The first book I read for my reading log was Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith This book takes place during the Civil War and revolves around a young boy from Kansas by the name of Jefferson David Bussey Having been born in Kansas Jeffs loyalty obviously lies with the Union One day his house is attacked by bushwackers from Missouri gangs of Confederates that raid peoples houses and Jeff is injured The next day Jeff says he has had enough with those blasted bushwackers and goes to enlist in Fort
Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate
Summer Independent Reading You cannot open a book without learning something Irish proverb In every book there is a lesson to be learned something useful to be carried away or at least a saying or phrase that can help you to fulfill your life the best you can In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay a sentence that I could not get out of my head throughout the entirety of my reading was when Hoppie Groenwald said to Peekay first with the head and then with the heart Hoppie ultimately inspired Pee
Odd Thomas is a book written by Dean Koontz This book falls under the genre of thriller and mystery although the book does contain some spiritual and supernatural elements within the plot Koontz has selected his protagonist to be a twenty year old male named after the book itself Odd Thomas Odd likes to think of himself as a normal and average person He works his job as a short order cook in a restaurant called Pico Mundo Grille located in the small California town of Pico Mundo Odd is also a c
Jane Austen uses several literary techniques to characterize Catherine Morland in the opening passage of Northanger Abbey These techniques are sewn into the passage both bursting off the page and subtly weaved in each intertwines to create what develops into the character of Catherine Morland The use of this methodical writing technique is reflective of the development of Catherines character as each small aspect comes together with the larger more magnified ones to create the overall character
Obi nkwo an Igbo villager who through a community scholarship given to him by the Umofia Progressive Union UPU is sent to England to attain the only hope of advancement in the colony a European education Upon his return he settles into a senior government post which he eventually loses to corruption by an acceptance of bribery After Obi is caught and is facing trial for bribery The Umofia Progressive Union describes obi as A man who runs after sweet things of Lagos This paper will therefore dis
Beauty and Power Who will Survive The word equality has become one of the terms on which society puts an honorable coat Modern American society seems to believe in gender and racial equality and its social implementations and the rhetoric of equality is a key concept repeated in politics education and even in advertisement Is gender equality a reality or is it a fashionable idea that people merely love to mention and rarely practice Today gender and racial equality have only been partially impl
A Hope In The Unseen A hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind a descriptive litrature of an African American boy named Cedric Jennings who struggles through different challenges in his life Cedric Jennings is a student at a high school named Ballou in Anacostia Washingon D C Suskind writes this novel in a unique way which makes the novel difficult to read and understand Suskind describes most things in the novel in a way that the reader has a negative picture in his her mind The social atmosphere ar
Sympathizing with a Terrorist The initial reaction of an American reading Alan Moores V for Vendetta may not be hmm their fascist government seems immensely similar to our own government Why is this Is it because the American government has directed its public away from this thought After all the United States is the self proclaimed greatest democracy on Earth The government in V for Vendetta can be seen as more than just a criticism of the British government at the time it can also be seen as
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