And when the father didn’t want to get out of jail it made no sense because he could have gotten bailed out! Stuff like that just doesn’t make any sense to me! Finally the book was exciting. It was exciting because every chapter had an important detail. It was very important to listen good to all the parts because it was interesting.
Vladek needed his luck, his skills, as well as a combination of the two together to have been able to survive the holocaust as he did. This tells a lot about life and the fact that through horrific events people can’t normally get through things without others and luck, but relying completely on someone else or to catch a break isn’t enough either, it shows that there needs to be a balance in life. There were multiple points in Vladek’s story where his skills or mind didn’t help him succeed at all, where anyone in his situation could have been successful, he seemed to simply be in the right place at the right time. An example of this can be found on page 117. Vladek saw his cousin who sent another cousin, Haskel, a chief of the Jewish police who helped Vladek and his wife Anja escape.
Book Critique In my critique of Stephen V. Ash's A Year in the South: 1865 I will discuss his theme and his use of evidence to support his thesis. I will also identify Ash's purpose in writing this book. Additionally I will discuss his writing style. Ash's ultimate goal in writing this book is to educate the reader on the rapid and drastic changes to living in America immediately after the Civil War, specifically in the Confederate South. He does this by providing the stories of four individuals who lived in different places in the South under very different circumstances the year the Civil War ended.
“Shortcuts make for long delays.” Quoted by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit. Though always tempting, shortcuts in life prove to be destructive more often than not. They are one of the many evils present in the world. In Washington Irving’s short story, The Devil and Tom Walker, this lesson is well learned.
Lemurs in Madagascar Assignment SCI-275 DATE Lemurs in Madagascar What are Madagascar’s biomes? Discuss the major features of at least one of these biomes. Use the textbook for biomes examples. Madagascar has rain forest, dry forest, and grassland biomes. I am going to discuss some of the major features of the Tropical Rain Forest biomes.
(“Burns bog,”) The Burn Bog is the largest peat bog on the Western coast of North America, giving home to diverse flora with, “181 vascular plants, 76 moss specie, 25 hepatic species, and 67 lichen species (“Vitt, Hasley & Doubt. 1999) it has numerous zoning law that have been enacted since after the halting of Peat mining which is a rich substance located in burns bog, these laws were put in place to protect the bog and preserve it for future generations. The Burns bog covers about 40 square kilometers, which is about ¼ of Delta. The topics that I will be highlighting in my project are the following: * Why I’ve Chosen this Area of Study; * A Description of the Bog; * Role of the Burns
Many artists, authors, filmmakers, etc., have used Louisiana as the setting for their art. Two authors in particular display the magnitude of Louisiana’s tradition and culture in American society. Two novels that our class has read this semester stood out to me and led me to better appreciate my home state. Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer and Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying show Louisiana in a different light than many normally see the state. The novels take place in different parts of the state, all the
For me, I live within an internal and external world when I go surfing. I have utilised the characteristics from The Boat to structure my story. The Boat appealed to me due to the connection that the characters have to the sea especially the mother “who looks upon the sea”. My story is a personal reflective piece which uses first person narrative in order to describe the moments in the past which have connected in a poignant way to me. I have attempted to describe the physical landscape of the coast using metaphor and personification similar to the descriptive techniques used by Macleod.
Eventually people started moving to America in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Cosa del Pantano, or “Swamp Thing.” Over the 500 years since it was first told, the story of the Swamp Thing has been transformed many times into many different versions. Some people claim that the first Spanish explorer to see the beast was actually Swamp Thing himself, mutated by the stagnant swamp waters. Others believe it was all a hoax, told only to lure people into moving to a desolate waste area. Whatever the case, the urban legend of the
American culture and society seem to have a natural affinity for progressive thought, ideals, and systems, an affinity whose roots can be seen in our cultural attitudes of industry, expansion, and success. Perhaps it is due to this glorification of originality that the journeys of self-discovery seen in Thoreau’s Walden and Krakauer’s Into the Wild are so wildly popular (for the most part) with the American population. Walden is Thoreau’s account of the two years during which he retreated to nature to “live deliberately,” and the book acts as both a how-to guide and a carefully constructed detailing of Thoreau’s philosophical system (Thoreau 1854, 74). Into the Wild depicts Chris McCandless’s modern-day journey across America and into the