Benjamin Carson had to deal with many obstacles throughout his life. In the end, however, he managed to work his way around them and get his dream job as a neurosurgeon at John Hopkins Medical Center. Ben was widely known throughout the world for the miraculous surgeries he performed, such as when he separated conjoined twins without having either of them pass away during the operation for the first time in history. He also performed hemispherectomy on a girl of four years and, despite several grave risks, succeeded with no complications. Before he got his job, he had to constantly endure racism, bullying, and poverty, but whenever he felt like he wanted to quit, his mother was always there to pull him back up.…
Paragraph one is about how Ray Silver, a father and husband, had impacted how Ben matures throughout the book. It is about Ray’s actions and the repercussions that occurred because of it, including how Ray is perceived as a ‘wrecker’. In the body paragraph two, the setting, regarded how Ben raised in the suburbs and being confronted with the wilderness and nature is one of Ben’s greatest fears. In addition, it stated his survival and confronting his fears. The final paragraph remarked, apropos of the knowledge regarding his Pop being a criminal, which led Ben to become more conscious of his actions and the possibilities of him becoming a criminal as well.…
Author of Touching Spirit Bear, Petey, and Ghost of Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen has written many novels and won many awards, “such as the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, Inc., and the Children’s Book Award from the International Reading Association, both in 1991 and both for the book Rescue Josh McGuire” (Benson, Sonia).” Mikaelsen bases his stories from mostly his own experiences. He says, ‘I can go to libraries and get a lot of my research, but I’ve never found the soul of my story in a library. Not until I was laying awake at 4:00 in the morning trying to bottle-feed a cub that was almost starved to death. In that struggle--...…
The Other Wes Moore is a narrative story about two young men with the same name, brought up in similar background and end up with different fates. The author’s purpose is to examine how two people with the same background can end up completely with different lives. The book narrative the lives of the two young men right from their early age till they become what they are today. The first part is about their family background, their environment and how the two men were brought up with no father. Part two of the novel narrates the decisions made by the two Wes Moore and their families that led them to become what they are today.…
This chapter is effective and meaningful to me because we all have jobs as human beings. You have to know a person’s real character so that everyone at the workplace can get along , make compromises , and be able to evaluate each other’s real personality and character and not just the side that people may present to the crowd. With these tactics , there will be less conflict and better…
It seems like everyone tries to grow up as fast as they can. Often times forgetting that the innocence of being a child is precious and valuable. In the memoir entitled A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah , the protagonist finds himself having to become a child soldier taking adult actions in order for his survival. One may learn through A Long Way Gone that childhood is a treasure and when lost or taken away it's impossible to get back .…
What I found interesting and surprising about the book is the part when Katie and her grandma are going to the hairdressers because it is the Christmas dance at her school so she wanted a new look. What Katie noticed for a while by talking to the hairdresser Rhonda, is that Rhonda is Shane's mom! What I thought was good for others to read and learn from this book is when Shane got in trouble and confessed his bullying problem to the principal. after that time, Shane was a brand new person. so basically, people can change if they just ask for help.…
In the book, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein focuses on many different points explaining her purpose. Specifically in chapter three, she discusses about how some cities in Germany have already started to use renewable energy in order to keep their communities clean. They are putting their communities safety first before they think about making any kind of profit for themselves. Klein wrote how profit earned from the sale of energy would be returned to the city instead of shareholders. Klein believes the United States should switch to community owned energy sectors instead of dealing with privately owned energy companies.…
The black experience is a factor of life that every African-American person has to endure. Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle, is one of those African-Americans. As a child, he mentions the moments in his life where the black experience was prominent. As long as an individual is black, they will encounter parts of the black experience.…
In the memoir Year Of Impossible Goodbyes, Sookan changes from someone who is a child and very happy and becomes someone who is more adult like and safe. This change is seen in three moments: When she works at the sock factory and sees how horrible the Japanese are, when the family has to work closely with the Russians to escape, and when they cross the border into South Korea. When Sookan works at the sock factory, she realizes how hard the sock girls work. She also gets to take a deeper look into how the Japanese treat Koreans and gets a better idea of the world around her. "Sitting on the ground by the tree stump, we sorted, folded, and then packed into twelve or "tah", the pile of ugly green socks that Aunt Tiger put out for us in the morning" (Choi, 49).…
The Book That Chose Me. Given that I’m not much of a reader I must first say that my book choice was not initial nor was it a simple “eeny, meenie, miny, moe” pick. When I first looked at the list of books I had no clue as to which book to choose for this assignment, so I decided to look up the ratings for each and narrow the list of books to those that interested me. To my surprise there were three book which caught my interest and had good reviews: The Coke Machine, The Race Myth, and Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.…
Final Essay Have you ever imagined what would happen if the ozone layer was utterly destroyed and the amount of sun rays reaching the earth dramatically increased? In Naomi’s Klein book, This Changes Everything, the author elucidates how the increasing awareness of the adverse effects of extractive processes on the environment has triggered the formation of many environmental movements. Blockadia is one of the most recent movements that has adopted a different strategy compared to earlier ones. “Blockadia is not a specific location on a map but rather a roving transnational conflict zone that is cropping up with increasing frequency and intensity wherever extractive projects are attempting to dig and drill” (Klein 294). This initiative is composed…
There are approximately 397,000 children in foster care in the United States of America currently and I used to be one of them. However, foster had not even been near the forefront of my mind that summer. The summer before I started my first year of high school, I had plenty of anxiety about the tall tale I invented in my own mind that stood before me. Stories about how hard high school were numerous and often regaled on the crowded bus ride home by high schoolers who seemed to have the knowledge of every wise teacher in history combined. which that scared me to death; I had always held my position as a good student who followed the rules of my middle school.…
Even during their fights and hardships they always knew that they would protect each other, especially the narrator since as the novel progresses the reader 's sense that he is more docile than his brothers. At the end of the novel the narrator 's homosexuality is revealed in a mortifying way. His family discovers his journal of twisted perverted fantasies that concern them to the point that, like “The Bell Jar”, they send him to a mental institution. The scene reflects the authors similar experience in his life where he was outed by his family when they read his journal. And like both the narrator and the author, when they found out that their journal was read they wreaked havoc and began to throw objects and basically have a mental…
The Moment My Life Changed Forever The morning of November 3rd, 2014 was the morning I knew I would never be as happy as I was before. It was then when I realized how sad and dark my life was going to be for the rest of my life. I woke up to terrible news that my older cousin, Miguel, had committed suicide.…