Oliver Sacks is a neurologist and an award winning author. Dr. Oliver Sacks attended medical school in England, Oxford to be precise. He has lived in New York since 1965 where he has practiced neurology. Dr. Oliver Sacks started working for the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx as a neurologist. He worked with patients that had a wide variety of medical problems where he got to put his skills to the test. He was a professor of neurology at Colombia Medical Center from 2007 to 2012. These patients became the main characters of his book Awakenings. Oliver Saks has become well known for his books on case studies that baffle the medical world. He has written other books investing the lives of people who are color blind, people who are deaf, and his experiences as a doctor. He has also written an autobiography in which he discusses his struggles with face blindness. Throughout his career, he has written many well know books that are critically acclaimed. Sack’s work is published very often in the New York Times and The New Yorker.
Summary: An Anthropologist on Mars tells the story of seven case studies that are somewhat medical mysteries. The first case study is about Mr. I, a painter who completely lost his color vision. Mr. I was in a horrific car accident that left his completely color blind. He suffered from a horrific brain injury also known as cerebral achromatopsia. The book continues to talk about the struggles he went through of not being able to see color as a painter. The second tale tells the story of Greg, a man who has a massive brain tumor. Greg moved out of his parent’s house when he began acting out and using a lot of drugs and joined the Hare Krishna. He slowly began to lose his eye sight which the Hare Krishna attr...
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...y lives and was able to depict the struggles they faced. Sacks’ empathy used throughout the book made me feel truly compassionate for people with disabilities—they have truly amazing skills.
Some of the weaknesses of this book were that each of the stories got a little bit long toward the end. I felt by the end of each case study I felt as if Sacks reiterated the same ideas more than once and it got a little to repetitive. Sacks’ also inserts his opinion throughout the entire book, which I don’t necessarily think is a bad thing, this just got repetitive as the stories went on. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book. It was very interesting to learn about the seven different people and their lives. It was a very easy read and when I picked up the book it was very hard to put down because I was very interested in all the different people and their studies.
The book is great with the plot mainly focused in the courtroom, but it feels like the author put the plot of the story from different events that happened to younger people and not from one whole event. Finally, the document went into depth of how the defense attorney went on to get every piece of evidence as possible to make the eyes of the jury see that Brenton Butler was not the person that shot and killed the
It was painful to see how hard the parents worked to get Lynn to be normal like the rest of the family. They spent so much of their time focusing on getting her to talk and read lips that they overlooked one huge factor: that no matter how hard they tried, Lynn was deaf. It was so frustrating to see how much resistance they had towards using sign language. It was sad to see how disappointed the parents were when they learned of Lynn’s deafness even though it was easy to see they loved their child very much. I feel as though this book was a great look into how the world wants to fix, and repair people with disabilities and how strong and proud the deaf community is that they would rather consider themselves to be special and of their own culture than to be considered less abled than a hearing person. I like that the story started off with the parents frantically trying to fix Lynn, and ultimately led to their love, acceptance, and celebration of their daughter’s deafness. In the beginning of the book Thomas and Louise are told not to treat Lynn like she is deaf because then she will act
I would recommend this book to people who love realistic stories. Personally for me it is hard to find books that interest me and this one felt like if I was watching someone else's life while I read it. It has so many interesting points. When you think something might happen
...was outstanding. She gives great insight to the horrors and the suffering and allows the reader to be placed into the same place with a large understanding of the emotions that took place. The only thing to complain about is the prolonging amount of detail on the dates and statistics. It’s hard to follow and difficult for one to pay attention and that’s where it became mundane. I can definitely confirm that it was worth the purchase and the time spent into the read. I could honestly say that I’ve already recommended it to others, and I will continue to do so. The people I’d recommend it to though is people interested in the subject and overly eager to learn about new things as opposed to my buddies.
