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“Divergent” by Veronica Roth and “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins both share a core of being popular, dystopian novels. Appearing in the “Young Adult” or “Teen” sections of most bookstores or libraries, it is indeed of the teenage demographic that these novels draw readers. Similarly, both books contain and emphasize particular concepts although they exhibit varying symbolism and society portrayals. Written in completely two different styles with two absolutely different worlds and narratives, both stories hold a context within media today and play a role in how society is viewed. “Divergent” and “Hunger Games” are both dystopias with tragic, crumbled society’s affecting the youth of the world in which they live with it’s drastic consequences. Portraying similar themes and concepts such as youth rebellion where they try to salvage crippled society. Containing strong female roles with Katniss and Tris, short of Beatrice, both are drawn to be independent and still manage to display...

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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer My Rating: 5 of 5 stars Goodreads Summary:   Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got on our dinner plates? Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales justify a brutal ignorance. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, huge bestsellers, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told--and the stories we n...

    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert                                                       My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Goodreads Summary:  When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. I remember trying to read this book a few years ago and being completely and utterly bored the entire first chapter; so much so that I didn't even have the courage to pick up the book to finish it. However, this time around, the picked it up to due another book The Censorship Effect: Baudela...

Rapture Practice : A True Story About Growing Up Gay In An Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler My Rating: 4 of 5 stars Goodreads Summary:   What happens when the person you’re becoming isn’t the one your family wants you to be?   When Aaron Hartzler was little, he couldn’t wait for the The Rapture: that moment when Jesus would come down from the clouds to whisk him and his family up to heaven. But as he turns sixteen, Aaron grows more curious about all the things his family forsakes for the Lord. He begins to realize he doesn’t want Jesus to come back just yet—not before he has his first kiss, sees his first movie, or stars in the school play. Whether he’s sneaking out, making out, or playing hymns with a hangover, Aaron learns a few lessons that can’t be found in the Bible. He discovers that the girl of your dreams can just as easily be the boy of your dreams, and the tricky part about believing is that no one can do it for you. In this funny and heartfelt coming-of-a...

It is often associated with human nature to relate a situation to another or even find symbolism while comparing two ideas to each other; thus, the concept of finding deeper meanings within the use of nature in culture or art is more common that portrayed. For example, similar to musicians using symbolism of nature within their music to display emotion, poets and other artists have been using nature as a means of depicting the human condition since the beginnings of time. Embedding their art with connections to nature, William Wordsworth and Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote two beautiful poems heavily filled with nature references. However, while Wordsworth’s poem developed the theme of nature and its existence within his own life; Hopkins used nature as a connecting point to his greater context of religion. Therefore, the connections to nature itself was stronger within William Wordsworth’s poem, “My Heart Leaps Up” than Gerald Manley Hopkins’s “Spring”. William Wordsworth’s, “My Hea...

The notion that journalists are either bias or seen in a negative light, is  a common one worldwide but particularly in the United States. Painted in red with “bias” practically stamped upon their foreheads, is often how the everyday American views the average journalist. As Andrew Rosenthal mentions (“How Biased Is Your Media?”, 2012.) in the Freakonomics podcast, “Well the purpose of it quite simply is to keep the expressed opinions of people who are journalists… journalists who express their opinions out of the news columns. It is to avoid the contamination of news with opinion, not the other way around, obviously, because there is lots of news in opinion writing. And that is to maintain the independence of the news report”; thus elaborating and differentiating editorials from news reports, terminology this generation is usually unfamiliar with. While older generations read the newspapers, the younger generations of today are often only familiar with technological news, common...

Well this morning, friends, Heather picked me up and we went to Austin Peay to get ready. I had some errands to run so we did that before meeting up with Brittany at the library. At 11:15, I went to my Media class where we turned in our essay's and talked about our journals (for the first time, I went up in front of the class and presented.) At 12:10, I was supposed to go to the Foy to do Upper Body Burn with Heather, but I was wearing my work clothes and wasn't up for the hassle afterwards. So in stead, I got ready for work, waited for Heather to come out of class, and then went to Starbucks to get some coffee, Soy Latte. At 2:15, my mom picked me up to bring me to work at Opry Mills.

Well today was interesting... This morning I completely forgot Heather and I had yoga, so when she texted me saying she was on her way, I frantically ran out of bed trying to get my life together. Then we sped to yoga since we were going to be late, and the class was absolutely full! But it was nice. Then we took quick showers and practically ran to Stats to make sure we wouldn't be late. We were only late by a minute so it was fine; we also had a quiz at the end of class so hopefully that went well... Since neither of us had breakfast but wanted to work out, we went to Einstein's to get some bagels before going to the gym for chest day. Afterwards, Heather, David and I went out to Burger King for lunch (we got veggie burgers) and then stopped by Starbucks for some coffee, making it just in time for my Science Olympiad meeting at 2:30. Then, I decided I should get some homework done so I did until I got picked up at 5. (: