Anthony Ho Growitz Point Blank Essay

My reflections on the orginization of the novel ended with me loving how the book came together. Alex started off as a normal teenager that does normal teenage activities , but then in a blink of a eye his

A message powerful enough to supplant and supersede terrorist ideologies may be the answer for the United States and its foreign allies to defeat ISIS, authored by El Roberts, a writer.

The story kept me involved from the beginning to the end. One reason it kept me

Peter Edelman wrote his most recent novel, So Rich, So Poor in 2012 and it was published in the same year by The New Press. Edelman is a lawyer and policy maker whom specializes in the fields of welfare, poverty, juvenile justice and constitutional law. He received both his bachelors and law degree from Harvard College. After graduation, Edelman served as a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals and then as a law clerk for Justice Arthur J. Goldberg on the United States Supreme Court. He then worked for Robert Kennedy, and then the Clinton Administration, where he resigned to protest Clinton’s signing of the welfare reform legislation.

In his book “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free,” Hector Tobar recounts the story of 33 miners who spent 69 days trapped more than 2000 feet underground in the Chile’s San Jose mines following the collapse of the mine in 2010. According to Tobar (2015), the disaster began on a day shift around noon when miners working deep inside the mountain excavating minerals started feeling vibrations. A sudden massive explosion then followed and the passageways of the mines filled with dust clouds. Upon settling of the dust, the men discovered that the source of the explosion was a single stone that had broken off from the rest of the mountain and caused a chain reaction leading to

Anusha Kedhar’s article, “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!”: Gesture, Choreography, and Protest in Ferguson, explores the power of gesture and embodied symbols in protest. Exploring the hands-up-don’t-shoot gesture and slogan used in Ferguson, she considers the possibility for embodying a sign of surrender as the ultimate defense of freedom.

Truman Capote remains a literary great. His works have been adapted into screenplays and mostly have received critical acclaim. The film ‘Capote’ was aimed to be biographical in nature and focused mainly on the years Truman Capote spent writing the novel ‘In Cold Blood’. The film ‘Capote’ was by directed Bennett Miller after being adapted from a book of the same title, written by Gerald Clarke. It was set in Kansas and starred Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote and chronicled a six year period in the life of author Truman Capote whilst he wrote a book entitled ‘In Cold Blood’. The novel ‘In Cold Blood’ apparently gave rise to a new style of writing-as the book offered much from the murders’ perspective and introduced a new style of criminal novels.

In Being Mortal, Atul Gawande brings to revelation something we as humans know that will happen but in reality never really want to face: we are mortal and death will not escape us. Throughout the book, Gawande navigates the reader through a series of obstacles and choices faced to make when the ill and old have hit the stage of life when death is near. The New York Times reviewer Sheri Fink writes, “Being Mortal is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on aging, death and dying.” This book definitely helps readers come to terms with the reality of dying. Gawande finds balance between understanding what the elderly go through in the ending stages of their lives and having them face the reality of death, as well as how to spend the last days of life with dignity and on one’s own terms.

Nostalgia. Living in the past. People can feel these emotions when they are grieving someone, an event, or when they want to relive a moment that has been left behind in the past. Unfortunately, memories are short-lived and therefore it is against our nature to try and prevent them from slipping away. No one can go back in time and change what has taken place nor can anyone skip ahead to the future to prevent an outcome. However, reliving the past can not only make someone expressive and emotional but also over-analytical. Although portrayed as an emotionally sensitive mess, Thomas Schell Sr. in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer is actually just over analytical of his past experiences.

Kennedy, P. (2013). Engineers Of Victory: the Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide In The

Josh Kaufman stated during his speech in the Ted Talk, The First 20 Hours-- How to Learn Anything, “If you put 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice into that thing, you will be astounded”(Kaufman, 00:09:06). Kaufman talked about how someone might be able to learn a certain topic. He brought up 4 steps in being able to learn anything you might be interested in. The steps are to deconstruct the skill, learn enough to self-correct, remove practice barriers, and practice at least 20 hours. People using these steps Kaufman presented in the video, including myself, will be able to learn something that they only dreamed of learning.

“Eyes Wide Open” by Richard Powers discusses ways of education in the past one thousand years and strives to find the necessary things needed to improve it in the next thousand years. Three assertions he closed the piece with are “asking not how things ought to be but how things are,” “finding out not what we should do with the world, but what we can make the world do,” and “the next thousand years must make up the difference, returning subtlety and richness and morals and lightness of spirit to the long human experiment, if any part of it is to survive.” Plato, Pierce, Whitehead, Bloom and many others have commented on this idea of how knowledge and education were and/or how it should continue to be. In my opinion, the idea of science behind everything is necessary and most likely enough to lead us toward the best form of education for the next millennium.

End of the Spear was written by Steve Saint. It is an autobiography on his life in the jungle after his father passed away there. He was welcomed by the tribe unlike his father and was made part of a family in the tribe. He finds out many things he did not know about the tribe and the death of his father. Through all of it he stood firm in his faith in Christ. I have learned many different lessons that have helped me get closer to God.

and why the different generations lead, you will be in a position to change how

Larry Shue’s “The Foreigner” displays a major theme of self-awareness or search of self; throughout the play there are several examples where it is especially evident that Charlie Baker, Catherine Simms and Ellard Simms are all attempting to find who they really are.