The Victims by Sharon Olds

Second, what do you think were the father’s thoughts and feelings towards is son’s abuse? I

The main theme in the book, The Dark is Rising, is obviously the conflict between the dark and light. It is one of the many suspenseful fantasy books about the battle between good and evil, Susan Cooper wrote about the dark, light, and the mystical powers.

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

America’s answer for dealing with crime prevention is locking up adult offenders in correctional facilities with little rehabilitation for reentry into society. American response for crime prevention for juvenile’s offenders is the same strategy used against adult offenders taken juvenile offenders miles away from their environment and placed in adult like prisons.

Society has often struggled with how to help prisoners once they are released back into civilization. The number of prisoners in the American prison population has grown considerably in the last couple of decades. For many prisoners the process of arrest, incarceration and release is a continuous cycle, there is very little hope of them living in civilization for a long period of time. There is also a high a retention rate of the returning offenders. A large portion of these prisoners are minorities of African Americans and Hispanics face more time in jail or prison is extremely high. The success rate of offenders is measured by how long one can avoid being incarcerated and not by being reintegrated into civilization. These issues have become a national crisis in Joan Petersilia book titled “When Prisoners come home: Parole and prisoner reentry,” she address these issues head on. The main purpose of this book focuses on how to help prisoners once they have been released out of prison. Petersilia gives efforts for future reform to alter the in prison experience, change prison release, revocation practices, revise post prison services and supervision as well as a working with the community to enhance informal social control. These are efforts that represent a better policy towards reform of prisoners and re-entry in the system. The book goes into great detail about the suggestions Petersilia makes and why it is necessary for change.

Why acknowledge history? The solution is because we essentially must to achieve access to the laboratory of human involvement. In the essay “Haunted America”, Patricia Nelson takes a truly various and remarkably gallant stance on United States history. Through the recounting of the White/Modoc war in “Haunted America,” she brings to light the complexity and confusion of the White/Indian conflicts that is often missing in much of the history we read. Her account of the war, with the faults of both Whites and Indians revealed, is an unusual alternative to the stereotypical “Whites were good; Indians were bad” or the reverse stand point that “Indians were good; Whites were bad” conclusions that many historians reach. Limerick argues that a very brutal and bloody era has been simplified and romanticized, reducing the lives and deaths of hundreds to the telling of an uncomplicated story of “Good Guys” and “Bad Guys”.

The book I chose to read over the summer was the book The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara. The Killer Angels tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1863, the Confederate army, and the Union army, fought the largest battle of the American Civil War. When the battle ended, fifty one thousand men were KIA (Killed In Action), wounded, or MIA (Missing in Action). All the characters in this book are based on real figures that fought in this great battle. The characters include General Robert Lee, commander of the Confederate army; General James Longstreet, Lee’s second in command; and Union Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, who fought in one of the most famous parts of the Battle of Gettysburg, the fighting on Little Round Top.

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is not just a fiction novel, it is a story of a man who actually saw the battlefield of Gettysburg and learned about the battle and its importance. When he returned from the battle sight he decided to write a novel based on his experience there. Instead of creating fictional characters he used the names and experiences he had directly with the main characters of the novel. Not only did Shaara study and review letters, documents and journal enteries of the men for the interpretation, he made it more realistic and personal by the portrayal of his characters. In the paper we will address four of those main characters with their background and how they were relevant to the war. Shaara, gave us a look at each of their inner thoughts and emotions. This will not cover most of the characters but a few that seemed tohave had the most impact in the book and in the war.

Jim murders his daughter because he can’t care for her. He can’t feed her, and he knows that she will soon die from starvation. She complains to him about being hungry. “Daughter said she was hungry, and I just couldn’t stand it no longer.”(30) He couldn’t stand hearing her going hungry. He knew she was dieing and her agony was too much for him to bear. “I just couldn’t stand to hear her say it.”(30) Jim feels that he has failed as a father because he can’t provide for his family.

In A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power creates a comprehensive understanding of American involvement in cases of genocide. Power utilizes various case studies in order to discuss America’s long-running policy of inaction—through these case studies, Power provides information that aids the reader in understanding the context surrounding the genocide. With the case studies, Power explains why America consistently fails to stop genocide. Throughout the book, Samantha Power effectively argues that “The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely made a point of condemning it as it occurred” (XV).

Abuse, hatred and anger represent the main themes in this poem. The speaker clearly hates and feels anger towards her father. Her mother had taught the kids to hate him. “Taught us to take it, to hate you and take it until we pricked with her for your annihilation,” she hates her father to the extent that she and the siblings were happy about their parents separating. “When mother divorced you, we were glad”. The speaker’s mother is a victim of abuse. She had tolerated her husband and his behaviors till she divorced him. “She took it and took it, in silence, all those years”

“Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.” Personally, I would not take a genetics test to find out if I was at high risk; and, to many this might sound odd coming from someone who is planning to pursue a career in the sciences. I am uncertain if my DNA holds the BRCA gene but like Cynthia Graber I am certain of one thing, myself.

“The waning moon hung defiantly in the night sky, enveloped by the thriving darkness. It hovered undefeated, ruling over the pitch-blackness cloaking the earth.” Lunam and Lux know that the darkness is to be feared, however they can’t help but question its existence to the elders in their village. They must learn to face their fears and dare the darkness to battle, and so the pair learn to be as the moonlight, shining bright in the face of the hungry darkness.

I am currently reading The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkins. This book has taken place in New York and Horizons the mental health hospital. There are four main characters in this book. There's Mara she is the min main one without her there's no book. In this book she is a little more crazy than the first because she going through some changes. The second one is Jamie he is also going through some changes you can say, he also does things that are unbelieveable. The third one is Stella she along with Mara and Jamie is going through changes that could change her life. The last one is Mara’s brother Daniel he is just trying to figure out what happened to his sister and why it's happening and he is he watching all the changes.

The speaker struggles within herself between the love for her father, and her hatred for him. As a child, your parents are your hero, who should provide you with everything a child needs to be successful, but because he had died, she was left on her own with this battle inside her. She hated her father for being a Nazi and torturing the Jews. The speaker was stuck in her past, and her father had created a generation rut, making another generation of evil. Children always search for acceptance and approval from their parents, yet the speaker was only given the voice of her father within her head. She blamed him for the evil within herself, and at the age of twenty, she tried to commit suicide to kill the part of him in her. Unsuccessful in her attempt, she was pulled from the sack and glued back together, never being completely full again. At this time, she had an epiphany: She needed to find a husband. One who thoroughly resembled her father, down to the “love of the rack and screw.” At this time, she was no longer a victim and converted to the predator. She modeled her husband after her father so that she could then, essentially, murder her father finally. Therefore, she had turned into her father.