Jesus’ Son Addiction in America is a much maligned and misunderstood tragedy. Some understand it as a personal failing while others approach it as an epidemic that is gripping the nation. In either case, addiction is one of the most destructive forces a person can endure and those who suffer with it are often reduced to their basest components in search of prolonging their dependence on drugs and alcohol. Denis Johnson tackles substance abuse and addiction in Jesus’ Son, an anthology of short stories
The Vietnam War was a conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam; with the United States as allies to the South and Viet Cong allies to the North. This took place between the early 1950s to early 1970s. Soldiers both drafted and volunteered were sent to fight though the jungles of Vietnam. Tim O’Brien’s narrative The Things They Carried shows the experience of Vietnam from a typically soldiers view. In The Things They Carried the factors of emotional and physical burdens come into play throughout
Narratives of Long-Term Street Children in Moshi, Tanzania There is an estimated 100 million street children worldwide (Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, 2011) with a further estimate of 600 street children in Mwanza alone, Tanzania’s second largest city (Lockhart, 2002). Some attempts have been made to monitor the increase in numbers. For example, estimation of numbers sky rocketed from 200 – 300 street children in 1991 in Dar es Salaam to 3,500 in 1995 (Bamurange, 1998). These
now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition. The New England colonies were the center of early American literature. The Revolutionary Period contained political writing by Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. In the post war period, Thomas Jefferson’s United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer. It was in the late 18th and 19th
In its general context, G. Frasca states that a video game is: “any forms of computer-based entertainment software, either textual or image-based, using any electronic platform such as personal computers or consoles and involving one or multiple players in a physical or networked environment”. Taking into consideration that video games are not necessarily used in a recreational or entertainment context alone, I would agree that computer-based
first being the information conveyed by the book and the second being the mental work needed to process and store the books information. Skills acquired by reading are effort, concentration, attention, the ability to make sense of words, following narrative threads, and sculpting imagined worlds out of sentences on a page, Johnson states that society places a substantial emphasis on these
Chapter 1: Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Main Ideas: • Quests may not always be as dramatic as a knight having to save a princess from evil, but instead may be as simple as a trip to the supermarket. • There is usually a stated reason for a quest, but the real reason never involves the stated reason. • The real reason for a quest is to always gain self-knowledge. Connection: In the movie “Shrek,” Shrek starts off as a hostile and solitary ogre who dislikes all and is disliked by