SS 3150 Research Paper Self-Sustainable Living: Why? Nicholas Lawrence Abstract What drives individuals to seek out a self-sustained lifestyle, free from the electricity grid? This study aim to determine the reasons individuals and, in some cases, communities strive to be self-sustainable and free themselves from the electricity grid. Data will be collected form informal interviews with different groups of people that have, are in the process of, or do not want to live a self-sustainable
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Of Ocean Tides and Understanding Whether she is writing essays, novels, or memoirs, author Barbara Kingsolver focuses her lens on the natural world. The memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is the author’s testament to the power of locally grown foods. In Prodigal Summer, the Appalachian wilderness is as much a character as are the human protagonists. In her essay “High Tide in Tucson,” she recognizes that as humans we are part of the animal kingdom and that we have a natural responsibility to connect
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The Bosnia List is a memoir written by Kenan Trebincevic in collaboration with Susan Shapiro. Kenan lived with his family in Bosnia during the Balkan wars. He wrote this book as a memoir of his experiences, and to make the extremity of the Balkan wars better known. Also, Kenan honors his late mother in writing The Bosnia List. He remembers that she used to sit at the typewriter and write about their struggles and hardships. The time period jumps back and forth between the life of Kenan at age 9 in
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the house quickly, and is arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road and swerving, which he says he did because “I had disregareded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic.” Humbert's final request was for the memoir he made to be published only when Lolita is no longer alive, which he says is so neither of them will be alive when a person would read the book, but could be because he doesn't want people to know her side of the story, what he actually did to
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Rosa Parks’s refusal in 1955 to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the birth of the civil rights movement. Under Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership, African Americans began to demand their rights as American citizens. The African American struggle for civil rights followed a variety of approaches, including the nonviolent tactics of King and the more aggressive methods of Malcolm X. As the movement began to rise, African American literature became more attuned to the events
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Richard Russo’s memoir, Elsewhere, provides a son’s narration of a lifetime of adventures and tribulations with his mother, Jean. The piece also provides an ideal case study of development, experiences, challenges, and transitions across the adult phases of the human lifespan, thereby allowing for an application and analysis of adult psychology theories and concepts that are commonly presented in more objective and less narrative works. First, attention will be paid to the roles and relationships
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Societal Strings In life, despite the amount of differences between individuals, society has developed specific expectations that each individual must adhere to or else they are perceived as outsiders. As exhibited in John Robison’s memoir about how he made the most of his life while living with Asperger's, Look Me In The Eyes, in order to achieve a fulfilling life, one must not feel compelled to conform to societal expectations. By not complying to what society deems as “normal”, one will increase
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“Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China Lijia Zhang Brittany Hall The 1980s is a decade where economic and political changes bewilder China. China received self-inflicted sufferings from the Culture Revolution, which continues to linger there today, even though China is now the most powerful economic engine in the world. These economic changes that China is facing are stretching the model of a Communist command economy towards a new model of a market economy and thrusting for
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah illustrates Beah’s childhood under Sierra Leone's Civil war in the 1990s. The book recounts Beah’s experience as a 12 year old boy struggling to find his family. Although this book mainly follows Beah, it also gives a lot of insight on the instability in African countries like Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah was a normal child before the Civil war in Sierra Leone, which is what the beginning of the book illustrates. In the early chapters, Beah
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Role of Women: Thematic Essay Throughout the years the role of women has changed significantly. In the past women got looked down on and had no importance in life, now in women have more of a say about what goes on into today society. Women have more room to grow now then the did back then. Throughout the years the voice in women have changed, by looking at the authors of: Hardy, Defoe, and Brittain. Many people can see the changes the women have changed in the world. Daniel Defoe started writing
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