Barbara Tuchman

Demise of Chumash came at the hands of a "military expedition led by Pablo de la Portilla negotiated the return of this group to the Santa Barbara Mission"(Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz). Consequently Father Vicente Sarria, who was Prefect of the Missions, helped to bring the revolt to an end by convincing the Chumash rebels to return to the Santa Barbara Mission is a fact that had long been acknowledged Further details involving the end of the Chumash insurrection can be best…

The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, scrutinizes southern culture, family, and the struggle of being a mother. The book centralizes on a young woman who leaves home to set off and live by herself, and eventually met with the burden of taking care of a child, who becomes known as Turtle, she picks up incidentally in the beginning of her journey. Along the way, the reader is informed of Taylor’s different characteristics through a variety of different motifs Kingsolver represents. Birds…

Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, is about a middle-classed woman who does an experiment with the poverty in America. Barbara Ehrenreich workers as an author, but also has a Ph.D. With roughly 45 million Americans living below the poverty level, Ehrenreich attempts to work in three different states, at different jobs working for only minimum wage. She sets a few rules for herself that she is not allowed to break to keep her living situation as minimalist as possible and save…

From hermit crabs to Hawaiian Islands, Barbara Kingsolver’s collection of essays, High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never is a read to remember. Though it is a collection of different essays spanning multiple different themes, an important one spans the entirety: Humans come from nature, and nature is chaotic in and of itself; people cannot expect life to be as calm and controlled as they would like. She uses many different examples throughout the book to help prove this point. Not only…

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver tells a story about a family who moves to Africa as missionaries in hopes to be able to help the village they stay at, Kilanga. During their time in the Congo, they will go through some unexpected troubles that will forever change the Price family. Throughout the book, the author uses some biblical allusion that helps relate the story to the Bible. In the novel, Leah states that her "father [was] as tall as Goliath and pure of heart as David"…

All throughout human history, people have been curious about the world around them and have gathered information on various subjects. This information has influenced how many people think and has raised many questions. This information has also influenced how people think and the questions of morality. As a species people have tried to define what they individually believe and have done their best to fight ignorance. In America, people have children our go through lengthy education systems and…

In The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, the need to break away from family on behalf of someone’s own well being is a lesson readers have learned from this novel. When the family’s missionary effort to convert Africans to Christianity becomes perilous, the father/husband, nonetheless, continues to follow through with his mission at the hands of his own family’s demise. Later on in the novel, the family goes separate directions after the youngest daughter passed away from a snakebite,…

Marvy Baslous English E1HPI-2 January 4, 2106 E. Braisted, Instructor MLA Book Report for “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith I. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith constructs a bildungsroman. In other words, a coming of age novel is presented to the readers. A development of the protagonist Francie is shown as she undergoes a self-analysis as she matures while living in a poor area of Brooklyn. Subsequently, Smith’s use of maturity throughout the novel helps readers…

Aaron Hinsey Ms. Given Honors English 11 22 January 2018 Poisonwood Bible Response #2 What is the significance of the Kikongo word nommo and its attendant concepts of being and naming? How do the Price sisters’ Christian names and their Kikongo names (210, 225) reflect their personalities and behavior? Nommo is “the force that makes things live as what they are” (Kingsolver 209), or at least to what Adah describes. Nommo classifies everything alive by name, a rabbit is a rabbit, a man is a man,…

a) What was your personal response to reading the book? My personal response to Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich is that it was an excellent read and an interesting one. I for one have never given much thought about the struggles of working low wage jobs. And since I haven't worked yet in my life or had any money issues. Thus, to understand what it means to truly struggle and have to work day in and day out at a job that pays barely enough to feed and shelter you is an alien thought. Not…