Susan Beth Pfeffer Analysis

What I learned from Laura Bobnaks essay was the way we think in high school is extremely different from what we think when we are adults. In high school, it’s all about doing everything we can to get out of there whether its cheating or studying. It doesn’t matter because in high school no one like a tattle tale or a rat.

In Susan Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It, life for Miranda and her family comes to a screeching halt after a meteor collides with the moon, triggering calamitous natural disasters. After the initial tragedy, humanity is left with unanswered questions, to which no one seems to have answers for. As a result, Miranda must forget about her normal, mundane life and focus on the hardship ahead of her and her family. With her world collapsing around her, she is left with choices and responsibilities that affect her loved ones as much as herself. Through literary devices, Pfeffer emphasizes the emotional struggles and physical battles Miranda must surmount before and after the misfortunate collision.

Everyone has experienced a dark moment in their lives. It is in these dark moments that turn out to be the most profound. In the story “Our Secret” by Susan Griffin, it talks about the connection of the past lives of those in Nazi Germany and about Griffin’s own family. Griffin has also talked about an artist named Kathe Kollwitz. Kathe Kollwitz has created many self portraits relating and expressing the emotions of the people of Nazi Germany. During this time, many people have gone through hardships such as poverty and war. Through poverty some may have experience or gone through some emotional situations. During war, people may have lost someone close to them or even the peace they had before the chaos have occurred. Griffin has related a painting by Kollwitz with her personal life. In the story, Griffin is trying to portray through this connection how people feel emotionally and physically in the midst of war and violence.

Cathy N. Davidson suggests an innovative education system, providing an emphasis in today’s digital era, and claiming that the existing education system needs to be renewed according to the new expectations of the digital era. Davidson states that,” In the last half century, many changes have occurred in the technology field, however, classrooms and educational methods have remained fairly steady for the past years as well in consequence students are not being prepared for the future advances of society.” That being said, it is important to improve and to give a change to the current educational methods, adjusting them to the existing demands of the era that we are living and taking advantage of the resources that it provides. “What if we continued to the lesson of internet itself,

Susan Beth Pfeffer decided that she wanted to be a writer when her father dedicated the law book he was writing to his daughter. Right then and there she wrote her first little story about the love between a pair of scissors and an Oreo cookie. Her childhood experiences form the basis of her writing, seeing that she grew up in the suburbs in New York. This explains why most of her books focus on young people growing up in the suburbs. Pfeffer went on to New York University. After getting her degree in radio, television, and motion pictures she started a writing course and her first novel Just Morgan was published. Throughout her life she has published more than 75 books and some of them include: A Year without Michael, Devils Den, Life as We Knew it and Family of Strangers. The themes of her books usually include emotional problems, divorce, historical fiction, and people having fantasies of modeling/acting. Her science fiction stories contain apocalyptic futuristic events like her novel Life as We Knew it.

This source was taken from the New York Post, which is a daily newspaper that is predominant to mainly New York City and its suburbs. The New York Post has been running for over 200 years and is one of the most circulated newspapers in the country. It remains to be a mode of news and information for many citizens.

Mollie Goldman’s piece titled “NOW-THEN: NEVER AGAIN” symbolizes the perspective of a young boy who survived the Holocaust. This piece was made in 2014 in honor of Jacob Hennenberg, a Holocaust survivor. The artist Mollie Goldman is a young aspiring artist and a 10th grade student from Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood, Ohio. This aesthetic piece is an acrylic painting on canvas. Goldman evokes a strong intellectual reaction from her audience through the details and cues she uses in her painting to channel her message.

Beast of the field, they were called. Animals unable to carry out critical though process as that of the white man. They are likening to oxen, meant to slave in the sun and sever their masters. Things that human beings would possess, they neither have nor can be taught to acquire. Sheeple in need of a master with nothing more but feet to walk and a mouth to eat. Recognizing their tendency to gather and sing, these are not behaviors of European people. Wildings they are, wildly they think, wildly they act, and wildly they continue to be.

