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In James Baldwin’s essay “Notes of a Native Son,” Baldwin shows both sides of the story. Baldwin starts out talking about his father and all the bad stuff he used to do, and how when he died Baldwin felt good. Once at the funeral his mind changed and he felt sad that the man in the…

In Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande, an experienced general surgeon, discusses the limitations and obstacles one must face in the world of medicine today. Throughout the book, he reveals stories and patient cases he has faced in order to instill his point in his audience: medicine is human, and with that, it is not perfect. Gawande’s writing flows very well, and the stories he presents can be enjoyed and analyzed by a wide audience. However, persons with a…

I read the book, “The Christmas Note”, by Donna VanLiere. This book is about two women who lived completely seperate lives until they met eachother. Gretchen, a mom of two and a wife of an army soldier, recently moved to a small town to be closer to her adoptive mother. Her disconsalote neighbor Melissa, lives alone and is socially awkward due to an unfortunate childhood with an un-fit mother. When Melissa’s mother leaves a death note that she has sibilings, Melissa investigates and figures out…

As people grow older, so does their personality. When met with long periods of disconnection we can only compare the past personality/identity with the new present. In the short story “A Few Notes for Orpheus” by Don Bailey, the main character, Gus, is meeting his father for the first time in over two years. Throughout the story we see that Gus is unsure about his father as he links his father from the past onto the one in the present. He does this by the creating similarity of his father…

Ha Min Ko Professor Seitz LVA2006 4, September, 2016 Dostoevsky Paper: How might you outsmart the Underground Man? (TENTATIVE TITLE) According to the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s “Notes from the Underground,” [FIX INTRO] The Underground Man is elusive. It is dififcult to properly identify the characteristics of this individual. Indeed, that seems to be one of the goals of the Underground Man – to challenge any attempts to reason and rationalize the world. Perhaps the question is, how…

In the text, “Notes of A Native Son” by James Baldwin, a story is told about his father’s life and death. The beginning of the essay discussed the day timeframe of when his father passed. This timeframe explained that during that time riots were breaking out in the streets due to injustice in the city of Detroit. The day of his father funeral was also the day that the after effect of the riots were shown. The author explained that driving to the cemetery, you could see broken glass and remnants…

“Like father, like son” is a term that is often heard when discussing physical attributions or political choices. In James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”, the term “like father, like son” would be referring to the way that racism effected both a son and a father’s life. The racism Baldwin’s father encountered changed the “handsome, proud, and ingrown” man that Baldwin saw in pictures into a man that could no longer “establish contact” with other people (Baldwin 588 598). Baldwin’s father…

In the story, written by Adam Haslett, “Notes To My Biographer” Haslett engages the audience into the perspective of a metal psychologically ill old man. Haslett shares what could be considered as selfish acts are in reality cries of loneliness. In the story, a seventy-three old man named Franklin is narrating his own story. Franklin is no ordinary man, he seems to be luring in and out of reality and tends to imagine the world as his own. Franklin shows signs of having a mental illness and…

Chapter 28 “The Cold War” Notes I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLD WAR The Confrontation of the Superpowers Was an argument between Soviet and American ideologies over what would be a secure political arrangement of peoples and nations in the aftermath of WW II The first area of disagreement of theeee Cold War was Eastern Europe One factor that helped start the Cold War in Eastern Europe was Stalin’s want to employ for-Soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a…

ethnographic work of these two anthropologists. Hurston’s book Mules and Men (1935) explores folktales and hoodoo in southern, African-American culture. The concluding chapter in Geertz’s The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), entitled “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” discusses the aspects of cockfighting in a Balinese village…