for ten years before working in academia. She is an associate professor at Edinburgh Napier University and works as a co-founder of a Pan-University Ageing Research Network. Over the years she has designed and delivered degree and masters programmes and modules in gerontology. She has undertaken research in attitudes to health care professionals working with older people, self-care beliefs of women with diabetes and her PhD thesis was on delayed discharge from a policy and patient perspective. She has also undertaken evaluations of clinical areas and projects. Her latest project was on developing the culture and care in a care home setting, which

Debby Queen from the first time i met her till this day she has always been a kind and helpful person to me. She had a very giving heart. She was very passionte about animals.

advice that families should apply to their life. After reading Chapter 4: Fight Smart, fighting is a large part of families unnecessary unhappiness. Feiler gives examples of his wife and him fighting each night at a given time and it is the most inconvenient time for their evening. He mentions that fighting often happens when couples are leaving or coming together. His everyday fight happened when his wife and him would come together after a long day and have to figure out the details of the next day. Fighting should be isolated to a certain topic and should only last short amount of time. Fights often spirals out of control when outside conflicts are also put on the table and the conflict last longer than it should. Negotiation is a powerful tool for couples to use and should be experts at.

American is the “melting pot” of the world and because of this; we can enjoy a bounty of American Ethnic Literature. What does this mean? American Ethnic Literature are the poems, novels, and histories written by the minority peoples of this new world. They were the outsiders of a predominately white world and therefore had an experience like no other. African American, Native Americans and Mexican Americans have a rich deep heritage that was immortalized in writing.

Lillian Florance “Lilly” Hellman is deemed as one of the first important American woman dramatists. She lived up to her last name by challenging the American public with unpopular beliefs of Communism as well as other non-traditional beliefs causing herself to be blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. She was born in an affluent, Jewish family on June 20, 1905 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, Julia Newhouse, stemmed from a successful bankers and liquor dealers, while her father, Max Hellman, was a lucrative shoe salesman. She attended New York University for two years after graduating from high school then transferred to briefly attend Columbia University. In 1929, Hellman traveled Europe and settled in Bonn to continue with her education. At the same time, she became attracted to a Nazi student group which advocated for a form of socialism. However, Hellman immediately returned to the United States after being pressed about her Jewish heritage. She became a short-term member of the Communist Party from 1938 to 1940 in America. However, Hellman drifted away from the Communist Party because it seemed to be the wrong place for her. She described her “own maverick nature [to be] no more suitable to the political left than it had been to the conservative background from which [she] came.”

Smile is one of the best graphic novels ever! There is a girl named Raina in the novel Smile. She has to get braces and survive middle school. The nonfiction graphic novel Smile by Raina Telgemeier the theme is every cloud has a silver lining. The reader learns this through indirect characterization ,conflict ,and flashbacks.

Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines sacrifice as “the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone”. In Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, a central theme present throughout is sacrifice. This novel depicts the sacrifices made by a group of immigrant mothers in order for their daughters to have a better life in America. Although the daughters do not realize the reasons behind their mothers motives until their stories and personal struggles are shared. Once the stories are shared with their daughters, they understand and appreciate the actions of their mothers and view them in a new light.

Gayle Forman is a fairly known author, but mostly in the world of teens. Gayle Forman is now known mostly for writing young adult fiction, but that isn’t where she began her career. Gayle Forman got her start in writing as a journalist, where she got her first job at Seventeen magazine. She began her work there by reporting what was going on in the world, and telling the stories of people she had crossed paths with. She remained at her job at Seventeen until she decided to start a family with her husband, and decided that being a journalist was too hard to juggle when you are also a mother, because journalism requires traveling. She began writing her novels while she was expecting her first child, and has been writing novels ever since.

Personal fitness has never been emphasized too little in today’s society. The various reason consider personal fitness includes health, cosmetic, and competitive sport reasons. However, one side effect from personal fitness that people rarely consider as their main reason to participate is happiness. For me, going to the gym makes me happy because going to the gym relieves stress and gives an opportunity to be social.