Naomi Shihab Nye

their past shapes the life of the following descendants. Losing an important part of the past can change the lives of the future. Naomi Shihab Nye uses clear description of her great grandfather’s famous mint snowball and the history behind it to share the importance of family heritage and objects of a family member and what they bring to the future descendants. When Nye writes this story, she wants it to always relate to her readers. At the time that the memory of Nye’s great-grandfather’s was…

reason I am writing about this topic is because, discrimination is a very important and serious topic in today’s day and age. My theme for my writing is to not judge a book by it’s cover. One of the sources that I will be using is the story Hum by Naomi Shihab Nye. Another source I will be using is a video of a man named Freddie. As you will read, both sources show how people were discriminated in the past and that they are still being discriminated today. In the video, “The Holocaust…

told that we never know who the person sitting next to us actually is. For all we know they could be a wanted criminal or a very important person. So we usually mind our business then talking to others or helping them. In the story ‘Gate A-4’ by Naomi Shihab Nye, Naomi’s plane is delayed and she decides to help a palestinian woman in a wary and cautious situation at airport gate. This shows that we should be kind and caring to people even in wary places. We should be able to help each other,…

The show depicts a quirky, young woman named Betty who is often regarded as unattractive by others. Betty lands a job as an assistant at a fashion magazine called “Mode”. Though her physical appearance is often mocked and humiliated, Betty gains her colleague’s respect and eventually finds her way into the fashion industry through her hard work and positive attitude. Meanwhile, other women who work in Mode tend to be careful about the impressions others have on their physical appearance, thus…

special effects makeup is very limited; however I adore it and am anxious grow in it. While at Summit I was privileged to have two makeup application sessions with Jim O’Hora a professional makeup instructor and entrepreneur mentored by a relative of Ben Nye from Ben Nye’s makeup. Although makeup is my favorite medium, I also dabble in set design, dressing, construction, and hand props. This gave me an appreciation for all aspects of the artistic backstage world and an understanding of the…

As the global hegemony, the United States has both a great deal of power and plenty of responsibility. The United States is recognized all throughout the world as its superpower and it has legitimacy to back it up. Even if we were in a decline from being the global hegemony, no other country comes close to our GDP. Many suggest that China is the next hegemony and that they will be the next authority, but no one can really tell by just using raw data alone. As we discussed the debate of what…

Naomi Klein’s 1999 No Logo book not only explores but also challenges the impact globalized brands and companies have had on culture. Under the chapter titled “Threats and Temps” (10) she illustrates her point in the specific area of jobs and what they represent. When we enter the final part of the book, this including chapter 16, Klein describes what is known as “Culture Jamming” where advertising is now used as a tool to convey political messages against either corporations or society itself.…

In Don Sabo’s “Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain” he explores how young athletes are destroying their bodies without awareness. While Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” investigates how the media and society as a whole are constantly portraying unrealistic images of beauty for women. The media constantly perpetuates that if females are not beautiful then they will not receive recognition. Sabo’s approach to reach his audience is solely on his experiences from being on the field. Wolf uses many direct…

I am my 4-H club’s president. My club has 52 people in it with most of them being under the age of ten. Sometimes I regret running for president, but then at other times I feel it is a great leadership experience. The duties of a president are not only running the meetings and showing animals. It is about helping out the community, helping the younger members with their projects and teaching them how to be a better person and also teach them responsibility with taking care of their animals.…

Peter Ediger was important to the Nevada test site because he was one of the founding committee members of the Pace e Bene which was a nonviolence service. His committee was in charge of fighting against the test site to try and stop the bombing going on. Ediger and three other people, Louis Vitale, Alain Richard, and Julia Occhiogrosso, started the committee in the mid-eighties and got groups of people together to shut down the Nevada test site. Ediger is a religious man, which many people were…