I have read two books that share the same theme. 14 Cows for America and The Giving Tree are the books I’ve read. The books’ theme is giving when someone is in need, and they teach the theme similarly and differently. Do you want to know them? If you do, keep reading! The two books I’ve read approach the same theme similarly. One reason this is true is that in both books they gave everything they had to the person/people that were in need. In 14 Cows for America, the author explains the cow is life for the people of Maasai, but they still gave the cows to America, meaning they gave their life to America. In The Giving Tree, the tree gave the boy everything she had, literally! Her apples, her branches, her trunk, and in the end, she let the boy sit on her stump. Another similarity I found is that they both came to accept the gifts when they were in need. In 14 Cows for America, the Ambassador of America that lived near Kimeli and his tribe came to accept the cows. In the same way, The Giving Tree, the boy kept coming boy kept coming back to get supplies from the tree. Now get ready for the differences! …show more content…
While in one book the character in need asks for another character to give supplies, the other book’s character was simply just given the gifts. The book that has a character that asks is The Giving Tree, so even though both characters in need came to collect the gifts, the boy asked the tree for the gift and then the tree gave him some objects. On the other hand, in 14 Cows for America, America didn’t ask for anything, but the people of Maasai still gave them the gifts. In addition, The Giving Tree’s genre is fiction, meaning how the tree gives the gifts is fantasised. However, in 14 Cows for America, its genre is nonfiction, so since it is nonfiction Kimeli and his tribe actually gave the cows when America experienced the 9-11-2001 attack. The genres and the characters are
Another area the two books share is humor. Humor is needed in order to cope with loss and move forward. Although we see more humor in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Black Elk Speaks has some humorous stories. For example, I found the story of "High Horse's Courting" very humorous. High Horse wants to take a young Indian maiden for his wife. He goes to her father and offers him two horses for the girl. The old man waves him off. He goes back and offers four horses. Still, the old man is not impressed. High Horse wants his girl so bad that he goes out and steals about a hundred horses. High Horse proved himself and got the girl. It was not the horses her father wanted, but he wanted a son who was a real man and
different. They both share similar topics, in that they are two stories of cultures, but written from
The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, and Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, are two incredibly distinct novels, each with their own similarities and differences when compared to one another. True Son, the protagonist in Light in the Forest, is a fifteen-year-old boy raised by a tribe of Delaware Indians for the past eleven years of his life. Though he is biologically American, he wholeheartedly considers himself a full blooded Indian. This not only creates turmoil when he is forcibly moved to his biological white family but causes True Son confusion when he is forced to choose between not only his two families but his two other identities as well. On the other hand, Johnny Tremain, the protagonist in the novel Johnny Tremain, faces a completely different situation for he is a fourteen-year old boy living in colonial Boston. He is at first entirely self-centered and arrogant due to his prodigious gifts as a silversmith apprentice. However, when an unfortunate injury results in him having a crippled hand, this destroys any chance of him being an adequate silversmith. He faces humiliation but through many struggles and difficulties transforms into a patriotic man. Through analyzing the two novels, there were many similarities and differences found. Similarities include the difficult journey they both encounter as well as their similar behavior. On the contrary, both individuals differ through their race and how they were brought up.
Pollan believes that within the industrial food chain, there are a lot of things that happen that people should be more aware and cautious of. Many americans have no clue how the meat they’re eating was produced and how it came to be. Pollan states, “These animals have evolved to eat grass. But in a CAFO they are forced to eat corn- at considerable cost to their health, to the health of the land, and ultimately, to the health of us, their eaters,” (49) Cattle in CAFOs are being force-fed corn, which is unnatural. They use it to fasten the process of growth, and a lot of people think the meat they’re eating is natural and safe, when it most likely isn’t. Also used in Pollan’s point of view, “To the industrial food chain, cattle are just machines
In the US today cattle are part of everyday culture. With more than 93 million cattle in the dairy and beef industry, and tens of thousands in the rodeo business, cattle are definitely a huge part. Lately, there has been many concerns with the bovine friends along with multiple misconceptions. Rodeos may look tough on animals, and todays society is not educated well enough on the beef and dairy industry. People don’t realize that these animals are happy, healthy, and very well cared for.
In all three stories The Origin of the Buffalo, The First False Face, and The Corn There are many differences, the tribes are different, and the settings are different. Starting with the setting/tribe, the first story was taking place with the Pueblos, way back in the times of mythology, the second story was in the wild with animals and a cliff. The last story happened in the appalachian mountains. The characters are even more all over the place, in the Pueblo tribe, story number one, the characters names are Little
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The Labor Unions protect their workers in many different ways people do not know. The Unions make it possible for their members to receive adequate pay better benefits, have left of absences, and have vacation time when you ask and not take the punishment for it. Once you are in the union books it is hard to be fired from it. There is a downside of it, you can be laid off which is not being fired.
