...Having a purpose in life is important, but finding purpose can be a difficult task for some. An individual can take a lifetime to figure out his purpose in life, and some may never figure it out. Some may have a clear idea of what their purpose is, but can be easily taken away when tragedy strikes. Shenandoah and Johnny Got His Gun both feature characters that face unruly situations that threaten the fulfillment of their purpose. Although neither Jacob nor Joe fulfills his final purpose, each has a distinct and clear idea of what his purpose is. Joe’s sense of purpose comes from his hatred of war. Involvement in war is not something Joe wanted, and then going to war destroys his life. War leaves him as a “stump of a body” with no purpose. Throughout this whole experience, Joe debates with himself...
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...the Women’s Rights Movement. These are one of many historic events that display the inequality and oppression of human rights throughout the world. In the novels Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee, the theme oppression reoccurs in various points of the book to support the messages of anti-war and anti-imperialism. Joe Bonham, the main character...
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...In Dalton Trumbo’s excerpt from his novel Johnny Got His Gun, Trumbo uses the selection of detail, and point of view to characterize the father and son’s relationship. This valued, thoughtful, and strong relationship is developed and revealed gradually throughout the excerpt. Trumbo introduces the backstory of the father-son trip by revealing the tradition of the trip. “They had been coming… was seven,” and “...for the first time in all their trips…” set a precedent of the tradition of the trip, and the quality bonding that occurs during this occasion. Trumbo choosing to include the importance of the father-son bond on the trip, and the quality time that is spent sets the tone that this is a valued relationship, one that while strong, holds...
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...victory to their country. An eighth of the soldiers died (Amid), but among all the soldiers, how many of them were against the idea of war? How many of them were lured into the inducible war because of propaganda or family related reasons? Joe, the main character from Johnny Got His Gun, and Charlie, the main character from Shenandoah, serve as prime examples for the soldiers who do not believe in war, but are wheedled into somebody else’s fight anyhow. Joe is persuaded into the war through government manipulation and propaganda. Joe becomes injured and loses...
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...change, treading on its heels. In his novel Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo illustrates a young man shouldering the guilt of telling his father that he would prefer to fish with a friend rather than with his father. Although the young man and his father clearly maintain a close relationship, as shown through the author’s continuous use of “they” in the initial paragraph and the son’s struggle with guilt in the last few paragraphs, the son is beginning to move on with his life and thus distance himself from his father, as shown through the limited perspective of the son in the later half of the excerpt and the carefully selected details surrounding the interactions between father and son. With the author’s continuous...
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...The passage from Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo shows a complicated but loving relationship between a father and his son. In the passage, the tradition of Joe and his father fishing together is broken. The father, however, reacts calmly. For eight years, they had gone camping together, preferring each other’s company over anyone else’s. And that year, Bill Harper and Joe were going fishing together. This coming of age tale shows a young man separating from his father and becoming independent, and an abandoned father showing acceptance instead of anger. Through syntax, point of view, and selection of detail, and symbolism, Trumbo creates a complicated and vivid relationship between a father and son. The use of diction and syntax in the...
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...Dalton Trumbo’s novel, Johnny Got His Gun, the author tells a story of a young man and his father’s tradition of going fishing. Through the third person point of view and lack of dialogue, the story shows the detached relationship the father and son have. The third person point of view of the passage interprets the true feelings of the son and the father’s relationship upon the breaking of the tradition. The third person point of view makes it clear to show that the father is actually upset that the son had broken a tradition of nine years, while the son didn’t think twice about it. The passage begins with the mixed feelings of the son. The son sat in front of the fire and looked across at his father and wondered how he was going to tell him that he wanted to fish with Bill Harper this camping trip, rather than going with his father,...
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...pathologist examines the stage of decomposition of the body and determines by evaluating the rigor mortis (p.21) that the victim has been dead for 5 hours. They also find out that the victim was shot in the head and discover a surgical tubing around the wrist of the victim. After a blood sample is taken, two dashes around the neck are noticed. Later in this episode we see two physical criminalists doing a spiral search of the crime scene with flash lights. A latent fingerprint(p.) is retrieved. During the body analysis, the pathologist in charge of the case finds a tick ( blood sucking insect found only in the woods) in one of the victim’s wounds. He reveals that the cuts on the neck were made by a surgical scalpel and that the tick was bloodless meaning, that it entered the wound prior to death. The ballistics unit (p.) identified the bullet as a 45 caliber weapon bullet which might have been mounted with a silencer. Also found at the crime scene was a doll with a name on it, “Johnny”, as well as a piece of mosel bamboo. The pathologist, released a new piece of information stating that the cuts on the neck were not the cause of death, but were just inflicted to torture the victim. After a PC and internet search was done, the last conversation of the victim was found and was used to track down a possible suspect. The tick found...
