The Book of Eli

body-minds. In Eli Clare’s book, “Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure”, he expresses his sociopolitical ideology of cure. He states that individuals who have been labeled as abnormal or disabled need social justice not just a cure. Clare embodies resistance by rejecting cure for his physical impairment, and rejecting the definition of what is a normal body-mind. This is important because the ideology of cure has been imposed onto those who have been…

States in the vicinity of the 1800’s to the 1860’s (Corbett et al. 12.1). During the Antebellum period, the South grew cotton and it became a lucrative crop. Because of this, two-thirds of the world’s crop was being produced in the South by 1860. Eli Whitney, with a vision to aid in the slave’s labor-intensive process of cotton production, he invented the cotton gin. However, his vision took a different turn.…

Though some might not know a thing about them, HeLa cells have affected an abundance of people. Original HeLa cells were cut from the cervix of the African American woman known as Henrietta Lacks. Born as Loretta Lacks, Henrietta was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 1, 1920. At the age of 30, Henrietta was diagnosed with “Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I” (24). Her cancer could not be defeated and Henrietta died October 4, 1951. Before her death, Dr. George Gey of George Hopkins…

running of a time-keeping machine. Society also includes many different individuals who have personal beliefs and opinions, and each individual serves a vital purpose to the overall purpose of the group formed by these individuals. Alan de Botton, in his book Status Anxiety, argues that humorists are one of the most important individuals involved in our society, as they are able to deliver oftentimes controversial messages to their audiences. De Botton could not be more accurate in his analysis…

outside”” (Maus) admitted Vladek, after witnessing a hanging. Fear dictated all lives during the Second World War, though survivors of the Holocaust, Vladek Spiegelman and Eli Wiesel, have the courage to share their experiences through writing. Spiegelman’s story is illustrated and narrated by his son Art Spiegleman in the comic book Maus (1986-1991), while Wiesel recounts his own life as a fifteen year old in the concentration camps in his novel Night (1956). Though their stories differ, both…

Towards the end of the eighteenth century, slavery was waning. Less slaves were being brought to the United States as the economy of the South declined. Most economic power was held in the hands of the much more industrialized North. Until, however, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 . This changed everything. The cotton gin was a machine that easily separated the cotton fibers from the seeds. The fibers were then used to make clothing. With this new invention, cotton soon became…

The Nazis used this as a game to show they were an object that could be thrown away. When Eli and his father came to the camp, they were going through a part of their selection. Eli’s dad started to have a colic attack and needed a bathroom. His father asked the Nazi if he could go to the bathroom, but the Nazi laughed at him and “He slapped…

went online shopping and the next thing you know, you are on Facebook and an ad for those gorgeous shoes are shining brightly in that sidebar looking better than ever? Eli Pariser explains why this is happening in The Filter Bubble. Ultimately, the new web is changing how we think and what we read. In this essay, I will review the book and discuss the arguments inside. Right now, we think that the information that we are looking up is general information that is available to everyone else. In…

American Indians to indicate the eternity of the treaty, which is, and always had been, a lie. King explains this view: "As long as the grass is green and the waters run. It was a nice phrase, all right. But it didn't mean anything. It was a metaphor. Eli knew that. Every Indian on the reserve knew that. Treaties were hardly sacred documents. They were contracts, and no one signed a contract for eternity. No one" (267). Water is no longer running. It is held back and dammed to death. The grass…

In a nonfictional account of the Holocaust, Eliezer, a Jewish boy, must endure months spent in multiple concentration camps; experiencing hunger, loss, pain, genocide, and desperation. In Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his experience of the Holocaust in 1944 Nazi Germany and allows the reader to get a deeper look into what it was really like for a young boy in a concentration camp.When Eliezer gets sent to the first camp, his family is split up but he gets to stay with his father. Throughout the…