Silent Spring

Osha Gray Davidson's The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, took a unique look at the role of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) during the Civil Rights Movement, because it chose to look at only one man who rose to be the local leader rather than the KKK as a group. Davidson tells the stories of C.P Ellis, a poor, white male struggling to survive in Durham, North Carolina and the local Exalted Cyclops (community leader) of the KKK, and a Ann Atwater, a poor, black female domestic…

Nature plays a role in the way the characters think as throughout the book, the thoughts of the characters and seasons change spontaneously. Spring and summer enlivens the characters as it gives them purpose and self-identity. A reader of Frankenstein can predict that if victor handled the situation differently other than abandoning his creation and making the monster learn on his own; the monster…

involved not just the president of the country Richard Nixon, but also a some members of the Republican Administration during the election campaign of 1972. According to the book, America A Narrative History, Vol. 2 (Emory, D. & Brown, G. 2016), “ By the spring of 1972, senior Nixon aide John Ehrlichman was overseeing a secret team of agents who performed various acts of sabotage against Democrats, such as falsely accusing Democratic senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual…

Questions, are words formed to usually find out information or elicit a response. I believe that questions are one of the most important parts of conversations in today’s society. In the article; the “The Power of Why” the author Warren Berger talks about the importance of questions and how they can be used in many different methods by different age groups. The author talks about how questions are used differently and how some have sparked huge companies, innovations, and created huge business…

Wars don’t end when you sign a peace treaty. They go on and on in memory.” (Hicks 38) The things that are seen, or experienced during a war like the Vietnam War are always remembered. Those gruesome memories are in parts of the mind that tend to spring out at you at unexpected moments. The memory is a living breathing animal in people’s head, when something traumatizing like war, or extreme violence, happens it turns that animal into a monster. This isn’t something that can be ran away from,…

Van Jones mentions that she is the figure that created and launched the regulation wave. Carson published Silent Spring during this time, which influenced the ban of the pesticide DDT in 1972. Her novel was able to create public awareness about the interconnectedness of human industry and the national environment. In 1970, President Nixon forms the Environmental…

’ ‘Did Mr Rochester’s wife also perish in the fire?’ ‘No, ma’am, I witnessed, and several more witnessed, Mr Rochester ascend through the sky-light roof; we heard him call “Bertha!” We saw him approach her; and then ma’am, she yelled and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement. Dead!’ He continued ‘-after seeing his ill wife death Mr Rochester saved the servants trapped by the flames whilst escaping the fire himself. His bravery saved the lives of many; even though…

From the small window of our plane we could see the mountains touching the white fluffy clouds as we flew through the night sky. Small white snowflakes fell upon the plane as we descended through the clouds to land on a snowy runway in Colorado Springs. We were hit by a cold wind coming from the north as we step out from the cozy warmth of the plane and into the vehicle. We are now off heading towards my cabin in the snowy mountains for the best skiing adventure ever. We had Sam, an ex-marine,…

In Janie's early life, it was her grandma that has basically raised her in her whole life. In the novel she is referred to as “Nanny” and she is Janie's guidance. Even though her nanny can be kind, she is cold hearted and wants the best for her granddaughter as it's portrayed in the book. When Janie first met Johnny, she was infatuated with love: her first kiss. Nanny saw this occurrence and was disturbed by Janie's speech about her new found feelings or attraction. Nanny gave advice and said to…

One month before my 10th birthday, my father picked me up from school. I was an after-school program kid, and we were still milling around the door to the cramped portable, hanging up backpacks and chatting with friends from other classes, when my name was called. That should have been my first clue that this would be a day of change. Both of my parents were in the Navy, and I was often one of the last few kids to go home. My second clue should have been when I saw my dad’s dusty, dented black…