Summary Of The Book 'The Humans' By Matt Haig

This book Our Kind of People is written by Lawrence Otis Graham. Lawrence Otis Graham is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard law. He has written thirteen books and he is best known for exposing the bias at a greenwich country club, where he left his office job and went undercover and worked there for about three weeks. Also Graham grew up in the environment that he describes in the book which ultimately gives him the best advantage and perspective needed to write the book.

The book I chose to do was If We Survive by Andrew Klavan.This book starts off with Will, Meredith, Nicki, and Jim- four high school students who decide to go to Costa Verdes with Pastor Ron to rebuild a schoolhouse that had been destroyed by Los Volcanoes. On the last day of their building trip the kids and Pastor Ron go into a local bar called the cantina. They are all having a good time except for Palmer their pilot for the trip. All of a sudden Mendoza a wretched, and heartless man , who is also the leader of los volcanoes, and a man who wants to take over Costa Verdes and start a revolution against the current government. Mendoza took all of them and held them hostage in the hotel above the cantina. In attempt to negotiate with Mendoza’s

The book The Human Story by James C. Davis is about the way humans evolved from Homo erectus to where we are now. The book starts off by telling us how archaeologists found paintings in caves leading all the way back prehistoric times. These people were mainly from Africa and spread all across the world just because they followed herds of animals which they lived off of. They spread from Africa to Europe and Asia, from Asia they followed the herds across a land bridge to North America and all the way down to South America. They were also able to reach Australia and the island surrounding it. After a couple thousand of years they began to settle down into civilizations. These civilizations included Athens, Sparta, Sumer, Egypt, and China. We

Chapter 5 of the book We the People talks about Civil Rights, it talks about how the Civil Right movement evolved thru time in the United States. From people advocating the abolitionism of slavery to the Civil Right movement of 1954 to the present day. The chapter also talks about the struggles of African Americans, Women, Latinos Asians Americans and disable people, just to name a few in their fight to have equal rights in the United States. While there are multiple main points in the chapter one main points that I found interesting was the Equality in Education section of the chapter. I found this part interesting because it talks about Title IX, Title IX established that discrimination on education based on gender was forbidden. This was

Seeking The Main Point- What arguments does this chapter make for paying serious attention to human history before the coming of “civilization.”?

In chapter six of “The Social Animal”, David Brooks, through the story of Harold and his teacher, offers us something of a model regarding how we, as students, might effectively study/learn/attain expertise in a given field. Specifically, Brooks argues that students learn best when given time to master new information. As Harold works on this paper, his teacher sets up a guideline for him to follow to eventually achieve the final product, a paper. He first collects resources and reads them, he then rereads them while keeping a writing journal, and then lastly he integrates what he read with his life’s experiences. This process occurs over a large amount of time. As the author himself puts it when learning new material, “there should be a long period of gestation, as [the student] looks at the material in different ways and in different moods.

Animals by Simon Rich is an outstanding short story which takes a unique perspective on the everyday life in a classroom. The story is written from the point of view of a hamster who spends his tortured life entrapped in a cage. From the first point in this story, it is clear that the purpose of the writing is not to understand the hamster, but rather to analyze the different actions of the people, and to discover that how they act towards the hamsters reflects on their character. It is curious to view the everyday interactions of people through a different set of eyes, that is done by humanizing the narrator’s perspective. Based on the actions of the many people and the treatment of the class pet, the author suggests that human nature is very much a product of the financial circumstances a person is subjected to.

Chapter 16 of the book We the People talks about the American Government and its economy, there are multiple main points in the reading. However I feel that the main points of the reading are the Monetary Policies of the US Government and how the Government works to protect the Environment. The US Government works to create and keep a strong economy for the country, in order to accomplish their goal they use monetary policies which are the monetary efforts that help regulate the economy. Thru monetary policies the government lends money or gives grants to business, so that the business can invest in themselves and try to expand their business. Another tool that the government uses to help/control the economy is the Federal Fund Rate, the Federal

Human nature in America has changed significantly from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. In one, slavery had been flourishing and African slaves were regarded as less than human, whereas in the African Americans are fighting for their civil rights and people begin to recognize them for who they are. In Kindred, Octavia Butler explores this juxtaposition of time through a fantasy in which Dana Franklin, an African American woman, jumps through time from her home in 1976 to her ancestor’s plantation in 1815. In her journey, she will encounter challenges among the slave community and her family that expand and transform her past notions of kinship, family, and marriage.

