Barbara Kingsolver

learn to live a new lifestyle in a place that you have never even heard of. There would be a lot of things that you would have to sacrifice. Especially living a normal life in the United States. In the novel, The Poisonwood Bible, written by Barbara Kingsolver, a family decides to move to the Congo for a mission trip to convert the people that live there to believe in God and become christian. Nathan, the father has decided to bring this upon his family and planed to live there for about a year…

myself thinking, what is the point of life? I knew I was poisoned. When a human being feels as if they have no purpose in their life, it messes with their mind and sadly; I am not the only victim of this devastating emotion. In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Lou Ann’s husband Angel leaves her and she ends up raising her son, Dwayne Ray, by herself. The loss of her husband and her fear that she will raise her son wrong has led her to believe she is a failure in all aspects of her life.…

of humans and nature is “Called Out” by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp. In the article, Kingsolver describes herself finding beautiful flowers blooming in the desert at an unusual time of year. Many people question why the flowers suddenly grew there. Some say that it was just loose seeds scattered around the soil, finally ready to grow or that it was by natural selection. Some even say that it was God’s doings that brought forth the flowers. Kingsolver and her group thoroughly enjoy the…

In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 is a young man who struggles to find ways to show his true self because he lives in a society based on conformity. Ayn Rand uses the symbols of the light bulb, the Uncharted Forest, and his new name to demonstrate the conflict of individuality versus conformity in order to demonstrate the importance of individuality and self-discovery. Thus, through the use of these symbols, Ayn Rand is able to integrate the theme of individuality versus conformity…

For my extra credit assignment, I decided to visit the George Washington Library Museum in College Station, Texas. This museum is one of the top attractions in the State of Texas because it creates both an educational and entertaining experience. My visit to the museum allowed me to gain lots of knowledge inside the life of our former president, George Bush, and his family. My visit to the museum allowed me to learn about a temporarily exhibit which was “Driven to Drive: Defining our…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s in her book, Nickel, and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, argues that it is nearly impossible to live in America, work a minimum wage job, and make enough money to feed, clothe, and house a family. Ehrenreich reveals the problems of economic issues that the working class faces. A family “. . . earning nearly $40,000 a year, which makes them officially ‘middle class’ . . .” (Ehrenreich 131) should not be living in a poor neighborhood. The block is infested with drug…

Ehrenreich Is It Now a Crime to be Poor?, is an article by Barbara Ehrenreich that discusses the manner in which poverty has been criminalized in the American society. The main technique that Ehrenreich uses to make her argument that on the topic under discussion is the provision of real life examples. The approach has a great impact in convincing the reader that the delivered arguments and information are factual. In the article, Ehrenreich provides numerous examples of individuals who have…

The nonfiction book, Nickel and Dimed, written by the undercover journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich goes out to investigate what it’s like to be a low-wage worker and how it’s like for them to get by in America. Ehrenreich does this by leaving her life of well paying job as journalists, forgets the fact that she has a Ph.D. in biology along with her normal life, and sets out to working six to seven dollars an hour in different places by doing different jobs. Along the way of her…

Does the United States truly support its citizens and allow them to prosper? In Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Ehrenreich investigates this question by living as a low-wage worker for three months in cities around the United States. Her experiences teach her that as her jobs change, so does her place in society. Nickel and Dimed effectively argues that low-wage jobs severely restrict the workers’ mobilities and that American society does not properly…

colour scheme for this photograph is monochromatic for the most part, with the exception for the red. Barbara Kruger is known for the majority of her pieces to be black and white, with elements of red thrown in the colour palette. The original location for this photograph is Washington D.C and it was made in 1989. The subject matter of this artwork is about the support of reproductive freedom. Barbara Kruger is known for her feminist undertones to her works, mostly focusing on gender…