Truth, By Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Starting in Chapter 6 Gladwell presents us with the mysterious and seemingly inexplicable series of events that occurred in Harlan, Kentucky in the 19th century to introduce the enormous effect of cultural legacies.

In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.

Rodney Lawrence Hurst is a civil rights and community activist and the author of two award-winning books--It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®! A personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday, and Unless WE Tell It…It Never Gets Told!

It’s the morning of December 26th, 1996. Police cars scatter the scene searching for a missing 6 year old pageant queen; JonBenet Ramsey. The house is flooded with neighbors and officers as they search for any evidence. An officer tells John and Patsy Ramsey to search for anything suspicious. John makes a bee-line to the basement. What he finds is JonBenet. Covered in her favorite white blanket, beaten, strangled, sexually assaulted, she was dead. He carried her up the stairs, frantic, destroying any evidence. An unsolved murder mystery changing the lives of the Ramsey’s and history itself forever. What if I told you that maybe JonBenet knew her killer? Suspicious behavior was brought up by the Ramseys. Understandably, but, small and valuable

In the beginning of the third part, Montag and Captain Beatty stand outside his front lawn, staring at Montag’s home inevitably to be burned. Montag to ignites it himself and they both watch as the house crashes to the ground in flames. Faber cries frantically into Montag’s ear to escape, but he is fearful of the Mechanical Hound roaming nearby. While Montag is talking to Faber, Beatty discovers the communication device and steals it. Lost without his mentor, Montag’s anger grows as Beatty taunts him. In one final straw, he turns his igniter upon Beatty and attacks the other firemen. He turns to escape but the Hound is already there and stuns him with one of its needles. Montag is now injured and realizes that his only chance of survival is to return to Faber. Before he leaves, he goes into his backyard to rescue his books.

Chapter two, Gladwell uses an inverted U-curve to describe that having too much of something is not always good. Examples that he gave to support this saying were: The class size at schools and the amount of money a family has (their income). About class sizes, he explained that having few students, there will be no diversity in the classroom, which means you do not have a lot of discussions and the students don’t do that well in class; however, there is a controversial, many people believe that classrooms with fewer students make more sense because the teacher can give more attention to and have a strong relationship with the students. At the highest point of the parabola is where it has the almost perfect combination of class size and academic

Walking with his new group, farther and farther away from the city, Montag realized he couldn't just leave his old life the way he did, he had to go back,not only for himself, but for Faber he needed closer. Montag ran back to the river and dove in, fighting the current ever stroke he took until he reached land. Seeing the city destroyed, the town he grew up in, all he could thing about was Faber, Mildred, and Clarrise. Walking down the side walks, fire pouring down buildings in the corner of his eyes, his memories flashed before him as he saw the sprinklers still on in Faber's property. Opening the front door, the handles still silky from the alcohol on them, he saw Faber lying on the ground in the hallway. All Montag could

In Danielle Allen’s essay, Our Declaration, she argues that all people should understand and recognize that the Declaration gives all people in the United States the undeniable freedom to self-govern. One person has the power to change the government; although this is not specifically stated, the freedom to self-govern implies every voice matters. She guides the reader to this idea by using simple and easy to follow examples to show the reader that they have the power to invoke a change the government. Allen also uses credible sources in order to give her reasoning credibility as well as using arguments that elicit an emotional connection.

Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 presents another world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and oversight has assumed control over the overall public. The individual is not acknowledged and the intellectual is viewed as a fugitive. Television has supplanted the regular impression of family. The firefighter is currently seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books instead of a protection against flame. Books are viewed as insidious since they make individuals question and think. People are so shallow to the point that they couldn't care less about alternate events happening on Earth. An example would be when the radio reported an up and coming nuclear war that might be proclaimed on their society, yet the people never stopped to worry about it. Moreover the general population live in a world without any indications of history or energy about the past; the populace gets the present from TV. We begin our story with the narrative of the protagonist, Guy Montag. At the start, Montag takes delight in his calling as a firefighter, blazing unlawfully possessed books and the homes of their proprietors. However, Montag soon starts to scrutinize the value of his life and, thus, his very existence. All throughout the novel, Montag battles with his

Fahrenheit 451 is about a man on the run who started fires to burn many books until he actually takes a look Guy Montag was his name and burning books was his game watching pages consumed by flame performing his duty always the same Being a fireman for ten years never questioning his peers letting Guy have no fears watching people shed to tears He meets a girl named Clarisse

Fahrenheit 451 is about a man named Guy Montag struggling to do his job as a fireman. In the book, firemen are not what you think, they are required to burn all books. But, when Guy meets a girl that is in love with books he starts to re-think his career. Meeting that girl causes him to start stealing and hiding books. Guy becomes a fugitive and is running from the police in search of somewhere to read and learn about books.

Graff should have told Ender the truth about the game. After all that Ender have gone through, was it worth it? Ender had to leave everything behind even his family. How would you feel when you were in his situation? In the book Ender’s game, Ender was told that he was tricked in being in a war against aliens, real aliens. Did the teachers ever told Ender the truth? Well, no. Ender thought that this was all a game and had been tricked and going to battle. Ender then realizes his true purpose. Ender had to leave his family behind, Ender didn't want to go, Ender missed his memories, and Ender was told the truth.

In “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kingston discusses a story her mother shared with her. It is about Kingston’s aunt who, while her husband was in America, became pregnant and committed suicide the day of her illegitimate child’s birth. Also included in the story is a raid, undertaken by neighbors and other villagers, on the aunt’s family and home. In order to fully understand the story, it is necessary to know the historical context. Taking place in 1920s China, the instability, importance of the family, and attitude towards women impact the final essay.

The book The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick was written in 1964 and is set in the 21st century. World War III was being fought over the United States, so the general population was forced to move into underground silos to survive. This entire operation is run by a man named Stanton Brose; to aid in persuading the public to move underground and stay there while the war was happening, fake documentaries were made to pose the threat of a nuclear attack to the civilians and a realistic robot of their former president, Talbot Yancy, has been feeding them instructions on what to do. It is been 15 years since the population has seen the surface, and Talbot Yancy only demands more leadies, war robots that have been fighting instead of humans. Nicholas

“The best nonfiction recognizes the impossibility of perfect representation, the dream of the 1:1 ratio,” (Sharlett). What Jeff Sharlet means in this quote is that facts cannot be perfectly represented, regardless of any type of imagery or descriptions, so a good nonfiction work uses only what is needed to get the message across. Beginning in the 20th century, many nonfiction writers would even look towards fiction for the resources to describe what was considered impossible to describe (Taylor). One way writers have been able to do this is through nonfiction novels. A nonfiction novel is a narrative, of book-length, that unfolds actual events and actual people written in the style of a novel (“Nonfiction Novel”). This style of a novel implies that the book being spoken of can be looked at as art as well as fact (Sharlett). In the mid 1960’s, a nonfiction novel journey began, beginning with the narrative journalistic qualities of Truman Capote, continuing with the story telling of such authors as Norman Mailer, and then continues to stay constant throughout present day literature with works like Katherine Boo’s display of immersion journalism.