Bleeding

Text-to-Text relation: I don’t acquire a very solid text- to- text connection to “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”. My reasoning as to why I don’t acquire a solid connection is because the genre of books I regularly read is relatable as not very many of the books I read are from the tragedy category. The text-to-text connection that I did make was when Andy talked about marrying Laura one day, as it brought me back to the “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. In this novel, the foil of the “Hunger…

Haemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder that impairs the body’s ability to coagulate or clot blood; it is caused by a deficiency or absence of a specific coagulation factor, usually factor VIII (FVIII) or factor IX (FIX). People with haemophilia will experience longer bleeding after an injury, easy bruising, and spontaneous internal bleeding. As of now, there only on-demand or instantaneous treatments consists of concentrate infusions of the missing factor and aims to improve a patient’s…

and move in with Laura. He wanted to live, he did not want to die. These are all the thoughts running through Andy's mind while he “lay on the sidewalk with the March rain drilling his jacket,” says the narrator. In Evan Hunter's “On The Sidewalk Bleeding” we encounter a teenage boy struggling to find his identity in an alley full of fear and regret. We follow Andy, as all of his thoughts and emotions changes during the final hour of his life as a naive and persistent teenager. Since there is a…

Who was John Brown and if he was a man of faith, how could he have been a leader in the taking of innocent lives? This is a question that has baffled the minds of many scholars and historians since that October day in Harpers Ferry in 1859. Was what John Brown organized and executed right or wrong? These are difficult questions to answer about a man who felt so strongly about his convictions about slavery and the God whom he served. John Brown was committed to the abolition of slavery at a young…

stability of American society. As 1854 began, tensions continued to rise in the United States of America surrounding the topic of slavery. Ultimately, these tensions lead to horrific violence within the nation, beginning with the events of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas catalysed a violent reaction to the rising tensions that eventually manifested itself as the American Civil War, beginning in 1861. This progression…

civil war was yet another “war” known as the border war, or bleeding Kansas. In what many historians believed is a war over slavery and freedom. Parke Pierson stated, “it can be argued that the Civil War actually began in 1854 when blood stained the prairie grass of the Kansas Territory.”2 Questions that arise from bleeding Kansas is how and why it happened, how bloody it was, and in what ways it affected the United States of America. “Bleeding Kansas was a violent clash over slavery in a place…

In the stories On The Side Walk Bleeding by Evan Hunter and Killers by O.E Middleton, isolation is a main idea. Both stories have a main character who finds them selves alone and vulnerable. Andy a gang member is stabbed by another gang and lies dying in an alleyway in the fist story. In the second story, a Harrier Hawk was struck by a car and lies dying on the side of the road. Isolation is shown in both these stories through the aspects of Setting, characters and storyline. This is relevant…

John Brown descended from Puritan ancestry, although it is unknown exactly who his ancestors were. Brown himself believed that his first paternal ancestor came to America on the Mayflower and was named Peter Brown. There are several other theories stating that Brown’s ancestors settled in Connecticut or Massachusetts later on. Maternally, there is speculation about when his family migrated to America, but his mother, Ruth Mills, was also of Puritan descent. The Puritan principles that Brown’s…

Celia, A slave: A trip to Slavery and Injustice The book Celia, A slave, by Melton A. McLaurin is an interpretation of one incident that depicted common slave fear prior to the Civil War in the United States. The author uses the account of the young female slave that was constantly struggling with rape and injustice 's hardship, that can be extremely violent in today 's naïve society. The story of Celia offers important insights on how the gender and racial oppression left the female slaves…

as Bleeding Kansas. In the years of 1854 to 1857 Kansas was being disputed over in regards to it being a free soil or slave state through popular sovereignty. In order for Kansas to be a slave state pro- slavery people from Missouri came to vote in its favor. As a result of this, the New England Emigrant Aid Company was organized and sent thousands of people out to Kansas to vote free soil. Violence and chaos broke out between the peoples opposing beliefs and this came to be known as Bleeding…