In the story “Making Sarah Cry” and “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote” the theme of being different is being shown. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah and the boy were being treated differently in the story for what they look like and and what they do. In “Susan B. Anthony” Dares to Vote” Susan B. was being treated differently because of her being a women and only men can vote not women. While both of these stories share a common theme, the mood of the stories are completely different. The story “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote” contains court and the law, demonstrating how bad the situation really was.…
On November 28, 2016, I interviewed Martha Ashlock. Martha is a Lactation Consultant at DePaul Hospital in St. Louis. The first question I asked Martha was what made her choose that profession. She first started her profession as a nurse in the maternity/ labor and delivery department because this was the area that was willing to hire her after graduating. A couple years later, the hospital closed and she started a new job at a different hospital as a case manager.…
“Chicago,” I said, as we drove past the Chicago Theatre. I read every word that my eyes could catch as we sped down the attractive streets of downtown Chicago. I was not sure where my driver was taking me, but I knew that I did not want to be in the car with this mean old woman anymore. She was my new caseworker, Ms. Jordan, and she was in charge of finding me a family. My old caseworker was Ms. Kelly, she was nice and she always made me feel loved.…
Friendship and love; those two things are what is one of the most important things that every human could ever want to have. When that love and friendship is taken away from someone it can be really hard, especially when you’re just a kid. Two twelve-year-old girls whom have just became friend when the entered middle school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958 . The two girls were being separated because of their skin color. These two girls names are Marlee Nisbett and Elizabeth “Liz” Fullerton from the book The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine.…
In both “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” and “No Gumption,” we see that Williams’ and Bakers’ mothers play a crucial role in their respective stories. It is known, that in a time of need no one can help you better than your mother. They are the ones who prepare us for the rest of lives. They are always trying to help; even when you don’t want them to. Sometimes our mothers, although they mean their best, don’t give us what we need to hear.…
In Toni Cade Bambara 's short story, "The Lesson" Toni tackles a lot of recoil injustice but what she talks about the most is economical injustice. In the story Bambara try’s to make a connection between poverty and education and how that relates to her own life. Bambara shows how poverty and education are connected together by taking us two main characters to show us what going on Sylvia and miss more are a student and a teacher. Sylvia is a poor student who lives in the ghetto Harlem with her family. Miss Moore is a well-educated black woman who sees that the kids lack knowledge out of poverty and decide to do something about it.…
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. " Many people adore this author, Dr. Seuss. He wrote numerous books; several have morals in them, such as this. If you want something to change, you have to take the initiative and make the change.…
Everyone should treat others respect. No matter how hard it is, you should still at least try because coming out of the situation, you know you did your personal best to be nice to the person. If you don’t make the right decision, you could have guilt hanging over your head for a while. You have to think about what you are going to do or say before you actually do it because the effect afterwards could be extremely bad. These are the ideas that came to my mind when I was reading “Grace is Good” by Stephanie.…
Here Anne is convincing the readers that this mentality is more often than not unavoidable no matter who you are or what ways you try to resolve the already serious situation. This real life examples helps with the effectiveness the author is trying to use to…
In the book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, Elijah and Xavier's relationship changed drastically. When xavier and elijah went to war that affected their friendship a lot because they started out as best friends when they got enlisted into war but before they even reached england their differences started to show. Elijah was capable to talk himself out of situations and Xavier liked to be by himself. They both had to undergo many things together such as surviving, killing and staying together. Throughout the book they started to distance from each other and started to become enemies.…
“True contentment comes with empathy” (Tom Finn). Without empathy, today’s society would be unduly cruel. Empathy relieves many from redundant judgement, and often provides a deeper understanding of one’s unique challenges. In Harper Lee’s, To KIll a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout that “You never really understand a man until you consider things from his point of view… —until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). Throughout Lee’s captivating novel, one observes Scout mature as a character as she attempts to follow her father’s advice to “walk in another’s shoes” and be more empathetic.…
1. At school, Miss Caroline is upset that Scout has learned to read, and asks her not to have her father teach her anymore. Scout encounters an issue that only feeds to her disinterest of school. In this event, Scout’s confusion on what she has done wrong displays her innocence as a child. It was not her intention to be ahead in reading, instead it was something that she found came to her naturally.…
Major Essay Two: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” In Toni Morrison’s only short story “Recitatif”, Morrison writes about race, sympathy, and stereotype through two main characters Roberta and Twyla. There is another character Maggie, who is disabled, but she seems to be a go-between. Throughout the story, there are questions about the race of each character. One girl is black and one girl is white.…
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. This reaffirms her credibility and truly show her…
¨I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody¨ - Abraham Lincoln. This quote represents how people used to be mean and yet still up to this day are still mean and harsh to other people. The quote applies to the story ¨Red Roses¨ because in ¨Red Roses¨ there is a boy that gets messed with and no one wants to be his friend or even talk to him. Until one day a girl stands up for him because people were being mean to him. ¨My mom has always told us to never make fun of people, so…