Bravery In Nightjohn By Gary Paulsen

In the novel Guns Germs and Steel, an American biologist named Jared Diamond is attempting to answer a question from a New Guinean politician named Yali, in July 1972. Yali asked him: (1)“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people hat little cargo of our own?” For over thirty years, Diamond was investigating our inferred history for clues, to answer Yali’s question. He published a scientific opinion that explains how geography is to blame for the dispersal of power, as few societies and civilizations inhabiting in the Middle East had access to resources, such as the seeds of highly nutritious crops alike wheat and barley, and useful livestock such as cow and sheep, which others

Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer is a very influential novel in the military. In fact, it is required reading material for all 1st Lieutenants in the Marine Corps as well as in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Many Army leaders have read the book and often discuss it among themselves in social situations. Although a fiction read, many leaders extrapolate the use of mission command as well as the leaderships attributes. In this analysis I will be comparing a single event in the novel to the Army’s leadership principles as well as Mission Command. I will then provide a personal reflection and conclude.

In the poem “Facing It”, by the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he himself is the one who is speaking, the poem is about his own life experience at the Vietnam Memorial. The way a person can tell if the own poet of the poem is the speaker is by the use of first person. In this case, the poet uses words like “I” and “I’m” that support the fact that he is the speaker. The Vietnam War was a Historical event taken place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Which was one of the first War that African Americans were integrated with White people, and the majority of the soldiers were African Americans. Komunyakaa, being an African American soldier in the Vietnam War and surviving, is an honor, as not many African American’s survived. For Komunyakaa all his bad

In David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers, Finklel details different versions of the war in Iraq. Over the years, the image of war portrayed through literature has changed. Looking at non-fiction wartime novels of the past, the image of war was completely different. The novels of the past focused much more on the aftermath of war and the survivors of war, rather than the actual war it’s self like in today’s novels. When novels of the past did feature scenes of war, the details used to describe the scenes were not as vivid as they are today. I attribute this change to the change of style in which narrative pieces of non-fiction are written. After Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was published in 1966, the landscape of the non-fiction narrative completely changed, thus the wartime books published after this also changed. In addition to that, the advancement in technology has also changed the way wartime novels are written. Today, society can go on YouTube and watch videos of the war. There is also more media present on the battlefield than there was in the past. Having access to actual footage of the ongoing war, the public knows what the war looks like. With that in mind, authors can portray the realities of war because they already know the public has some sense of what the battlefield already looks like.

Glenn Frazier, a survivor of the Bataan Death March states, “ If we had known what was ahead of us at the beginning of the Bataan Death March, I would've taken death.” The Bataan Death March was extremely brutal, which left many survivors thinking if they should have died at the beginning of the march. During the Bataan Death March, the Americans and Filipinos were forced to walk 65 miles in five to twelve days without food or water while enduring regular beatings (“Bataan Death March, 1942”) . During the march, the Japanese would treat the prisoners of war (POWs) in a brutal manner leaving only 987 survivors out of 76,000 prisoners (“ New Mexico National Guard’s involvement in the Bataan Death March”). The Americans were horrified by the Japanese

Noah Abrahams Ms. Phipps C Block 3/20. Great Sacrifice Means Great Success Sacrifice is giving up something important to do what is right. Many characters in the book Refugee By Alan Gratz, like Mahmoud, Isabel, and Josef, have to go through many sacrifices to get to their goals. The theme between all three of these stories is that sacrifice leads to great success. Josef has had to go through many sacrifices throughout his life.

In the movie and book of NightJohn there is many lessons to be learned. NightJohn and many of the other slaves show Prejudice, getting along with others, freedom and many more. Throughout the story John helps a little girl named Sarny to read and write even though he could get caught. He gets caught and continues to teach Sarny. This is called leadership and bravery. Later when Sarny was sold she started teaching the other kids what she had learned, John without knowing made a chain.

There are different parts to our personal character of our lives. Parts that help or protect us in life. There are also those parts of us we have that hurt, or trips us up in life. All of these parts of us though, come together to create our character and personality and make us who we are in life. We may not like all of the characteristics we have, but they make us who we are.

In Number The Stars by Lois Lowry, there are many examples of themes. Narrowing it down to one main theme, I chose bravery. Bravery is taking a risk. Bravery is not thinking about the consequences. Bravery is doing what needs to be done even when you aren’t told to do so in order to show loyalty, compassion, and friendship.

The Great Masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one -Adolf Hitler This quote emphasizes that most people will believe whatever sounds good to them with may not be always right. The novel titled, Prisoner of Night and Fog, is a suspenseful historical thriller that takes place in 1930s Munich. The author of Prisoner of Night and Fog is Anne Blankman, and this book includes 401 well crafted pages.

The articles “Journey Into Night” written by David Sedaris and “Why We Travel” written by Pico Iyer share the theme of “finding true self during traveling”. Pico Iyer believes that traveling helps us find our “truer” identities. Sedaris’s story is an example for the argument of Pico Iyer because it demonstrates that people have a hidden part of selfishness in their shadow, which is the unknown side of personality. This hidden selfishness is a part of our true selves. The plot of the Sedaris’s story mainly focuses on the intolerance of one of the business elite passengers to another passenger who is crying because of his mother’s death. This plot bolsters Pico Iyer’s idea, which is 'We travel, then, in search of both self and anonymity- and, of course, in finding the one we apprehend the other.

Courage and its benefits “The best protection any woman can have. is courage.” (Stanton). Having courage is so important in so many situations, and it is also a necessary part of life. If people live their lives in fear, they will not go anywhere. Courage is important, but it is also sometimes hard to connect to it.

Nighthawks, was painted in 1942 by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) an artist who was known as “a great master in the ranks of America realists.” (Levin, Gail) Hoppers paintings were first hung in “retrospective in 1933, Hopper played host just three years later to the first major show of surrealist art in New york.” (Levin, Gail) Hopper grew up in Washington Square, and lived there for most of his life. “ Hopper excelled in creating realistic pictures of clear-cut, sunlit streets and houses, often without figures.” (Levin, Gail) “He offers a brand of realism not bound to reality, and the places he depicts are familiar and foreign, comfortable and disquieting,” said the USA Times. The painting resides in the Art institute of Chicago. Nighthawks just like many of Hoppers paintings give a feeling of loneliness, and isolation as well as a feeling of darkness due to the dark hues. The picture leaves the viewer with thousands of words and interpretations with a third person view of an isolated man as he sits in a small parlor and ponders. The painting was created in 1942, which took place during the time of the great depression.

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

Ronald Reagan once said, “We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.” I read the book, Dancing in the dark by Morris Dickstein. This book was about the great depression, and the impacts it had on American life. The traditional thought of poverty, people dying of hunger and people lying in the roads, has been erased. America has abolished poverty by the traditional standards but the thought of poverty and what it is has changed. In America we consider poverty to be spending all your money on bills, so you have no money left for food to feed your family. We consider poverty to be just being poor. One-Third of our population makes less than $38,000. This is not enough to be able to be above the poverty line. Anything below this