Open Book

Marie Bonaccorse, Founder and Social Media Specialist at the Sassy Tweetress, attributes her community online giving her a network of empowerment. “I have a network of empowerment. Social media has made me more confident. It solidifies my philosophies and opinions but keeps me open and accepting for when I need correction” (Kerpen). Once again, Kerpen does not even nod at the fact that many people encounter large amounts of negativity on a daily basis solely through social media proving to readers that she has a bias standpoint, and only looks at how social media is changing our lives positively which defeats the sole purpose of the article. Since Kerpen does not provide an unbiased standpoint many of the testimonials used hold less weight because there are many ways to talk about how these women have triumphed negativity and have come out on top through social media but Kerpen does not show us that side of the…

appealing to the audience. In the book Open by Andre Agassi the author explains his life growing up as a tennis player who hated tennis. In contrast, in the movie The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock, he visualizes the success of a homeless, black teenager who made it into the NFL with the help of kind strangers. In my opinion, it is evident that Open delivered a better story than The Blind Side because the book has more detail, positively represented the athlete and showed appreciation…

"The Land of Open Graves" is a book written by Jason De León; a professor in Anthropology. The book focusses on reveling the troubling political issue that is facing immigrants when trying to enter United States through Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The author of the book highlights the sufferings that immigrants undergo as the result of implementing the US immigration policy for decades. While drawing insights from four core fields of anthropology, the author is able to articulate his ideas and…

In The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon and Michael Wells displays death and experiences of unpleasant factors of illegal immigrants that happens day-to-day in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. There are thousands of illegal immigrants that try to venture across the border from Mexico to the United States of America. This book illustrates several fields of anthropology, such as archaeology, forensic science, ethnography, and linguistics. De Leon uses…

The word theatrical has many different definitions. One of those definitions states that theatrical is “a performance by amateurs”. Although the following definition is accurate, Peter Brooks, the author of The Open Book, provides the reader another outlook of the term “theatrical”. “For there to be a difference between theatre and non-theatre, between everyday life and theatrical life, there needs to be a compression of time that is inseparable from an intensification of energy. This is what…

When I read “The Open Book” by Stephen Crane it was very long and I found the wording in the story a little difficult to understand. I had to reread a few sentence and look up some of the words. However the complicated words didn’t stop me from reading the story because I was really into it. I wanted to know what was going to happen to these four men because Crane kept the readers at suspense as to what was going to happen to the four men. At first I thought these men were doomed that they would…

Introduction Anne-Marie Slaughter is President and CEO of New America and this essay is adapted from her forthcoming book, “The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.” Slaughter describes the international system as a web and the world as networks instead of states with boundaries. The main claim of her essay is to promote the United States to adopt a grand strategy of building and maintaining an open international order based on three pillars: open societies,…

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is told from a third-person perspective. The only mind through out the book the narrator has insight to is the correspondent. The narrator suggests all four men are thinking and feeling the same things. Throughout the book the oiler is the only character given a name. The oiler (Billy) has not eaten or slept in days like the others, right before the ship sank he worked double-watch in the engine-room, still he continues rowing. Any time the correspondent tries to…

story of an hour” by Kate Chopin’s is a story for those readers who like short stories that contain much symbolism within it. Although this book is full of symbolism, it begs the question what do these symbols mean in this story, as well as how does it relate to Louise. The story of an hour is about Louise Mallard a woman who finds that her husband Richard Mallard has died in an accident. So after locking herself in her room for a while she eventually gets out only to discover that her husband…

What’s a stereotype? A stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s a bad trait that most human beings have and do every day without even noticing. We tend to “Judge a book by its cover.” But you never know what could be in that book, may it just be a clear white cover with just the authors name, or a colorful active cover, that seems more appealing. It’s all about the material inside, that we wouldn’t know what that material is…