Nonfiction

Storytelling and literacy play an important consideration in early childhood education. This includes several techniques on what to present and how to presents as well as finding the perfect books to select. Children's literature has a very important place in educational programs for the young. Love for books, stories and poetry develops through repeated exposure to books and daily opportunities to hear stories read or told, and to choose, handle and look at books for oneself. A book that draws…

Novelist, Truman Capote, in his nonfiction book, “In Cold Blood,” recounts the village of Holcomb, Kansas in his perspective. Capote’s purpose is to convey the idea that an ordinary town can be altered by a single event. Although Holcomb, Kansas is a tedious town, a single event can change a community and its members perceptions of reality; therefore, Capote's distinct characterization of Holcomb before the crime emphasizes the impact the murders have on this once innocent community. Because…

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time” (“Jack London” Wikiquote). London wrote this, it and it is quite clear that he believed every word. Based on his writings, London believed that people lived and died by the rules of nature. He believed, that the strong lived, and the weak perished. Jack London also had a very interesting life one filled with adventure. He spent most of his life on the run looking for…

Slavery is a disappointing example of inhuman behavior, a dark past in our history books. Two stories demonstrate the cruelty of slavery while living on a plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the underground railroad and “The People Could Fly” give two different encounters on the topic of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the underground railroad is a biography and “The People Could Fly” is a historical fiction. Both would make one wonder, what is there to live for when freedom does not…

commonly used to tell fictional stories of a hero going on an adventure and coming back as a changed or transformed person. Even though this story type is most applicable to fictional stories, the ideas within it can also be applied to the sharing of a nonfiction story. Take for example the movie Moneyball. In this movie, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, acts as the hero. The Athletics have very little money to spend on their team, and as a result, they cannot afford to…

Kaylen Simmons Dr. Piper Huguley-Riggins 215 English: 20th Century Black Women Writers 7 July 2016 Pauline Hopkins’ Legacy African American 20th Century writers have played a big role in educating the community. The authors and poets of the Harlem Renaissance who prospered in the 1920s, such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, have become more popular and their works have been recognized and interpreted in English classes in recent years. Pauline Hopkins should be included the next time…

Teaching makes an enormous impact on the lives of many people. Impacting the lives of our future generations. Teaching also impacts the lives of teachers, helping them to follow their dreams through a remarkable career. If I could make education better, it would be to change a student’s motivation. Throughout my internship, I see a variety of students that have the potential to be and do anything they aspire to be, and yet they lack drive to get there. Teachers are not making connections to…

The author of the book, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, is Jeff Guinn. Jeff Guinn is an author that has written multiple nonfiction and fiction books on multiple different topics. This book, The Road to Jonestown, is about the events leading up to and the events of one of the largest mass deaths in American history. This book focuses on Jim Jones and a cult known as the People’s Temple and how this cult committed the largest murder-suicide in American history. This took…

and certainly wasn’t expecting a work of literary criticism. In a diversion from her most infamous works in fiction, the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author demonstrates her reflective and meticulous nature in this most recent work of nonfiction, offering her readership both surprise and consistency. In “The Origin of Others,” Morrison confronts the concept of the “other” as a social formation created to define oneself and restrict humanity. She hypothesizes that violent…

government will not provide money if they are injured or that if they do not make it, their families members will be left with grief and sorrow. Their physicality and bravery are what help them to raise their chances of surviving. Many fiction and nonfiction stories depict what it is like to face life-or-death situations. Books like Lord of the Flies show the most physically capable people surviving while the book Life of Pi suggests that the bravest people are likely to survive. However, in…