Stray
“Stray.” A story by Cynthia Rylant there is a very common claim that comes up in the story many times, sometimes you have to do things even if it’s not what you want to do. Along with that there are a few reasons to support the claim, In the beginning of the story the Lacey’s weren't very concerned about the dog. But in the middle they were no doubt determined to get rid of it. And finally in the end they had come together and realized keeping the dog was the best thing they could do. To back these reasons up there are a few examples that tie them together. Read on to hear about them.
First of all, in the beginning of the story when Doris brought the dog home her family wasn't to happy, but I wouldn't say they were mad either, they just
The Vietnam War in the late 1960’s was described as a tragedy, a victory, a win, and a loss, but for whom? The millions of people who loss their lives or the millions of people who fought to save others or is it for the millions of people who had to make that decision every time that they were in battle, but as for Richard Perry, a seventeen-year-old, African American just out of a Harlem High School, had to ask that question solely to himself. Perry, a talented and bright young man put away his dreams of college and becoming a writer because of the unfortunate circumstance he is in. He lives in poverty in the slums of Harlem. His single mother is abandoned by her husband and this leaves Perry and his younger brother Kenny without a father and a second income. Therefore, Perry’s mother does not have enough money to send him to college and the money they did have went to her alcohol problem. Although Perry has the grades and potential to go to a community college he is unsure about his plans in life and feels that money is the source of all his problems (Myers 15). Perry believes he should join the army to escape his future, to get money and to make it up to his younger brother and mother, and he does just that, He gets enlisted in the Army in the summer of 1967, due to a failure to process his medical file correctly leading him to not receive a medical discharge, Perry gets an unexpected ticket to the Vietnam War. In Fallen Angels, the major subjects include the history in The Vietnam War and war itself, Perry’s self discovery in war and the moral vagueness of war is represented. The themes of Friendship, Innocence and Racism are all reflected in the book. Friendship reflects the bond that Richie makes with Peewee Lobel, Lieutena...
The painting Light of Hope is a realistic painting of a light house on the coast of an American shore done by contemporary artist Thomas Kinkade. Thomas Kinkade started his career with his first lithograph, and after some time he realized he was inspired to paint not for the money but from his heart. His main goal became glorifying God and spreading His light. Kinkade grew up in Placerville, California and growing up to be a big family man. Often in his paintings he leaves little symbols representing his wife and children. Over the years he has donated his earned money to different charities and is al crediting God for his ability to paint. His purpose as a painter has been and will continue to share of the light of God (Thomaskinkade).
The book , The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is about a women named Aibileen who is a black maid. She is taking care of her 17th white baby now. She works for a woman named Miss Leefolt. Aibileen has never disobeyed an order in her life and never intends to do so. Her friend Minny is the exact opposite. When she is around her boss, she has to hold herself back from sassing them all the time. Skeeter Phelan is different than the rest of the white ladies. She thinks that blacks aren’t all that bad. She decides to write a book about the lives of maids for white ladies. Otherwise known as the Help. She with the help of Aibileen and Minny hope to create a book that starts a revolution about what white people think about blacks.
J.I. Packer is a British-born Canadian. He received his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy at Corpus Christi College. He later attended Oxford University. While attending Oxford, Packer gave his life to God at an Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union meeting. He is the current Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College. His most known work is Knowing God. Knowing God started as a series of magazine articles. In 1973, the articles were combined and published as a book, Knowing God.
A wise man once stated, “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man 's needs, but not every man 's greed.” -Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the wise people that realized we need to take better care of our home planet Earth. Another wise person who also thought the Earth should be taken better care of was Rachel Carlson. In 1962 Carlson wrote “The Obligation to Endure” in hopes to educate people on this matter. In this essay I am going to explain how Carlson’s ideas have changed since she wrote her book in 1962.
In the book Letters to Jennifer by James Pattersons, there is an important lesson that Grandma Sam teaches to Jennifer. While Jennifer remembers the summers she spent at her grandmother’s house and all the important lessons Sam has taught her, Jennifer remembers the time she was about to leave and her grandmother gave her a jar to fill up with seashells and sand. Jennifer kept coming back and Grandma Sam kept sending her back outside saying the jar wasn’t full. Finally Sam told her to fit the large shells and rocks in first, then fill it with sand and smaller shells that would fall into the cracks. Sam told Jennifer, “that living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first- the big, beautiful rocks- the most valuable people and experiences- and fit the lesser things in around them” (Patterson 88). This really stuck with Jennifer throughout her life. When something important came her way she shoved the little unimportant things, like the newspaper, out of the way and focused on the big things, Sam and Brendan.
“Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly”. This quoted from Zora Neal Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Are Watching God, explains that women let the non-important things go easily, but if it is important, then women will make sure to obtain it. This can be seen in the novel with Janie. At first, her grandmother pressures her to marry Logan, then she runs from her marriage to marry Jody, but ultimately finds true love with Tea Cake. By the end of the novel Janie forgot what she did not want to remember and remembered everything she didn’t want to forget and with that she built a “rich” life.
In the short story “A Kind of Courage” by Ruth Sterling, the protagonist, Davy, is trying to win Ginny’s heart.
The book I read for my Political Science class was In God's Underground, by Richard Wurmbrand.
The Collapse: Richard Van Camp’s “On the Wings of this Prayer” and Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The People of Sand and Slag”
In the story of “Half Husky” the protagonist Vanessa is shown to be more related to many school students, including my friend James,that we all have numerous responsibilities, but we are often distracted, fail to notice or carry out our responsibilities. As we kids grow older and older we tend to notice more responsibilities placed upon us whether we choose to take on these responsibility or they are circumstantial. This is explained by the relationship that Vanessa has with her pet dog Nanuk. In the story Vanessa begged her grandfather to accept the dog into the family, and in return she said that she would take the duty of taking care of the husky. This situation is reminiscent to the time where my friend James told a story of his own pet
The story starts in Santa Clara Valley, California where we find Buck, a St. Bernard and Scotch Collie mix. At the moment Buck is owned by a man named Judge Miller; sadly, he’s not owned by him for very long. A gardener’s assistant steals Buck and uses him to pay off a gambling debt. Buck is sent off to Seattle in extremely harsh conditions. He is unfed and taunted the whole time he is in this crate he was shipped in. Once he arrives, he is horribly malnourished and is starving; but furious. He is released and charges at a man, but the man slams him in the side with a club and repeatedly does it as Buck tries and tries again. In this way Buck learns “the law of the club” as he refers to it. Buck is then sold to two French men, Francois and Perrault, and they bring him to the Klondike region of Canada and train him there to be a sled dog. As he is transitioning into this new life, whether he likes it or not, he is being dominated by another sled dog named Spitz. Eventually Buck decides he’s had enough and challenges Spitz to a fight. Spitz proudly and happily takes the offer and in the end, dies in the fight. Buck is next owned by a Scottish half-breed who is working in mail-service delivering items to the mining areas. He is then owned by a lousy group of inexperienced couple and brother-in-law. They travel foolishly ignoring signs of danger and overfeed their dogs in the beginning...
Harlan, my first dog, is now a guide for a professor at the University of Washington. Something peculiar happened with Harlan. While living with us, he was very depressed and was quite Eeyore-like. However, we discovered at his graduation that he had become deeply attached to the head mobility trainer. At GDB the trainers are allowed to take one dog with them when they retire. The head trainer was going to retire early so that he could keep Harlan. During his graduation ceremony, Harlan followed the man wherever he walked. Gazed at him, actually. Although his blind owner was dependent upon him and deeply attached, Harlan did not seem to care. He wanted his trainer. Harlan was so bonded with the trainer that he almost seemed to neglect his duties as a guide. Another one of my guide dogs, Zorro, graduated with a lady who is married to the producer of Shark Week. They traveled all throughout Europe together, trying to get the service animal portion of those countries’ disability acts revised for the public use of service animals. Zorro eventually got into a fight with a pit bull in Switzerland. The trainers theorized that the fight was because of his over-protectiveness of his owner. He did not have a home or a place to protect, so his owner became his property. Zorro now lives with my family, and seems to be the happiest he has ever been. He has become very attached to my littlest sister, Ivy. He wakes up in the morning when she wakes up, and only goes to bed when she is resting. From my own personal accounts of guide dogs, I can honestly say that I believe guide dogs are capable of bonding with multiple owners, but on different levels. Susan Krieger, Fresco’s proud owner and professor of women’s gender and sexuality studies at Stanford, has written many novels about traveling blind with her dog by her side. Her most recent novel Come, Let Me Guide You she describes her dogs as
Armbruster, K. (2002). “Good Dog”: The stories we tell about our canine companions and what they mean for humans and other animals, 38 (4), 351, 26. Retrieved from http://www.siue.edu/PLL/
could be because the older dog felt that the peace was not being maintained or