Time Truly Changes Everything By Mary Anne O ' Brien

A Wrinkle In Time by: Madeleine L’Engle is a story about a girl named Meg, Charles and Calvin. Meg is a girl who is nothing like her mom but has a good relationship with her dad. Her dad has been missing for a while and now is her time to go on the hunt for him. Meg gets some help from her brother Charles Wallace Murry and her friend Calvin O’Keefe. The three kids travel through space and some time, soon enough Meg finds her dad he's been held hostage by the evil forces on another planet.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) said this famous quote at his first inaugural address, when he took one of the most important jobs in the world, becoming the president of the United States. He then went on to do what no other president had done before―be elected for more than two terms. The people elected Franklin for four consecutive terms during one of the nation’s hardest times, and he and his wife helped pull the nation to its feet. This period of World War II is captured in the biography No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The author uses countless interviews to piece together the perspective of the home front from

As a dying person, Granny Weatherall is losing her powers of deliberate control over events, which she has evidently learned to master along with the various disappointments that life has dealt her but is also subject to a number of intense anxieties. "While she was rummaging around she found death in her mind and it felt clammy and unfamiliar. She had spent so much time preparing for death there was no need for bringing it up again." In a semi-conscious state the feisty and irritable Granny reviews her life by remembering the important happenings, disappointments, crises, achievements, and feelings.

A shiny, crisp red fruit hangs enticingly off a lush verdant branch; a sly, seductive serpent and a woman in the nude converse under the sacred tree, and then Eve tentatively reaches up and plucks the juicy crimson fruit, a look of panic only reflected on her face once she realizes the gravity of her decision. She picks the forbidden fruit and her ignorance is ripped away from her like a newspaper on a windy day, and this single act started a trend of succumbing to temptations throughout human history. Even in the novels The Hours and The Awakening, the characters are tempted by someone else or a different idea; however, some of these characters exhibit strong self control and avoid their demise. The fine line between success and failure when it comes to avoiding temptation is most obviously demonstrated by Edna Pontellier and Laura Brown, and these two women showcase the destructive power of seduction and the strength of will it takes to deny the enticement. The allure of the unknown is not exclusive to the female sex either, many men in the novel also suffer from it, namely Robert Lebrun. The secret snare of temptation is interwoven throughout the stories, and the sliver of thread can be glimpsed between the inky words.

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.

When Frances Cornford wrote “The Watch”, she must have been in an unbelievably dark place; the poem is downright depressing. However, regardless of the macabre nature of the poem, it is executed in supreme fashion, and creates a real sense of dread in the reader. Cornford, a granddaughter of Charles Darwin, was not a particularly popular poet. However, in “The Watch”, she manages to convey a powerful message to the reader, and demonstrates her poetic skill in stride. The theme of this intriguing poem appears to simply be ‘Memento mori’, a reminder to the reader that death is inevitable and inescapable. Cornford conveys this message to the reader using an arsenal of literary devices, most notably the mood, tone, symbolism, and epizeuxis.

Individuals assume it is worse to die than to survive a drunk driving accident, dismissing the complications that survivors must face. Society labels survivors as the culprits of these incidents. Likewise, close relationships with others are broken to create loneliness for the survivor. Accordingly, the experience of a drunk driving accident forces one to reckon with mental stability. In Jenny Hollander’s short story “Time Transfixed”, the protagonist, Elle White classifies to be unlucky regardless of surviving a drunk driving accident as she faces negative consequences subsequently.

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.

What is success? Society has evolved so drastically that the answer to this question isn’t very simple. Depending on social status or moral beliefs, viewpoints vary. Success is demonstrated in Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, “The Shift” from The Road To Character by David Brooks, “Purpose” from Angela Duckworth’s Grit, and personal interviews with Lynn Harder and Nanci Bush. Unbroken is a biography written by Laura Hillenbrand about Louis Zamperini. Louis Zamperini, known as Louie, was an Olympic runner who enlisted in the Army Air Corps during WWll and ended up enduring many hardships. Similar to Louie’s story, the chapter “Purpose” contains multiple anecdotes, illustrated by Duckworth, of others who have experienced deprivations. In

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman," is a common quote used in the modern day. But just 20 years ago women were still fighting for their rights in America, how has this changed? Well, believe it all starts with women who wanted change, a right to own property or even equal right, it just was taken as unfair. As well as, that a wife had no legal identity apart from her husband, and which put women in a situation realizing they could make things change, started one at a time to become fed up with this arrangement. Circling The Sun by Paula McClain is all about a young named Beryl, who was abandoned by her mother as a child, being left to be raised by her work-devoted father and the native Kipsigis tribe,who share his estate. Beryl grew up to a young women with a fierce love of all things. when the wild child has to grow up, Beryl looses everything she knows and trusts. She is pitched in to a disastrous marriage, Jock Purves, and her husbands intent is to make her life miserable; however she is destined to find a way to her freedom. Trying to find they way she can live and love by her own rules, she charges forward through the unmapped territory of what she think she wants, on a path she finds herself meeting a man, that helps her to find her truest self and her fate. Its a astonishing story of a fearless young women, who extends out past others, to find freedom. Which makes you heart swell; however, Beryl was a women

“The Story of Us” is written by Deb Caletti and is a romance adventure book. It is set in a nice, expensive country living space. Caletti wrote this book in honor and memory of her and her little family of three’s furry friend, Jupiter.

Valarie Timlin Lindsey Freeman ENG4C October 26,2016 The Time Traveler’s Wife In the story the Time Traveler’s Wife author Audrey Niffengger creates a journal, diary format story of Clare a 20 year old art student from .. and a 28 year old Henry, a librarian from …. Henry suffering from a chromo impairment , enabling him t o time travel, written in a diary entry form detailing the events as they unfold , the past the present and the future, resembling the beginning the middle and the end.

“In a Dark time” by Theodore Roethke gives a retrospect into the inner turmoil’s of finding oneself through a haze of doubts in till reaching a moment of clarity. Each section of the poem describes a different emotion, or inner thought that spirals from fear of death, to emotions of desire. The use of imagery between nature and uncertainties of the narrator give a glimpse into Roethke’s own mind during the time he wrote this poem. Without hundreds of pages Roethke created a poem that connects readers to their own self-doubts and struggles of finding ones way again.

In “Once Upon a Time”, Nadine Gordimer conveys that segregation leads to fear and distrust among society. One example of this occurs in line 126. In the story, outside of the family’s house, unemployed housemaids and gardeners sat around, begging for food or work. The wife was sympathetic, and wanted to help them, but the family had previously received a warning not to trust anyone on the street. As a result, ‘She [the wife] wanted sent the trusted housemaid out with bread and tea, but the trusted housemaid said these were loafers and tsotsis, who would come and tie her up and shut her in a cupboard” (Gordimer 126).

My perception of her hadn’t changed until many years after she had passed. The pedestal I placed her on had not been knocked down exactly, but what once was a marble statue upon it, now sat a tarnished figurine. Still beautiful and magnificent but not holy pristine. My grandmother had lived either next door or with us since I was 5 years old. If truth be told, we had lived with her. A short time after my grandfather past away, she