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Nearly 70% of Americans will die in a hospital or care-facility, while this 70% would prefer to pass away in their own home. Most people with chronic diseases wish to avoid hospitalization during the end of their life (pbs.org).Vivian Bearing from the play, Wit by Margaret Edson, is diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer and is then immediately hospitalized. There, she is put into an intensive treatment program where it caused great physical and emotional pain to her. The more time that passed, the

The book, named Mudbound, is written by .Hillary Jordan, who is earned the Bellwether Prize because of this novel. The novel’s background sets in the rural Mississippi at the end of World War II and the story is talking about two families: the white McAllan family and the black Jackson family. These two families’ connection is the sharecropping. In the other words, the Jackson family is the tenant sharecropper of the McAllan family, who is the owners of the land. The author uses the whole story to

The novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett took place in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s, a period that saw the segregation of blacks and the prejudice of whites dominate the southern United States. The novel focused on two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, and their work environment with their white employers. The racism of many high society women, like Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt, was showcased throughout the story. Skeeter was the outlier in her society. After returning

In the book “Overthrow” Stephen Kinzer breaks down the three different kinds of interference that the United States used to overthrow 14 countries. At the beginning of the book, we see that the United States overthrew Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines because of their imperialistic grounds. The United States overthrew this countries to expand its power and also because they wanted to protect American businesses. In the second section of the book Kinzer discusses how America overthrew

Herodotus, consider as the father of history, was born in the ancient Halicarnassus, current Turkey, and lived between 485 and 425 BC, about 150 years previous to the creation of the Library of Alexandria. Moreover, due to Persian rule over greece, Herodotus fled to Samos resulting from his conflicts with the local government and will not return until 450 BC, when he participated part in the campaign to defeat Lygdamis, to once again leave the city after the completion of the campaign. Furthermore

The story starts in 1943, Denmark when the Nazi has occupied their country for the past three years. One day, a ten-year-old girl named, Annemarie walks home from school with her best Jewish friend named, Ellen.On the way home, two German soldiers stop them and question them why they are running. But Kirsti, a five-year-old sister of Aneemarie, confuses the moment by her rude behavior. When the girls arrive at home, Annemaries's mama, Mrs. Johansen and Mrs. Rosen, Ellen's mother, are very upset to

The author depicts the hunger artist as a tragic figure, whose art of fasting, which was once widely appreciated by the world, became totally neglected and forgotten. For the hunger artist whose only joy and satisfaction in life is the excitement and admiration of the spectators, when that excitement turns into disgust and the admiration turns into suspicion, so did the satisfaction the artist felt at the end of each fasting performance. Alas, he became increasingly despondent and furious at the

The Pentateuch is mainly composed of narratives from Moses’ point of view. The Pentateuch is written primarily as a narrative because it depicts the first hand experiences that Moses encounters throughout His interactions with God and the leading that God does throughout his life in order to further His people. The way that the Pentateuch is composed influences the manner that we derive theology from these narratives, view the inspiration that is present in these narratives, and how we in turn apply

Thomas wakes up in a metal box with no memory of who he is. He only remembers his name. Doors open overhead revealing a community of young boys all living on a type of farm surrounded by very high walls. The place is called the Glade. Outside the Glade, beyond the walls is a massive Maze populated with monsters, known as Grievers. Every month a new boy is sent to the Glade. Each week supplies come up through the elevator that Thomas rides. Thomas learns that in the Maze outside are monsters known

Book Summary The story begins with a young woman leaping out of a carriage, and being attacked by two men. Dodger who is a tosher emerged from a London sewer drain and helped the girl by chasing away the men. Dodger and the young woman named Simplicity are helped by Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew, who witnessed the attack. Beaten and bruised, Simplicity is taken to the Mayhew house where she is treated by a doctor. While treating Simplicity, the doctor discovers that she was pregnant, but the