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Untage writes about how she was never a very social person and can relate the movie back to herself that way. I wrote about how John Mayer’s song “Stop This Train” is about how life is moving too fast, and how life can move by very quickly for a first year college student. We have a similar way that we can relate back to our lives but with completely different topics, and that is the same for every person we all have different back grounds but can all relate to
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The poem “We’re not trucking around” (2003) by Samuel Wagan Watson presents the important idea about the marginalization of Aboriginal culture and the idea that Aboriginals do not try to mimic the ‘Invaders’. These ideas represent an aboriginal perspective on Australian national identity which explores the marginalization of aboriginal culture and the mistreatment of Aboriginals in Australia. Watson reinforces his arguments with poetic techniques including the creation of an atmosphere, use of dialect and empathy. The composer uses roads and, in particular, trucks as examples of his ideas.
During the summer of 1984, Calvin Johnson trudges knee deep through a swamp in the wetlands of South Georgia. As snakes brush past his legs, he marches in line with nine other men, each dressed in an orange jumpsuit, swinging a razor sharp bush axe in collective rhythm. His crew entered the swamp at dawn and they will not leave until dusk. Guards, armed with shotguns, and equally violent tempers, ignore the fact that the temperature has risen well above 100 degrees and push the men even harder. Suddenly, an orange blur falls to the ground and a prisoner from Wayne Correctional Institution lies face down in the swampy floor. As guards bark orders at the unconscious, dying man, Johnson realizes "the truth of the situation, and the force of injustice just incapacitates" him. It is then he decides he does not belong in the swamp.
A long, long time ago, God decided to punish the wicked people, but before he did that, he instructed Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal he can find along with his family. Animals and humans. The book I would like to use throughout this essay is “ Crossing ,” by Gary Paulsen. This book took place in Juarez, Mexico, where a bridge could mean so much. Each character in this book was being compared to an animal, to make us more understand about each of them. Each of them are also different. From the shape of their eyes, the way they react to something, and those are what made each of them different and special. Paulson compares animals and humans by their simliar characteristics and their behaviors.
I think a common theme between the two would be people have prejudices and an unwillingness to think beyond a label. In “Working at Wendy’s” Joey faces people’s judgments on him just because of his uniform and job. He is a good person and is just in-between jobs but had to get something in the meantime. Yet people consider him to be a failure at life befitting for ridicule. Joey faced people’s judgments every day for no reason other than superficial things that say nothing about the person inside the Wendy’s uniform he was wearing. They see the uniform and all they see is the label “Wendy’s Employee” or “Fast Food Servant”. So in a similar way, I face people’s judgments and assumptions when I tell them I was “homeschooled”. When they hear the word “homeschooled”, they picture me yanked out of school by an overbearing mother who would lecture me all day or that I was prohibited from social contact beyond my home. They instantly question why would I ever put up with homeschool, how could I have lived with myself in such a horrible childhood. When in reality I had a great childhood. Homeschool was my idea and it gave me free time, time to do more socializing, learning and development than any other person my age that were instead stuck in classrooms for 6 hours a day. These things though are trends and responses I didn’t understand at first, why people think certain things until later on. Same with Joey, it takes time to process why people say judgmental things, to not be hurt but to understand and reason on why they think this or that. Hindsight provides an ability to make connections using further understanding that comes with time. We are told to “never judge a book by its cover” but that’s exactly what a majority of people do very quickly. Insight though can bring assurance and understanding where judgments are trying claw down confidence in decisions. Whether it be out choice to work a “low-end job” to
Straying away from life as a whole only to be alone, some may say is the strong way to heal themselves when dealing with extreme grief or a major crisis . In the book Wild, twenty-two year old Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost it all. Dealing with the loss of her mother, her family torn to pieces, and her very own marriage was being destroyed right before her very eyes. Living life with nothing more to lose, lifeless, she made the most life changing decision of her life. Strayed never seems remorseful on her decisions to up and leave everything behind while deciding to flee from it all. This being her way of dealing with life, it shows her as being strong; a woman of great strength and character. She shows personal strength, which is more than just a physical word. It is a word of very high value and can only be defined by searching deep within your very own soul.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
In "Train", Joy Williams uses the idea of the "epiphany" to make the reader feel a sudden sense of understanding the underlying tones that are presented within the text. This event happens in the last few paragraphs of the story, after Danica asks Mr. Muirhead if Jane and here will be friends forever: "Mr Muirhead looked surprised. "Definitely not. Jane will not have friends. Jane will have husbands, enemies, and lawyers...I'm glad you enjoyed your summer, Dan, and I hope you are enjoying your childhood." With this line, Williams is giving us a dose of reality in that every one must growup apart from their childhood friends and start living an adult life, which can be drab and monotonous compared to the life of a young child, exploring the
In this work, Jared Diamond explained how civilizations or societies amongst the world developed faster than others during the same period of time. His main focus was the Europeans; they were the dominant society and were known for their advanced technology.
