Summary By Karen Vyverberg

Everyone has heard of the American Revolution or the Revolutionary War. The war that astonished mankind in the fight for Independence. This unforgettable war was fought in the year of 1775 and ended in 1783. This war brought confusion and chaos and we praised our first-hand soldiers but forgot about the women who also fought mentally and courageously. In a book written by Carol Berkin called, “Revolutionary Mothers,” she acknowledges the women for their drudgery during the war and explained the roles they took on in place of their fighting men. She also examines examples of the hardships these women went through during and after the war by giving insight into their lives separately.

Anthropocene is a term used to describe earth’s history including when humans dominated a majority of natural processes globally. Anthropocence was a term used throughout the article to discuss the impact humankind had on the environment that caused many changes that had a negative impact over many years. Another term used was anthrones, the human footprint, which describes how much human kind has made lasting impassions on the earth. These terms have made me come to the realization anthropology operates at the crossroads of social and physical sciences, along with humanities to examine the diversity of humankind across many cultures and time.

Credibility: Melissa Denchak has a culinary diploma from New York City’s Institute of Culinary Education. She is a freelance writer and editor. She have also contributed to many magazines such as fine cooking and adventure travel. Also, NRDC is an organization that was founded by law students makes this article credible.

The book I read is called All The Answers by Kate Messner. The main character in this book is the curious, yet anxious, Ava Anderson. This book takes place in a few different places in the same, unnamed, small town. They include a school, Ava’s house, a retirement home, and an obstacle course. The part in the story that gets it put in motion is when one morning Ava needs a pencil for a math test. While she is rummaging through the junk drawer and finds a blue pencil. When she gets to school and starts her test, there is a question she is clueless about. She write on her paper, using the blue pencil,” What is the formula for finding the circumference of a circle?”. Then she hears a voice tell her the answer. Later that day she is asking the

Witness by Karen Hesse brings 1924 Vermont, and the horrific events that occurred there into life with her award winning book Witness. She shows what it would be like to live in vermont under the oppression of the K.K.K. One of the ways that she achieves this is by telling the story through several citizens in a vermont town. Hesse’s most significant skill as a writer is creating believable characters.

The story of “Survivors”; written by Kim Adonizio tells a perspective of a homosexual man who ponders the issues of dealing with his dying lover’s family, while having to fight with societal pressures alone. They both have contracted the AID’s virus and he has a possibility of dying first. The irony in this story is that this young man wants to die first. He finds that dealing with the societal pressures of homosexuality is too much in a world that is much less accepting of the LGBT community in 1995. Society has already placed a strain on those that are heterosexual, so the amount of abuse that a homosexual person may feel can be great. Adonizio presents these many issues the gay community deals with in society in a very tightly pack paragraph. Although this story is short, it causes the reader to be faced with many different occurring themes. These themes are very easy to miss sense they all hit the reader seemingly at the same time. The central theme of this story is that some homosexuals dealing with the pressures of society face child abuse, unacceptance and early death.

Chapter eight of The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz focuses on sexual reproduction in the United States. In this chapter, Coontz claims that the root cause of higher sexual reproduction rates in teenagers in the past rather than now is a result of cultural changes and advances in technology such as birth control and other mechanisms that prevent unwanted pregnancy.

Cheryl Fahrenholz throughout chapter 7 discusses various laws and acts that govern electronic health records and includes medical and clinical documentation guidelines. I picked five of these terms that I believe are the most important. They are Clinical documentation, Medical record analysis, Electronic document management system, Data Collection and Deficiency Systems.

The author Nancy Isenberg begins by introduce Tomas Jerson background history. Jefferson was a part a class position and a gentleman farmer. For Jefferson that ideal of America society was one of farmers large and small. He also was a supported for the education and free hold status for the lower class to level Virginia’s large class disparities. He called the new western domain an empire for liberty by which he meant something other than a free market economy or a guarantee of social mobility. He will encourage agriculture and forestall the growth of manufacturing and urban poverty that was his formula for liberty. But his reform efforts were come to stop, as powerful Virginia upper class did not had interest of raising up the lower class.

The essay, “No Sympathy for the Devil”, written by Heather Havrilesky, is about the concept of antiheroes, and how much of an impact they have made on modern media and the characters hollywood choose to create. For many years, most of the TV and movies made had a cookie cutter, almost perfect hero(s). But as of late, the entertainment industry has come to the realization that people with pros and vices, are much easier for the audience to relate to. Heather’s goal is to dive further into these antihero characters, and unravel what exactly makes them so relatable. In the process of explaining to us all of these different, complex characters, Havrilesky seems to get lost in her topic from time to time. However, the evidence she uses to back all of her claims is both plentiful, and very strong. The overall tone of the essay is not excessively opinionated, yet she does not sound

Julie Powell, the author of her own memoir, was a distraught secretary working at a bureaucratic organization led primarily by Republicans in order to build a memorial to the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. To further this misery, she was told that she may be unable to have children in the future. After hearing this news, she and her husband Eric went to her mother’s house in Texas where Powell found an old copy of Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking which reminded her of childhood memories of sneaking looks at and moments with books about sex and cooking she knew she should not read. She was inspired by these memories to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s historic and expansive cookbook, in one year.

Since the last time I have journaled, I have finished The Art of Racing in the Rain and started and finished the book Her: A Memoir. The Art of Racing in the Rain finished with the main character, Denny, finally getting custody of his daughter and ending the yearlong battle that he endured. Enzo dies at the end of the book, but the story alludes to him coming back as a child to visit Denny. Christa Parravani’s Her: A Memoir is a memoir written by Christa after her twin sister, Cara, dies. It shows the struggles the twins endured together throughout their lives, including an abusive father, Cara suffering a brutal rape and embarking on a path of drugs, depression, and overdose. The novel also shows how Christa reacted after Cara’s death, following in a similar path as her sister. The three merits I enjoyed most about this book were how extensive the

“Eugenie is 20 but is shy like a much younger girl—she giggles when you ask whether she wants to get married. Maybe it’s because she’s the youngest of nine children and lives at home in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with her parents.” In Lauren Wolfe’s interview with Eugenie about her experience with violence in Congo, she says that:

think “Flounder” by Natasha Tretheway has a deeper meaning beyond a child fishing with her aunt. For example, the child may have a white father and black mother. Therefore, he or she is conflicted by each identity and has an inner conflict over which to showcase. Her aunt states, “You ’bout as white as your dad,/ and you gone stay like that” (3-4). This demonstrates that the child has some aspects of her identity that resemble her white father.

Continuing the discussion of how the human is defined, using the example of representations of gender and sexuality, it is important to note Butler’s counterintuitive argument that understandings of human are produced through inaccurate representations. Butler believes that “For representation to convey the human, then, representation must not only fail, but it must show its failure”(Precariousness 144). Use of the word failure in this sentence somewhat misleads the reader. In this instance representations that “fail” could be said to be successes. Butler believes that “there is something unrepresentable that we nevertheless seek to represent, and that paradox must be retained in the representation we give”(Precarious Life 144).