In Odessa, Texas, only one thing matters. Not college, or politics, or work, but high school football. In the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, A Dream by H.G. Bissinger, the town of Odessa is placed under a microscope as the reader gets to experience the intersection of sport, race, and gender in a small Texas town. “Football stood at the very core of what the town was about, not on the outskirts, not on the periphery. It had nothing to do with entertainment and everything to do with how people felt about themselves.”…
Yorktown, Virginia October 19, 1781 - Y O R K T O W N U P S E T - " Stunning upset over the world greatest army! " "George Washington's rag tag rebels defeat superior British red coats" YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA October 19, 1781 -…
Joshua Reid brings about the history of the People of the Cape, who came to be known as the Makah, through an aquatic voyage. The Makah’s culture and identities were shaped off of the reliance on the marine habitat. The indigenous people were located in the Northwest Coast where waters had abundant marine life and natural wealth, which attracted many Native and non-Native people. Reid explains the Makah’s troubles with the borderlands and their practices to control the seas and resources as the Europeans and Americans arrived. Chapter one explores the borderland and indigenous, marine characteristics.…
The book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand starts off with a twelve year old boy who’s name is Louise Zamperini who lives in Torrance, California. It is 1929 and he is awoken in the night by a loud sound. He rushes to his back yard and sees a Graf Zeppelin a German dirigible plane. Louie as any child would was amazed by the Graf Zeppelin astounded Louie was not the best child, he was known as a thief. If anything went missing in anyone’s house in Torrance they knew whose door to knock on.…
In “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael Beah wrote about the extraordinary events and struggles that happened in Sierra Leone. These events are similar to the events in Burundi, because in Burundi children are living on the streets and are being abused (Jessica H., pg.1). In the book “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael’s city of living gets attacked by rebels and tons of people died, while he tried running away from the war it was in almost every city he went to. In the middle of the book, Ishmael’s brother, mother, and father all died from the attacks. The majority of Ishmael’s friends survived the war.…
The non-fiction book I am reading is A Long Way Gone by Ishmales Beah. The quote I have chosen comes at an early part in the book when the author is explaining the physical and mental condition of the adult refugees that had come from war-torn areas. “The adults among these children from the war zones would be lost in their thoughts during conversations with the elders of my town. Apart from their fatigue and malnourishment, it was evident they had seen something that we would refuse to accept if they told us all of it (Beah 1). The description of the mental and physical condition the refugees are in has sparked my interest in finding out what they may have seen and experienced.…
I am reading the novel Gregor the overlander by Suzanne Collins, the book Is about a boy named Gregor. Gregor lives on earth with his family, his dad disappeared one day outta nowhere. Gregor was babysitting his younger sister, when she fell into a hole that was in there laundry room. Gregor decides to jump after his sister, they fall through the earth to the underland. While they are down there Gregor discovers new creatures, and he also makes some friends along the way.…
To become successful in life sometimes you need the help of others. In the case of Michael Lewis he had couch Fitz to learn from, they met when Michael was only 12 years old. Couch Fitz taught Michael the meaning of hard work, determination and how to face challenges. Couch Fitz helped “how to cope with the two greatest enemies of a well-lived life, fear and failure” as said in the book “COUCH: Lessons on the game of life”. That being said Couch Fitz was trying to teach Michael and the rest of the team members that winning isn’t everything, the hard work and commitment will get you far in life.…
Marc Ching thinks of himself as some undercover 007 secret agent saving the world from evil doers. While this fantasy may be harmless in 99% of the cases, Marc Ching and His Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, are playing a very dangerous game and along the way they have caused God only knows how many deaths. We covered what we feel is an arrest-able offense and while the crime happened overseas, our belief is, he is profiting off of this crime here in the United States and we are sure somewhere within the thousands of laws on the books, somewhere there is something written that the DA could use to charge him with. Related story Wildlife Planet Calls For The Arrest of Marc Ching…
A Long Way Gone is about a young boy that faces extreme conditions, but fights for his life as everything he knows slowly fades away. When Ishmael was the age of 13, his village was attached by rebels. He and some of his friends escape, and manage to scout around the villages for food and water before the army finds him. They make him think that every rebel death is avenging his family. Ishmael and his friends become addicted to drugs, and they use them to express their emotions to get through the time they are in.…
5 years later, Lucas D'Assange, identical twin brother Jeff is still trying to find a brother and two nephews who disappeared. He hired hunters to find them throughout the country. In short, two hunters rented find Victoria and Lily in the cabin. They both immediately taken to the clinic psiatrik under the authority of Dr. Gerald Dreyfuss because they are very wild like animals after isolated for five years. They attacked anyone who approached.…
Mark Twain: The Biography of Mark Twain Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Though he was raised in Missouri, Mark Twain family originated from Kentucky (Bloom 6). Ancestry interested Samuel Clemens as it did his mother, though the history of the family lines on both sides is sketchy. On the Clemens side, the name appears in an ancient book by the Suetonius.…
Last Man Out by Mike Lupica is a 245 page realistic fiction book. It is a realistic fiction book because what happened in the story could happen, but it did not. According to Booklist; In the best tradition of sports writing, this will leave readers both breathless and thoughtful. The book is intended for young adults, ages 10 and up because there are some sad, serious parts and a character dies. Tommy Gallagher is one of the main characters.…
The title of the book is “The Other Wes Moore” that was written by Wes Moore, and the major subject of the book is that two boys with the same name has different fates. Throughout the ECR I will refer to the incarcerated Wes as The Other Wes and the author Wes as Wes Moore. The Other Wes was a product of his environment because of where he was raised and because of the people he looked up to. Wes Moor was different from The Other Wes because he grew up living off of people’s expectations of him. The purpose of the book is to show that life is what you make it, it’s up to you if you want to be successful or a drug dealer.…
There comes a moment in many of our lives when we need to stand up for who we are. In the movie “Wonder” by Stephen Chbosky, the main character Auggie struggles fitting in with others because of the way he looks. Auggie's parents believe enrolling him in school will help him make new friends and learn how to show the world he can do anything with the right mindset. Throughout the beginning of the trailer Auggie struggles with these things but as time goes on he shows his schoolmates and parents that he is this great kid that can do whatever he strives to achieve. The trailer for the upcoming film Wonder is effective in grabbing a viewer's interest by the way it uses color to establish the feelings of the main character and the environment around…