...Author: John Green Publisher :Dutton Juvenile Adaptations: The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Characters: Augustus Waters, Hazel Grace Lancaster, more Genres: Young-adult fiction, Romance novel Awards: Goodreads Choice Awards Best Young Adult Fiction 1)The-Fault-in-Our-StarsCancer is such a dreadful disease, indiscriminate in its choice of victim, choosing with aplomb regardless of age, gender, or status. There are a myriad of stories behind the tragedy and many of them remain untold. In The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, he builds a story out of darkness and despair. He takes the tragedy of cancer and immerses us in the lives of characters that could very well be real. Many know of the heartaches in dealing with those who fight the fight, and many of those scars last a lifetime. He brings his story in the form of a teen girl, Hazel Lancaster. Stricken with cancer from a young age, she believes she has come to terms with what her life has become. Then she meets a young man, Augustus Waters, a survivor of cancer. He is drawn to her in a way that is initially uncomfortable, and as she tries to push him away in her sarcastic vein, he finds her to be exactly the type of girl he has been looking for. Throughout the story there is a beauty and humor, a 'candle in the wind' for each of those whose lives have been touched by such an uncaring disease. For cancer touches not just the victim but all those who love and are in anyway touched by them. Be prepared for a story of romance...
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...a young boy named John. John is the son of a priest, and now he must go on a journey to become a real man. On Johns journey his spirit leads him to the forbidden land, which is called the “God place”, the god place is an abandoned city, and here John finds out that the god place, aren’t where the god lived, but it was ordinary men, destroyed themselves, with war and nuclear weapons. The story takes place in a savaged land “Everywhere there are the ruins of the towers of the gods” (19. 38-39), there are the hill people, where john lives and then there are the forest people. The two different people can be compared to two different rival tribes. You don’t really know how long the story stretches across but I guess it is about a week, otherwise john wouldn’t have time to get to the god place and back. John is very curious; he is an explorer and wants to know more and more “my knowledge and my lack of knowledge burned in me – I wished to know more” (17. 7-8) At the start John is just a young boy, but on his journey he grows up and becomes a real man and sees the world for what it really is “I am a priest” (22. 56) This is what John says after he saw what happened to the gods, it shows that John accepts and realize that he has grown for boy to man. “That is all of my story… they were men” (23. 15-18) This shows again that John is a man, he sees the world for what it really is, as he realize there never was gods. John has a very good relationship with his father, to John his dad...
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...helped at a unique food pantry on the Southside of Milwaukee for sophomore service, a man named John expressed his appreciation for movies to me. The food pantry happens to be unique because it stands right in the middle of a major gang area. The gangs know that this food pantry is a sacred place and helps the community. Because the food pantry remains a sacred place the gang members do not participate in any gang activity near the pantry. However, when the gang members walk a few blocks away the gangs go back to selling drugs, stealing, shooting, etc. A man named John approached me after everything was cleaned up with the food pantry and he started to talk endlessly about his favorite movies and why he loved them. He explained that he can’t afford to buy many movies. When he finds a movie at the thrift store that he hasn’t seen before he becomes ecstatic. He quickly bumbles through his wallet looking for enough to purchase the movie. When he buys a new movie, he explained that he and his two boys watch the movie several nights in a row. The first night John brings home a new movie the kids would walk down to the convenience store and use the little money they could find to buy a few snacks. While the kids get the snacks, the dad moves the extra chairs into the family room....
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...1. THE COMPLETE QUESTION AS PRESENTED BELOW 2. YOUR NAME 3. YOUR STUDENT NUMBER 4. THE COURSE NAME (PHIL 1F90) 5. THE NAME OF YOUR TA 6. YOUR TURNITIN receipt number NB. Failure to include this information will result in 2% deduction per item and a zero for any paper submitted without the turnitin.com receipt. Question ONE: Write a dialogue between Silenus, the satyr; Hench; and Michael Gorr, in which each explains his respective position vis-à-vis determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism. Remember that at the beginning of the story, Hench completely agrees with Silenus’ position even though Hench was himself a libertarian. But at the end of the story? Which of three positions: determinism, libertarianism, or compatibilism are you most inclined to accept? Why? Question TWO: Write a dialogue between Harry Vladek, Dr. Nicholson, and John Perry. Supposing that the boy whose brain Tommy could receive is named Sam, who is Harry Vladek most likely to bring home from the hospital, Tommy or Sam? What does Perry think about the outcome? How certain is he? Is there any reason to believe the operation may actually result in a double death (both Tommy's and Sam's) even though the brain of Sam and the body of Tommy live on? PHIL 1F90: Winter term essay 2013. ric brown Value: 20% Due Date: Friday, February 15th, 2013, NOON. Where: Philosophy drop box at 573 Glenridge. Late Penalty: 2% per day. No comments, written or verbal, on late...
