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turned down, and was told that girls, especially blacks, were not allowed in meetings (140-144). When Katherine questioned why, the answer she received was that it was just how things were done (140-144). After countless days of questioning and encouraging her white male coworkers to let her sit in on a meeting, she finally got the chance to accompany them during a meeting in 1958 (140-144). As Katherine sat down during the meeting she was changing the…

Imagine being a 13-year-old enrolled in high school and graduating college at the age of 18. A phenomenal young African American woman accomplished this which could be considered mediocre compared to her other achievements. Katherine Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia on August 26, 1918. She was handpicked to be one of the three black students chosen to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools. Her brilliant skills in schools and at home gave her the ability to advance…

An Abundance of Average John Green’s common coming of age story An Abundance of Katherines tells the tale of a high school child prodigy who has only ever dated girls named Katherine. Being the prodigy that he is, Colin seems to be your average misunderstood teenager who doesn’t get along with most, except his best friend. After Colin is dumped by his nineteenth Katherine, he seems to be stuck in an eternal rut. Feeling like a failure, his best friend Hassan kicks him out the door for a road…

The book “An Abundance of Katherines” is about a child prodigy named Colin who had a long history of dating girls named Katherine. In dating so many Katherines, he has also had a long history of being dumped by them. Having had to be dumped by Katherines, Colin wanted to become the genius he always hoped become and started to try to figure out a formula that might predict the outcome of any relationship. Meanwhile, his friend, Hassan, had planned a road trip that would later completely change…

Sierra Moore Journal 3 An Abundance of Katherines -John Green (Finished +64) (+52 from No Country for old men -Cormac McCarthy) Inanimate objects are nothing compared to the preciousness of animate life, yet they impact everyone’s lives greatly. In An Abundance of Katherines Colin, the main character, lives with Lindsey and her mother along with his friend Hassan. Together they help each other grow and learn; via hog hunting, cave exploring, and late night conversations. Overall the most…

Abundance of Katherines 書籍作者Author: John Green 出版社Publisher: Speak 一、 內容大意Summary Seventeen-year-old Colin Singleton, former child prodigy and anagram-lover, had dated nineteen girls named Katherine (all spelled in that matter) and had been dumped by all of them. Although he had an IQ of over 200, he had not yet become a genius, whom he aspired to be. He wanted to have a “eureka” moment and to matter. After recently graduating from high school and getting dumped by Katherine XIX,…

Katherine Anne Porter, born Callie Russell Porter, was the fourth child of Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice Jones Porter. Katherine Anna Porter moved with her father and siblings to Kyle, Texas after the loss of her mother. Her family had gone to live with Harris' mother, Catharine Ann Skaggs Porter--a strong-willed woman who had told her grandchildren romantic stories about her slaveholding family's life in Antebellum, Kentucky. "Porter absorbed her grandmother's independence, Victorian…

Katherine Fitzpatrick does not only suggest that digital publishing has changed the very notion of authorship and the way a work is communicated to the world, but she suggests that embracing the new technologies that have infiltrated the ways we communicate, can help people feel more comfortable with themselves and their writing. Fitzpatrick claims that we need to “rethink our authorship practices and our relationships to ourselves and our colleagues as authors.” This, to me, seems like a very…

In Katherine Paterson's Novel Lyddie, The fundamental character goes to Lowell to work in the processing plant. They need to work fourteen hours and there is clean and build up noticeable all around, which is making the specialists wiped out. Before she left, she was at a homestead and they came up short on sustenance, so her mother and sister went to her close relative’s house. Lyddie was let go from being a house manager, so she went to Lowell to work there. Since the working conditions were…

Modern sensibilities argue for total equality in relationships, railing against traditional relationship structures wherein the male is the dominant partner. This is an admirable view, and one that commendably dismisses gender roles. However, such absoluteness neglects to consider the possibility of intellectual and social inequalities between members of a relationship that could make some form of dominance beneficial. Throughout his comedies, William Shakespeare examines this possibility by…