The Story Of Us By Deb Caletti

In Barbara Carey’s poem “Returning to the World,” a girl tries to get away from her troubles by isolating herself on the fire escape. The poem teaches us that in order for a person to understand their problems and become courageous, they must take a break from everything around them. Carey uses metaphor, imagery and personification to express this idea.

Crossroads at Clarksdale by Francoise Hamlin sketches the struggle to freedom for African Americans in Clarksdale, MS. Hamlin shares the stories of two successful African Americans at the forefront and how they work to become leaders in Clarksdale. From the 1950’s to the 1970s, college students, numerous organizations, and campaigns for social transformation fought hard battles for social and economic justice. In an attempt to withstand the social prejudices that were highly advocated in Mississippi African Americans were targeted for violence and degraded by Jim Crow laws that were inhumane and restricted their rights. Despite the poverty and inequality African Americans had to undergo, their slow struggle to freedom in Clarksdale was accompanied by accomplishments and relentless efforts for civil rights. Hamlin articulates in detail the situations that were occurring in the south, how the citizens were affected by the situations, and their responses to these situations.

The Spirit that Catches you and you fall was written in the year of 1997 by Anne Fadiman. The novel describes how the struggles experienced by an immigrant family who were from, Sinyabull Province in Asia during their time at a medical center in California. Fadiman narrates about a young child named Lia. Lia is the second born in her family and is suffering from epilepsy and causes her to have seizures. The novel exemplifies the cultures differences and clashes that are interfering with her regarding the treatment she is to receive. Fadiman also describes the miscommunications of the necessary medical treatment requirements with Lia's family and their denial of accepting the treatment because of spiritual values and including distrust. Fadiman shows the medical providers lack of sympathy towards Lia's family cultural practices as their daughter’s illness.

In 2012, more than 437,000 people around the world were intentionally murdered, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Additionally, 80 percent of those victims were men (Bannerjee). Criminal investigations are hard to solve, but forensic science is the best way to determine a suspect. In the book, The Year we Disappeared by John Busby and Cylin Busby, John is nearly killed when an unknown person shoots him in the head. The police force uses forensic science, but progress is slow. Forensic science is the best way to reduce crime in society and the criminal investigation process starts with gathering evidence, then evaluating the evidence, and finally finding a punishment for the criminal.

In the book of All But My Life: A Memoir it follows the author’s life from her early youth years to later on her life. The author Gerda Weismann Klein is the main focus on this story which is her autobiography on which details her life around that time. The book is a memoir in which it is greatly detailed on certain key events in her life. During the book she describes many of the horrors that she had to witness and as well as the obstacles she had to face in her lifetime. The author is herself and she is writing based on the details she remembers from later on her life. The memory could be considered for a consideration since the time could of change her memory during the specific time she was talking about. The book provides vivid details from the beginning of her describing the atmosphere when the Germans arrived and the tense atmosphere towards the end when she gets out of the concentration camps.

Do all narrative stories have turning points? Does your life itself have a turning point? In the article, “Conversion and Turning” points, the author writes, “In life writing, conversion is inevitably bound up with the way lives are given narrative shape” (Sheringham, Packet Page 45). Choosing to See: A Journey of Struggle and Hope is not about the conversion of the author, Mary Beth Chapman, but a definite turning point in her life, the death of her five-year-old daughter, Maria. The book chronicles the major life lessons that she has learned, like understanding the concept of grace and trusting God with parenthood, but ultimately, it is the after effects of Maria’s death that take center stage in this narrative. Throughout all Mary

We are all born equal is a concept that was not widely known in Souther America during the 1960s. Some accepted the multitude of races while many did not. In “Darkroom: a Memoir in Black & White” by Lila Quintero Weaver she depicts from the eyes of an outsider of what truly happened during this trying time between races. Weaver and her family had no idea of the history that was about to be made when they arrived back in the United States. While in Argentina her family was seen as different they were not treated as poorly as the blacks in America. Throughout the novel Weaver chooses to use black and white images to depict how she saw the world in the time during the Civil Rights movement for many reasons but some that stand out was the lack of perspective, the choice of racism based on skin color, and because of what she grew up loving, her fathers pictures.

Welcome, welcome! Come one, come all to Aidan’s Amazing Writing Emporium! The reason for this piece is to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction writings from a selected time period. The time period I chose was the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was when societies went from making everything by hand to using machines and factories. It was a huge leap in human achievement and helped businesses make a lot more money than they used to, but also forced lower class people to work long hours in factories to produce goods.

My childhood took place in two very different settings. Every summer my parents, sister and I would drive across the country, from Tucson, Arizona to Morgantown, West Virginia, in our minivan stopping at many tourist places on the way. Because of this, I have been to 45 states. This exposed me the outside world. For six weeks, every summer I would be able to run around the humid forests, climb on rocks and make quirky videos with my cousins. Having a home in two different states was hard growing up. I had friends from all around and I would only see my best friends from West Virginia every summer.

In this paper, I explore the themes of othering, binaries, and the image of a perfect woman in relation to “Advertising’s Image of Women” (Kilbourne 4th edition) I use material from “Killing Us Softly,” by Jean Kilbourne, as well as class material from Brenda Anderson. These themes also pertain to how women are used for men’s entertainment. I will look at how the shows othering towards women, created binaries for women, and how the media has created an image of the perfect women.

"I do not trust people who don 't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you. ' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." This is a quote by Mayra Angelou that it clearly explains that, having kindness for yourself is the most important thing for people. Having kindness for yourself it’s the first step that everyone should take. “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani talks about a girl who committed suicide just because she didn’t have kindness for herself. I choose to compare the reading by Mirikitani with chapter number five “It’s Never Too Late” of the book “When Things Fall Apart” by Pema Chodron because this chapter talks about how people should start having kindness for themselves. This is a part of the book that Asian-American girl who committed suicide, which Mirikitani talks should have read it before taking the decision to end her life.

Ernest Hemmingway’s “In Our Time” is a collection of short stories that follows the life of Nick Adams as he grows up during the World War I era in America. As a young journalist, Hemingway wrote mostly for newspaper. When writing for newspapers he had to tell a story with a smaller amount of context compared to traditional storytelling. This could have been the reason that his stories are written with a minimalistic style. Hemingway in known for using a style of writing called the The Iceberg Theory. The Iceberg Theory style of writing where the text gives just enough information for the reader to understand the story, but there is information purposely omitted where reader

Friendship By: Dorothy Padilla The moment they came The moment I realized I have found joy in them

The Sun Also Rises is classified as a “Lost Generation” work and in the opening pages of the book the reader is introduced to a Jewish man and American author, Robert Cohn. He feels as if life is passing him by and attempts to convince his friend, Jake Barnes, to travel to South America with him. During a night out, Jake encounters Lady Brett Ashley. They both love each other, but as the night progresses they lament why they cannot be together. Robert later angers Jake when he professes his love for Brett, but later encounter problems with his girlfriend, Frances Clyne.

This reflective report is based on different modelled and shared approaches to determining what strategy worked best when dealing with 7-year-old Elli. Different approaches were used to decide what skills needed development. Appropriate questions were we involved to establish an understanding of the child’s literacy level and perceptive.