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...“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck – Critical Analysis John Steinbeck an American writer was born in the year 1902 and died in the year 1968.During his time, Steinbeck was one of the most accomplished writers and his literary works received massive popularity. Most of his novels and short stories were performed as plays on stage and that is one reason why he was among the best sellers during his era. One of his great accomplishments for his involvement in literature was the Literature Nobel Prize he won in 1962. Steinbeck wrote a total of twenty seven books and some of his most common books include; “The grapes of Wrath” written in 1939, the 1952 “East of Eden, The 1937 short novel “Mice and men” (John, pg 23). John Steinbeck spent much of his early life in a rural part of America and worked on various ranches with migrants ‘on spreckler ranch and other nearby ranches during his summers. He attended Salinas high school and later joined Stanford University, although he never graduated. He did various odd jobs before beginning his career as a writer. Steinbeck wrote his first novel Cup of Gold which was published in 1929.Other books he wrote were; the pastures of heaven (1932), The Red Pony (1933), Tortilla Flat (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and many others. During his career, Stein beck was involved in various issues and correspondence. Most of his literary works revolved around his life as well as the issues that affected people then (John, pg 56). One of the issues he wrote...
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...the motivation for the manipulation, the effect on the character being manipulated, and the overall outcome for the story in which the manipulation takes place. To follow is a discussion of three stories in which controlling action by one or more characters has a significant impact on the objects of those actions and on the overall story being told. Grace Paley’s “Samuel” describes events surrounding four youths behaving recklessly between cars of an urban train. Several passengers on the train see this behavior as needlessly dangerous, and two take it upon themselves to try and exert control over the situation and stop the boys’ antics. A concerned woman threatens to call the authorities if the boys don’t get inside the train, and an angry man pulls the emergency brakes to put a stop to their hijinks. Ultimately, the decision to pull the brake provides the danger that makes reckless behavior fatal, and one of the boys, Samuel, falls to his death. In this case, the impulse to thrust control over a situation is precisely what turns danger to disaster. The motivations of the man and the woman who intervene appear to be different. Paley frames the woman’s motivation for acting as being out of concern by saying she “saw the boys jerk forward and backward” and that “She had her own boy at home.” (11) This leads to the conclusion that she is trying to keep the boys off the platform for their own good. The man’s motivation is a little less obvious. Paley describes him as someone “whose...
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...Dandelion Wine: Summary & Analysis Dandelion wine was a story about a twelve-year old boy named, Douglas Spaulding. Douglas was just a typical twelve year old boy, who lived to play, run around and do what any other twelve year old would do. Not a very physically fit person, but it didn’t really seem to matter. He was a person who got what he wanted, not by whining for it, but by keeping his mind on whatever he wanted and setting out a goal for it. He was a happy boy and not many problems, till now, and he had a younger brother named Tom. Tom Spaulding, age ten, did what other little brothers like to do, tag along with his older brother. He was never in the way of his older brother; in fact they liked being together. Tom took every day slowly, writing most everything down, the first day of summer, the first this, his first that. Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity...