The first connection was with myself sometimes I feel like Marie-Laure when she is scared and curious “We must be half something.” (Doerr 64) “What if he does not want us to stay there?” (Doerr 89). She worries a lot and is looking for answers to what is going on, I experience this frequently, I wonder and ask the big questions, “why am I here?” and “why is this happening?” Having the same questions as Marie-Laure really helps me to connect and relate to the character. The second connection I made was with the world currently. I know we do not live under the same conditions that the characters in the book lived under, but the world is still a dark place. Most people are out to get you just like the Nazi soldiers were out to take your life, but nowadays they don't want your life they want your freedom, they want your hate and they want you to be scared. The world does not want you to succeed and it is still a dark place. The writer really writes in a very relatable way in which it is easy to connect
The only winners of war are the people who survive it. War brings many hardships and challenges even to ordinary people who are not involved in the war. The war can bring divided families, the people who are related to each other and known the others better than anybody else to fight and argue, eventually dividing the family apart. War also brings clash of generation, a fight between the young and the old just to make a point. Principle and the reality of the war also plays a huge part in the war, the idea between dreams and the truth of the war. War is futile, as it only brings death and misery to the people.
Step after step after step. After step. The heat is barren and the weight of this backpack is too much for these shoulders. Giving up is the only thing on this hiker’s mind. However, change is at the end of the journey, and a chance to start over and become someone new. While hiking, Cheryl Strayed said that, “It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.” Hair, clothes, personality, and people all change. Without it identity would be impossible to discover and talent would never be found. There have been many inspirational figures that have shown their hard journeys to become what they are. The most interesting one is about Cheryl Strayed. “Her mother’s death from cancer devastated Strayed, and
One example of this would be in the beginning with the bird in the cage. The bird resembled Edna and how she felt trapped by traditions in this world. Finally, when Edna decides to kill herself,
Imagine endless parties, a girlfriend, a taste of stardom, and what seems like an endless rock and roll dream, and then you lose it all. This is exactly what happens in Tom Petty’s song “Into the Great Wide Open” when Eddie moves to Hollywood, California to try and make it big in the music industry. Tom Petty’s narrative poem “Into the Great Wide Open” has a shifting tone and tells the story of a realistic life of a rockstar.
The protagonist of the film is Josie Geller, a career driven woman who has never had her first kiss. Her current job as a copy editor at the newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times does not satisfy her as she aspires to to be a journalist. Unexpectedly, she is given an undercover job at a high school to help parents be more aware of what their children do at school. Josie's first day on the job immediately reflects what she was like in her first experience at high school - a nerd and socially awkward. During the film there is a subplot about her brother, Rob, who is the polar opposite of Josie, popular and everything she wanted to be in high school. His dream was to become a professional baseball player but when that failed he gave up and took a job at the tiki post. Therefore, this film meets audience expectations as these are typical characters of a romantic comedy.
This relates to me in college right now by showing me that I face hard choices every day. For example in her Ted Talk she showed that breakfast could be a hard decision because while each on fills out what you want out of breakfast in different ways you have to go with what you want. This shows me that I make small choices in college that can be preparing me for bigger choices that I am going to make. This also relates to me right now because I am at the end of my college career so I am about to start making big choices that will affect my future life.