Charles Dickens once said that “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” This theme is present in Orphan Train a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. A beaten, broken, freezing little girl and a warm-hearted, lively individual. This is the relationship between a little girl and her teacher. Miss Larsen noticed a problem with a little girl’s life and did everything she could to help.…
Summer Reading Questions 1. According to Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, forbid people from reading books is a way to make them happy. However, are they really feel so? Provide evidence from the book to support your answer.…
The book Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption, written by Bryan Stevenson, will be discussed within this five page essay. The essay its self will be broken up into 2 main sections: a thorough summary of the Stevenson’s book – Just Mercy, and a quick overview of my thoughts of the book. Just Mercy begins with a phone call Bryan Stevenson receives from Judge Robert. E Lee Key, in which Judge Lee Key warns Stevenson not to accept the Walter McMillian case – a case assigned to him by a legal aid project for the growing number of unrepresented death row inmates within Alabama, which Stevenson is trying to help found.…
Compassion In Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things They Carried”, he introduces his extremely personal story to his readers “On the Rainy River” that he supposedly has never told anyone. With this chapter he is faced with a huge life-changing crisis, he had been drafted to serve in the United States Army to fight in the Vietnam War. O’Brien felt trapped, he was completely opposed to this forced command but there was no way out. He couldn’t even fathom why he would have to risk his life for a war that he strongly did not even believe in.…
All types of kids will die someday no matter how hard you try to make their lives better economically; similar to the tale “Kids Who Die” by Langston Hughes. Hughes was a literary icon well known for writing about the African Americans’ experience with racism and discrimination during the 1950-1960’s. He was the leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, promoting upcoming young poets. On the other hand, he was the first black poet to support himself through his writing, according to the Poetry Foundation. In this poem, the theme displays children will die to strive for a better lifestyle, while the affluent people are living care-free.…
How can Scout be seen as a product of her environment? Scout at the age of six and growing, can be seen as a product of her environment in many ways. First of all, her character is a result of the environment she subsides in and that environment can be described in many ways that are influencing to the character. The environment she is growing in is going through many phases like the Great Depression, racism against certain races, and discrimination.…
Fight the System! (or Not) Throughout the history of the United States of America, the justice system and the opinions of citizens on how the system should work have vastly developed and have varied. Many US citizens currently believe that the justice system has been fair since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, but Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, has a different view.…
James Henggeler Mrs. Rhodes Pre-AP English 10 18 October 2017 “On Compassion” A clear perspective was described in “On Compassion” by Ascher Lazear Ascher. This perspective by Ascher is no one is born with compassion, rather people learn through experiences in their life. Throughout the article Ascher enforces this perspective using descriptive scenarios, compelling questions, and the institution of similes are used to help the reader better understand her outlook on Compassion.…
A Complicated Essay An Argumentative Essay based on the use of literary devices in“A Complicated Kindness” by Mariam Toews In the novel “A Complicated Kindness” by Miriam Toews lies a story of misery and grief. In a small town in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the main character Nomi Nickel, is an excitable teenage girl living in the highly-religious Mennonite community of East Village. The town, so strict on its beliefs and limited in employment, offers little opportunity for a productive and happy future. Nomi though, in all her youthful exuberance, faces these challenges as only a teenager could, with unwavering positively and plentiful amounts of snark.…
Specifically in the book, some characters manifest and express compassion more than others, such as Slim and Crooks who display empathy throughout the book while Carlson…
The world’s population is over 7.5 billion people! Most people live in bustling cities or areas with over thousands of people. The average person meets and interacts with several people every day, and these interactions with other humans are incorporated and they play a big role their lives. In Robert C O'Brien’s “Z for Zachariah” we are introduced to a post-apocalyptic world in which a fifteen-year-old girl is left to live a life of her own. She survives by herself pretty well the first couple of months but is slowly going crazy alone.…
The Art of Kindness As you get older in life you need to learn the importance about kindness. The poem of kindness Naomie Shihab nye she talk a lot about the rules of kindness and how you can obtain it in life. Shihab nye tells us that in order to have kindness people must have experienced sadness. (before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.you must wake up with sorrow.you must speak to it till your sorrows and you see size of the clothes ) this little piece of the poem speaks a lot about what i said that in order to learn kindness you must feel sorrow in life in order to feel kindness and express it to other humans beans.…
A growing trend in today’s society is the split from classical religious beliefs to what Dr. Christian Smith calls “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” Dr. Smith, inquiring about this societal shift, wrote his article “On ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism’ a U.S. Teenagers’ Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith” by following hundreds of students to find basis of the religious beliefs amongst the youth of America. Many of these students claimed to be Catholic, but the evidence presented by Dr. Smith suggests while the students may identify as Catholic and hold some similar beliefs, their religion is drastically different and not compatible with classical Catholicism as depicted in The Compendium: Catechism of the Catholic Church. Through his research, Dr. Smith was able to form a creed of this de facto religion, which consists of 5 major points. The First is that God exists, created all things, and watches over life on the earth.…
The book explains to us how she treats her children and makes them love and listens to her. The mother takes full responsibilities of her children; she feels they are part of her life. She cares about the school they attend, and she sees class, students, and school system. She wants to put their children in a place that help her children and teach them. She does not want any school.…
I believe Sens and Lynas’ arguments compare greatly. Both authors agree that those in power do not understand the basic needs that these villagers lack and how in order for them to obtain these needs, they have to directly help them. For example, the empty hospital beds should not be for those minimual groups who can afford that extra treatment. As humans they should all had the basic capabilities to protect and help their children and families and that gap between their suffering and the government is…