Unbroken Essay

stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the non-fiction book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini’s unrelenting strength in the face of unimaginable horrors emulates the words spoken by Devers. Despite being subjected to constant torture and starvation in a Japanese POW camp for two years, Louis…

Europe. POW camps were camps that held prisoners of war. These POW camps were supposed to follow the international laws of the Geneva Convention, but a lot of the time the camp officials did not follow these regulations. Laura Hillenbrand’s biography Unbroken, describes the life of Louis Zamperini who was an American POW that was captured and lived in several Japanese POW camps. In these POW camps that did not follow the international law the prisoners were treated extremely poorly. While…

Paul Tillich, a famous theologian and philosopher, once said, “Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.” This idea is depicted extraordinarily well in Laura Hillenbrand’s book about Louis Zamperini, entitled Unbroken, especially by Mutsuhiro Watanabe, also known simply as “The Bird.” Inexplicably cruel to the POWs imprisoned in Japan, The Bird was arguably one of the most dangerous guards during World War II. Even though the book was focused on Louie, Watanabe played a…

Unbroken is a true story of Louie Zamperini, the novel starts off in his childhood where he was nuisance to the neighborhood and thief known only for making astounding getaways. The only way Louie’s family could keep him in line was by forcing him in to running where he excelled. From starting a child whose lungs were ruined by pneumonia as a baby he worked hard with his brother to become a man that competed at the olympics at the at of 19, Louie would become a legend in his hometown of Torrance…

Throughout Unbroken, running plays a huge role in Louis Zamperini’s life. For Louie, running was an escape from reality, a way to forget what was really going on around him. In a life such as Louie’s, an escape is priceless as he had to deal with being a rebellious teenager, World War II, and his troubled life after the war. In many ways, running saved his life and his sanity. Though Louie was not very fond of the sport at first, he came to realize that running made him stronger and helped him…

Still images are not the only form of visual texts that rhetorical scholars have identified as perpetuating racism. Television productions have similar effects. In his piece, “May the Circle Stay Unbroken: Friends, the Presence of Absence, and the Rhetorical Reinforcement of Whiteness”, Phil Chidester examines how the popular sitcom Friends can function, just as the discursive practices mentioned earlier, to reinforce racial identity without explicit acknowledgement of race. Chidester contends…

It was identified as more alka seltzer is broken it is dissolved faster. The experiment was to put alka seltzers that is broken into ½, ¼ and unbroken ones into 125ml, 21 degrees Celsius (room temperature) water. The trend occurred because the decrease of the size of the particles which increase the rate of reaction because the surface area of reactant (alka seltzer) has been increased. A larger…

Day by day, new technology and different ways of using it is being thought of. The way technological change is developing many people find themselves struggling to keep up or deciding if they even want to adjust to the change taking place. In the article “Apocalypse Soon” by Jon Evans, and the novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robert Sloan, the rapid change in technology is shown as both a positive and negative development. It is up to individuals to decide if they would rather adapt to…

“Where there’s still life, there’s still hope. What happens is up to God.” –Louie Zamperini Louie spoke these words as a young man who had just returned home when the Second World War ended. He said those words as a man who traded his success as an Olympic athlete to join the military. A man who was a part of a plane crash that left him floating in the sea for 47 days. A man made into a Japanese slave for two and a half years. A man who was beaten, starved, experimented on, and…

Describing “time stills in my mind like unbroken snow” represents the eternal but passing memory of this first love. His “fear of first love as first things fail” conveys the regret of the persona. Simultaneously the persona accepts the relationship has ended. He transitions through the poem from…