Bullet

impact constraining corsets had on women’s health. I do have to mention one of the pictures showing women’s clothing in the 1880s. It shows three women leaning on huge guns. Now I hope they were either prop guns or unloaded, but it made me wonder if a bullet-proof corset was ever made back then. The pictures helped me to see the dramatic change in style during the 1920s. The style in the 1930s then seemed to be a compromise between the style…

A Decision to Make Up for the Past Tobias Wolff’s Bullet in the Brain tells the story of the death of the main character, Anders. Anders makes a decision that leads to his death, when he decides to talk back to the gunmen that are robbing the bank he is in. His decision to talk back comes from numerous pressures and motivations. He is pressured by the other victims in the bank, and by one the gunmen. Anders is also pressured by his internal need to preserve his life, and his inability, or…

Malaria is one of the most prominent public health epidemic worldwide. It’s the leading cause of death and disease effecting half of the world’s population. According to World Health Origination (2013) 3.2 billion people live in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 106 countries and territories. Vulnerable populations such as rural poor, young children and expecting women who are more exposed to infection with the least access to services are at elevated risk for transmission of this deadly…

Memories Shown Through a Bullet Memories usually come and go, but the ones that are important and help in the shaping of a person are the ones that usually stay. Humans make a lot of memories, some good and some bad, but at the end of they day they are the reason why a person is a certain way. Tobias Wolff’s short story “Bullet in the Brain” shows how Andres, “a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he dispatched almost everything he reviewed,” becomes angry after…

Magic Bullet, It’s a book about a study on the American people and how their reaction to certain diseases has had a significant effect on the way people react or respond to the problem. In this particular book the author, Allan M. Brandt, concentrates his study on several venereal transmitted diseases such as syphilis, herpes, gonorrhea and AIDS. This venereal diseases are often labeled and often related to sinful behaviors, often related to a specific group of people, for example: the LGBT…

“Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff is about a book critic named Anders who is shot in the head during a bank robbery. During the time span of the bullet piercing through his skull, he experiences memories he does not remember. Anders is presented to be an arrogant and unsympathetic character at the beginning of the story. His interaction with the woman in front of him shows how he is pessimistic about people and does not care about other’s feelings. Consequently, he becomes nonchalant during…

Malcolm X says the ‘’Ballot or the Bullet’’ will come next in the civil rights struggle which means that the government must allow blacks to have the same privileges to vote just as other Americans do, if not violence will be their means to influence the government. Acting violently would…

Civil rights activist, Malcolm X, speaks to an audience of African Americans in his 1964 speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm’s purpose was to increase the numbers in African American voting so that the nation could gain equality. He adopts a persuadable tone in order to make the Negroes act right and wisely. In the speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” the author, Malcolm X, encourages his audience to create equality by trusting the American democracy through the rhetorical elements of…

demonstrate, “Malcolm X delivered "The Ballot or the Bullet" to a predominantly African-American meeting in… the Congress of Racial Equality …which was shifting from nonviolent protest to Malcolm X-like black nationalism. Helping provoke this shift were speeches like this one, which was received enthusiastically” (Miller). Many African Americans came to Malcolm’s speech because they really wanted to know what he meant by the “ballot” and “bullet”. By the end of his speech, Malcolm wanted that…

Tobias Wolff, who paint hypothetical, but no less vivid descriptions of such a phenomenon. In his story, titled “Bullet in the Brain,” the protagonist, Anders, has a run in with a bank robber, who winds up shooting him in the head. Through the shocking and gory picture painted in words, one line drives the point home: “But before [his death] occurred, the first appearance of the bullet in the cerebrum set off a crackling chain of ion transports and neurotransmissions. Because of their peculiar…