Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day drowsily reading over her sisters shoulder when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch exclaims that he is late and pops down a rabbit hole Alice follows the White Rabbit down the hole and comes upon a great hallway lined with doors She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table Through the door she sees a beautiful garden and Alice begins to cry
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
Detached From Society Chris Chandless was an adventurer He loved the fact that each day he had the possibility of being exciting different or even dangerous Chris was different in the way he wanted to experience life He wanted to be alone and took no joy in the various human relationships that he had developed in his travels Chris showed that he was a loner and did not value these relationships by his disregard for normal society and only took pleasure in challenging himself Once Chris had left
In the poem through a monologue Ulysses carries out his last journey and reflects back on his eventful life It seem as if Ulysses is trying to justify his actions and explain his passions for travelling and adventure and that being his hungry heart From the first line of the poem it becomes noticeable that Ulysses is bored and unexcited by his current position It little profits that an idle king His statement reveals that personally Ulysses gains no profit from being a king and that he would ra
Ulysses Odysseus declares that there is little point in his staying home by this still hearth with his old wife doling out rewards and punishments for the unnamed masses who live in his kingdom Still speaking to himself he proclaims that he cannot rest from travel but feels compelled to live to the fullest and swallow every last drop of life He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels the seas and he considers himself a symbol for everyone who wanders and roams the earth His trav
Isabella Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix Arizona to rainy Forks Washington to live with her father Charlie while her mother Rene travels with her new husband Phil Dwyer a minor league baseball player Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students Much to her dismay several boys compete for shy Bellas attention When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school Edward seems utterly repulsed by her He disappears for a
Afghanistan is a coarse and dishonourable place to reside Khaled Hosseini explains this in his novel The Kite Runner Afghanistans degrading class system is horrific and inhumane This inhumane rigid system allows for ethnic discrimination constant warfare and poverty To begin Afghanistan is divided into two main ethnic classesthe Pushtuns and the Hazaras The Pushtuns believe they are better than the Hazaras due to the fact that they are more financially stable In The Kite Runner Baba a wealthy P
Black Like Me As I begin reading the story John Griffin introduces himself to the readers He began with a speculation if he became an African American he could help understand the difficulties between races as a white man and African American in the south and with this knowledge develop a means to bridge the gap His desire to know if Southern whites were racists against African Americans population of the Deep South or if they really judged people based on the individuals personality as they sa
Tuesdays with Morrie The title of the book that was read for my first book this summer is called Tuesdays with Morrie It is a heartwarming book written by Mitch Albom and the copyright date is in 1997 For such an inspiring book it only has 192 pages It tells the story of an old man restoring his friendship with one of his old students Mitch Albom Mitch recalls back to his graduation at Brandeis University It is spring in the year of 1979 when he receives his diploma He is greeted by his old pro
The Global South Who Really Cares A global disease is one that does not care about borders doesnt care if a country is developed or developing if a country is in the global north or in the global south all it cares about is infecting as many people as possible A global disease is one that travels throughout the entire world infecting and destroying as much as possible In his book The Hot Zone Richard Prestons describes the spread of a global disease of a filovirus known as Ebola Throughout the