It has helped me so much individually that I had recommended it to my friends at other universities who are currently reading, as well as my father. From debunking myths about police, especially in this chapter, and tricks to get more overtime. Through my own, somewhat biased eyes, I had always thought that if the police would be called there would be a police car there in less than five minutes and a majority of the time there would be an arrest, but in reality that just isn't always true. A hidden theme that I found throughout reading the book was that with the events in just one year is enough to write an entire books, as you yourself could mostly relate
The experience changed her life, she learned to rethink her own attitude and self determination. I learned that people with mental retardation are not to be separated from society or even treated with less respect because of their disability. “Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me to never neglect people with mental disabilities. Readers learned that people with mental retardation, just like everyone else, have families, desires, and determination. They cry, they laugh, they have emotions just like the rest of us. We can learn new things from those suffering from mental retardation. ‘Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me that civil rights apply to
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Overall, I felt this book was very interesting. Horwitz provided humor, making it a good read, while still presenting an abundance of information. I think that by and large he really remained objective as an author, focusing more on letting the audience experience his journey and make their own analysis.
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I give this book a rating of A-. The Tell is a book in which someone can learn and apply concepts when predicting or assuming on something. Matthew Hertenstein wrote an excellent book in which one can grow as a person. The reason I give it an A- is that I believe it is a book that everyone should read, whether it is for pleasure reading or not. I personally do not like reading, but when I read this book, it opened my eyes to many things I was not aware of. I would like other students to feel the same way.
Kate Chopin's novella, The Awakening. In Kate Chopin's novella, The Awakening, the reader is introduced into. a society that is strictly male-dominated where women fill in the stereotypical role of watching the children, cooking, cleaning and keeping up with appearances. Writers often highlight the values of a certain society by introducing a character who is alienated from their culture by a trait such as gender, race, or creed.
In their analytical papers on The Awakening by Kate Chopin, both Elaine Showalter and Elizabeth Le Blanc speak to the importance of homosocial relationship to Edna’s awakenings. They also share the viewpoint that Edna’s return to the sea in the final scene of the book represents Edna being one with her female lover and finding the fulfillment she has been seeking. We see evidence of this idea of the sea as a feminine from Showalter when she tells us that “As the female body is prone to wetness, blood, milk, tears and amniotic fluid, so in drowning the woman is immersed in feminine organic element. Drowning thus becomes the traditionally feminine literary death”. (Showalter 219) LeBlanc takes this idea even further. She tells us that “The sea is Edna’s metaphorical lesbian lover—her only source of fulfillment equal to her longing.” Edna “overcomes her fear of water and unites with her “lover” for the first time”. (LeBlanc 251) In these statements Showalter and LeBlanc guide us to a glimpse of why Edna chose to end her life in the sea; she could find no fulfillment within the constraints of a patriarchal society; she could only find them in the arms of the sea.
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
“Black Awakening in Capitalist America”, Robert Allen’s critical analysis of the structure of the U.S.’s capitalist system, and his views of the manner in which it exploits and feeds on the cultures, societies, and economies of less influential peoples to satiate its ever growing series of needs and base desires. From a rhetorical analysis perspective, Allen describes and supports the evidence he sees for the theory of neocolonialism, and what he sees as the black people’s place within an imperial society where the power of white influence reigns supreme. Placing the gains and losses of the black people under his magnifying glass, Allen describes how he sees the ongoing condition of black people as an inevitable occurrence in the spinning cogs of the capitalist machine.
As the reader, we are allowed to walk in his shoes and experience the growth in his character. At the start of the narrative he speaks with fear and anger, but he remains hopeful. As stated in the text “ Over the course of a year , he pushed all of us, myself especially, to broaden our minds and cast aside the notion that being LD in some way limited our capacity to experience life to fullest ” (Rodis, Garon & Bascardin 2001, pp. 9). Oliver is inspired by his teacher Mr. Hoffman who challenged him to go beyond how others viewed him. In the aspect of learning, Oliver adjusted well throughout his years after Blake Academy. He learned how to read at a normal level and accepted his learning disability. Although Oliver struggled through the educational system, he shows great promise. He overcame his battle socially with the Dixon kids and academically in the classroom and he will continue to overcome