According to C Write Mills, Sociological imagination is a “quality of mind” that helps one to hold the “history and biography and the relation between the two within society. That’s its task and it’s promise.” C Write Mills P-6. The article mac attack was written by Sally Breen. It was in the 90s pre modern time in Queensland.…
Author of nonfiction book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall”, Anne Fadiman relays the questions to her readers in her preface: “What makes a good parent?” and “What makes a good doctor?” As far as anyone is concerned for the latter question, specifically what makes outstanding health care, Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality would describe quality health care as simply “getting the right care to the right patient at the right time – every time” (). Furthermore, she dissects this simplistic description apart, providing a multilayered perspective. Essentially, the key to quality health care is its three basic dimensions: STRUCTURE, PROCESS, and OUTCOME” ().…
“Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, and he is also the main character of the book. Stevenson narrated the stories about law, justice, kindness, compassion, and love with his personal experience. Stevenson was born in a poor, racially segregated rural. He did not affected by the living environment, and he was positive and became a student at Harvard Law School. Stevenson was holding a determination to struggle for racial inequality and to be equitable and fair with one another.…
My book is Final Season by Tim Green. This book follows a child's final season of football. The story begins with the boy spending his summer playing with his brothers and best friend, "Tuna". However, when the school year starts, things take a turn for the worse. Ben's father's symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) become more severe, causing him to struggle with speaking and walking.…
Bryan Stevenson’s novel, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, focuses on the narrative of one of his first cases as a young lawyer. He shares the story of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to death for a murder that he did not commit. Stevenson’s primary objective with this novel is to draw attention to broken criminal justice system. The utilization of a primarily logos argument can only be justified if their is equality within the given system. However, when issues such as systemic inequities in punishment are being discussed, pathos is an important additional strategy.…
In an episode of the hit television show Grey’s Anatomy produced by Shonda Rhimes, an episode with the presence of labor unions is used to demonstrate the unfair working condition of nurses in the fictional hospital. Directed by David Paymer, the fourteenth episode of Grey’s Anatomy’s, “Break on Through”, gives insight on the treatment of nurses at Seattle Grace Hospital. These nurses were not only overwhelmed by the unfair hours and wages they received daily, but also the ways they were treated by their superiors. One scene depicted a doctor yelling at a nurse in anger because his patient had not yet been given her medication. The nurse, clearly stressed, responded, “We are understaffed and overworked.…
Today, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It can be assumed that the reason for suicide would be depression or a mental illness, although it will never be clearly understood when the victim takes the answers with him. However, the individuals who attempt suicide and survive say that dying is a better option then suffering through the pain of living. The novel, The Ordinary People, by Judith Guest is a story that explains the healing process of a teenage boy after a suicide attempt in result of a guilty conscience. The author utilizes the elements of theme, character relationships, and symbols to convey her message.…
As I read the novel Twisted, I wonder the decision making processes of Tyler and Bethany. Should they have been together in the first place. Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of Twisted. Her purpose of this novel was to show that you do not have to have a perfect life to pursue what u want. Mrs.Anderson, I am writing to you about your New York times bestseller novel Twisted.…
If you have ever had to go through a time when the struggle just never seemed to end, you know that it changed you as a person and helped you grow to be much more strong and mature. In the novel Chains, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, presents a historical fiction novel where a young girl named Isabel, overcomes many hardships in her life as a slave in the late 1700’s. She is sold away to the abusive Locktons, where she faces many challenges, including having her 5-year-old sister sold away and being branded on her cheek. Later on, Isabel proves that she is willing to do anything in order to gain freedom by siding with both of the countries and helping them, with the sole purpose of escaping her situation. Anderson demonstrates that through…
Barefoot, wet, and cold, author Zadie Smith, as recounted in her essay Man vs. Corpse, finds an old collection of Italian paintings bound in a weathered hardcover. Grappling with the ever-familiar urge to explore lives unfamiliar—via social media—on her phone, she forces herself to thumb through the contents. She asserts that her “mind does not easily accept stately historical processions. But Golden Yellows and eggshell blues [...] are the sorts of things [her] mind accepts.” (2) Flipping through the pictures she is enthralled by the colors and lines so brilliantly and thoughtfully finessed upon the page.…
Breaking the Rules With The Stranger: The Difference Between Perception and Reality The article, ”Stranger’ by Toni Morrison, narrates her encounter with a stranger. She explains the impact a stranger can leave behind, based on her own experience, how she experience welcome as she approached the stranger, and wished they could meet again. She felt “cheated, puzzled and also amused” (136) when the stranger never shows up as promised. Which kept her wondering that most of time the people we think are not what they turn out to be.…
For my book report project I read The House of the Scorpions written by Nancy Farmer. The amazing book is about a boy named Matteo Alacrán, Matt for short. He is a six year old boy who lives in a stuffy shack with a woman named Celia. Matt has rarely been outside, and the only real people he knows are Celia and a doctor that comes to visit him once every couple of months. Until three kids discover the hovel in the large flower field behind the Alacrán estate.…
The movie Dead man Walking had several themes throughout the entirety of its course. A common theme that was well distributed throughout was grief and loss. In a way, the entire movie was circled around grief and loss. When Mathew was about to get injected with his medication to die, he told the parents of the woman he killed that he hopes that his death gives them some relief.…
October 12th. The day that I,Heather Kubel, a freshman at Sierra Lutheran High School, would have embedded in my memory forever. The day that I will always be able to remember the exact details, despite the shudder that would come from recalling it. I had had a pretty basic life up to now. I had an older brother in college and two parents who had taken me to church every Sunday since I was a little girl; despite the fact that my father and the rest of my family were Jewish.…
Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts follows outlandish episodic tales and a character stuck in the middle of a nightmare. Many of the horrid stories the author describes reflect the negative consequences of British colonization in Nigeria. However, Tutuola describes the dream-like 10th Town of Ghosts, a flourishing city in which his character prospers. Tutuola juxtaposes the 10th Town of Ghosts amongst other frightening cities in the Bush of Ghosts to reflect an accommodating view of British colonization in Nigeria.…