Greenville, South Carolina

The book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is an autobiography of Maya Angelou. It highlights Angelou's life from a young girl, to a mature girl who had experienced various difficult acts. Furthermore, this book also explains various incidents that happened to Angelou due to the color of her skin, and the truth in her mind that why the white people were treating African people differently, and why the white people were being racist to the colored people. Today, almost every group of people from…

In Tim O’Brien’s famous short story, “The Things They Carried”, the story follows a group of soldiers lead by Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. This story takes place during the Vietnam War and Lieutenant Cross spends most of his time fantasising about home and the girl of his dreams, Martha. However when one of the soldiers under his command, Ted Lavender, is killed by a sniper, Cross realizes that he has to put aside his desire to go home and focus on leading his men and keeping them alive. Theme is…

In Anthony Grooms book, Bombingham there are many references to moments that are life changing to the main character, Walter. The story is comprised of flashbacks Walter has while he’s a soldier in Vietnam. During the war, Walter feels obligated to write his condolences when a fellow soldier from his hometown, Haywood, dies in the pinnacle of battle. He is prompted with the recollection of questioning his faith in a series of flashbacks regarding his childhood, specifically when his mother was…

What’s it like to be African American? What is it like to be constantly judged because of your skin color? The novel A lesson before dying took place in the south in the year of 1948. African Americans were still slaves and forced to work on plantations. At this time blacks had separate facilities they had to use aside from whites. The book shows the struggle that African Americans went through, the struggle where no one would believe you or even try to side with you. A young boy’s life gets…

“The Help” is a story about the colored maids of Jackson Mississippi and how they are treated in the Civil Rights Era. During the Civil Right Era Black Maids were referred to as colored because they were treated differently because they did not have the same skin color as the white people. The film shows us how discriminative the white women of Jackson can be until one girl named Skeeter takes it upon herself to write a book and change the perspective of the people in Mississippi. The film shows…

I Pledge Allegiance Book Reduction I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch is a phenomenal book. The book is about four friends, Ivan, Morris, Beck and Rudi.ow they pledge to another to do certain things and it helps them look out for one another. Rudi gets a draft letter from the army and the rest of them sign up with him in the four different branches to go to Vietnam. The story follows Morris and the struggles he had during the war and how he didn’t want to shoot the guns from the vessel. Morris…

탄압받는, tan-ab-bad-neun, adj. Better known in English as, repressed. This is what we see North Koreans as being, but they themselves don’t see that because they just don’t know and they will not ever get to know. In her TED Talk Suki Kim explains how North Koreans don’t recognize the pain and lies they live with and how the truth could send them into persecution. Throughout the talk she explains in greater detail through her experience she had when she went undercover in North Korea about the…

The Vietnam War was a war that was catastrophic. By catastrophic it means 58,000 Americans were killed and 304,000 were wounded out of the 2.7 million that served in the war. When draft letters were sent out some people responded were fresh out of high school, which means that they really didn’t want to go to war, but were forced to unless they were willing to flee to another country or serve prison time. In the texts “On the Rainy River” and “The Greatest: My Own Story” by Tim O’Brien and…

The Latehomecomer: a Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang, offers a first-hand account of the trials and tribulations of a family of Hmong, an ethic group from Southeast Asia who are little known by the outside world. The Hmong fought alongside the United States during the Vietnam war, but were left to fend for themselves after the American withdrawal in 1975. In the aftermath, the Hmong saw the devastation of their traditional towns and villages by America’s enemies, among them the Pathet Lao…

technology providers. The company started out as a trading company exporting various products from South Korea. This company is founded by Lee Byung- chul in 1939 Samsung progressively developed into the global corporation that it is today. http://www.streetdirectory.com/ (2015) Samsung means three stars in Korean. It became the name linked with different types of business establishments in South Korea. Internationally, people associate the name with electronics, information technology, mobile…