The Girl He Left Behind

of the Dominican Republic, to overthrow the dictatorship of Trujillo. As a result, three of the four sisters are assassinated by the tyrant’s agents. This book tells their story. Dedé was the only sister to survive. She is the second oldest of the girls and the only one that didn’t join the revolution, although she wanted to. Her husband, Jaimito, thought it best that she stayed out of politics. One of her flaws is that she is not confident in her decisions. She needed her husband to decide for…

refers to the artist’s attitude behind his or her art. It is sometimes referred to as the reaction to abstract expressionism. The people that started the pop art trend in Britain were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns started it in the United States. Pop art has been used in many advertisements, comic books, and boring objects. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6th in 1928. He was the third child of…

A Highwayman´s Life I was walking in a dark alleyway cold and alone. I felt as if I have been there before. I believe that was where my parents abandoned me when I was a six. When they first abandoned me, I remember vividly my experience at the orphanage, a red coat had brought me there on the third day after my parents abandoned me. In the orphanage, I remember a group of orphans who used to bully me. I also remember that the food in the orphanage was very scarce and limited. Enough dwelling on…

this trend is in Starbucks. Two teenage girls are sitting together having a conversation over coffee when suddenly one of the girls pulls out her phone mid-sentence to reply to a text. Her worlds hang in the air, and she repeats the last word she was saying a couple times along with a few “ums” as her fingers slide across the keys. The second girl who is listening sits patiently waiting for her friend to return to their conversation. When the texting girl has finished and looks up from her…

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies and the author of several books, her most famous being On Death and Dying. She was born as the oldest of triplets in Switzerland in 1926, and weighing only three pounds, Elisabeth credited her survival to her mother’s provided attention and love. Elisabeth met her husband, Emanuel Robert Ross, at a medical school in Zurich Switzerland and they were married in 1958. The couple moved to America after their graduation to…

The meaning behind the short story Good Country People is left ambiguous by the author Flannery O’Connor. It is left to the reader to Infer the meaning by analysing the point the author is trying to make and how the author wants the reader to feel. The hidden meaning behind Good Country People is ultimate evil in characters that are otherwise deceptively polite. Situational irony in this short story helps the read find that everything is not as it appears in Good Country people. Although by…

she still speaks to audiences around the world, and fights for women 's education. Before the Taliban took over Pakistan, people were not nervous to leave their homes. The Pakistanian people roamed the streets, and interacted with neighbors. People left their doors unlocked at night because they knew everyone and trusted them with everything they owned. When the Taliban moved into Pakistan, it was as if these people 's lives flipped…

won’t walk anymore”, “You won’t heal”, “Time can’t change this”, all thoughts that were going through my mind while being in a wheelchair. Then the thought comes “Why were you in a wheelchair” The tragedy that force me into a wheelchair is snapping my left leg in half. The tragedy was truly horrific. My leg was broken in 8th grade. In fact, the injury actually happened at school. I was scheduled to be in gym class, so I went to the gym and the gym teacher instructed we go outside and run a mile…

1. In the book, “When the Emperor Was Divine,” in Chapter 4, Julie Otsuka switches the narrative perspective from an individual to the plural “we.” The plural “we” is meant to represent the perspective of both the girl and the boy. With the dual perspective, the audience gains a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of the events in the chapter. When a story is only recounted from one perspective, the reader loses the viewpoints of the other characters. Furthermore, the scene appears…

*Slash* he feels the blade of the knife cuts through the first layer of his back's skin. He screeches in pain, and a single tear escapes his left eye. *Slash* another cut slices in the opposite direction on his flesh, which paints a bloody “X” on his back. He starts to feel streams of blood running down his thin sheet of skin out of the freshly sliced cuts and drenching his shirt with spots of blood. He restraints himself to look back, because another look at his mother would cost him his life.…