The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress By Robert A. Heinlein

As Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” In “Hunger Moon” by Jane Cooper, the speaker is showing that everyone during the Hunger Moon has hope and wants to make through it. The Hunger Moon was the name of the last moon in February when there was a lot of snow. The Hunger Moon rises and sets like any other type of moon, has a negative connotation, but when it ends it brings happiness.

In the book, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer is a book about a half Indian, half white bisexual boy, named Shed. He has many adventures that he overcomes in the story. He lives in a town called Excellent, Idaho. Through his childhood he tries to find himself. Shed lost his parents at the age of 12, and he now uses his culture and environment to get through his challenges in life. His mother had been killed by a man named Billy Blizzard, and he never heard of his father. Shed knew his father was out there, but never asked his mother about him. Through this process he learns about his heritage, learns about himself, and the rest of his family. His culture, and his people around him has shaped him into the person he was turning to. Being on his own at a young age, he had to look at his community and learned about himself, and how to acquire certain things on his own. Some people in his community are mormon, and he extremely dislikes them. Shed ends up living with Ida Richelieu. Ida is a prostitute, but she’s the boss, and owns the whorehouse and is like Shed’s second mother in a way. Shed decides to leave and go visit his mother side of the family to see what life has to offer him. He goes through many obstacles and meets new people. A person in particular that he met was a man named Dellwood Barker. Dellwood and Shed fall in love and have a sexual relationship. Shed later finds out that Dellwood could possibly be his father since he found some old

Roger Ebert once said "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." In the short story "The Wife 's Story" Ursula K. Le Guin creates the mood of suspense by using foreshadowing and other literary devices. Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. The entire story is filled with the state of feeling of uncertainty as the wife solely alludes to the major event. It is also obscured in mystery.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth is comprised of eight short stories about different Indian families’ struggles in America, many of them going through the immigrant experience. The conflicts are with friends and family, and also with themselves, as each of them attempt to find their own identity along with fitting in with the rest of society. One of the causes of these struggles that because the families in the stories are mixed in terms of generation. Many of the adults in the stories were first generation immigrants from India, while many of the children were raised in the United States, which is the second generation. This led to blending of culture and at the same time, clashes between the immigrant mentality of living and the American mentality of living. In Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri demonstrates to the reader the important influence of environment, specifically culture and how it impacts parental teachings, on the personality and development of an individuals’ identity, and how the actions and development of characters can affect one’s family and friends; the impact of environment and culture is shown especially by the characters and stories “Hell-Heaven” and “Hema and Kaushik”.

Ethics is something we all face at some point in our lives and in social work, we will be running into ethical dilemmas on an everyday basis. The Prince of Tides is an insightful movie, every minute of it left me with my eyes glued to the screen. Although, this movie does have some minor problems within the plot. Prince of Tides is a movie about a grown woman named Savannah Wingo and she struggles with suicide and depression. She lives in New York while her brother, Tom Wingo, lives in South Carolina. She attempts suicide once again and the psychiatrist requests that Tom come to New York to visit Savannah. Tom arrives in New York and instantly becomes involved in Savannah’s case and the psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. While trying to

There is a lot of vocabulary words that confounded me, for example, tranquility, op-ed, lament, perennial, mundane, indignation, and viable. What I myself gained after reading the critique stemmed from Charles Krauthammer’s “The Moon We Left Behind”, just how he strived towards comparing space travel programs to the importance of spending the countries valuable tax dollars on social, educational, and crime. The key concept that I for one, can explain if I had an 8-year-old sister/brother stands in place as in life, sometimes your opinions are not always accurate and it will be up to you to show evidence. In addition, the economy today will try to knock you down, but it’s important to stay true to your values and do your best at improving your

Mary Engelbreit once said, “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it; change the way you think about it.” This quote is a strong connection with Sal, when she grew up she had tons of external forces that caused her to think about things in a different way than before. She never really knew how to feel sometimes because she didn’t know how they would turn out. Sal couldn’t just change her problems, but she could change the way she looked at them. In the book Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, external forces greatly impact Sal’s life growing up.

Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Chinese population had expanded dramatically from having only about 55 people to 151,000. Most of the population has immigrated to California as the livelihood in China had became awfully difficult for them by sacrificing most of their valuables in order to improve their lives. The majority kept the Chinese culture with them and expanded it through establishing Chinatown, a community full of Chinese influence, with their presence in a new environment. In the remarkable novel, Outrun the Moon, Stacey Lee describes a teenage girl named Mercy Wong with a unique historical backdrop who chases after her dream in becoming an entrepreneur to create a better life for her own family. This book is astounding

Howard Thurman removes the window dressing in the African American experience of segregation in America. Thurman in his book, “The Luminous Darkness” paints an obscure portrait that delved deep into the consciousness of Black men, women and children freshly freed from chattel slavery. Two hundred years of slavery and one hundred years of darkness seeping into each soul perpetuated by an evil explained only through the Word of God. Although this book was published in the 60’s, the stigma segregation continues resonate in the souls of those who remember and perhaps even in the souls of those who do not.

To be lost is to lose all hope. To lose all your aspirations. To surrender all your dreams. Just because your lost, it doesn’t mean that you will not be found. In Amy Tan’s “The Moon Lady,” Ying- Ying, the main protagonist, fights with herself and with her culture. Ying-ying is longing to be found — to be reunited with her family — and with herself. At a youthful age, Ying-ying’s childish belief in personal fate and destiny later on led to a rule of passivity and listlessness. Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on to her daughter the same indifference and passivity that she has experienced growing up. Just like a broken bond, Ying-ying tries to sew her life back together, but she uses her past pains to tear it again. Tan argues that just because the strands of your life are torn, it doesn’t mean that you can’t sew your life together again.

The Solitude of Self is a speech that was given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This speech mainly discussed gender equality in every situation, including education and suffrage. Stanton clearly was opposed to the idea of inequality and believed that every person, man or woman, deserved to have the same rights.

Ever tried achieving something big but unfortunately didn’t make it? Well there is a saying that could definitely suit a scenario just like that. The creator was Vincent Peale but he was able to change a lot of people, and inspired them.

From my point of view, instead of being told the reader sees a creative nonfiction story. The story would be, The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury. The author specifically refers to a kind of creative writing that uses the conventions of fiction writing in order to tell the story. In responding interesting, visually, and emotionally, Ray Bradbury demonstrates these conventions in, Last Night of the World.

In her short story “Apollo” by Chimamanda Adichie and in Leo Tolstoy’s short story “The Two Brothers”, these authors suggest that friendships and brotherhood is a key to finding happiness. Raphael doesn’t feel very comfortable around Raphael, but it begins to change with the Apollo that Rafael gets. Okenwa says that by the end of the third day, when giving Raphael his “room felt familiar to me, welcoming, uncluttered by objects” (Adichie 6). When Okenwa first gave Raphael the eye drops he immediately felt connected to him, but felt awkward around him, he later clearly feels more comfortable around him. He sees him more as a friend instead of a housekeeper and because of the new friendship he has a new sense of belonging and a new feeling of

The chapter, A Day in Samoa, by Margaret Mead has a theme of leaders and followers. Young fishermen must bring “taboo fish to their chief” as a form of taxation. The Chief leads the village therefore is benefited with taboo fish. The men come to gather from “rhythmic sounds that [echo] through the village”. The men are gathered with digging sticks in their hand to start inland to the plantation. Samoan men are able to follow the rhythmic sounds as a group and start working. Leading and following builds an important structure to the daily life of Samoans.