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Thank you Kami for allowing me to read your story. The story was so suspenseful. I could not even stop myself from reading your story. I really wanted to find out what happen to Bartholomew and how it ended up in his father’s prison. I like how you went back and forth from the past and the present, it really added dynamics to your story. You did a great job of setting up the scenery so we could understand the world that Bartholomew was living. Your story read very smoothly and with great fluency…

Ehrenreich gave commendable data throughout her book. However, her process from beginning to end was anything but flawless. She lacked a great amount of authenticity in her experiment. The journalist’s entire journey was not a complete failure. One major aspect that really made her research a semi-success was her abandonment of her life. In the intro of the book she encourages, “…old fashioned…journalism” and believes it could gather accurate data about the lives of minimum wage workers…

self-interest at the time. Wes Moore, however, changed his self-interests upon entering and finishing Valley Forge Military School. The other Wes Moore’s decisions, however, didn’t change at all. He continued to make horrible choices which he thought were best for him, but he ended up going to prison for…

Muhammad Ali is insisting that ‘impossible’ is used as an excuse to avoid taking on new, seemingly difficult endeavors. In one part he says that ‘impossible’ is used by people who “find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” This indicates that people use this word to do what they know they can in this world, and count everything they supposedly can’t as impossible. Ali says that they have the choice to validate more activities as…

Is Everyone Ready for Fun, this book illustrates for children. In this book, all the characters were a cartoon. They all looks like they were drawn by color pencil. A writer of this book is Jan Thomas. Also, the writer focusing on helping the children to teach the physical activities like jumping, dancing, wiggling, and taking naps. The book tells that the rowdy cows come to the chicken house, and they start doing those activities. Jumping, dancing, and wiggling done by cows make chicken fell…

In Rod Serling’s “The monsters are due on maple street.” the events and character actions advance the plot. In the beginning tommy talks about how in the story there were aliens that looked like humans as this selection implies. “That was the way they prepared things for the landing. They sent four people. A mother and a father and two kids who looked just like humans...but they weren't.” This drives the people to search for the aliens Tommy starts the rejection of the call to the rest of our…

Growing up with nothing and ending up with everything. This describes exactly how Audrey Hepburn’s life played out. For those who don’t know, Audrey Hepburn was a famous actress, model, and dancer in the late forties and fifties. Even though Audrey Hepburn faced challenges early in her life, she rose to fame and left a dazzling legacy behind. Audrey Kathleen Ruston was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She was born to her mother and father, Ella van Heemstra and Joseph Ruston. However,…

The quote “Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” from Alfred, Lord Tennyson applies to Dexter Green from “Winter Dream” by F. Scott Fitzgerald in many ways. While Dexter and Judy were together they truly loved each other. Judy says “I like the way you love me”(7). The quote shows that the relationship was enjoyable for both partners. Dexter experiencing love and loss in the long run helps him out in life. People who’ve not loved view the world differently than those…

In the movie, Awakenings, there were many actual depictions of what happened during the trial. The actual events of the drug trial were performed by Dr. Oliver Sacks who asked that his name be changed in the movie. During the 1920s there was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that spread worldwide. Symptoms of encephalitis begin with high fever, headache, and sore throat. Progression of the disease has symptoms of muscle pain, tremors, slowing of physical and mental response as well as…

The Message behind Candide In the story Candide, written by Voltaire, there are several lessons that are meant to be learned. Voltaire’s satirical approach entices the reader to want to continue reading the story, find out what happens next, and really try to read between the lines for the deeper meaning. He makes a major point with his statement, “Cultivate your garden.” Those three powerful words combine together in response to the apathy or lack of concern created by philosophical optimism…