Ethics is a philosophical treatise by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Beginning with a set of axioms and definitions, Spinoza rejects many of Descartes' assertions, including the notion of mind/body dualism, free will and an overall trust in self-knowledge and perception. Spinoza argues that God is equivalent to the entire natural world, including humans, and that mind and body are simply different perspectives of the same object. The treatise also examines emotions and passions, claiming reason is the path to virtue and God.
Maniac Magee is a children's novel that tells the story of Jeffrey Magee, an orphan who has been raised in the foster care system. When he runs away from his foster parents, determined to find his true home, he ends up in the town of Two Mills. Here he is taken in by a black family, the Beales, which ignites racial tension in the town. Over the course of the story, one boy's search for home becomes a touching story about the ties that bind us together and the importance of overcoming prejudice.
The Help The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a novel about coloured women working for white families in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960s It follows the lives of Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson who are both maids and Eugenia Skeeter Phelan a white woman in her twenties It is the story of Skeeter writing a book about experiences the women have had working as maids In the book Aibileen is in her car and hears the song The Times They are A Changin by Bob Dylan This song wasnt written until 1964 after
The text on the dust jacket of Jon Krakauers Into the Wild makes it clear that the thread of suspense running through this compelling book isnt necessarily tied to the fate of its subject In April 1992 a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt McKinley the jacket reads His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless He had given 25 000 in savings to charity abandoned his car and most of his possessions burned all the cash in his walle
Fever 1793 Theres sickness Theres vomiting Theres suffering Theres blood Theres even death Just when you think you can get way from the terror in Philadelphia it gets you and dissolves your entire family while youre sleeping in the night dreaming of fairies and marshmallows and the boy down the road You have no idea it is here and you have no idea it would come for youits the yellow fever and nothing less Yellow fever is a severe infectious disease caused by a virus Since that time much has bee