As most people would agree, the 20th century contained some of the bloodiest and most gruesome events ever recorded in history. Why do words such as Hiroshima, Rwanda, The Final Solution, A Great Leap Forward, The Great Purge and so many more spark such vivid images of blood, torture and murder in our minds? And despite those horrific images, what is it that causes us humans time and time again to commit such crimes against humanity? Those are the kinds of questions Jonathan Glover, a critically acclaimed ethics philosopher, tries to answer in the book he had spent over ten years writing, Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century. Through Humanity Glover tries to answer those questions in a way which will give a solution as how we can

Primatology is the scientific study of non-human primate behaviors among wild apes, monkeys and other related animals in natural settings or in laboratories by conducting lab experiments and studies on captive primates. A person who studies primatology is a primatologist. There are many reasons for studying primates, but possibly the most significant reason is to learn about the origins of humans. When studying primatology, one can easily observe the behavioral similarities primates share with humans, and probably begin to understand how humans got to where they are today. The reason anthropology studies primates over any other animal is because primates are the closest living relatives to humans. One primatologist, who significantly surpassed many others in her field, was Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall studied the behaviors of primates and other animals as well, but she specifically studied chimpanzees. Goodall in her book, In the Shadows of Man, shared her three groundbreaking discoveries she achieved through her extensive observations and research. Goodall’s three major discoveries were the complex social system chimps had lived, the hunting and meat consumption process and the usage of tools. Goodall’s research lead to massive evolution in primatology because her research was the starting point that allowed other primatologist to conduct other important researches on chimpanzees and other primates. They managed to study primates in a

“Seeing Ourselves” by Arthur Gottleib is an opened form poem that consists of four no rhyming quintains with the exception of the last stanza. The subject focuses on a complicated relationship between a man and a woman. In the poem, the speaker is a man who is having trouble with his love life. The theme of this poem is that one can only fight and battle so much for something they love before they meet the end and give up. The tone begins in frustration mixed with sadness, but in the end switches to hopelessness and gloom. At this point, the speaker has realized that he has been ‘fighting’ for a lost cause.

A famous philosopher Socrates once said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' With that idea, the question 'Are Human Beings Intrinsically Evil?' has been asked by philosophers for many years. It is known as one of the unanswerable questions. Determinists have come to the conclusion that we are governed by the laws of science, that there is nothing we can do about ourselves being evil because we naturally are. Evil is simply the act of causing pain. In this essay I will argue that human beings are born with a natural reaction to 'fear and chaos' to be instinctively evil.

Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons makes many comments on the good and evil of humanity. The heroes in the book are very human and thus are very flawed. Most of the time, it is hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Quite frankly, the heroes themselves are relatively bad people and show the inner darkness that humans possess. However, there still seems to be a representation of the good in people. In this panel, there are many aspects that draw on the idea of the evil and good of humanity. This panel is able to capture so much of the story at once and it also presents the reality of what Veidt did. Even more so than the destruction caused, it is the images of the two Bernies, the “Black Freight” magazine, and representation

The video Human, All Too Human is about a famous philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche published the book Human, All Too Human. The book was based on his life and his perspectives on life. He accreted his findings about life, good and evil, and human nature to his difficult life. There were three events in his life that I believe led to Friedrich’s philosophy. The first important event was the death of Friedrich’s brother and father. The death of his loved ones caused him to question his faith. The second event was being rejected by his first and only love. The third event was when Friedrich became so sick that he had to leave the opera house during the middle of the show. Each of these events lead Friedrich