Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011): a satirical deviation from the cowboy western genre “The Wild West has always enticed the readers’ imagination” (Vanja 128). This research paper explores the context of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (2011). DeWitt’s use of a “stylized abstraction of western speech” (Vernon 1) offers its readers a respite from everyday life. Although it follows the traditional scheme of a cowboy western genre, the novel has certain innovations of its own (Vanja 130). The novel is narrated in a gritty 19th Century western speech, which although is sharp and distinctive, allows the story to not always be serious yet not always be funny, making the novel entertaining.…
In Morgan Spurlock’s article, “Do You Want Lies with That?” he writes extensively about the warning label. The reader may be prone to ask, why did someone think that it would be a clever idea to eat the silicon packets found in products? Or what about the first person to think it was a clever idea to operate a hair dryer while in a bathtub? People should be able to use their common sense; a few hundred years ago, humans were responsible for their own survival, and they needed to use logic, so they used it.…
As William Shakespeare once said, “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shine a good deed in a naughty world.” I agree with Shakespeare even the littlest of work, makes a big difference. You could volunteer, pick up trash, or vene help out the new kid at school. As I said before even the littlest things can have a big impact.…
Millions of American children are homeless and experience poverty. These children have face to circumstances that might cause the average adult to consider suicide. New York Times published an article highlighting the life of a homeless child named Dasani. This is a personal analysis of Dasani’s daily living activities and human behavior theories she displays. Living in poverty has a direct effect on health outcomes.…
After reading, “It’s Hard to Make it in America: How the United States Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity” by Lane Kenworthy, I realized that people from lower income families don’t have the same chances that people from higher income families have. I think that this is worth the read because it shows things from the lower income families point of view. That side is not usually seen because it isn’t good to publicize the poor and the weak in a country, so instead they only show how successful the higher income people are , and try to forget about the lower income families who are trying to survive too. Overall my impression of the article was that it was very well written and compelling. I think that it will really make some of the people with better opportunity maybe doublethink and be more understanding towards…
14.7 million children live in poverty. I am one of them. And yet, no one seems to notice me or care. I’m just another piece of garbage in the street, just another thin, starved child that is above the notice of anyone. I wish tears could change my life, as if they could somehow wash out the hurt, and pain, as if they could drown the struggle.…
In colleges over the United States, students are not able to fulfill their educational dreams. In the United States, tuition costs, for colleges, are pretty expensive. Even going to a public small college is costly enough for a student. Most students are not able to afford the tuition because they do not have a job to get the money from. In order to pay it the tuition, they have to make sacrifices.…
Two people spend their lives cast down from society. One of these people are confined under a roof, where they are cared for and fed and the other person stays in the open hoping for at least one meal a day. Can you guess who the inmate is? The inmate is the one who has all worries attended for while the homeless person is the one who remains excluded from all help whatsoever. Living homeless can be extremely difficult, even more difficult than in prison.…
The United States of America, often dubbed the “Land of Opportunity,” has always been viewed as a place where even the lowest of the low could go to try to make a name for themselves. A nation of the liberty to pursue ambitions, a haven for outcasts, a new world for people to establish for themselves. Since its birth, people have flooded into its ports and worked the malleable land into homes and farms and cities. These same people sought refuge from cruel and unyielding governments and found land to call their own while they chased freedom. All throughout America’s history, its people have been filled with one shining dream: a dream of bettering themselves and their futures.…
There are many homeless people all over the world, many think that that it doesn't exist in their town or their cities but it does it occurs everywhere there are about 3.5 million people who are homeless in America . There are many ways a person can end homeless, a person can lose everything by giving it all to games and drugs, another way is for a person to not be able to find a job because of their education and people also lost everything because of a tragic event that occurs to their love. One which can lead to depression and from there to homeless. What caused Liz to become homeless was that both her parents became drug addicts and she then lost her mother which was the one that was still holding her…
Our brain create a sense that poverty cannot be fixed and the poor lives do not matter. There are two speakers, Jessica Jackley and Gary Haugen, who are talking in their Ted Talks about the destruction caused by poverty and how, we the people, can do something to fix it. Jessica Jackley, in her Ted Talk “ Poverty, money -- and love”, talks about how an…
The moment somebody walks outside, people suddenly start to judge. People make assumptions based on how people dress and look. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Goodbye, My Brother” take place in a world where if men don’t wear a tie they look like a “thug,” a briefcase symbolizes respect, and they long for a return to their past glories. Each main character has a distinguishing feature or item of clothing- the garish hat, wedding dress, protruding teeth, or the holiday home. While introduced to the characters, it’s human nature to make assumptions, just like Julian, Lawrence, and the narrator.…
In a world filled with materialism, self obsession, and greed, it is easy for people to forget what truly matters. At the core of human existence, it is undeniable that people cannot survive alone. In order for civilizations to thrive and endure, people must look out not only for their own self, but for other people as well. Today, we live in a world where this problem is undoubtedly apparent, proven by the amount of homeless families and people across the globe. Homelessness is a major social and economic problem that has intrigued my curiosity, and challenged me to discover more.…
We have reached the point where poverty needs to be treated less like an inconvenience and more like the devastating reality that it is. The issue is easy enough to ignore when you’re not affected by it, but in doing so we condone the suffering of millions of people. It is the responsibility of the government at least, if not all citizens, to stand by these people and provide them the assistance they so desperately need. We can’t abandon them and expect them to survive in the conditions they’re living them. We can’t stand by and let them suffer.…
Everyone sees the world in different ways. Your worldview is shaped by where you live and how you grew up. It describes the way that you perceive the world, and the issues surrounding it. This is especially true for our opinions of poverty. Because I have never experienced poverty, I cannot precisely describe what it is like to live inside it.…