The Reality Of Loss By Robert Hayden

The Hollow Hope by Gerald Rosenberg is based on one research question. That question is: Can the Court bring about significant social change? In examining this question Rosenberg presents two different views of the Court. The dynamic court view believes that the court is an excellent catalyst for social change while the constrained court view believe that there are constraints in place that prevent the court from making significant change. The constrained court believes that it is only when these constraints are lifted and certain conditions met that the Court can have an effect on social change.

When I become a grandfather I will tell my grandkids about different types of success. The story “Failure is a good thing” is told by Jon Carroll, a father and grandfather. The number one type of success is failure and from failure you can learn how to do better for all the other times to come. Success is just a way to prove that you can do something that you already know you can do.

When we have strong love for others, we take risks, we go against our beliefs, we put ourselves in danger, and we let our loved ones go. Without love, there would be none of that. In this book, The Dead and the Gone, written by Susan Beth Pfeffer, a comet smashes the moon closer to earth and it creates all sorts of problems. Alex, a teenage boy with two sisters, starts a long journey of survival and risks. This story is so realistic, at times was hard to read. You start to ask yourself these tough questions, like what you would do in a specific situation. Through out the whole story, love is definitely a recurring theme. It shows you how well love can hold a family is distress together.

In the novel Kitchen, and its accompanying story Moonlight Shadow, Yoshimoto deals with the theme of losing a loved one, and the grief that comes with it. Already in the preface, Yoshimoto writes, “Growth and the overcoming of obstacles are inscribed on a person’s soul.” , which indicates the most crucial theme in her novel. Yoshimoto conveys in her novel, the harmful effects the Japanese culture, which views excessive displays of grief as shameful, has on grieving. These harmful effects are denying the characters the chance to grow, as it is critical to acknowledge grief, before one is able to surmount it.

¨There was a law against luke. Not him personally everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents already had two babies (pg 6)¨. Would you like a law against you? Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix clearly shows that dictatorship is horrible. In this novel Luke is not allowed to leave the house or be seen. Luke leaves the house in cover and meets a girl the same as him she can't go anywhere so she tries to convince luke to rebel to be like regular people with her but he is to nervous. Luke shows the character traits of brave, jealousy and adventurous as he hides in the shadows.

Immigrating to America is a process in which many people all across the world entrust as their one way ticket to a better life. Whether they do so legally or illegally, coming to the United States ensures better opportunities, economically, politically, and so on, to people who would have otherwise been worse off in their countries of origin. Even so, the common understanding of being “better off” can be considered a misconstrued concept when it comes to living in the states. Many families that choose to immigrate to the U.S. fail to realize the cultural hardships that newcomers tend to face once on American soil. Anything from racial discrimination or bias at work, in neighborhoods, at school, etc., can all be challenges that people encounter when making a move to the U.S. Such challenges are described by Richard Rodriquez in his autobiography Hunger of Memory. In this passage, he explains how cultural differences between Mexican and American ways of life have shaped him into the person that he is today. He also chooses to highlights the problems that he faces growing up in a predominately white neighborhood, while attending a predominantly white institution. Much of his writing consists of the cultural differences and pressures he feels to assimilate to Western culture and how this process, in turn, changes him into the person that some may find to be unethical, but nonetheless, someone he is proud of.

According to Egan, “Never let the kids see you sweat” (2006, p.1). The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan was announced as “a classical disaster tale” by the New York Times. This book was written to inform everyone about the untold story of those who survived the American Dust Bowl. The story documents how the darkest years of the Great Depression affected the economy and the people’s living environment as well. Egan’s book explains the importance of the Great Depression. Within this theme, Egan explores the struggle of survival and the broken promises made by the government.

