Recently the Authoritarian State surpassed Japan in economy. With the government's censoring on media, western countries are unaware of the real China. While it appears that the Chinese economy is doing well and the country seems to be prospering, there are many internal problems within China. All these problems are addressed in the book From the Dragon’s Mouth written by Ana Fuentes. The book features ten stories about real people that each address a different complication.…
Frequently, popular novels are adapted into motion pictures. A novel that I have recently read that has been made into a motion picture is Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies is a story about a world where a plague divided the planet’s population into two different species, Humans and Zombies. The tale takes place in some city with a zombie named R and a human girl named Julie. One day R saw Julie and had a sudden urge to save her..…
Hedges and Sacco begin the chapter, Days of Destruction, with Larry Gibson who explains his childhood living on the mountain. He describes what his life was like then and now, showing that the land is barely recognizable. The land that his family once owned, went from 500 acres to 50. I feel like this relates to many properties in Michigan today. Trees, houses, and land are often torn apart to make room for something new, similar to what Gibson describes happened to the cemetery adjacent to his house.…
In the book Fires of Jubilee, the author Stephen Oates, does an amazing job of describing the life of Nat Turner. Oates begins the book by telling about the childhood of Turner. Nat Turner was born on October 17th of 1800. Turner was born into slavery. When Nat was born his mother tried to kill him rather than having him to see him grow up a slave.…
My story, Escape, is a science fiction action thriller about a group of friends trying to save their captured friend, Samie. Samie and her friends are a group of teens that have special abilities they call powers. Only a select few are born with these abilities. If the Searchers know about their power, they will remove that citizen. Their powers are abused and used to further suppress the society.…
Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first President of the United States, stated, “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity” (www.brainyquote.com). Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian native author, often times constructs literature based on her time in Haiti. Danitcat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and relocated to Brooklyn, New York with her parents. At the age of fourteen, Danticat published her first English work, which was formulated in a newspaper article. Afterwards, she began working on short stories, novels, and autobiographies.…
Arnulf breathed a ring of fire around Modwen's cottage. Clouds brightened and darkened as flames rose and fell. Like jagged barbed wire, the fire barred Bifrun's path to the gold. Flames leaped at him. Run, goblin, run.…
In 1911, when W.E.B. DuBois published The Quest of the Silver Fleece, the African American community stood at a critical time in the course of black history. For the first time in America, they were “free.” Looming all around was the Negro question. The whites asked “what to do with the Negro,” while the blacks asked “what shall I become?” These questions are mentioned explicitly and implicitly through DuBois’ novel.…
The story I chose for the movie is “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. It’s a very interesting and simple story that change the perspective of a narrator of how he can see beyond the surface, and the inner self. The writer uses a first-person narrator to emphasize the hidden aspects of the story that are beyond human experience which the narrator relates too. For the cast, the role of un-named narrator would play by my uncle. My aunt will play the role of un-named narrator’s wife.…
The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller. Five years before the book was written the Cold War has begun. The state of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was dreadful. This is because both of these nations had different ideas on how to run their countries. The United States did not like the idea of government having total control over their own citizens and did not like the idea of having the Soviet Union spreading communism around the world.…
With war threatening the borders of Araluen, apprentice ranger Will is sent on a diplomatic mission to Celtica. With him are Gilan, his master's first apprentice, and his friend Horace, a battle school apprentice. Expecting a routine journey, the three are unprepared for what they find. The villages of Celtica are deserted, and brigands wander the hills in search of abandoned treasure.…
In conclusion, this series that I have written could be the next highest grossing film in the theaters. Viewers would find the movies entertaining and exciting to watch. I hope you will consider making these books into…
The Terrors of Tulsa Tim Madigans novel titled “The Burning” informs the reader about the terrible things that happened in 1921 during the Tulsa Race Riot. Many people were mentally scarred while many others died. Madigans main purpose for writing this book was to notify the reader of the dreadful and disgusting acts that took place during this time. “The Burning” was published in 2001 to educate people, such as myself, that were unaware of these horrible actions.…
Literary essay The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan is a novel based on the gods of Egyptian Mythology. It is actioned packed and quite interesting. The power of words is a subject the reader always thinks about while reading a novel. In this novel it is used countless times over and over again with a different message each time from important and strong characters. The power of words is used in battle, for romantic and friendly reasons and to create the plot of the novel.…
The main character of the book Wings Of Fire the Dragonet Prophecy, written by Tui. T. Sutherland, is Clay the Mudwing, he is part of the Dragonet Prophecy. In the beginning of the book Clay has doubts about himself and the prophecy. Clay thinks he is useless and weak because he can’t fight like Kestrel the Guardian Dragon that is training him to fight. Another Dragonet that has been brought into the prophecy is Glory.…