Names

religion. There is no limit to what culture can make in you or the others around you. There was a short text in our SpringBoard books called “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau. It’s about two little Indian children who go to a public educational system for the first time, and on their first day, the headmistress gave Santha and Premila different names; Cynthia and Pamela (35).…

I am sitting in my room, eyes puffy and red from trying to fight back my tears. The Hundred Greek Names Project is due tomorrow. Although the name makes it sound like there are only 100 essays to write, there are actually one-hundred eight, and I am on number eighty-five. Not only that but the rain outside is not helping. It is only making me want to quit and go to bed even more than I already do. I look around the room and take a deep breath. I do not have time to breathe. I am sort of in a…

demonstrate the full beauty of the human body. Looking at these naked pieces of art is usually an issue for Christians because they do not know whether it is ethically okay or not. This topic is heavily debated in the mind of Asher in the story of My Name Is Asher Lev. Nudity in art is only permissible if…

The short story “Naming of Names” by Ray Bradbury is about the protagonist, Harry, who moved to Mars with his family and immediately doesn’t like the change. Resisting change causes more harm than good. When his friends tell him, ”You’re getting thinner Harry”, he responds I’m not. They tell him, “and taller”, he yells, “liar!”. Harry loses some of his social friends due to his bad behavior. Harry adjusts to change very poorly and ends up hurting himself and other people. As soon as Harry…

might think of how they go about their life completing their own tasks their own way. Although that statement is right the more formal definition of tradition is “a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices.” In the short story “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, and other similar short stories, she explains how tradition and ethnicity are important in culture. The definition of tradition deeply relates to culture in that culture can change someone’s point of view on the world when…

Always Preserving in Code Name Verity What would you do if you had been captured by Gestapo in Germany? Well, Verity knows this well in Elizabeth’s Wein novel Code Name Verity. After getting caught trying to impersonate a spy, Verity is captured by the gestapo and they make her tell them secret codes of the british. Instead of speaking these she chooses to write them down and tell the story through her friend Maddie. Through Verity’s flashbacks she tells the story of how she and Maddie never…

Chapter Nine Mystery is Our Middle Name Sunday, 9:20 a.m. I pumped my pedals hard up Willaston’s narrow pebbled driveway and stopped next to a squad car parked in front of the house. “I already told your pals, and now I’m going to tell you,” said the police officer sitting behind the wheel. “This is no place for kids.” She climbed out and made a dismissive gesture with her baton. “Scram.” “But—” “Now,” she ordered in a tone that warned me it was time to go. “Come on,” I told my associates.…

While reading “What’s in a Name” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates reflects on a moment in his childhood where he witnessed racism towards his father. He was walking home with his father after his father finished work they ran into a man who referred to his father as “George” according to the author. The context of this narrative essay is clear when you think about it a little more it states who the story is about which is the authors and his father, what it’s about which is when the author as a…

Noodle. She got it the day we first met, but no one quite remembers how she got that nickname. My friend Brianna insists that she gave it to her. I am fairly sure my friend gave it to herself, because she has a common name and three other people in our group at camp had the same name. My friend Lorraine has a story that we all just sort of started calling her that because she kept dropping things because her arms were like noodles. Everyone has a different reality. You can get hints of what…

Noah Arbesfeld Professor Hobson EL6530 March 6, 2024 Annotated Bibliography Birmingham, Kevin. “No Name in the South: James Baldwin and the Monuments of Identity.” African American Review, vol. 44, no. 4 -. 1/2, 2011, pp. 113-117. 221–34. The syllable of the syllable. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41328716. Kevin Birmingham’s article argues that Baldwin connects his criticism of the American South to his ideological critique of ethnic identity. Moreover, Baldwin views the hegemonic American…