In Psychology Today, research has shown that the more roles people fill, the more sources of self-esteem they have. Meaningful work has long been one of the most important ways to feel good about oneself. With either no work environment at all or an unhealthy one, a person’s self-esteem can go down tremendously. The hard-working community must face the terrifying fact that their identity is so highly linked to their job. Failure to maintain a job or fulfill a days’ worth of work connects with their personal emotions which then can result in low self-esteem, self-loathing, or depression.

Social change comes from a societies understanding and acceptance of controversial topics, laws that enforce social norms and the politics that play a role in such change. The author Gerald Rosenberg of “The Hollow Hope” believes that the Supreme Court is able to bring about social change. Rosenburg main argument seemed to be questioning if a courts ruling that had once been accepted and had standing for several years were to be over turned, would the environment outside of the courtroom suddenly change and be accepting of their division.

The history of America has always been intertwined with the history of discrimination and oppression of ethnic minorities. Whether it be the internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II, the passage of ethnic quotas for immigrants during the 20th century, or most prevalently, the racial disparagement of Native and African Americans since the birth of the nation. Although intolerance of both Native and African Americans has persisted throughout time, authors of all time periods and races have spoken out and criticized the treatment of these groups through works of literature: specifically, A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, and The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. Although both Authors criticize the treatment of minorities in their book’s, Du Bois African Americans and Jackson Native Americans, they do so through distinct methods, differing in regards to the portrayal of the tone and the mood of the novel, though both using powerful imagery to support their arguments that the treatment of minorities is unacceptable and must change.

A vanished World written by Chris Lowney chronicles the daily life of the Jews, Muslims and Christians, living in the Muslim kingdoms in Medieval Spain. He covers different spectrum of this world that was torn by religious antagonism. In Medieval Spain, in the medieval Spanish villages Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders on a daily basis. They shared irrigation system, bathhouses, municipal ovens, and marketplaces. But they created a system that made everything work efficiently. Medieval Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture, Hindu-Arabic numerals, philosophical classics, algebra, citrus fruits, cotton, and new medical techniques. More astonishing than Spain 's wide-ranging accomplishments, however, was the

Robert Hayden was born in a poor suburb outside Detroit on August 4, 1913. His name at birth was Asa Bundy Sheffey. He was raised, however, as Robert Hayden, the name given by his foster parents. Hayden’s foster parents happened to live across the street from where Hayden was born. Hayden did not discover the story until later in life. Realizing this story helped shape his life as a poet. He established a lasting legacy of both postmodernism and African-American achievement. At the same time, his poetry helped Robert Hayden discover who he was as a person.

The Catholic Church describes Purgatory as a place in which the soul is able fortify a relationship with God by enduring torture that leads to salvation. God in the Movies, by Alfred Bergesen and Andrew Greeley, discusses the concept in specific reference to two films, Jacob’s Ladder(1998) and Flatliners(1990). Within the films, purgatory is depicted through cinematic representation. The interpretations of purgatory in Jacob’s Ladder and Flatliners will be examined through their use of intense imagery, the presence or lack in presence of God, and the films underlying message of purgatory as either a blessing or a nightmare.

Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Mastery of Love, first chapter “The Wounded Mind” sets a focus on symbolic interactionism since there is a major emphasis on images and what those images mean to those who create them and those who perceive them. Ruiz mentions that individuals have the power to create these images in order to protect the wounds of the emotional body and mind. In addition, to the images the denial system also protects the emotional wounds, however in the denial system individuals lie to the point that they believe their own lies just to make others believe and perceive something that they are not.

Inheritance of loss, is a moving novel by Indian writer Kiran Desai, whereby we see the effect of colonialism and post colonialism and the consequence that comes with it. Many critical themes are explored, Leach lists them as “colonialism, a revolution, multi-ethnic nationhood and illegal immigration in the US, where political allegiance impacts on love affairs, and where the reality of life in a grubby New York basement reshapes the American Dream” (2007). Desai mentions many of these historical events in her novel that give us and insight view as to what was happening on the inside, within the people of India, as opposed to only seeing the surface and elections going on.