Doug Swieteck is a 14 year old boy with a life that is anything but desirable, he lives in a small town he hates in upstate new york, has an abusive father, a brother who is scarred from the Vietnam war and another brother known for being a criminal. He tries to find happiness in the small things like his mothers smile and joy, drawing birds, his friend lil and his baseball jacket that used to be owned by a baseball legend. Once these things start disappearing his mother stops smiling his fathers job is in danger and his jacket is stolen. He overcomes this and against the odds makes his life better with the help of noble people like the librarian and his teacher. This book is very emotional and one of the most heartbreaking parts is when they…
This is my INS on Hatchet. The book was written by Gary Paulsen the author that also wrote previous book I did an INS on. The book is set in the Canadian woods. I'm not sure what time period this book takes place in because it doesn't say in the book. I'm guessing somewhere in the 1980's or 90's. Now I will summarize the story of this book. The story is about Brian Robeson, a 13 year old boy who is going to visit his dad in Canada after his parents' divorce. He goes from Hampton, New York to Canada on a small plane. The driver has a heart attack and dies. Brian takes over the controls and crashes into the woods. Brian is now stranded all by himself in these woods. He thinks that he will be rescued, but that doesn’t end up happening. He finds berries and other types of foods and uses those to eat. Skip all the way to the end and a tornado strikes his area and destroys his shelter. After that, he notices that the tail of the plane has emerged and he goes into it and gets the survival pack. In it, he finds a transmitter and it calls a rescue helicopter thing to him. He then gets rescued. That is pretty much bigger main parts of the book. I chose this book for INS because I said that there are some similar things about this book and the one I did previously and that interested me so I decided to do this book for my ins. I also wanted to read this book again because I forgot some of the stuff that happens throughout the book.…
The book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, is about a boy named Brian who lives in New York. One day he is sent to visit his dad in the summer on a one passenger plane. On his way there, he suddenly realizes that the pilot is having a heart-attack. So Brian does what he thinks he should do and crash lands the plane in the middle of a lake. So from then on into the book, Brian is stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a hatchet he had gotten from his mother a few years back.…
I read the survival book the hatchet. Cover to cover, the hatchet was filled with endless details. The hatchet is about a boy named Brian Robeson who made it through plane crash on the way to visit his father and has to survive the wilderness in hopes of being rescued. Brian's parents are divorced and Brian knows why but keeps the secret as he mentally is going through a lot, he is physically going through a lot too. As Brian leaves, his old city self behind, and turns into a survivor, he evolves to his new environment with the sense of hearing he knows his surroundings. Brian learns that his most useful asset is himself.…
ike the story on how the Spanish Franciscans who founded the American Catholic School System at what is St. Augustine, Florida in 1606, and the story on how the French Franciscan “Les Frères mineurs récollets” (aka “The Recollects”; simply referred to in French as “Les Récollets”) established the Canadian Catholic School System, the stories on how Juliette Gordon Low and W. D. Boyce founded their respective movements draw from a common origin. In their cases, however, the melodies of their high songs are played to the tune of the father of modern-day scouting: Robert Baden-Powell. Ironically enough, both the original intentions that the two founders of American scouting had in founding their respective movements, have several aspects in common…
How would a 12 year old boy who watched his family die around him be able to escape the extermination of his kind? Forgotten Fire, a compelling historical novel by Adam Bagdasarian, follows the journey of Vahan Kenderian as he tries to survive the Armenian genocide. Vahan watches the world he knew collapse around him as those he cared about leave him due to the horrific circumstances placed on them. During his time the young boy meets many people who help Vahan on his journey to safety. Vahan develops his character through the people he meets during his journey, ultimately becoming the son his parents had envisioned.…
My book is about this 16 year old boy’s life. His name is Jacob Feilding. He goes to Holy Cross High School. He was adopted around his 14th birthday by Mr. Feilding. One day while he and his adopted dad are driving to the coast they have a wreck. Jacob survives without a scratch on him while Mr. Feilding died.…
Ambrose Bierce's Chickamauga is a disillusioned child's awakening. Literally, a six year old deaf boy is thrown into a most horrifically traumatic series of events. His story is relayed in the third person omniscient perspective through the eyes of the child as well as an elder. It takes place during the Civil War in a southern town. Chickamauga begins with the boy's entrance into the forest where he goes to play solitarily. With him he carries a toy wooden sword with which he battles imaginary enemies to their deaths. Lost in his adventure the boy grows tired and falls asleep between two rocks deep in the woods. While he is a sleep a battle occurs unbeknownst to him. Several hours later the child wakes up and notices alien figures crawling towards him. Without knowing the gravity of the situation occurring before his oblivious eyes, he makes a game of it all. The child assumes a leader position for what he has finally determined to be men, and guides them towards a red light. The red light turns out to be his house on fire. When the child finally reaches the fire he is particularly amused by the raging spectacle. He searches desperately for fuel and finally commits his toy sword to the fire. Suddenly the boy realizes that fire is his own home. Horrified he studies the ghastly scene. He then stumbles upon his brutally murdered mother. The small child gets extremely upset, and at this point the reader learns that child is a deaf-mute. The story can be divided into three essential stages, representational of the boy's progression from innocence to forced maturity. The boy advances through innocence, progression to familiarity with reality, and awakening. The small child enters the forest joyfully and carelessly, he leaves with tremendous fear, depression, and realization. The forest is symbolic of middle ground between innocence and horrible reality.…
The first way recovery can be looked at is immediate recovery (Bishop, Jones, and Woods, 2008). According to Bishop, Jones, and Woods, immediate recovery is the recover that occurs during and exercise immediately between movements. For example, a bicep curl requires to contract and relax the bicep muscle. While one bicep is contracted the opposite bicep is relaxed and thus the bicep that is relaxed is in recovery. The body must generate a power source in order for the bicep that is recovering to contract again and produce a contraction. This example of recovery looks at recovery from an immediate standpoint.…
Erasure by Percival Everett is a very dynamic novel. It from the start jumps into race and what it means to be black. The narrator, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is not the stereotypical “African - American” man yet he deals with a great amount of struggles related to race. This novel brings up the ever changing debate of what is an “authentic” black novel. Percival Everett really delves into the idea of labels and genres. Categorization is a struggle that many Black people deal with in society. This novel really exposes that.…
Had the American Revolution become, in some sense, inevitable? Explore the events and issues that led to the discontent between the colonies and Britain, and how they contributed to the imperial crisis, to include an analysis of what event or issue determined "the point of no return" and why?…
Informed decision-making is an important aspect for working in the government. According to Milakovich and Gordon, provide some examples of how information technology can be used to assist bureaucrats in decision-making?…
1. Gilgamesh is “overcome with pain” and chooses to go into solitude after the death of his best friend, Enkidu. (Mason 60).…
The novel "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe describes the social and cultural traits of a culture based on the principles of labor and masculinity, conformity and kinship and finally on solid juridical system.…
How is masculinity constructed (e.g.. conceptualized) by the characters in this novel? How is it performed by them?…