Chapter 19 started off talking about how Pharoah insisted staying up all night because he wanted to sleep through the ritual celebration shooting on New Year's Eve. The family had a small tree and a couple gifts. LaJoe, as a joke, would say that the neighborhood was well lit. Pharoah saved up his money and never really spent it. He normally spent his money though on something like a video game or candy.…
The book “World shaker” takes place on a massive mobile city known as a “juggernaut” that roams the world and travels on both land and sea. Kilometres long and as tall as a mountain, this juggernaut called “World shaker” is ruled by Queen Victoria and headed by the Supreme Commander, Sir Mormus Porpentine. Also living on this juggernaut are lower class humans, referred to by the higher class people as “Filthies”. These Filthies then forcefully go on to become “Menials” after performing a painful procedure that only very few higher class people know about. This procedure consists of tongue removal, an injection to make them imbecilic and then the process is finished by sewing their mouths up.…
In chapter 6 of Give Me Liberty! By Foner they discuss how women were starting to work toward their independence. More and more started doing things to maybe get recognized. Like looking for a “Treasuress” or participating in political discussions about independence. They mention a girl named Ann Carson who was married at age 16 because of her father and not love.…
Though I do not disagree with your description, I felt that much more was given to us in the reading from Harriet James. Your description of a slave’s life and southern society seemed to be vague and skimmed the surface. After reading James account of her experiences with her master, her mistress, and her lover, I found the account to provide a description that went beyond the reader’s imaginings and told the story we all feared to be the case with slaves in the south. James words put color into a story that we as students of history always imagined possible but because of inability to empathies or experience such accounts we could not truly understand. Harriet James gave us in tasteful detail accounts from her life that confirmed our suspicions…
Throughout Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she consistently uses certain literary devices to encapsulate the struggles of slaves in order to create a strong anti-slavery argument. Harriet Jacobs takes on the voice of Linda, a slave girl who was exposed to the viciousness of man’s nature, and describes her own experiences as Linda’s. In this passage, Linda had just given birth to her first child -- a son she would later call Benjamin. She had gotten pregnant by her white friend Mr. Sands so that she could fend off her master’s advances. This passage occurs near the end of the sixth chapter, called “The New Tie to Life”.…
Throughout life, many individuals suffer from being self-conscious about their looks or even their overall personality. In the chapter, The Puppeteer, Bob Goff expounds on the time he purchased an expensive oil painting he had wanted for some time (145). However, when Goff goes to pick up said painting, the man advises him to hide the real one and instead hang up a fake painting to ensure the safety. Goff, of course, disagreed with this since he had waited for so long to purchase the painting (147). Goff proudly hung the picture up in his home where, one day, a rubber band was shot at it and put a hole in it (148).…
Lopez writes his article on Nathaniel Ayers and published that article on his newspaper in LA News. Its attract reader to know more about Nathaniel Ayers. One reader is so touched, she sends him a cello for Ayers. Lopez brings it to him and Ayers is shown to be just as proficient as with a violin. Unfortunately, his tendency to wander puts both Ayers and the cello in danger, so Lopez talks him into leaving it at a shelter, located in a neighborhood of homeless people.…
Ronald J. Sider writes a compelling and thought-provoking book about affluent and wealthy Christians in a world that is getting increasing needy. One of his chapters covers the topic of economic relationships among God’s chosen people. After reading the chapter, I was surprised to see several differences among the Jerusalem church and the twenty-first-century church. I discovered that the early church was much more generous with their money and resources and this challenged me to think critically about my own personal wealth and how the community of wealthy believers are using their money. Sharing of money and wealth can be seen as early in the law but it wasn’t until Jesus’s time that the sharing really began and was lived out.…
“Judy Moody was in mood” is a book that has a lot of interesting story connect together. It writing about everything around a girl who name is Judy Moody. The book is writing about her grade 3 life. The main character in this book is Judy and people around her. The main character Judy has her own dream and this is made the character became more real in the story.…
“Bargain” by Guthrie is the literature piece that has to be kept. Literature pieces like these are the seeds of the beginning of a future of the unknown. Guthrie explains that the knowing how to read, and write can make a difference in ones life. Baumer repeated to his young store clerk, “Better study Al.…
In History “In History”, by Jamaica Kincaid, weaves together the stories of Christopher Columbus, George Clifford, and Carl Linnaeus so that the reader may understand why the author is questioning her own history and those who are like her. Kincaid questions us, “What is History? Is it a Theory? Is it an Ideal” She answers these questions through the stories of these three men as they come across and label foreign people, lands, or plants. Kincaid implies that the act of identifying and labeling unfamiliar with familiar terms are taken from these men 's subjective lives.…
“You can never tell who the mountain will allow...and who it will not.” The novel Peak is about a 14 year old boy named Peak Marcelo who travels to mt. Everest with his somewhat estranged father Josh, because he had trouble with the law in his home new York because he was climbing a skyscraper. Peak realizes later in the book though that his father only took him in because he wanted the boy to be the youngest to climb mt.…
In the first chapter in the book the author, Joseph J. Ellis, details the famous duel between, President, Alexander Hamilton and, Vice President, Aaron Burr, in a challenge of honor, taken place on July 11, 1804. This was known as the most famous duel in American history, which took place near Weehawken, New Jersey. The two exchanged bullets after a distance of ten paces and Hamilton was severely injured which lead to his death the next day. Ellis also discusses how the result in the duel reveals the importance of personal reputation in the days of a future government because Aaron Burr was the Vice President at the time and he just killed the President.…
A Perfect Red discusses the search for the “elusive” red dye and the impacts of the color red with a Eurocentric perspective. The book begins by providing a historical overview of the color red. Several cultures have displayed strong religious, psychological and political affiliations with the color through out history. Red was considered sacred to many ancient cultures, and appeared in funerals and religious ceremonies. Some societies associated red with magical powers and its ability to cure illness and ward off evil.…
There are many people in the world, but the person I admire originates in a book series, and a movie series. She is from my favorite book series, Harry Potter. After five years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Hermione Granger still inspires me to this day. Hermione Granger is intelligent, caring, and altruistic.…