The Watsons Book Report

In James Watson’s The Double Helix, there are four main scientists that all work towards the discovery of the double helix. These four people discovered the double helix and forever changed biology. Their names are James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins. The winners of the Nobel prize in real life were James D. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. Rosalind was ineligible to receive the reward because she died prior to the award being given. As the Nobel prize committee I choose James D. Watson to win the Nobel Prize. There was no doubt that Watson was the most important person towards the discovery of the double helix.

This movie, A Civil Action, is about a lawsuit that began with the death of twelve people, and eight of those twelve people were children. This all takes place in the little city of Woburn Wells, Massachusetts. This is a small city that has two companies that are located really close to the cities river.

The book The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, is an entertaining story about the weird Watsons, and their adventurous journey into the south. Overall, I give this book

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis is about the Watsons family who lives in Flint, Minnesota. Their family includes Kenny, Byron/By, Joetta/Joey and their parents Wilona and Daniel. Byron is the older brother, Kenny the middle child, and Joetta is the little sister. Everything that happens in the book is told from Kenny’s point of view. Each character in this book has a different personality. For example, Byron was mean and tried to act cool while the rest of his family was nice. In the book, Wilona decided to take the children to their Grandma Sands house in Birmingham, Alabama. Byron’s afraid of Grandma Sands so Wilona told him that if his behavior didn’t become better he’d have to stay there for a year. When they arrived at Birmingham, Kenny and Joetta met their Grandma for the first time and couldn’t understand why Byron was afraid of her.

After the end of WWI the roaring 20’s came to life, the economy was booming, and the U.S. felt a sense of pride. Sadly though all was not as grand as it seemed the land was stained with blood from racial issues. In the book The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks a coming to age story Newt Winger tells the tale of “how it feels to be black in the white man’s world.” He faces the struggle of the racial issue as he grows up in his little town of Cherokee Flats. The young twelve year old lives in a society where blacks are slowly being integrated but are still left with the shortest straw; not being allowed to eat or work in some places and the high schools black students are not allowed on the football nor the baseball teams while a certain teachers

For my AR Newbery Project, I decided to read The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book is about a boy named Kenny Watson and his family’s trip to Birmingham, Alabama in the summer of 1963 and the events that took place that summer.  The story was published in 1995 and  won a Newbery honor award in 1996. The  Watsons go to Birmingham is realistic fiction, because all of the events could have happened, but the characters are fictional.

From the murders in 1934 to Autherine Lucy’s enrollment at the segregated University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa became very familiar with racism. In the novel, Opening The Doors, B.J. Hollars leads his audience through Lucy’s attempt at desegregating the University of Alabama in 1956. Hollars effectively utilizes his exploration of the locations that served as headquarters for the civil rights movement to get to the very heart of the story.

The book I read was “Death Cloud” by Andrew Lane, it is about when Sherlock Holmes started detective work. Most of us know about the great detective that Sherlock Holmes was known as, but have you ever wondered how he got that way. This book gives you the opportunity to find out the past behind the genius detective. I chose this book because I like Sherlock Holmes.

1. How do the goals of psychoanalysis relate to the idea of identification as proposed by Watson and Frankfurt? What phenomenon is the notion of “identification” meant to explain, as Watson and Frankfurt use the term? How does the matter look from the point of view of Freud’s Structural Model? Is “identification” in their sense of any particular importance from a psychoanalytic point of view? Would psychoanalysis effectively help an individual to identify with their actions in Frankfurt’s and Watson’s sense of that term? Would it do something else? Explain your answer.

The two books that I choose is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Trash. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer was an adventurous book. It also had a crime scene. The Adventure Of Tom Sawyer was an Adventurous book, because Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn went to a graveyards to cure warts and they also went to a haunted house. Each time they went to the graveyard and haunted house, they saw the murderer. They both were scared because they told about the murderer in the court. In Trash, it was an adventurous book and also had a crime scene. Trash is an adventurous book, because they were three trash boys that found a bag that they police had. They had to run away from the police and they met many new people on the way and learnt about Jose Angelico. The crime scene was when Raphael, one of the Trash boys, was in jail because the police found out he had the bag and he won’t surrender it. Both of these book are fiction. Both of the book, really got my attention. I really loved the book so much. I read it five times.

The fiction book that I chose for my summer reading was “Of Mice and Men”. When I was given the list of fiction books, I went on good reads dot com and looked up all the books on the fiction list. “Of Mice and Men” really caught my eye because it was a book about two friends going through tough times, which always has a deeper meaning of friendship. Once I chose “Of Mice and Men” I picked it up at my local library. The book was exceptionally simple to read and my understanding of every page was straightforward. It only took me a week to read. Prior to reading the book I knew it would be about two migrant workers that were struggling with making ends meet in hard times (Goodread.com). The only preconceived notion I thought was going to happen was when Lennie and George were chased out of a town named “Weed” because of Lennie’s actions, when

To the mother’s distress, she finds in a world where hate and bigotry are allowed, the false hope of refuge does not exist behind the four walls of the church. Much like the rubble from the explosion,

The two books I chose to read were Looking for Alaska by John Green and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Station Eleven written by Mandel, is a science fiction book, because it is set in the future, after a virus has reduced the human population and cut off electricity. Written by John Green, Looking for Alaska is a realistic fiction book. It details the life of Miles Halter who goes to a boarding school and falls in love with Alaska who tragically dies in a drunk driving accident. In Station Eleven the author uses poetic language to describe the dystopian society they now live in. Unlike some other science fiction novels it manages to make the reader marvel at the language but also be intrigued by the plot. Looking for Alaska realistically

Watson’s readings also relate to change; changes in publishing, art, literature and even education. Literature was impacted by the wave of new talented writers from different diverse backgrounds, as well as the fee market. The biggest impact was seen in the universities. Levine's disagreement with Allan Bloom’s analysis rests upon the paradigm that the U.S. is a multicultural society; Levine argues that opening the academic canon to cultures beyond Western civilization is a natural thing to do due to the increasing diversity of America. Culture wars are reactions to globalization. The minority groups that migrated to this country along with black Americans that wanted to be included wanted to add to the narrative it to reflect their own experiences

The book I selected was Dodger by Terry Pratchett. The main reason I chose Dodger out of all the books was because it was put in the genre of humor, which I enjoy reading. As told by commenters, there was plenty of humor in the book but, it did not help the fact that the story, in whole, was boring. The plot itself was entertaining, but the supporting paragraphs were lengthy and ceased interest. Some details mentioned in the story line could have been shortened or even cut out as it was unneeded.