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...It went downhill from there Roderic Smith got pulled over by an Arlington police officer for in Arlington for suspicion of driving without insurance. However, Smith had a handgun and several ounces of marijuana in his car. Police spokeswoman Karen Standback said that “he faces charges for both offenses”. Later that day, Police Chief Will Johnston tweeted “This person is not having a good start to his birthday today”. They accidentally pushed the SUV’s emergency call button. Police came. Busted. Andrew Johnson and Sarah Harrison, both face charges of possession of a controlled substance. However, Andrew Johnson also faces a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. The pair got busted by the police when they accidentally pressed the SUV’s emergency button. Police officers were sent to their location to determine the reason for the call, however, the officers found the pair intoxicated and with large amounts of marijuana in their car. Grand Prairie Police stop drug peddling with new bike...
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...Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="" /></a> With the exception of Ponyboy, the viewer misses out on knowing most of the novel's characters. Darry and Soda are relatively minor characters in the movie, and the viewer is given little insight into their lives. The same is true for the rest of the gang, even Dally. Dally's death loses much of its impact because viewers aren't able to get to know him. Only the reader is aware of the fact that Dally's gun is unloaded, and the symbolic death of Dally in the spotlight is gone. Johnny's character is also...
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...reserved For Anthony Cleri THE GODFATHER BOOK I Behind every great fortune there is a crime. --BALZAC Chapter 1 Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her. The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as if to physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand. “You acted like the worst kind of degenerates,” the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbed clean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission. The judge went on. “You acted like wild beasts in a jungle and you are fortunate you did not sexually molest that poor girl or I’d put you behind bars for twenty years.” The judge paused, his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallow-faced Amerigo Bonasera, then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged as if convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again. “But because of your youth, your clean records, because of your fine families, and because the law in its majesty does not seek vengeance, I hereby sentence you to three years’ confinement to the penitentiary. Sentence...
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...Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings Writers use irony to fuel the plot of a story. Synopsis Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him for ransom. The boy they choose, instead of being the docile, frightened child one would expect, is a terror who abuses Bill in every way he can think of, all in the name of fun. The response to their ransom note is not what they would have wished: instead of paying $1500 to get Johnny back, the father demands $250 to take the boy off their hands. In desperation, they agree, and end the story poorer than they began. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching 1. Students read the entire selection independently. 2. Teacher reads the text aloud while students follow along or students take turns reading aloud to each other. Depending on the text length and student need, the teacher may choose to read the full text or a passage aloud. For a particularly complex text, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2. 3. Students...
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...CIVIL WAR JOURNALS “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, And is not either to save or destroy slavery” -Abraham Lincoln (1862) THE BACKGROUND CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR (C.W. JOURNAL #1). The Civil War wasn’t only about the fight of freedom for the black people, but also the economics, and the states against the federal rights, lead them to the call of battle. To me, they were important factors that people had their own desire of having the life they wanted. The Economic and social differences between the North and the South became more notable each day. The North needed the South, and the South needed the North. The southern economy was depending on cotton in which they needed the salves to work on. The North had the industries that purchased the raw cotton and turned them into finished goods. This created a major difference in economic attitude, and the North meant the change of society, evolved with different cultures and classes. Other fact that lead them to war was the disagreement the states had against the government. The government felt that the states should still have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts. This resulted in the idea of nullification. When nullification would not work, the states felt that they were no longer respected and moved towards secession. ELECTION OF 1860 (C.W. JOURNAL #2). The Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern due the slavery issues. In the Northern democratic...
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...FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Revised and Expanded Edition Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION xi 1 INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts . . . Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life . . . What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? 15 In which we explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side—cheating. Contents Who cheats? Just about everyone . . . How cheaters cheat, and how to catch them . . . Stories from an Israeli day-care center . . . The sudden disappearance of seven million American children . . . Cheating schoolteachers in Chicago . . . Why cheating to lose is worse than cheating to win . . . Could sumo wrestling, the national sport of Japan, be corrupt? . . . What the Bagel Man saw: mankind may be more honest than we think. 2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents? 49 In which it is argued that nothing is more powerful than information,...
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...The wind had a hissing strength; it pounced on pedestrians and shook their overcoats and flapped their hat brims. Soldiers on the streets, and sailors in their winter-issue peajackets, blew steam on their fingers. The man with the red hat and the blue armband with the yellow cross was not used to the cold, or to the bite that winter has in New York, close to the sea. He cursed the weather fluently, with the slightly accented voice of a man who can speak several languages. His red hat and blue-yellow-cross armband, incidentally, was his own idea of a disguise. Dress in a bizarre outfit, he believed, and people wouldn't be able to recognize you when you dressed in ordinary clothes. He crossed Fifth Avenue and went into a restaurant, one of those white-enamel-and-chrome quick-eat places. “Mug one and save the cow,” he told the waiter. He grinned a little when he said that, for he liked to show his acquaintance with the local vernacular, in any part of the world where he happened to be. Soon after he got his coffee black another man came in. This fellow looked very much a gentleman. He could have been a clerk in one of the...
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