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...John Joseph Gotti, whom would be later nicknamed “Teflon Don” and “Dapper Don,” was born on October 27, 1940 in the Bronx, New York. Who would have thought on that cold and blustery day that the baby boy, son of a construction worker and one of six boys, would someday be considered by both the Mafia and prosecutors alike, to be the most important “godfather” in American crime through the 1990s? The “boss of bosses” so to speak. John Gotti’s parents were both poor Italian immigrants, whose only income was from his father’s laborious and unpredictable position as a construction worker. They had 13 children, of which John was the fifth. The whole family moved often and finally settled in East New York. At that time (late 40s) East New York was known for its youth gang activity. The area supported thriving Mafia activities and was a breeding ground for Mob hit squads. It was also the former stomping grounds of gangster’s such as Bugsy Siegell. At about age 12, Gotti became an errand boy for a sketchy neighborhood club ran by Carmina Fatico, who was a captain in the Gambino family. The Gambino family was the biggest of the five Mafia families in New York City. During Gotti’s activities running errands for the club, he met his life-long mentor, Aniello Dellacroce. At this same time he joined a gang called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys. This youth gang was infamous for their carjacking’s and robberies. Once, when Gotti, age 14, was trying to steal a cement mixer for the gang, his toes...
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...Reunion By John Cheever Analytical essay The short story “Reunion” is written by the American novelist and short story writer John Cheever. The short story was published back in 1962, which later was included in “ The stories of John Cheever” in 1978. The short story is about a teenage boy named Charlie. Charlie is about to meet his father for the first time in a couple of years, and he is very excited and happy about the meeting. Charlie has not seen his father since the end of his parents’ relationship. They are going to meet at Grand Central Station in New York. The father and the son go to several restaurants, but the son Charlie ends up leaving him because of his disrespectful way of acting. The place of the story is in New York. It starts at the Grand Central Station, where they meet for the first time after three years. After that, the story moves on to all the different restaurants and bars. The story ends where it started, at the Grand Central Station, where the father and the son say goodbye to each other. The point of view in the story is written in the first person. The narrator tells us about an important moment in his life which happened in the past. The narrator Charlie is a young teenage boy. We do not get to know his exact age, but I think that he probably is about 18 years old. The reason why I think that is because we get to know that he is taking the train alone in New York and also that the waiter does not want to serve him an alcoholic...
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...Essay ENG 102 Online “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver versus “A + P” by John Updike In the short stories “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver and “A + P” by John Updike the protagonists experience an epiphany that change their restricted way of thinking. The main character, “Sammy” in John Updike’s, “A + P” is a teenage boy working in the town grocery store. Sammy experiences an epiphany when he decides to quit his job at the grocery store. He quit because he believed that it was wrong of his boss to treat customers poorly due to any pre-conceived notion that was determined by what the customer looks like. Raymond Carver’s main character named “the husband” in his story “Cathedral” experiences an epiphany when he realizes he has wrongly stereotyped, a visiting friend of his wife’s named “Robert” because he blind. The theme of both of the stories, “Cathedral” and “A+P” is that the main characters are influenced and motivated by other individuals within the story to change their close-minded thinking. In “Cathedral” the character Robert, served as the husband’s motivation for change when he comes to stay with the husband and his wife. The three teenage girls in “A + P”, serve as the motivation to change Sammy’s way of thinking when they enter the grocery store dressed risqué to the grocery store’s standards. Raymond Carver portrayed the husband in “Cathedral” as a cynical person from the beginning of the story. The husband’s wife enjoyed sharing her feelings and thoughts through writing...
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... A Book Report Submitted to: John Herbert R. Gulinao Instructor I, College of Education In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Course in ENG. 323: DEVELOPMENTAL READING 2 By: Khimberley Ann A. Napay Student 2nd Semester- A.Y. 2013-2014 TABLE OG CONTENTS Page I. Title Page…………………………………………………………………….3 II. Title and Author of the Book………………………………………………4 III. Type of Book……………………………………………………………….5 IV. Main Characters…………………………………………………………..6 V. Book’s setting………………………………………………………………7 VI. Summary of the Plot………………………………………………………8 VII. Theme of the Book……………………………………………………….9 VIII. Liked or Disliked of the book……………………………………………10 Title Page The Chocolate Touch By Patrick Skene Catling 128 Pages Type of Book The book is a fantasy and fiction book. It's about a boy that name John Midas, he really likes to eat chocolate. Main Characters John Midas is a young boy who has loves to eat chocolates. Due to his greediness whatever he eat or drink will turn into chocolate. The Storekeeper is an old man who grants John his wish and teaches the young boy a lesson that would change him. Mrs Midas is the mother of John Midas. She has a loving face and comforting...