Margaret Newkirk, a regular contributor to the Bloomberg periodicals, discusses the tension between the acute need for labor to clean Houston after Hurricane Harvey and the debilitating stance that the immigration policy of the American government has taken. She observes that while the nation has been witnessing dire shortages of construction workers, the immigration crackdown heightened by Trump’s tough policies has worsened the situation. Newkirk’s article rails against the draconian law that threatens local officials with jail terms and sacking if they fail to enforce it. The article also takes note of the rising wage rates after the hurricane hit the region, and estimates that it they may increase faster than ever. Newkirk’s fundamental

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s short story “Ashes” is about a girl named Ashes and her father. Ashes’s father tries to manipulate and convince her to steal $200 from her mother. He is being overly nice and butters her up to make her steal the money. Ashes starts to contemplate if she should trust her father and take the money. One lesson emerging from “Ashes” is that manipulation from someone you should be able to trust can be harmful.

When I was young, I remember visiting my grandparents’ house. The house was full of indelible memories. It was beautiful and full of elegant furniture. In the essay, More Room covered, Judith Ortiz Cofer expressed her memories about her grandmother’s room. Cofer’s grandmother’s room was filled with mementos from her children; it was brimming with postcards, photographs, and other souvenirs.

While Margaret was working as a newspaper reporter, she married her husband Doug. Shortly after they got married Doug received the opportunity of becoming a newspaper reporter gave her the opportunity to pursue in writing her first book due to the fact that she did not think that it would be a good idea to work with her husband and his employee. So when she was in the process of beginning to write that is when she made the dissociative decision in writing only fiction. After lots of rejection that had lasted for quite some time, in fact the time her first novel was published in 1995 she had already a child a year and a half old. Not only did she have one kid before her books were published she had two children by the time her first two books were successfully published. Her first novel, “Running Out Of Time”. Running Out Of Time was written in third person and limited point of view. The novel is about a girl who lives in Indiana during the 1800s in a small town, and the children there have been getting sick and the shipments of medicine have stopped and she is racing against the clock to save her town. Shortly after Running Out Of Time, was published, she had her second novel published in 1996, ‘Don’t You Dare Read This; Mrs. Dunphrey’. Don't You Dare Read This; Mrs.Dunphrey was written in first person and it was in the form of a

While Susan Bordo, Jib Fowles, Ed Dines and Jean Humez agree on one thing, advertising is there to sell a product. I could related to Susan Bordo’s Hunger as Ideology and Dines and Humez’s ADVERTISING AND IDENTITIES. Bordo’s meaning of the “control” is displayed will in the first opener. The statement, “Does she eat?” shows that the person possess some form of control. One could state when she does eat, she takes FiberThin after ever meal. But the Ad doesn’t inform us if she using it in right way. Susan Bordo states that women may feel they have an eaten disorder, but still want eat from the Jell-O. An example could be for male light beer, when trying to stay in shape, drink light beer. Susan states one should always be in control with one’s

'The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser', 26th August 1924 gave an account of Ben's newly established relationship with Susan Prior; "...during one of these weekend visits he met a handsome young girl of 16 summers named Susan Pryor, whom he induced to go and live with him at his home at Wheogo. This action, or mode of life, provoked no resentment on the part, of the Walsh family. Ben now resumed his former energies and appeared as much enamored of his mistress as he was of his wife."(Little else is recorded of Susan Prior after 1863. Susan gave birth to their child, a daughter named Mary born in January 1863. Mary died in Newton, Sydney in 1922. Although it has been noted that in old age Susan was a very

Catherine Parr was Henry VIII’s final wife and ruled after his death in 1547. She is considered to be responsible for his reconciliation with his two daughters, Elizabeth I and Mary I, and their subsequent reinstatement in the line of succession.