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
The Power of One Essay Conformity is the process by which an individuals attitudes beliefs and behaviors are influenced by other people Individual is the meaning of a single human being as distinguished from a group Conformity and individuality are clearly shown in the film The Power of One In the film it shows that one person can change the world That one person may not be able to do an entire proportion physically to change the world but has the ability to inspire others to help thatperson ch
In the U S today retaining students in schools has been a big problem Retention in school is defined as having the ability to prevent students from dropping out of school According to Colin Powell in his article Keeping Americas Promise 1 2 million students per year nearly 7 000 students per school day one student every 26 seconds drops out These figures are disturbing because it seems young adults are unavailing about education they rather enjoy their social life and have fun For young people
The Kite Runner is a novel that fictionalises the Afghan culture for foreign readers Ive read this book before because of a recommendation from a friend and it turned out to be one of the most accomplished books I have ever read What inspired me most is the two main characters Amir and Hassan How the book looks at Amir deals with a secret in his past and how that secret shaped who he became is also impressive In the book Amir tells of his childhood friendship with Hassan his relationship with h
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
Winter in The Blood the first novel written by James Welch takes place mostly on an Indian Reservation in Montana It is narrated by an unnamed man who also serves as the protagonist in the story We do know he is a 32 year old Blackfoot Native American He resides on a cattle ranch with his mother and step father and is at a crossroads in his life He at first lacks any affection for himself or his family and lacks any motivation or direction in his life However a common theme of Winter in the Blo
Watchmen is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore Dave Gibbons and John Higgins The series was published by DC Comics in single issue during 1986 and 1987 and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form On Examining the Theme of the Watchmen the main Theme was to examine what superheroes would be like in a credible real world Characters of Watchmen were Moores admonition to those who trusted in heroes and leaders to guard the worlds fate To place faith in such icons was to give up per
In the book The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd main character Lily Owens is a very scared emotional young girl In the beginning of the book Lily is just a frightened young girl who is just trying to find out more about her mother Throughout the book she changes by her relationships with Zach August and her father TRay At the end of the book Lily begins to in fact see her true self as living with the Boatwright sisters and working with the bees In the beginning Lily learns how to have a fr
Chinua Achebes Arrow of God is set in the 1920s before secularism became dominant It begins with the image of a mask when he tells his son not to carve the mask of a god for the white man The mask is a symbol of change The whole world is changing and the people who do not change will not survive The old priest Ezeulu desires change but he cannot do it He cannot force himself to leave the old ways behind and adopt the new ways Thus he sends one of his sons to learn from the white man He cannot d
The Witchcraft trials in 1692 which infested the small town of Salem Massachusetts can most definitely be placed among the most illogical events in the history of the United States Though Witchcraft was never proved to be the cause of this mysterious chain of events one can wonder whether if in fact the Devil was present in this vile scheme Arthur Miller and Hawthorne portray internal conflicts contained within the minds of the corrupted Young Goodman Brown and untainted Reverend John Hale Arth