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...ESSAY – VERNISSAGE In the short story “Vernissage”, written by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, we meet a young boy named Alex. Alex is facing the dilemma whether he wants to stay in childhood or move on and enter adult¬hood. Alex’s parents, John and Frances, are having trouble figuring out their marriage. These troubles affect their son, and make him decide, that he wants to grow up and become an adult. The coming of age is the dominating theme through the story. Alex is a young boy, which exact age we do not know, but trough the story he seems like a boy who is being at the crossroads between childhood and adulthood. In the opening of the story, we can trough comparison with his mother se that Alex is clearly on a different level. On page 1 Alex is being a child by thinking of the fact that he did not get the subject beetles, which he wanted but instead he got earthworms, as a problem. Frances does not manage to understand his problem, which illustrate the differences between them and their experiences in life. Alex is using his imagination very much, which makes him childish as well. Alex likes to think of the dad’s vernissage as a person, he stretches out the word and transforms it to a persons name: Vernie Sadge. In this quotation Alex describes what “Vernie Sadge” would look like and how he would be: It is obvious that Alex does not like “Vernie Sagde”. Alex knows that the vernissage is to blame for the troubles between his parents. Later on (page 2), Alex is eating...
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...The Plot: Dekada 70 is a story of a family caught in the midst of a tumultuous time in Philippine history – the martial law years. Amanda (Vilma Santos) and Julian (Christopher Deleon) is a picture of a middle class couple with conservative ideologies, who must deal with raising their children, five boys – Jules (Piolo Pascual), Isagani (Carlos Agassi), Emmanuel (Marvin Agustin), Jason (Danilo Barrios) and Bingo (John Sace) in an era marked by passion, fear, unrest and social chaos. As siblings struggle to accept the differences of their ideologies, as a father faces the painful dissent of his children, a mother’s love will prove to be the most resonant in the unfolding of this family’s tale, will awaken to the needs of her own self, as she embarks on a journey of discovery to realize who she is as a wife, amother, a woman and a Filipino. – Star Cinema Dekada ’70 (English: 70s Decade) is a 2002 Filipino drama film released based on a book called Dekada ’70 written by Filipino author, Lualhati Bautista. The film tells the story of the life of a middle-class Filipino family who, over the space of a decade, become aware of the political policies that have ultimately led to repression and a state of Martial law in the Philippines. Filipina actress Vilma Santos stars as Amanda, who realizes the implications of living within a dictatorship after sorting out the contradictory reactions of her husband and five sons. Her husband (Julian), played by Filipino actor, Christopher de Leon...
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...person that had to experience a major change during his/her life that concluded in short or long term effects on the individual. For example, death of a person that was close to his/her heart, moving to a different city and/or state, and coping with the changes that one may experience during middle to high school. Previously listed are events that may occur during one’s life, which could develop into an Initiation/Rite of passage story. In the two given short stories, “Reunion” by John Cheever and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Oates, the genre Initiation/Rite of passage is expressed. In Cheever’s story a boy and fathers had been separated for a given amount of time, while in Oates’s story a teenaged girl experienced changes regarding emotions. As both stories experienced different examples of the genre, I feel as if they both offer good and bad examples throughout the stories. Summary Beginning the story, “Reunion”, the boy had taken a train from his grandmother’s home to a cottage that his mother had rented. While traveling, the boy, Charlie, had encountered a layover time in New York where his father worked. He had not seen his father during the past three years of his life because he had moved when they encountered the divorce. Therefore, Charlie had asked to meet his father for lunch during his layover time so that he could see him again. As they had gone from place to place to try to find a restaurant to eat because the father had possessed the habit...
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...The story sets off in England, where a young boy, Jim Hawkins and his mother own an inn. One day a man named Billy Bones storms into the inn demanding a room, later on Jim's dad dies and Billy Bones has a stroke and dies as well. Some of Billy Bones belongings are found by Jim, pirates that were looking for Billy Bones storm into the inn and try to take his belongings. jim escapes with his mother with as much as he could and left to find dr livesey and squire trelawney jim shows them that he has found billy bones treasure map and they all agree that they well set out to find because its treasure who doesn't want to go on an adventure as the squire is finding the crew for the ship he finds a nice old man named long john silver moving on...
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