Throughout human existence, mankind has had to overcome difficult obstacles in order to prosper. In Diane Glancy’s “Pushing the Bear”, the reader discovers how the Cherokee Indians overcome their hardships and flourish into a new, thriving community. In this novel, the audience observe how these Cherokee Indians outlast the harsh environment during the Indian Removal Act. Additionally, Glancy creates a human experience during the Trail of Tears; giving a different perspective of various characters. Through the eyes of characters such as Maritole and Knobowtee, the reader is able to sense the desperation that the Cherokee endured. The upheaval of being forcefully removed from the land stripped the Cherokee of their identity. This disruption left the Cherokee confused, causing frustration to arise because they were unable to live their familiar roles. Men were no longer able to farm. Women had a loss of property and wealth. The bear symbolizes these struggles throughout this novel. Maritole explains, “The bear had once been a person. But he was not conscious of the consciousness he was given. His darkness was greed and self-centeredness. It was part of myself, too. It was part of the human being” (183). In other words, the “bear” is the personal dilemma each character is put up against during this removal. Furthermore, each character has their own personal struggles to overcome; whether that be Knobowtee’s loss of masculinity or Maritole’s loss of family. These struggles,
Both stories share background information or knowledge about their perspective native american tribes. The medicine bag Martin explained background information on the Lakota tribe and the narrator from Apache Girl give background information of the Apache tribe. Furthermore, I have one more similarity. The two stories have Male narrators. In Apache girl we do not know who is the narrator specifically however we do know that it is a male by how his voice sounds. In the story “The Medicine Bag” contrary to Apache girl we know a great deal about the narrator, it is in first person as Martin is the narrator. In conclusion both stories have a mass amount of similarities and all of which are very similar similarities, but the story's still have there vast differences.
The cattle industry started to rise after the American civil war. This was due to the increase of cows in Texas as cows weren’t fenced in. A man called Joseph McCoy soon came up with the idea of the cow town of Abilene, where Northern buyers could meet up with Southern sellers where they were on equal footing and couldn’t be attacked by Indians. Abilene was built on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. This made it easier to transport cattle bought to the cities in the East like Chicago. By 1870 300,000 cattle were being bought and sold in Abilene. Cows that were sold in Texas for $5 could be sold for $40 in a cow town. This helped the cattle industry rise as it meant more people would sell their cows and gain profit. This then developed even further as the railroad was moved westward which developed other cow towns such as Dodge city and Kansas because it meant there was more places where you could gain more profit for selling your cows.
Bill McKibben who is the author for the essay called The Only Way To Have a Cow claims that the way meat is made is an unclean practice that has many negatives. The biggest of them all is methane in the atmosphere. The release of methane can be of the past thanks to today’s methods and technology. Methane can be reduced by having the cows become free-range and grass fed but that would increase the price of meat. Other ways methane can be reduced in the atmosphere is by being stored and used for energy, and by altering cows diets.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers food assistance programs that help provide food for low to no income families. It is their goal to increase food security and reduce hunger by increasing access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education for low-income Americans (Caswell, 2013, para. 1). Some of the current nutrition assistance programs include “the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)”(Caswell, 2013, para. 1). SNAP will be the primary nutrition assistance program of the paper at hand. No matter how morally good it is to try to help reduce hunger and increase food security within the United States, there are still many questions regarding issues with SNAP. This paper will be discussing why there is such a strong support for the program, how it helps the United States as a whole, problems with the program, and why some people are against SNAP.
I found a theme that carried throughout the whole book, Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. This is the story about Katniss Everdeen and how she got drafted to fight twenty-three others in an arena. She must go through many struggles to end up winning, along with her new lover, Peeta. One simple theme, perseverance, runs throughout the whole book. The complex lesson the story suggests is that perseverance, emotional or physical, not only helps one, but helps others and causes them to persevere as well.
Although both Native tribes have rites of passages, they are very different and can be easy to find the contrast. In the Apache native American tribe the young women have to go through a four day ritual on July 4th for their right of passage. These days are filled with dancing, small amounts of sleep, and the need to set aside emotion. This if different from the Lakota boys’ rite of passage. The Lakota boys’ rite of passage doesn't take a whole four days to complete, and certainly did not include an all night dance to test his endurance. Also, from what the book has stated the boy didn’t need to set aside emotion. Although, for the boy to accept the medicine bag, his great grandfather passed. Which can cause different results in emotion. This is different from the Lakota girls’ rite of passage because from what was stated, she didn’t experience loss in her ritual. There are plenty more differences due to native tribes having different rituals, but these are the ones that stick out the most.