Wisdom literature

Holocaust Reflection Paper Participation For this project lesson plan, Jerrod and I brain stormed possible project ideas to go along with the book, Maus by Art Spiegelman. We decide to stay with the graphic novel idea for the project. We worked together at the library to complete the lesson plan. Jerrod volunteered to complete the graphic novel example for the lesson project. We used the online archives from The USC Shoah Foundation, which we provided several examples of the types of videos we…

Mark Georgie Mindov Ms. Pushkin English 1102 Due 4 October 2017 Comparison/Contrast Research Paper Assignment Fiction, non-fiction, crime, mystery, action etc., books and movies have many various aspects to what they could be, because of the difference between each genre. The era and the setting of the plot can affect the story and feel of the book. For example, if someone changed an action book into a love story some parts would have to be changed and aspects of romance would need to be added,…

into this story early on. I feel safe in saying that this story was an introspective biography of a man going through a moral mid-life crisis. Tolstoy who by this time was already considered by many of his peers to be a master of realist fiction literature…

Thoreau An Effective Argument Thoreau presents and effective argument in his work Resistance to Civil Government. Evidence of this is provided by use of reasoning to explain whether these events deserve support of defiance, use of specific detail about the issues, and use of strategies to appeal to the reader's emotion and imagination. Thoreau has countless instances in his work that prove effective in persuading his readers to favor his ideals, and each individual that study his work should…

The two texts spanning decades worth of literature and crossing over genres have subtle similarities that are brought to light when you look at the structure and writing style of both authors. The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, suggests that all of history has been determined by an economic system of time and class struggles. The three separate poems by Langston Hughes illustrate his heritage, place in society, and ideology. The two pieces of literature are not automatically thought of…

Title: What is the meaning of the title? Does it capture the essence of the book? What would you title the book if you could change it? The meaning of the title of this book is simply what it is, The Devil’s Highway. It refers to the place that these immigrants had to cross in order to get to the US. However, the meaning behind it refers to the aspect of how many people die here. It really is like a devil’s highway because when you're in this place it seems like you are going to die fast, due…

“Do not weep. War is kind” (Crane). Stephen Crane, Wilfred Owen, Tim O’Brien, and Kevin Powers are four famous writers who lived in a time of war and got to encounter the reality of it. All four authors participated in the war of their time: Owen fought in World War I, O’Brien fought in the Vietnam War, Powers fought in Iraq, and Crane did not fight in a war, but he did work as a journalist in the Spanish-American War. The authors had access to the realism of warfare and published novels and…

“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton). One of the most noteworthy novels in literature history is The Outsiders, because it battles with friendship, difference in social class, rebellion, love, family, and many more things we as people can relate to most. This book is often read by teenagers and they connect with it on a high level, after all the author S.E. Hinton was only sixteen when she wrote this book. She was in the midst of…

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is one of the poems that I will never forget, it is one of my favorite poems. It is a poem that really makes you ask yourself questions. Questions like, why would she write something like this? She mainly wrote it because of her background. From the time her parents divorced till the time she was raped. She felt like she was nothing and useless. A lot of people feel like this sometimes and they could relate to this poem. This poem is strong and…

Plato, The Republic, trans. John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughn, revised by Andrea Tschemplik (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), in Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy, 2nd ed., ed. Steven M. Cahn (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2012): 31-168. According to Shmuel Harlap (1979), there is a rich debate regarding how Thrasymachus should be interpreted among academics, beginning with G. B. Kerferd’s “The Doctrine of Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic”…