Non-Fiction Book Group Purpose

[blo...@fthamiltonhs.org]

1. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: Why did the author write this book?

2. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

[JIA HUANG WEI]

1;"Without them, this sun-snaring ---this Manhattan Project --would not have achieved its objective and because of them a new age was born that wounld change the world forever."

   Apparently, author emphasises "them" and relationship between "them" and Manhattan Project,therefor the reason author write this book probably is to exhibit the significance of "them"due to Manhattan Project.

2;"I wish I could include each and everyone of them in these pages,but I cannot ......i feel exceptionally luck to know those who continue to live on, and miss those who have passed sinve i began working on this book."

   Here clearly shows the way author plan to accomplish that goal---- find them ,interview them and write about them.

[WEN BIN CHEN]

The excerpt that I think answers the question: Why did the author write this book? 

Why do we find "traditional" societies so fascinating? Partly, it's because of their human interest: the fascination of getting to know people who are so similar to us and understandable in some ways,and so unlike us and hard to understand in other ways.

The reason that I choose this excerpt for this question is: This tell us the author want to talk about the traditional societies. because the author was using this to attract our interest.

The excerpt that I think answers the question:  How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

That is ,the world of yesterday wasn't erased and replaced by a new world of today:much of yesterday is still with us.That's another reason for wanting to understand yesterday's world.

I choose this excerpt to explain my view because I think the author talk about the question: yesterday is important and we still can learn something from yesterday.So we need to understand yesterday's world. So I think the author with pay attention to this(talk about yesterday's world first and than talk about today's world.) to accomplish the goal.

[HAI LUN MEI]

1.Why did the author write this book?
P10 :" Be sure you read everything you sign! You might sign your life away!" she said. Celia had responded with the customary"oh mom..." But she had, nevertheless,read everything that she had signed. It all seemed natural to her somehow,as though the absence of detail implied the job's importance.
From this except, i think author wants to explain the women are how brave and how important in that time. the brave of women already over than the man , in that time, America need the women to helping to win the war.

2.  How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?
from Introduction: I wish i could include each and every one of them in these pages,but I cannot. I hope those who find themselves only in the acknowledgments will accept my thanks in place of my prose. I feel exceptionally luck to know whose who continue to live on, and miss those who have passed since I began working on this book.
in here, author is clearly to talk about how does she plan to accomplish that goal, she wants to refer to everyone,then feel exceptionally luck to know whose continue to live and miss those who have passed .

[YIWEN JIANG]

1.Why did the author write this book?

“without them，this sun-snaring--this manhattan project--would not have achieved its objectives，and because of them a new age was born that would change the world forever.”(from introduction）

From this except, I think author wants to explain the women are important in that time.  the author think if the women did not help for that time, America will not look like today.

2.  How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

 “I wish I could include each and every one of them in these pages,but I cannot. I hope those who find themselves only in the acknowledgments will accept my thanks in place of my prose. I feel exceptionally luck to know whose who continue to live on, and miss those who have passed since I began working on this book.”（from Introduction）

From this except,  I guess author plan to accomplish that goal, the author already found some information，and will began to write about them.

[JIA YIN HUANG]

1. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: Why did the author write this book?

 

"Without them, this sun-snaring—this Manhattan Project—would not have achieved its objectives, and because of the a new age was born that would change the world forever." ( from Introduction)

Based on this excerpt I can explain why the author write is book. The author writed this book because she wants to reveal the real fact of the Manhattan Project. This excerpt shows the adventurers who played most important poles in the Manhattan Project. Denise Kiernan writed this book to tell the reader something we don't know before.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

2. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

 

"A number of there women—and men—still live in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, today. I have had the fascinating and humbling privilege of meeting them, interviewing them, laughing and crying with them and hearing firsthand ther tales of life in a secret city while working on a project whose objective was largely kept from them. " & "I wish I could include each and every one of them in these pages, but I cannot. I gope those who find themselves only in the acknowledgments will accept my thank in place of my prose."( From Introduction)

We can see from first excerpt, the author went to Secret City to interview those adventures. Firsthand imformation about thier past. She did her best to write almost everything she knew from them in her prose.  

 

[YING ZHOU]

1)What did the author write this book?

 "I hope that you readers as individuals,and our modern society as a whole,will similarly find much to enjoy and adopt from the

  huge range of traditional human experience."(p.466)

The world of yesterday wasn't erased and replaced by a new world of today:much of yesterday is still with us. That's the reason the author wanting us to understand yesterday's world.How the child-rearing,treating elderly,avoiding non-communicable diseases,and dispute resolution play out in the same society.Thousands of traditional societies developed a wide array of different approaches to those problems.The author encourages us to adopt from  the huge range of traditional society.

2)How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

"Instead, for practical reasons I have selected among topics and society for coverage,in order to produce a book for readable length.I picked nine fields for discussion in 11 chapters,in order to illustrate a spectrum of the ways in which we can use our understanding of traditional societies."(p.24)

The author accomplish the goal by using some examples,New Guinea is the one of those examples that really does contribute a disproportion fraction of human culture diversity.It's the exclusive home of 1,000 of the world's approximately 7,000 languages. 

[MING SHI ZOU]

1. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: Why did the author write this book?

" Some argue that the most obvious origins for supernatural beliefs come from the different forms of religion--from traditional organized ideologies to various types of New Age mystricism that appealto gods, angel, demons, ghosts,or spirits." ( form prologue )

In this world, there are much things humans can not explain. The author anlyize the supernatural beliefs, hunman beliefs and behavior. This excerpt is one of supernatural beliefs. the book examines the ways in which humans understand the supernatural, revealing what makes us believe in the unbelievable.

2. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

" For example, a pattern made up of four pies with a slice taken out each one is usually seen as a white square sitting in front of four dark circles, our mind even fills in the missing edges of the square on the bebween the pies. But the square does not really exist. " pg10

In this book, the author use many examples to prove his idea, and Objective description why we believe in the unbelievable.

[XIAOYAN ZHANG]

Mr.L

one excerpt that answers the question: Why did the author write this book?

Without them, this sun-snaring - this Manhattan Project -would not have achieved its objectives, and because of them a new age was born that would change the world forever.

     Through this excerpt, the reason of author writes about this book is that the author wants us to know about the life before the World War II and after the World War II, how those amazing women work together to change the world, to help their country. She wants people to know about those who work in obscurity.

One excerpt that answers the question:How does the  author plan to accomplish that goal?

For the young adventurers, male and female, who traveled to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War II, doing their part meant living and working in a secret city........I did not only learn about life on the Manhattan Project. I also found myself taken aback by their dedication to the preservation of history. I wish I could include each and every one of them in these pages, but I cannot. I hope those who find themselves only in the acknowledgments will accept my thanks in place of my prose.

      Through this excerpt, the author describes that there have a lot of people include the adventurers, chemists, statisticians,nurses and physicists to work together to achieve their goal, she is proud of those people. They all come from different places to a city not found on any map. She will reveals most of them that impresses her.

[XIN YANG]

Why did the author write this book?

 

"Without them, this sun-snaring—this Manhattan Project—would not have achieved its objectives, and because of the a new age was born that would change the world forever." ( from Introduction)

 

According to this excerpt, we could know the anthor write this book for telling the readers the importance of unknow women during the WWII. What did they do and how did they change the world.

 

 

 

How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

 

"A number of there women—and men—still live in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, today. I have had the fascinating and humbling privilege of meeting them, interviewing them, laughing and crying with them and hearing firsthand their tales of life in a secret city while working on a project whose objective was largely kept from them. " (From Introduction)

 

According to this excerpt, we know the author was going to meet and interview these workers to get the firdthand their tales of life so that he can write the true story of them to tell the readers something about them.

 

[PANG YEN WU]

Why did the author write this book ?

excerpt:What can we learn from traditional societies?

This excerpt just show us that this book the author want to discuss the traditional societies and what can we learn from it.

How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

we hold long conversations,laugh at the same jokes,share interests in children and sex and food and sports,and find ourselves angry ,frightened,grief-stricken,relieved,and exultant together.

the author took his heart to the high lander chat with them share things with them laugh at the jokes with them the author want to use this ways to achieve his goal

[ZHI YI ZHANG]

 1. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: Why did the author write this book?

This book's subject is,potentially all aspects of human culture,of all people around the world,for the last 11,000 years.However. that scope would require a volume 2397 pages long that no one would read.(PG 24)

By understand this excerpt.Meaning of the author to writted about this book is to discuss the world untill yeasterday.From the rock time to now.why people change the way to eat.why people change the way to wake,and also how people behavior.i think this is also the reason why the book is call The World Utill Yesterday.

 

2. Post and explain one excerpt that you think answers the question: How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

This book contains 11 chapter grouped into five parts,pluse an epilogue.(PG 28)

Author divided book to 5 parts,that help the people more easy to understand the fact and his message.First part will be focus to consisiting of the single chapter one.Part 2 will conprises three chapters on dispute resolution.part 3 will consis of two charpters and about oppsite ends of the human life cycle.part 4 consists of two chapters on dangers and our responses to them.Last part is tree chapters on three topic central to human life and change rapidly in modern times. 

 

[JUN HAO FENG]

1.Excerpt:  “That is, the world of yesterday wasn't erased and replaced by a new world of today: much of yesterday is still with us.  That's another reason for wanting to understand yesterday's world." p.8

                  Also, in the title of the book  The World Until Yesterday,  What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?    

  Explanation: From this line and the title, I think the reason that the author write this book is that he want to inform us about the traditional society and show what can we          learn from them.

2. Excerpt:  "  In this book I shall occasionally use Elman Service's division of human societies into four categories of increasing population size, political centralization, and social stratification: band, tribe, chiefdom, and state." P.14

    Explanation:  From this excerpt, I figure out that the author want to accomplish his goal by separating the traditional societies into different pieces and going over them one by one.  Thus we will understand the book and answer the question that is posed by the author.

[ZHAO FENG TUNG]

1) Why did the author write this book?

"That is, the world of yesterday is still with us. That's another reason for wanting to understand yesterday's world.

   In this excerpt can show that author want to know the yesterday's world.

2) How does the author plan to accomplish that goal?

"In this book I shall occasionally use Elman service's division of human societies into four categories of increasing population size, political centralization, and social stratification: band, tribe, chiefdom, and state."

 In this excerpt author show that he will separate into four part to describe the population.  

[KUNJUN JIANG]

"In The Science of Superstition, cognitive psychologist Bruce Hood examines the ways in which humans understand the supernatural, revealing what makes us believe in the unbelievable."
In this excerpt, it's talking about the author is using some ways to tell readers what make people believe in supernatural.

"This brings me to the second explanation for beliefs that I want to draw to your attention."(7)
Author use examples to tell readers why people believe in supernatural.