Thoughtfully selected books make wonderful gifts that can be enjoyed time after time and shared with family and friends. Contenders for 2015 book awards are ideal choices. This year’s winners and finalists include excellent selections for the fiction lover. Among them is the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Inspired by the 1976 invasion of the home of singer Bob Marley, James creates multiple voices to give life to a forceful novel that delves into a volatile time in Jamaica’s postcolonial history, one with a long shadow of evil.…
There are many vulnerable populations in the book “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson that I could have wrote about. Out of all the vulnerable populations I choose to write about the woman in jail. The women in this book went through a lot of heart ache and pain. One of the women in the book name was Marsha. Marsha was pregnant with her seventh child.…
Lizzie : The Life and Times Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) Johnson was a student , teacher, cattle queen,wife, and financer. She has accomplished all of these titles and more successfully. Elizabeth Johnson has also been an amazing role model to many people around the world. Years pass by and the name of Elizabeth Johnson continues to be well known and for good reason at that. Early in Life Elizabeth Johnson was born in the year of 1840.…
The American judicial system is riddled with corruption, racism, and privilege. In his book, Just Mercy, author and lawyer Bryan Stevenson chronicles the unfortunate and rapid deterioration of the mental health of his client and friend Walter McMillian following his release from death row. Mental illness resulting from wrongful imprisonment on death row stands as a deplorable and preventable collateral consequence of the negligence of the judicial system. The trauma of the death row experience as an innocent man sparks Walter’s symptoms of anxiety and dementia.…
Jackson’s paper, “ What Mary Didn't Know” , is about a scientist Mary, who learns all the physical facts within the world from inside an isolated black-and-white room through a black and white TV. When she finally leaves the room, she experiences seeing a red tomato for the first time, and learns new phenomenal truths about what it is like to see the color red. The argument being will she learn something from the actual physical experience of seeing red, or is her prior knowledge enough to dismiss this experience. The knowledge argue infers that, contrary to physicalism, the complete physical truth is not the whole truth. Therefore, claiming all the physical facts of a phenomenon, without actually experiencing it is not enough.…
For decades, public health officials have advocated for dietary changes and increased exercise to combat obesity; however, since obesity was declared a public health crisis in the late 1990s, many different groups have preached their own solutions as well. One of these groups includes lawyers, who have made numerous arguments in front of courts attacking fast food companies as the source of obesity. However, Elizabeth M. Williams, an attorney who is also the president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, opposes this form of “obesity law” in her article published in Gastronomica magazine, “The Sixth Deadly Sin.” In “The Sixth Deadly Sin,” Williams uses critical descriptions, variations in syntax, and rhetorical questions to refute obesity…
This can be seen in the example of Conor Mcbride. Conor stated “with the Grosmaires’ forgiveness, I could accept the responsibility and not be condemned” (Kumar 74). Through restorative justice he received a second chance on life. On the other hand, Kumar also achieved his goal through the victim's family. Ann’s mother notes, “Forgiveness for me was self-preservation” (Kumar 74).…
I’ve read all of the slaves narratives and not one particularly stood out more so than the other. They were all equally impactful to me so I randomly choose one. The narrative that was randomly selected was the narrative of Mary Reynolds. Mary Reynold is a former enslaved African from Dallas, Texas. She was enslaved on a plantation in Black River, Louisiana by the Kilpatrick family.…
As some of you might know I did my research topic on Mary Dyer. I felt that she was an inspiration for all who have suffered from religious persecution. Dyer was brave, strong, and had a lot of faith in what she believed in. Regardless of the repercussions, she continued on in her life to do what she felt was right by God. Not many people would have the courage to stand up for what they believe is right and to actually put it into action as well.…
The Jubilee Year of Mercy in Rome, Italy- 2016 was a big year for Italy. Not only did the scaffolding finally come off the colosseum and the reopening of the Spanish Steps, it was also the official Jubilee Year of Mercy. This is when pilgrims are expected to go down to the city with Pope Francis allowing the doors of papal basilicas, typically sealed to the regular people, to open. This year is called the ‘Extraordinary Jubilee’ because it is expected to be larger than the last (held in the year 2000) when 25 million came to Rome.…
The goals used for counseling Mary's case used psychoanalytic and Adlerian treatment to help build Mary emotional state. By using the psychoanalytic treatment to increase adaptive functioning help to reduces Mary’s anxiety and depression. Also, use therapeutic methods dealing with the unconscious and conscious to strengthen Mary ego so her behavior is in reality. The counselor role with the client Mary would be the blank approach and transference relationship. This will allow client Mary to free association by expressing her feelings, experiences, association, memories and fantasies.…
Jhamiya Sumpter Period 6 2/15/18 Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African American woman who is from White Sulphur Springs, West Virgina and attended West Virgina college in 1937 studying Mathematics and French. Katherine Johnson was very brilliant she went to high school at the age of thirteen because she was very intelligent with her numbers. Katherine Johnson was also the third African American to earn her PhD in Mathematics. Katherine Johnson contributed to space exploration by working backwards to make project mercury a success, Johnson also worked on the calculation that allowed the Apollo astronauts to return home from the moon, and to look at the black box data from crashed airplanes. To begin with Katherine Johnson once worked backwards to make mercury a success which was one of her contributions.…
Mother Teresa once said, “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.” Mother Teresa is epitome of selflessness. As a nun working in the slums of Calcutta, she possessed true humbleness and embraced humility in her work. She is an excellent model of how one should live out The Beatitudes.…
A Year of Mercy Pope Francis recently announced that this December through November will be a year of mercy. He asks us to “follow the example of God the father, who, Jesus says, does not judge us harshly, but offers us love and forgiveness”. In everyday life, there are events that show the mercy in the people of the world. These types of stories can teach us about the need of mercy in the world today.…
June Callwood, was social activist and journalist from Chatham Ontario, during her lifetime she wrote many different pieces, on a wide array of topics. At a young age she became one of Canadas most famous social justice activists. Her 2002 essay “Forgiveness”, talks about how forgiving is an essential aspect to living peacefully. This critique aims to break down the essays strengths and weaknesses and what could be improved upon. In this text, Callwood brings up multiple examples of when a person is given the chance to forgive someone else for their wrongdoing.…