Israel-Gaza Conflict

There was an article in The Lancet called "An Open Letter for the People of Gaza" that discussed the oppression and slaughter of innocent Gaza civilians by the Israelis.  It was written by doctors and scientists that were trying to gain awareness for the problems going on in Gaza.  The article speaks about The blockade Israel has put around Gaza, the terroristic attacks on Gaza civilians, and the war crimes being committed by Israel.  There goal in writing this article was to get as many people to understand the issues going on and join their cause to help the people of Gaza and denounce this Israeli aggression.  Although not everyone was too intrigued by the article.  A response letter that was written by a reader of the article named Bruce Marmor described this article as "inacurate" and "prejudiced".  Marmur was appalled that this was published in a medical journal considering it is concerning political issues.  He says in the letter that the writers show no sympathy for other countries having similar, or worse, situations.  He completely contradicts the article and says that we should sympathize with the people of Israel who are being attacked and persecuted by Hamas.

This is the article:

 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61044-8/fulltext

This is the response letter:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61191-0/fulltext

Analyzing Literature

I am honestly not a big reader, I never really have been.  I have dyslexia and it took me longer than most kids to start reading.  Although I have read books on my leisure before, there have only been two that I truly enjoyed.  The first was Eragon, and the second was The Giver.  I later ended up writing a literary analysis over The Giver in high school and it went very well.

Writing a literary analysis is not quite my favorite type of writing but I have never found it to be a problem.  If I really enjoyed reading the book that I am going to be writing about then the analysis is not bad, in fact I sometimes find it fun.  It allows me to really evaluate my thoughts and ideas about the book, and is like a blank canvas that I can lay out my opinions on.  One assignment that I found very difficult was writing an analysis of one of Shakespeare’s works.  I had this assignment for my high school English class my senior year.  I did not do very well on this project; I have never been a fan of Shakespeare because I have never been able to truly understand his stories (textually or symbolically). 

During my Composition I class here at KSU I did a literary analysis of an excerpt from a non-fiction book.  I found this to be somewhat boring, although I did have a strong opinion on the ideas of the excerpt making it easy to write about.  I believe the Module 9 analysis I will be doing over A Sound of Thunder will not be too big of an issue because I find the theories and ideals of the book very interesting.