From there he made his way over Lake Tanganyika then 600 miles on a motorbike to the headwaters of the Congo River. On the way seeing old corpses rotting from past fights. Now on the river he traveled using dugouts from Kindu where he had a stay in a comfortable air conditioned UN stronghold to Kisangani. Along the way seeing no motorboats on the river but seeing plenty of old rusted out steamboats. After a lengthy stay to find a boat he departed on the last part of his trip where he landed at the Atlantic ocean on august 9th.
After completing his exploration, Least Heat Moon rewrote the manuscript of his book six times and struggled to find literary agents and publishers. Eventually Least Heat Moon changed the title of the book to Blue Highways, and his luck began to change. Throughout several stops within the book, Least Heat Moon relates episodes in the history of his Native American ancestors' lives and experiences. He even changed his name from William Trogdon to his Native American title: William Least Heat Moon. The author explains, "My father calls himself Heat-Moon, my elder brother Little Heat-Moon.
Their son was to remain in Chicago to care for his business. He was not able to go with his family again because of some reasons, he to stay in Chicago for some few days. His wife and their four daughters left America on board the S S Ville du Harve and not far from the coast of England on Nov. 22, 1873 the ship was struck by an English sailing vessel. The ship was badly damaged, and all the passengers were asked to assemble on deck. His wife got her four children on deck and knelt with them to pray.
Both of her parents were hardworking, while growing up, Morrison also learned folktales and stories that taught her about her heritage (Bois 1996). From a young age, Morrison showed a great interest in literature with all type of authors, French, English and even Russian. In 1949, Toni Morrison attended Howard University, in Washington D.C. there she also changed her name from Chloe to “Toni”, and she explained that she found it was difficult for people to pronounce (Liukkonen 2008). In 1955 and 1957, Morrison was an instructor in Texas Southern University in Houston, where she taught English. In 1958, she married husband, Harold Morrison (Johnson Lewis 2010).
“My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.”(Alexie, 397) Parents want their children to succeed in life and they know without literacy the world would be a tough place. Self-motivation played a critical role in my literacy development. For myself, reading was
Parents are always telling children that books and reading are good for them, but have they ever really thought about why that's true? Exactly what do older children get out of reading novels? What do younger kids get from being read to? Does reading matter? I've to say that, yes, it's true, reading really is important, and that there are some solid reasons why that is so.
However Jim overheard her one night saying that she planned do to just that, which is what prompted him to run away early on (Twain at 43). This interaction shows just how little many people thought of blacks at the time, since even a promise to a black person was apparently worthless. It was also during this part of the book when Huckleberry, who previously ran away on the Mississippi River, met Jim again and promised not to expose him. However even Huck, a friend of the slave, was worried that locals would regard him as a “low-down abolitionist” for harboring the fugitive. The man and boy then decided to sail the river by night and hide during the day to avoid Jim’s capture.
Should teachers of Literacy be readers? How important is this for the pupils they teach? Perspectives on the Importance of Reading in Teachers' Classrooms and Lives. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” John Locke (1632 - 1704) During my research for this assignment, regarding whether teachers of Literacy should be readers, I stumbled upon an article within a copy of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Ann Powell- Brown solicited a straightforward but provocative question: “(2004, p284–288) The answer that was instantly retorted was ‘certainly not’, but after a moment, the magnitude of this question echoed within my mind and led me to stop and examine my own views and feelings regarding this, and furthermore, led to the professional questioning of how could teachers enable literacy if there wasn’t a love of reading?
She immersed herself in language, mathematics, sciences, literature, and other various subjects purely for the sake of knowing more. She thought of education as a privilege and taught me to eagerly seize any opportunity to learn. We would spend time reading together in her house crammed with massive piles of books and bibles as she opened my world to both fictional and non-fictional stories. And so she shared with me a love for reading. Most importantly, through my grandmother’s love of knowing and discovering, she showed me the importance of the mind and the power it gives to us.
Rosemary Afriye in her essay “My True Love Is Reading” describes her love and passion for reading. She adds on the importance of reading in her life. Jeff Haas in his essay “The Common Stone” describes the significance of an ordinary stone that is underestimated and acknowledges the value of a stone in our lives from the past to the present. Even though both the essays are different they are the one that teach us the importance of things that we do not give a second thought about and are to be valued by us. In the essay my true love is reading the author explains her love for reading and the benefits of it in one’s life.