Spingarn Medal

(1) The first thought that I remember was how in 1975 on a regular morning while Lois Lowry husband was away at work and her kids were at school. Lois Lowry had gone outside to scrape the leftovers to her dog and then she smelled something in the air that trigger one of her childhood memories when she was 8 or 9 years old in 1945.After she had a flashback on one of her childhood memories she went back into her house and went to her typewriter and sat down and began writing about that day. Her…

The Giver Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, an important job called the receiver of memory must be assigned to an appropriate candidate. This is because society has chosen security over freedom, they have no danger, no pain, no real emotions. So they must select someone to hold all the memories of suffering, sorrow, and elation so citizens don 't have to experience the risk of choosing wrong or getting hurt. There were many pieces of evidence that assigning a new receiver of memory was a rare…

gymnastics classes at age six (Brian). Gabby first started training gymnastics at Excalibur (Hill). Gabby won the Virginia State gymnastics Championship when she was just eight years old (Brian). Gabrielle Douglas says “I’d been dreaming of an Olympic gold medal since I was eight” (Douglas…

States. Even though their government and country distrusted them, the 442nd battalion went far and beyond what was expected of any soldier. In the end the Battalion was awarded 21 Medals of Honor, 52 Distinguished Service Cross, 1 Distinguished Service Medal, 560 Silver Stars, 22 Legion of Merit Medals, 15 Soldier 's Medals, 4,000 Bronze Stars, and 9,486 Purple Hearts. The 442nd Battalion was the most decorated…

enlisting in the Navy and becoming a lieutenant, Mr. Williams was honorably discharged as a corporal from the U.S. Marines. Montel Williams spent years serving both at sea and ashore and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Navy Commendation Medal. Montel Williams also conducted informal counseling for the wives and families of the service members who were at his command. Mr. Williams is knowledgeable of the unique circumstances that military families…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

What defines an idealistic society? It could be where everyone is accepted, there are no social classes, or where no one is homeless or has to think about their next meal. In contrary, what defines a dystopian society? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron illustrates a dystopian society with total equality. The government achieves this status by authorizing handicaps for the citizens ensuring that nobody is smarter, better looking, or more athletic than anybody else, thus accomplishing…

Have you ever thought of living in a place where everyone is the same and one is different? Boring, right. In the book Anthem, Rand fully expresses her thoughts about the role of the individualism and of society. Anthem is a dystopian novel, written in 1937 and published in England in 1938. The book is about a dystopian society, in which there is no “I” and only “we” is allowed. The dictatorship of Anthem tries to keep the members of its society brainwashed by focusing on the importance of…

The idea of Utopia came about through Thomas More’s Utopia. More’s idea of his utopia society is where there is no class, everyone is of the same level and wears the same clothes except to distinguish between male and female. Everybody look the same, act the same and just practically doing the same thing everyday without any freedom to do things they want to or they would probably never wish to as they are expose to the outside world just in their own Utopia society. Furthermore, the housing and…

What is a utopia?In Jonas’s community it had many things that could make it a utopia. They focused on making sure that there was peace, no pain, no judgment, no violence, and not having to worry about everything; but because of the all the positive things that they wanted they had to make it successful the caused it to be a dystopian soicety because of its lack of feelings, choices, and individuality. In the book The Giver Jonas the main protagonist has his job chosen as the Receiver and is…