You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…
On an asphalt baseball field in Brooklyn, two teams from local Yeshivah schools meet. At first, it just seems like a baseball game between two Jewish high school teams. But the game quickly turns into a holy war when the caftan and ear lock wearing Hasidic team begins to taunt and bully the less conservative “hell-bound sinners” on the other team. Hate boils as Danny Saunders, the leader of the Hasidic team, purposely hits a pitch right back at the pitcher, crushing his glasses and landing him in the hospital for a week. This is how Chaim Potok 's book The Chosen begins.…
Home is a strange word because it can contain so many meanings. It can mean things such as habitat for living things, or it could mean a place where you feel as if nothing could hurt the people in it. You feel happiest when found at home, and it feels like a sort of heaven. The idea of a home relates to this text because Long had to leave his in order to be safe. He had to enter a new home, where he felt like a stranger.…
Going After Cacciato and Peace Though peace is unattainable and is farther than we can reach, Tim O’Brien admonishes never giving up the search for peace. Tim O’Brien’s novel Going After Cacciato is about a man named Cacciato who deserts the war in Vietnam and his team in order to pursue his dream of Paris. His squadmates hunt for him to bring him back but, all of them have different reasons. Using indirect characterization O’Brien exposes the character’s different motives for hunting Cacciato--for hunting peace. One such character is Stink Harris.…
Randi grew up in Pawcatuck, CT where she graduated from Stonington High School in 2011. She was a three sport athlete most of her high school career, and was also named captain of her softball and field hockey teams. After graduating, she attended Keene State College in Keene New Hampshire where after only 3.5 years she earned her degree in Communication Studies. Randi started with us in the beginning of 2015 and since then, has been an essential part to our front office team.…
One With the Elements Authors of poems, novels, and plays use elements to make the audience feel a certain way. The author has to make choices on many things; how well they make those choices determines how successful the text is. They decide what characters to add, their personalities, and how to introduce them. Along with characters, they have to pick a setting and time period that are logical for the plot of the story.…
He used to be a high school football player from Georgia. His course in life is surprising to many and even he is surprised by it. J.R. Martinez was born as Jose Rene Martinez in June of 1983 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His mother was Maria Zavala and he had two sisters, Anabel ad Consuelo, who were raised by his mother’s family in El Salvador. Martinez never had the chance to meet Anabel…
I am writing an analysis paper for Dr. Manhattan character that explores the idea that the character is a satire for American or human use for dependency on technology. This is my thesis statement at the moment, “an analysis of the Watchmen character Dr. Manhattan serves a purpose of displaying Moore’s concept of human dependence in American society.” The opening of the essay will have a description of Aperture Science Laboratories form a video game called Portal where the scientist create artificial intelligence technology that was meant to help humanity but one dreadful day the technology decides to go against the human creators creating a god complex for the technology. I would follow by a real life attempt by creating an artificial intelligence.…
I can definitely relate to Gualinto’s character in the manner that I consider myself both Mexican and American as well as being part of a new culture all on its own platform, Hispanic. Similar to my stance, Gualinto yearned to belong and adapt successfully to both worlds while always recognizing that, “he was not an immigrant come to a foreign land,” despite other’s beliefs; unfortunately, in today’s world there are still some individuals that see Mexican Americans as foreigners in the land of Anglos and make it hard for us to live peacefully in our communities. (148) Moreover, I do believe that racism continues to exist in this world and people look down on individuals that come from different backgrounds; hence, Trump and his outspoken negative…
In the Novel The Natural by Bernard Malamud, the main character of the story is a fifteen year old boy named Roy Hobbs, who is very talented in Baseball. He has an incredible pitching arm and a very powerful hit when it comes to batting. Roy believed that he was on the path to fulfilling his dream considering that he had a scout who got him a private tryout with the Chicago Cubs. Unfortunately, there were many obstacles that came across his way which prevented him from achieving his dream of becoming the greatest player in the game. Roy had to face many difficulties such as getting shot, fitting into his new team, falling into a slump, and having to chose between his career or his life.…
“Women are the backbone of a family and the bedrock of a nation. They bring life into the world. They sense the cries of an infant. Their instincts are to care for the old, the sick and those in need.” (……)…
Far from the Tree: Book Analysis Imagine, you knew that you have been adopted or been in the foster system ever since you could remember, but what you don’t know is that you have two siblings that live very close to you, and that you could find the people who are actually related to you by blood. You love the people who you are living with, but for once you just want to find out what it is like to have someone who is really related to you. Well, this is exactly what happened to Grace, Maya and Joaquin in the book Far from the Tree. These three siblings are struggling with so many events and emotions in their lives, and while they are trying to juggle all of these feelings by themselves, they find out that they have each other in their lives,…
A Not-So-Silver Lining The stigma of mental illness is as follows: crazy eyes, a lot of violence, mood swings every two seconds, and not a lot of friends and family to help. But, there are multiple factors and explanations for why a person is the way they are, and why they developed the mental illness that they did. Pat Solitano, a middle-aged white man with a lot of great qualities, was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He had a wife, a great job as a high school history teacher, and was living comfortably in the middle class.…
Erik Lehnsherr, also known as Magneto, was a young boy when he was arrested and taken by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp. However, he was not a normal boy; he was a mutant who had the ability to control metal telekinetically. In Auschwitz, a Nazi leader named Sebastian Shaw murdered Erik’s mother due to Erik’s inability to use his powers. Additionally, Erik like many other mutants had to hide his powers because he was viewed as dangerous to many humans. Therefore, Erik faces many obstacles by humans because of who he is, a mutant and a Jew.…
The Blind Side is an inspirational movie and it is based on a true story of the main character, Michael Oher. Michael Oher is not one of the ordinary, normal black person. He has been given a name known as “Big Mike” for his physical appearance. Michael has had a rough childhood past that left him traumatic image glued into his mind. He has been physically taken away by his drug abuser mother when he was a child and ever since then, Michael has been living in and out of foster homes staying at different families in Memphis, Tennessee.…