Barbara McClintock

Junayd is an 8-year-old third-grade student in the Paumanok Elementary School. Junayd has a current special education classification of Autism. He is educated within a Special class placement with mainstreamed for math and science classes. In addition, Junayd receives Speech (3x/week) and Occupational Therapy (1x/week). As per his IEP, Junayd’s testing accommodations include extended time (1.5), revised test directions, flexible settings and directions repeated. Junayd currently resides with…

elite drivers with an affinity for robbing banks at high speeds. Ultimately, family is what people make of it, and it can be the ‘traditional’ two parents, one brother, one sister, and one dog, or it could be a girl and a baby she was left with. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is the story of a poor Kentucky girl with small town thoughts and big town dreams who escapes her hometown without getting pregnant, but manages by the hand of fate to be left with a child that was never her’s in the…

Barbara Ehrenreich decided to see how her life would be if she had to work for low wages. Ehrenreich, first, decided she was going live near Key West, Florida. Next, Ehrenreich tried to find a job with the ads she had acquired. She then went to the hotels and supermarkets, which were in the ads, in order to get a job. Ehrenreich obtained a job, as a waitress, at a place she supposedly called Hearthside. Barbara Ehrenreich discussed the various people that she worked with at Hearthside, and how…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, Serving in Florida details the struggles of low wage work and the lack of social mobility. Barbara tries to find work and believes she can afford to live in the Key West area of Florida, a rather cheap part of the country. She eventually receives a job at Hearthside, and learns how to be a waitress from a nice lady named Gail. Barbara feels like the job is okay and that she can live on the low wages for a while. But, there are several problems, which…

In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Leah has a reveals, “God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves”(327). This relates directly to Nathan’s life, as his life begins a long downward spiral to his own demise. The Poisonwood Bible shows how stress from war can affect human relations and cause deep emotional problems. The book begins with the Price family going to the Congo unprepared, and trying to convert the locals. The failed attempts of…

Tamara: Good morning, this is Tamara Benson, host of Book Talk. On today’s show, I’m interviewing Alex Quentin, the author of the new book Unlucky Penny. Alex, could you tell us a little bit about the book? Alex: Thanks for having me on the show. To put it simply, Unlucky Penny is my attempt to convince the United States government to get rid of the penny. Tamara: That certainly seems like quite the undertaking! What inspired you to write this book? Alex: When I was young, I used to collect…

Kingsolver is correct about America’s degrading basic survival competencies but comes off as a pretentious wide eyed idealist which leaves the reader reluctant to admit that she is right. Why? The argument presented by the text is compelling with examples of children who associated the dirt of growing food with something that is unsanitary or unsafe to consume. She further alludes to what we now call the “Purell Generation”, people so afraid of bacteria and germs they neglect or ignore the…

In the novel Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara is an undercover journalist looking to write on how people in the lower class get by on minimum wage. She finds out through her journey, that most of them don’t. She has many different experiences, but she really evolves toward the end of her journey. She realises that the managers, and the bigger companies treat the employees like suspected criminals. I believe that this influences the employees morale negatively and therefore…

Coming from the first world, economically blessed United States, the Price’s travel to the third world country of the Congo. Amidst all of the dangers; the dark and dreary jungle filled with snakes of animal and human nature, the Congo’s unsafe, unsecure quality of life, and the constant struggling fight for supremacy, the Price’s have come to revive the broken souls of the Congo. They have come to achieve redemption for abolishing the spirits of those who died in the Bataan Death March, by…

Salazar David Amy Ludwig English 101 19 September 2016 “So called worldly things” In “Knowing Our Place,” Barbara Kingsolver, a highly respected bestselling novelist, conveys her opinion on the environment. She begins by mentioning a log cabin that her and her family live in during the summer, located in southern Appalachia. Where there was once an extraordinary amount of American chestnut trees, until they were infected with mold and disease, causing most of them to die off. She then proceeds…