Shattered Glass

Red Glass is a book about illegal immigration that is divided into seven parts; each accompanied by a quote from the The Little Prince by e. e. cummings. Sophie, her mother, Dika, and her step-father live by the Mexican border. She has always felt like an amoeba, like she doesn’t fit in with anyone else. She soon meets Pablo, Mr. Lorenzo, and Angel who each change her life forever. She travels through dangerous and beautiful places and meets wonderful people who change her outlook on life.

The author, Daniel C. Weaver depicts the story “Beyond the Glass” in a skillful way to engage the audience. Weaver does a good job of showing the struggle of the pathologist to make the audience ponder upon the identification of the disease. Although the story, “Beyond the Glass” contains a great deal of medical terms, however, Weaver maintains the story appropriate for a general audience by using descriptive details and suspense.

who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles. He was a staff writer at The New Republic for three years who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in Washington, D.C. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass combined sources, quotes, and even entire stories. He did everything in his power to make sure that everyone is pleased by him so that they do not figure him out. In the movie Shattered Glass, director Billy Ray adroitly shows how Stephen Glass is willing to lie just to further his career as a journalist.

“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”-Karl Augustus Menninger.

By Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, he retells the story of Alice in Wonderland by putting it in the perspective of Alyss as the princess of Wonderland, when she is forced to flee Wonderland when her Aunt Redd (Queen Genevieve’s sister) comes to retake her throne. Alyss ends up in Victorian London and is separated from her keeper Hatter Madigan. Beddor changes the story to provide good significance and inspiring themes to give good imagery throughout the story. For example, in the story Queen Genevieve, Hatter, and Alyss forget their own survival to sacrifice themselves for the good of others.

The Glass Castle was overall very strange. Written by Jeannette Walls in her point of view, this book is her memoir that she wrote to share her story with the rest of the world. It won the 2005 Elle Readers’ Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award. The title comes from an unkempt promise from Jeannette’s father, but rather than seeing it as a letdown, Jeannette remembers it as a hope that things will get better, a trait she must have received from her mother. While The Glass Castle focuses mainly on her immediate family, she later wrote another book, Half Broke Horses, about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith.

I have to admit that I had lost contact with my dear Jew friend, Aaron Bauer. It was unfortunate, but I sincerely believed that our decision was to lift each other’s burden and to protect this friendship. Integrating with one another had been a grave danger for both my wife and I, and Bauer understood our situations. I was no longer part of our secret Communist cell, for most of our Jewish members had dissolved into their separate ways following the aftermath of the Nuremberg Laws. Moreover, my wife and I had been busy with our full-time employment in the Volkswagen factory, for the KdF had promise us many trips and also the “People’s car.” There was time when I was excited about the KdF, but I immediately direct my thoughts to my Communists

The Shattered Mirror, is a short excerpt written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, explaining the idea of “cosmopolitanism,” through the use of an extended metaphor. Appiah uses the life and travels of Sir Richard Burton, to explain both “cosmopolitanism,” and “Anti-cosmopolitanism.” Appiah effectively explains what this term means, and why we should be willing to adopt “cosmopolitanism,” by use of allusions, metaphors, and sarcasm as an appeal to emotion. Appiah exemplifies Burton as both “cosmopolitan,” and “anti-cosmopolitan.” In short, being “cosmopolitan,” is defined by Appiah in the text as, “recognition that human beings are different and that we can learn from each other’s differences,” and “the recognition of our responsibility for every human

The fiction novel, Glass by Ellen Hopkins, is a sequel to another novel I've read called Crank. Glass is a story about a young 18 year old girl named Kristina. Kristina has recently given birth to a baby boy after overcoming an addiction to crystal meth. Her baby was born healthy and she was fine without her drugs but soon the temptation came back. She gives into the temptations and starts using again. Soon, she meets a drug esker named Trey, who specializes in the more expensive meth. Kristina immediately is drawn to him and starts to date him. Soon, the entire relationship is focused only on sex and meth. The drugs did to both of their emotions and soon they truly believe they're in love and all they'll need is each other and the crystal meth. Kristina's mother has been watching her baby constantly and when Kristina leaves the baby in danger, her mother is quick to kick her out. Kristina and Trey save up money and move in together. They're sure they have a good life, even though they're still both heavy drug addicts. Kristina takes her baby from her mother and attempts to raise on her own. But with

One of the strategy was that he made up things like phone numbers, fake voicemails, non-existent people etc. to cover up his lies. For instant, Glass created a fake website for Jukt Micronics and in this case it ultimately failed because obviously this wasn’t his field of expertise. Under the pressure, he failed to notice the website he created can only be accessed by the AOL users. That brought up questions as to why would a large software organization do such thing, has one phone line for the entire organization and many more question that he failed to provide an answer to Forbes editor.

In Jeannette Walls’s memoir, she describes how her father, Rex, wants to build a glass castle for him and his family to live in. In the book, she writes, “...All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert” (Walls 25). Rex wanted to make this happen for his family but unfortunately, his plans weren’t so realistic. So if I could build a glass castle the location of my glass castle would be in Atlanta, GA. I chose this location because I have family down there and I always travel down south every year. I chose to have 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, an attic, a living room, a dining room, patio, and a basement. I chose to have these things because if I’m going to have a dream

“The Glass Castle” begins where the narrator, Jeannette Walls, sees her mother delving into a dumpster while she is living a flourished lifestyle. She manages to contact her mother and tries to provide assistance. However, her mother refuses any help and is said to be very joyful. Then, the stories of the Walls family adventures begin in an accident that occurred to Jeannette when she was only three. The setting changing multiple times

City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985, and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning, and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer, who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the following essay, I will focus on the characters and the very twisted point of view, which is a big part of the whole novel. Besides that, I will concentrate on the themes that are dealt with in the story.

We live in the age of constant technological innovation and endless information; in which we are so connected and dependent on the technology we use that we sometimes don’t even realize how much we’re relying on it. In The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr, Carr defines automation as, “the use of computers and software to do things we used to do ourselves,” and argues that there are daunting consequences to our reliance on technology (Carr 1). In his book, Nicholas Carr sets up three arguments related to automation, tacit knowledge, and the idea of work. His main arguments throughout the novel are that humans are overestimating the benefits of automation, losing tacit knowledge through our reliance on technology, and

The book ,Throne of Glass, which was authored by Sarah J. Maas, is a novel that was inspired by “Cinderella” which was created by Disney. The book tells the story that follows a young assassin that is only a teenager, whose name is Celaena Sardothien. The book starts of with Celaena Sardothien being imprisoned in the kingdom of Adarlan, a corrupt place, by orders of the king, who is a tyrannical ruler, and was given an offer by the king’s son, Dorian, to become the king’s champion by competing against other thieves and assassins to gain her freedom. Along the way of rebuilding her body to its former glory after serving a year as prisoner, she forms relations with other people like Dorian, the crown prince who is nothing like his father, Chaol,