Book Review of Escape from Despair: A Croatian Family's Survival

To start off, some of the chapters were not as interesting to me. When you read an interesting book it tends to move faster, but “Touching Spirit Bear” it moved very slow in my opinion. Another reason that ties onto the first,is when a book moves slower it’s harder to follow along or keep track of what has happened. My last reason is when the chapters ended the left you on the end of your seat and you really wanted to read on.

The Wendat had strong trading, political and social relations with the Petun, Neutral, Odawa (Ottawa), Nipissing and the Algonquin nations of Georgian Bay and the Ottawa Valley (Heidenreich, 2011). With these nations they exchanged surplus corn, beans and cord made of hemp. In 1609 they joined the military/trading alliance that the Innu and Algonquin had forged with the French by participating in a raid against the Mohawk (Heidenreich, 2011).

Power is something that is often used carelessly, even with its great importance. In the Family Romanov by Candace Fleming, power is used carelessly. In the Family Romanov, the tsar of Imperial Russia, Nicholas refused to give the people the rights and things they wanted and deserved. His refusal to do so eventually ended with Nicholas and the imperial family’s assassination. His inability to make just decisions without the “help” of his wife Alexandra and the “holy man” Rasputin resulted in his death. Nicholas stayed “blissfully” ignorant to all his subject’s sufferings and eventually paid the price for it. Fleming’s argument about power is that power is not a child’s toy, as power should be in use by someone fit to rule the proletariat fairly and it should be something to be used with responsibility and caution.

The story of “Survivors”; written by Kim Adonizio tells a perspective of a homosexual man who ponders the issues of dealing with his dying lover’s family, while having to fight with societal pressures alone. They both have contracted the AID’s virus and he has a possibility of dying first. The irony in this story is that this young man wants to die first. He finds that dealing with the societal pressures of homosexuality is too much in a world that is much less accepting of the LGBT community in 1995. Society has already placed a strain on those that are heterosexual, so the amount of abuse that a homosexual person may feel can be great. Adonizio presents these many issues the gay community deals with in society in a very tightly pack paragraph. Although this story is short, it causes the reader to be faced with many different occurring themes. These themes are very easy to miss sense they all hit the reader seemingly at the same time. The central theme of this story is that some homosexuals dealing with the pressures of society face child abuse, unacceptance and early death.

In argument, someone might say that Found is a slow book. The book is not slow all the way through, the first few chapters can be a little slow but I feel that most books are like that. It does speed up after a few chapters and the book becomes very interesting. Also, little bits of suspense is added to the first few chapters to make it more interesting so the reader will not get bored of the book.

America has always been a golden country for people from all around the world. Immigrants came to America with high expectations. People heard many stories of all the land, job opportunities in America, so they decide to come. At the same time, when arriving, it was not what they had expected. Although industry aid immigrants with work and new technology, but most immigrants found that living in American was very difficult. They struggle with long hours work and low wages. They also dealt with harsh working conditions and communication problem. Also, America gave immigrant a false sense of hope. In Louis Adamic’s article, “A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country” best indicate the people’s inner voice living in America. Through this document, Louis Adamic has described the immigrant experience living in America in the early twentieth century who desperate of coming to America without researching the actual obstacles that people were facing in America. Some hardships people are facing are economic, social equality and independence that will transform people into a different living style.

Although there are many good aspects to the story, while reading me and my group felt the book either moved too fast or too slow. Let me elaborate, the book spends way too much time on uninteresting unimportant parts like 10-30 pages in the middle of story that just go over him spending time in his vacation, whereas towards the end he and his friends are forced to war and get their mind’s blown by a revelation that their society is really what it seems and that the Animal Plague infested world never happened. Seems pretty big, but the book spends way too little on this part and that’s a huge flaw because the author needs to spend way more time on the important pivotal points of Mika development as a

They occur and we neglect to notice the unearned inequity. Even though genocide is difficult encounter as actuality it is. The Bosnian genocide was a heartbreaking event that caused misery and loss of lives to 100,000 with 80,000 being of the Bosnian culture (Bosnia-Herzegovina). March 1, 1992-December 14, 1995 35 dreadful months for the Bosnians. If you think of all the terrifying things done to them they would sometimes rather be dead than alive. Could imagine being in so much agony you would wish you were dead. The perpetrators, the Serbians were making an effort to exterminate the Bosnians. They were stopped by the Bosnians who fought for their lives. This would be recognized as genocide because it shares several characteristics with

Following the Civil War, many Americans chose to settle west of the Mississippi river and shaped a distinct culture in this region. Generations later, this fascinating culture was transformed into the Wild West, a romanticized version of the lifestyle, to entertain the masses. The romanticized perception of the Wild West differs extensively from the reality of western settlement, but in some aspects mirrors the true western lifestyle in the post-Civil War period. Native Americans and cowboys, for instance, are portrayed rather inaccurately in the romanticized adaptations of the West, while the images of towns and settlements are similar in both the mythological Wild West and the reality of the western experience.

One of the youngest nations of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship after the war controlled them for 45 years. When the Communist system failed, the old rivalries reasserted themselves; and in the early 1990s the nation was rent by secessionist movements and civil war. Within several years these conflicts

Walt Whitman did not see death as an ending, but rather as the beginning of something new. In Song of Myself, he refuses to anticipate death as something negative. Instead he equated it with nature, writing that “the smallest sprout shows there is really no death” (Whitman 126). Whitman did not treat death as a personified object or a metaphor as many authors often do; he wrote of it almost like a process, a continuation. He believed that death was not an end, but rather part of an infinite cycle of life.

A genocide is a intended killing upon a large group of people, especially upon a certain ethnic group. The genocide in Bosnia, also known as The Bosnian War started in 1992 after Bosnian government declared independence from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs did not like the idea of a free nation with majority of the citizens being Muslim. Serbs killed approximately 100,000 croats and muslims. The Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina is similar to the Holocaust because both involved the murders of certain cultures. This was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

Yugoslavia was a very successful country under the lead of Josip Broz Tito. Yugoslavia was made of 6 Republics and those were: Croatia, Montenegro ,Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo together with Vojvodina which at that time were recognized as provinces. After the death of Tito Yugoslavia began to demolish. The collapse of Yugoslavia began in 1980, and it continued until the 27th of April 1992, which in history is known as the date when Yugoslavia totally collapsed. In my opinion, the reason that the disintegration of Yugoslavia happened was because of the decline in absolute sovereignty. In this paper, I am going to talk about the definition of sovereignty, different perspectives about the disintegration of Yugoslavia from some authors and the decline in absolute sovereignty which led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

The Bosnian War was an international arms conflict that involved 2 main sides, the Republika Srpska, and Herzeg-Bosnia. The Republika Srpska would show very little sympathy towards the Non-Serb population of cities they would occupy. 1995 of the Bosnian War reached its most violent climax, Bosnian Serb Forces in occupied Srebrenica began an ethnic cleansing of the Non-Serb population, and massacred more than 8000 people. Many generals and other people of high class within the Republika Srpska were tried for their actions, but none confessed and denied everything, this is what makes the following person so significant. Dragan Obrenovic, who was the only person who admit guilt for the Genocide and it taking place. The accused, Dragan

In 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina had one the biggest genocide to come after WWII, in turn killing over 800,000 civilians. The war consisted of two factions, the Croats and Serbs, both wanting territory in Bosnia. Soon Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb president, created a special army to support the Serbs, soon the Serbs started the new policy for “ethnic cleansing” many areas of non-Serb. For it was later that it was to be decided that is was complete and utter genocide towards the innocent.