Farewell My Concubine

If you like the book The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, you will like All the Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven, because in both books the characters go on a thrilling adventure, that end in sorrow. In, All the Bright Places, Finch and Violet explore their state, Indiana, for a school assignment. In, The Fault in Our Stars, Augustus takes Hazel on an adventure to Amsterdam to see her favorite author. During these adventures, the characters in both books realize that they are in love with one…

The book “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult is a story about a young girl Anna Fitzgerald who at age thirteen has undergone countless surgeries and transfusions for her older sister Kate who has a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. Anna decides to take matters into her own hands and gets a lawyer, Campbell Alexander, to sue her parents for emancipation and this decision threatens to destroy her family for good. There were a couple of themes to the story but the biggest one was the bond of…

The National Guard was responsible for the Kent State shootings. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard made an enormous mistake. Every year on May 4th, some witnesses recall the horrifying events that happened at Kent State University so many years ago. They recall the tragic deaths that occurred on that day. What started out as an innocent riot turned into four cases of a bloody manslaughter. The National Guard was ordered to go to Kent State to stop the riots, but to their dismay, their…

Eliza Doolittle has a very strong character. For example, while she is selling flowers on the street of London, a phonetic professor named Mr.Higgins is treating her like she is not important. In fact, Eliza says, “He's no right to take away my character, my character is the same to me…

Poetry Response 2 The theme is power. Even before the first line of "The Colonel" by Caroline Forché, you know you're dealing with not just a colonel, but the colonel, a man of power. Alongside the speaker, you enter the lair of a military ruler who has position, money, and rank, and who is not afraid to use them. After enjoying the dinner, the maid was called using a gold bell which is indicative of the royal style of living that the colonel lived. The colonel's used to giving orders, and…

uniform in his open bag, nor did he see the wallet that Rashad was pulling out at the time. “‘I have money right here!’ With my free hand, I reached into my pocket to grab the dollar I had designated to pay for those stupid chips. But before I could even get my fingers on the money, the cop had me knotted up in a submission hold, my arms twisted behind me, pain searing up to my shoulders.” (Pg. 22). “‘ but he could’ve been!For a bag of chips that he was gonna pay for! For having brown skin and…

should rest with the people. The division between the two political parties also exemplified the growing division between the North and the South. The industrial North was mainly Federalist while the agricultural South was Republican. In Washington's Farewell Address he pleaded…

our lives are both similar and completely different. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that someone who is fairly famous and someone who has no significance in this world can be alike in many ways. Having read this book a few years back, it was actually helpful to me. It may have been helpful in the most indirect way possible, but helpful nonetheless. The Glass Castle had a small part in helping me through my problems with depression and anxiety. It is very hard for me to write…

Barack Obama was first brought into office in 2009 and has held the position for the last six years. There have been forty-five presidents of the United States, but prior to him, they had all been white. A new comer to the post with many disliking him, this speech was pivotal, an opportunity to assert his authority and to assure the people of America that he was not just suitable for the job but also a visionary president. Obama managed this by using a variety of paralinguistic features, far…

My journey here has been extremely tough, frankly I don’t really know how I survived it all. Thankfully, the gods found some mercy in their hearts to let me live. I was met again with death, but that will not stop me; I am forever determined to make my way back to my home, Ithaca. Once I found my way to land, my dream that once felt so far away wasn’t anymore. I knew that if I was able to survive my first night there without anybody or anything finding me, I would have a good chance. So I…