Lionel Shriver

Gecko Gloves Many children dream of being a superhero and climbing walls, however this idea may seem too far fetched for any human to accomplish; or is it? The gecko gloves are an astounding new development in the technological field that allows humans to climb walls with ease. Most of the development is for the movies and the military, however some variations are being dispersed for public usage. These variations will contain many of the same aspects as the original, however, the variation…

Built from the ground by Alexander Van Der Wells, now it’s Noah’s. This is what he comes to every day. His own kingdom. Ruling with an iron fist. There are four different elevators circling the grandiose lobby, and Mikey Boy leads me to elevator number two. Not sure he realizes he’s spoken to my boobs instead of my face when he steps aside and tells me to go ahead of him. Hmm. Here’s someone who’s not afraid to leer. Can’t blame him, though. I do have a nice pair. Soothing classical music…

Imagine being called the best player in the world that has ever existed. How would you feel ? Have a moment to just think about an amazing person that has impacted your life? What troubles did that person have to go through to achieve? Allow me to give a speech about someone inspirational that has stood out to me. This person is a 73 year old Brazilian, that has amazed everyone in the world. This amazing soccer player is Edison Arantes do Nascimento or as people know him as Pelé. Pelé has been…

The Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, with a mission of providing year round training and competitions to more than 4.5 million athletes in 170 countries. Special Olympics is a 501 (c)(3) non- profit organization based out of Washington, DC. The organization helps provide a place for children and adults with disabilities to interact in physical activities and competition boosting self-esteem and encouragement.…

the Left Survive the Millennials?” written by Lionel Shriver, Shriver points out a current issue with millennials, she questions the “weaponized sensitivity” of the generation as a whole and argues that fiction needs freedom of speech. Shriver says “Midway through my opening address for the Brisbane Writers Festival earlier this month, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born Australian engineer and 25-year-old memoirist, walked out” which Shriver then explains that Yassmin was offended by…

Within Lionel Shriver's epistolary novel "We Need To Talk About Kevin," the narrator Eva attempts to analyze the events leading up to "Thursday" -- the day her son Kevin committed a mass shooting. In doing so, Shriver evaluates the concept of the school shooter. In popular media, the persona of the school shooter is culminated though a series of broad, mutual concerns about adolescent life in contemporary America. However, conversely, in "We Need to Talk About Kevin," Kevin is shown to attempt…

Talking about Kevin: The Teenage Psychopath We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver provides several insights into the influences on human behaviour which lead a character into pathways of darkness. This book tells the story of Eva Khatchadourian, and her family. When her son Kevin is first born, he refuses to cease his screaming and crying when Eva cares for him, contrary to when he is in the care of his father Franklin. As he ages, he remains cold with Eva, but affectionate to Eva’s…

The book I read and reviewed was Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings by Katherine Newman. She is a respected professor at Harvard Universities Kennedy School of Government and Dean of Social Science at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study so she has the appropriate credentials to investigate the social roots of school shootings. However, Newman has very little knowledge about school violence causing some sociologists to fault her for failing to have the expertise to draw upon the…

A world full of pain and suffering, and female poet, novelist, and motive Sylvia Plath came to be one of today’s most powerful writers. She is very associated with confessional poetry, which is a style of writing in which authors focus on themselves and detailed issues in their personal lives; she gets as personal as talking about her suicidal thoughts and wishes for death– even upon others! Writers Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Brontë influenced Plath to pursue a life of writing even…

In light of the film, We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, it is apparent that the film presents a specific case of Antisocial Personality Disorder through the actions and thought processes of Kevin Khatchadourian, the eponymous character. The story is told through the main point of view of the character’s mother, Eva Khatchadourian, through which she undergoes a series of negative events as she attempts to deal with her son, Kevin Khatchadourian, and the…