The Book of Eli

Interior Chinatown Eli Miland Asian Am 240 April 7, 2024. I chose to read the book Interior Chinatown, a novel by Charles Yu published in 2020. This seemed the most interesting to me when I read the initial book options. The book is separated into 7 acts, which is fitting as it is in the unique format of a screenplay about the main character Willis Wu, an Asian American with Taiwanese ancestry. Willis narrates the script in the second person about himself. Throughout the book he describes a TV…

In Gem of the Ocean, the incredible collection of interesting, eccentric, and even outspoken characters help immensely to move along the plot. With that in mind, it can easily be argued that Aunt Ester was the true “gem” of this play. Without her, this story would quickly fall back into the depths of memory for many of the members of the audience. She is a wealth of information and wisdom undoubtedly, but she is much more than that. She is charitable and kind in a time where much of the general…

The Fundamentality of the Arts in Public Education Picture a barren wasteland, empty of any thought that branches outside of normality. Beige walls decorate bland streets filled with broken dreams and sullied minds. This is the world without art. Earth takes breaths of life and joy because we strive to create. The world needs art, not for survival, but for the sake of its people. To rephrase: humanity needs art. Art and music help to fuel the brain, these fields of creativity are challenging…

The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen and Wes Anderson are known for their distinctive visual and thematic styles of film making. Although their respective films The Big Lebowski and The Royal Tenenbaums both have a unique style all their own they do share a theme. This shared narrative motif is a nostalgic yearning for, or perhaps even obsession, with the past. In The Big Lebowski this obsession with the past can be seen at the very beginning of the film as we follow a tumbling tumbleweed, an iconic…

Droughts, a multi causal and complex environmental issue that can have serious consequences and serious strain on the earth. Droughts are caused due to climate change, it is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in water supply and in California we are entering our fourth year of a record drought and should be taken serious as it is considered a drought if only after fifteen days of not receiving enough water, so we then depend on Aquifers.…

The civil war any country that has a civil war is devastated the country is torn apart for stupid and selfish reasons hundreds if not thousands of men die in the process of these horrible wars. For America it was the most deadliest and horrific war in its history more people died in the civil war than in both world wars combined! In the battle of Gettysburg alone the confederate side lost 25,000 men and the union lost 23,000 men that’s 48,000 men in just one battle.There are many reasons why the…

In “Why Asking For a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password is Fair” by Alfred Edmond, discusses a major topic that is happening almost everywhere applicants are being hired. Should the people hiring have the right to ask for the applicant password in order to be consider as a new hire. He provides evidence to both side, but strongly agrees with the side the allows company to ask for people's passwords. It was not long ago when this type of practice was happening during the hire process. When…

Like most instructional texts, and hence all textbooks, the layout begins with the most basic information to the most complex. In the Old Order Amish community presented in Andrea Fishman’s work, Eli Jr. learns by recitation and repetition of bible hymns then by actually becoming generically literate, being able to read and write, through schooling. The engineering students learning to code and build robots, parallel this learning structures because…

minors in a pornographic setting. However, this brings forth the challenge of determining whether this content has an artistic merit, and therefore; constitutional under the Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter. According to Brenda Cossman and her book, “Censorship and the Arts,” she stated that, “the assessment of artistic merit currently surrounds the role and purpose of the artwork in question; whether the role and purpose is to provide a different perspective to the community, giving rise to…

In fact, when looking at the book in its entirety, it becomes clear that the cosmology of the book overwhelms the plot itself. The agential nature of objects, the non-Aristotelian logic concerning creation stories and the prominence of stories-as-truth shapes the novel so deeply that one could even think of it as…