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Human Resilience in Plainsong Resilience is the capacity to withstand stress and trauma. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, is an impeccable portrayal of the resilience individuals require to overcome adversity. This adversity defines every character’s life, as they must fight to overcome hardship. People do not accumulate the same life experiences, thus incorporating the lives of … Read more
Alice Walker, most famous for her novel The Color Purple, is the first African- American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction (Alice (Malsenior) Walker). As well as writing bestselling books, Walker is a staunch defender of human rights, racial equality, and respecting all forms of life. Her written work and political activism have … Read more
America: It’s Always Darkest before the Dawn’s Early Light “Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible” (Wright 72). Richard, the protagonist in Richard Wright’s Black Boy, always thinks optimistically. Likewise, an air of faith and hope drives John Steinbeck’s Joad family through their problems on the way to California in … Read more
Does adversity always make people feel negative throughout their lives? In “Raymond’s Run” the main character Squeaky must face a great challenge. Her brother, Raymond has a mental disability. So she must take care of him which causes lots of hardship for her. In “Locked Up”, Zach, Craig, Ellen visit teens that are locked up. … Read more
The Roman poet Horace once said “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. And on the surface, there are numerous examples that support this statement: our founding fathers, Martin Luther King Jr., and even our current president Barack Obama. But for every George Washington who exits out … Read more
End Of Term Semester Exam – Semester Jamais Cascio once said, “Resilience is all about able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” As an individual, you have the choice on how you react to unexpected problems, and how you react and plan your next move will … Read more
The civil war was a very interesting and significant time for our country. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. The battle itself is fascinating. The leading men behind the … Read more
This book report reflects upon the writings of Lester C. Thurow in his 1996 book – “The Future of Capitalism”. Thurow is a professor of economics at M. I. T. School of Management and has been a contributing editor to the Newsweek journal. “The Future of Capitalism” is an analytical look at the state of … Read more
Throughout the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, and the early Renaissance, we can trace, in the rise and fall of national literatures, the successions of war and peace which made the development of Europe so difficult and so uneven. Besides wars and crusades, there were other convulsions quite as grievous: for instance, the Black Death, … Read more