The Character Of Hayley In “Confectionately Yours” The main character in my book “Confectionately Yours”, written by Lisa Papademetriou, is a girl who likes to bake and find out how to do new things everyday. Hayley’s dad has big plans for an untraditional family thanksgiving- with his new girlfriend and her parents, which she is not looking forward to. She spends most of her time at the shop.…
The book we read was The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. One word that could be used to describe the main character, Charlotte Doyle, is brave. Charlotte had a fire burning inside of her that she learned to tame. Being on the Seahawk helped her let that fire grow.…
Did you know that important life lessons were made throughout the book and the movie, Devil's Arithmetic? In 1999, Donna Deitch made a movie version of Jane Yolen's novel Devil's Arithmetic. The book and the movie are both set in Poland, during the holocaust. In both versions, Hannah gets transported back in time to the the holocaust. Throughout the movie of Devil's Arithmetic, what happens to Hannah is very similar to the novel by Jane Yolen.…
In the book Anthem being like everyone else is what they want you to be. They don’t want you to be your own person and they don’t want you to make your own decisions. They want to pick everything for you, and to be honest, who could ever live like that? Being like everyone else would be boring and nobody would be unique. The first consequence of not being an individual is not being able to pick what career field you go into.…
Ben Zimmer’s article entitled “Chunking” from the September 2010 issue of the New York Times, raises the question: should collocation education be used to teach English? The article focuses on the importance of chunking and how useful it is in teaching and developing others in the language of English. Zimmer uses his son as a prime example of how kids of his age unknowingly pick up myriads of chunks, “or idioms,” throughout the span of their childhood; he explains, “As Blake learned these pleasantries… I wondered how much-or how little-his grasp of basic linguistic etiquette is grounded in the syntactical rules that structure how words are combined in English” (133). Besides this example, he cites other phrases such as “Won’t you come in?”…
Wellness Headline I have always had a profound passion for babies, thus it is not a surprise that this story pulled on my heart strings. The story of these ladies is truly informative and can be extremely beneficial for whomever decides to have a child one day. Count the Kicks is a campaign formed by a group of women from Des Moines, Idaho who endured the loss of a child “associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as stillbirth” (Kilen, 2017), or decreased fetal movement during the pregnancy process. When this group of ladies started to form, they all discovered that other mothers who informed them that they too had endured the same hardship prior to them also included women who had babies die in the 1960s, a time when it was kept a secret.…
The fugitive slave act was designed to catch runaway slaves and return them to their masters. However, people didn’t always comply to that law which in return gave the slaves what they wanted which was freedom. We know that the fugitive slave act was part of the compromise of 1850. This gives us around the exact years this story would’ve occurred.…
Flawlessness, the most unattainable thought in which we all pursue to achieve. Many are obsessed with perfection. In our attempts, we utilize compulsiveness as an instrument to impart the most astounding gauges or execution conceivable. This approach to accomplishing our objectives has positive and negative results. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story The Birthmark, he exposes how Alymer, a neurotic perfectionist (a person who strives for unrealistic goals and is dissatisfied when the task is not achieved), deals with his wife’s flaw.…
The author Laurel Holliday in Seattle Public Library’s Exclusion Rules Disproportionately Push out People of Color argues that SPL discriminates against non-whites. To make her point, she has selectively used the term “excluded” without throwing light on our safety versus access issue in an appropriate manner. As per Holliday, “break one, and you can be “excluded” (SPL’s chosen term) from all of its 27 branches for up to two years”, but she fails to explain that we resort to protecting the rights and safety of Library patrons, volunteers, staff, and property with our stringent Rules of Conduct. Exclusion of any patron is enforced in a fair and reasonable manner and not “without the benefit of counsel, the ability to present witnesses or even being able to plead your case in…
The concept of perfection is something that cannot be reached or can be achieved because if you have nothing to redeem then you have nothing to gain. Just as a caterpillar is to a butterfly, redemption is to success. Although they may seem like opposites, they actually are very much alike because you need one to have the other. One must recognize a fault that they have suffered and learn from it to better one’s self and eventually teach it to others. The idea of redemption through failure because perfection will not help one’s worth is evident in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Simon Armitage and in modern day society.…
“The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story that carries an important moral. In the story, Aylmer sets out to achieve perfection. He does not consider the consequences of his actions due to the fact that he is too overtaken by reaching ultimate, physical perfection. He is obsessed with his wife’s external appearance to the extent that a small birthmark, considered beautiful by many, deeply bothers him. He wishes to remove it because he believes that it spoils her otherwise perfect beauty.…
Many people assume that conformity is such a marvelous thing,but what is conformity? Conformity is when you are a follower you don’t do thing alone. You always have a leader and followers. Usually when you see someone do something you like you would copy them or get what they have because you would think people would form a mean opinion. Conformity is not the way to live in society.…
Summary and Response to “The Rules About the Rules” by Stephen Carter Honesty comes from within. Many people throughout the world lack integrity. Even I have battled the evils of lying when I told my professor I was sick when I was not. For someone to have integrity, Carter suggests that people must go through these stages to achieve integrity: they must discern right from wrong, informed action, and verbalize one’s intent. First, to be a person with integrity, you must discern right from wrong.…
The Courtier. What is perfection? Is it a God; a beautiful and successful person like Beyoncé; is it being who you are and loving yourself; or is there no such thing as perfection? The word ‘Perfection’ may as well be a myth, something for us humans to look up to as a role model.…
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson was about a community lost in a tradition that they refused to let go, no matter how violent it was. The tradition was that each year, on June 27th, the people of the small village would gather in the town square and draw a name of a person in the community that would be stoned to death to help with their future crops. The unlucky “winner” of this year was Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson. Tessie Hutchinson was a selfish women who hid her terrible ways behind her title of a house wife and mother and ultimately payed the price of her own abandonment.…