Shayla Wiesel's All The Night

The memoir’s title implies images of infidelity or even adultery between the two figures on the cover. However, after reading the story through, it becomes evident that neither subject is a reflection of the title. The memoir’s title is actually a well-known American traditional folk song. It talks about a man questioning where his girl slept last night and that he planned to go off in the pines where the sun don’t shine. The title is formed as a question and the story itself revolves around the question that Danzy’s father, Carl Francisco Jose Senna, asked on the very first page: “Don’t you know who I am?” Danzy later realizes that she knows

He wanted to get vengeance for the FBI/ATF’s firebombing of a ranch in Waco, Texas, that killed 79 civilians.

The Vietnam War was an event with lasting effects. The U.S. troops participated from 1961 until 1975 where over 58,000 Americans were killed according to the U.S Department of Veteran Affairs. This war created a divide amongst the American people with so many opposed to the war because they claim that the cost of war and casualties was too high. Many believed, in addition, that the U.S. should not have involved themselves because the war did not directly affect America. For these reasons and many more, it caused a lot of traumas; not only for veterans but even regular citizens. Due to this, when U.S. involvement with the Iraq War started in 2003 (Riedel), many began drawing parallels between it and the Vietnam War and Anna Quindlen was among them.Anna Quindlen, an opinion columnist with a Pulitzer prize for commentary, wrote an article titled “We’ve Been Here Before.” Her overall goal, in this article, is to convince the reader that the Vietnam and Iraq War are alike as well as catastrophic. Her argument that the two wars are alike is erroneous in nature since there are many significant differences to be listed. Quindlen lacks reputable evidence because she lets her emotions write the article so she spews out personal attacks; there is a clear tone of anger. She accuses the president of wanting the Iraq War to only be about policy without backing this stance and she uses her friend’s statements to support her argument though he isn’t an expert on the matter. Quindlen makes a few good points in the article

Danzy Senna opens her family’s secrets up to readers about her childhood and family history in Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History (2009) Book reviewer Erin Kaplan claims “the book’s title has multiple meanings, but mostly broadly it speaks to the uncertainty of black family history…”(par.7). Danzy Senna an author of five books that was educated at Stanford University and was born in 1970. Her book Caucasia was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. The relationship she has with her father has been rocky ever since she could remember. Danzy wanted to understand why; why did her father treat his family this way? What created this behavior? I am familiar with this act of curiosity and forgiveness; no matter how many

McDonald's, Hollywood, football, Coca-Cola, Disney-all are iconic symbols of American culture. Author, Sarah Vowell, incorporates these iconic symbols throughout her work while also defining and analyzing the American identity. She does this through her book, Take The Cannoli, using language, humor, and history.

In her book, Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman challenges Jerry Rawlings’ notion of freedom by responding with “Had Rawlings asked, “‘Are we yet free?’ most Ghanaians would have answered with a resounding, ‘No.’ This ‘no’ resonated on both sides of the Atlantic”(pg 126). The capitalistic spirit that possessed the Europeans enabled them to disrupt the untouched country of Africa and capture its children to satiate their wealth aspirations. In the meantime, the Europeans took the land from the Native Americans through genocidal practices and claimed it as their gift from God. Although some claim that the capitalist ventures of the Europeans during the colonial period and the 19th century were beneficial for all and rooted in innocence, it ultimately caused the physical and cultural death of the Native Americans and African-origin peoples and has led to the day to day suffering of their descendants.

He then saw a lone arab from the previous group and confronted him. He fired at the arab, killing him with the first round, then shortly after fired 4 more. Meursault is arrested for the crime and questioned. Meursault told the investigators that the sun and the headache made him enraged and commit the crime out of impulse.

resentful of him. They not only beat him, but try to force him to fight other

would you do if you woke up and didn't remember a single thing? In the book Don't Look Back, by Jennifer Armentrout, a teenage girl named Samantha seems to find herself broken, brusied, and confused wandering the streets near a lake of a fairly upper class town. She goes through a very rough time when she discovers her best friend died the day Sam was found helpless and doesn't remember a single thing about it, although some don't believe her. She starts aquiring parts of her life piece by piece, finding out she was an awful person and the life she's lived was cruel and pointless, which was hated by most. Samantha meets all new characters that she already knew and grew up with in the past, including her brother, the soon-to-be love of her

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.” (Frankl 1995) This quote sets the book up to show that one cannot always be in conscious pursuit of trying to achieve happiness. One must live in the moment and know that the smallest acts can make a difference; a smile to a gesture can be an immense pick-me-up to a specific person. The book begins in the trains that are shuttling prisoners to a camp. They are all uncertain about where they are heading, this causes great anticipation. There are so many unknowns and they all negatively affect the prisoners.

Initially I thought I would do the acting part of the assignment since I had not acted in a long time and it seemed pretty simple. However I like to write and I had never written anything of the sort before so I picked that. Most of the stories and both plays we have read in the class have more or less gloomy endings. I decided to change that by extending a play and ending it on a happier note. Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey was obvious choice for me because I find it funnier and more engrossing than Suddenly Last Summer. I was excited to start writing since I had some ideas as to how to end the play.

Maria Alfred, fourteen years old at the time, lives in Haiti. Unfortunately, Haiti undergoes a tsunami leaving thousands displaced with no electricity and no clean water. What makes matter worse crime is starting to increase due to scarceness of resources. About a week goes by and many people either grew sick or perished. There has been aircraft spotted as each day goes by. Maria was luck y to still have all of her immediate family still alive, however, they were starving. Then one evening several aircrafts landed need where Maria and her family were residing. A person with a microphone instruct those within distance to come their way if they could so that they can take them to refuge. As everyone made their way to the aircrafts Maris picks

Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen seems to show that her music has grown up from all the catchy, party sounding tune to a more soulful harmony. Very different from her earlier hits ‘Call Me Maybe’ and ‘I Really Like You’, the newest single from her sophomore album E-MO-TION named ‘Making the Most of the Night’ has visibly displayed this singer in a very different light.

“I’m Every Woman” is an acclaimed work by an eminent artist, Whitney Houston. The song’s words fully encompass the ambitious and manipulative personality that Lady Macbeth displays throughout the play. Whitney begins the song stating that “Anything you want to be done, baby/I'll do it”(Houston). This line can be, in a more unconventional connection, related to Lady Macbeth’s frivolous claims that she would’ve “dashed the brains out” (1.7. 63), of an innocent child had she sworn to Macbeth. Her commitment to her word and fervent ambition to execute tasks result in her completing anything he aspires. Despite ambitious intents being present in the song, these form underlying tones and do not take precedence over the strong manipulative and possessive

Finally, finally, the sirens stop. It’s so sudden, flooding the air with a moment of silence. My ears start to pick up the city noise again, faint and comforting in its normality. I hear footsteps behind my, and I turn to meet them. Two police officers are approaching me carefully, their guns drawn. What’s happening? Why do they look like they’re coming for me? I didn’t do anything. Questions flicker through my mind, none of them staying long enough for me to answer them.