The Notebook was written by Nicholas Sparks in 1994 Based on a true story Its a classic yet brilliant love story of two people Allie and Noah in the 1940s living in Seabrook South Carolina Noah who is unimpressed with striving for success no matter the cost He is a blue collar worker who spends an unexpected inheritance on restoring a beautiful plantation home He is a hard worker in whatever he engages himself but will never be sucked into a job that keeps him away from nature and the beauty of
The book Nickel and Dimed is a book that really shows you a different perspective of how some peoples life really is It humbles you into analyzing how your life compares to other peoples lives that might not have the same advantages as you You never know what the person behind the cash register at a grocery store is really going through In this book Barbara Ehrenreich becomes curious of what it would be like to make ends meet with low paying jobs Barbara moved to three different places in compl
Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days by R K Narayan In Malgudi Days although R K Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness he means to reflect the triumph of the human spirit over the cruel circumstances of life In India poverty and the lack of education are prejudiced against and people are discriminated against because they are poor In A Willing Slave Ayah is discriminated against and treated badly merely
Accounts of the State of Nature and characterization of Human Beings Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes was written thanks to Euclid like a geometrical proof where the first chapters set the foundations upon which the book and his later ideas will be based One of the main arguments presented is that in a state of nature the characteristics of human beings would put us in a war of all against all The state of nature is when there is no government rules or regulations except those strategies that can get
For some individuals life is seemingly static and unchanging Marilynne Robinsons 1980 novel Housekeeping heartily challenges this belief portraying the fragility and impermanence of each passing moment The books theme of transience is clearly realized in many characters and in some passages that initially do not appear notable The world and its inhabitants are constantly in a state of flux Robinson understands this and imparts the theme to the observant reader At a very simple level the novel i
Crash is a provocative treatise on racism woven together with a series of overlapping threads Written and directed by Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis Crash was inspired by an incident in which Haggis was carjacked at gunpoint in Los Angeles Racism is a universally recognized affliction but Haggis victimization at the hands of black robbers caused him to explore how living in a city where everyone is cocooned in their car contributed to the problem One theory he posits via detective
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
Black Hawk Down In October 1993 a group of Army rangers and Delta force soldiers were sent into Somalia to capture a warlord that had already caused the deaths of over 200 000 thousands civilians They were also to help the U N to deliver food to the people that were starving in the city The whole mission was called a humanitarian mission but that was not the case for the one hundred and thirteen soldiers on that day October 1993 This movie is based on actual events that happened on one day when
English Summer Reading Essay The Lovely Bones details symbols Every novel or piece of work has symbols and details that are placed in the story for specific reasons A symbol is something that represents something else most of the time it is something abstract The little details in a story can also be very significant in the story line They might be the smallest of details but they can mean or represent something so big In the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold there are details and symbols t
There are many ways to identify a seeker There is a hunger in their eyes a look of inquisitiveness and often skepticism They are looking for the answer and that search is rarely interrupted Every experience and every moment is analyzed and scrutinized for its application to their lives In Jack Kerouacs Dharma Bums Viking Press1959 we have a story chock full of seekers From the narrator Ray and his fellow bums to the poets and people he meets along his journeys across the country and back again