On the morning of August 14, 2017 in AnyTown, USA, on a hot summer morning, 38 year old Anna Garcia was found lying headlong dead at the entryway of her home. She weighed 165 lbs, and was 64 inches or 5’3 ft . tall. At around 9:45am, neighbor Doug Greene reported a concern for Garcia, due to her dog barking for an unusual amount of time. Anna Garcia had last been seen alive the previous morning of August 13 walking the said dog.…
Abigail Schaefer Mr Lucasko Honors Social Studies II August, 27th 2015 Coming of Age in Mississippi Summary and Historical Analysis In Anne Moody’s memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi, Civil Rights plays a large role. Majority of the story takes place in Mississippi during the 1940’s ,with a young girl no older than four or five,named Essie Mae(Later known as Anne Mae). Essie Mae lived on a plantation owned by a man with the name Mr. Carter. She lived with her mother, father, and younger siblings Adline and Junior.…
Ted Talks Write-Up # 1_ I. Name and background of presenter (Approximately ½ of a single-spaced page). The first Ted Talk I watched was presented by author Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch shared her life journey with us and it was heartbreaking and tragic. She grew up physically and sexually abused by the one person who was supposed to keep her safe, her father.…
The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne follows the life of Hester Prynne, a woman living in Puritan America and forced to wear a scarlet letter that represents her sin of adultery. Although faced with hate, Hester manages to rise above it and help others. The novel classifies as a feminist novel because it shows a woman, alone in a world filled with discrimination, battle against society’s judgement and not giving into peer pressure. A feminist is someone who stands up for the equal treatment of men and women.…
It is very clear in my book, Stung by Bethany Wiggins, a constant theme is about character change. This book is about how Fiona wakes up years later from a drug induced sleep, and the world is in ruins. There had been a vaccine for a bee flu, but what people didn’t know was that the vaccine turned people into beasts. At first I thought that this book was just about bravery and how situations can cause you to act differently, but now I realize that this book is much deeper than that. As the main character, Fionna, starts to become braver as the story progresses, I now realize that the situation isn’t making her act out of character, but making her show who she really is.…
Ada Supiel lived an amazing life. She faced many injustices and adversity, but in the end, she persevered through those to live an amazing life. The book tells us of many of the bad things to Ada and people like her. We are told that Ada and her family had to move from their Tulsa community to Chickasha because of racial violence.…
Who Was She- American activist who later became a symbol of the civil rights movement, who at 6 years old was the youngest in a group of African Americans to integrate schools in the south. What- She was escorted to an from school because of violent mobs. She was aware that she was in danger but she stayed strong no matter what anyone told her. Impact-…
She nursed her mother and son in sickness and did what was necessary to take care of her family; all the while being true to her own ethics. She was a complex…
In the book speak I have heard many people say that the main character Melinda Sordino shows more fear and resentment than courage in the book speak. In my perspective she was very brave for even putting up and living life after what had happened to her. Many people would become depressed over what had happened or just given up on life itself but not her and Melinda shows courage throughout the book not in any bold extravagant ways but through her own little examples. In the book when they talk about what happened to her at the party that night she was raped she left the tree shaded area and went back to the house where the party was and called 911 and already that shows courage being able to even try to do something even anything over such a serious thing like rape is so difficult and brace especially for the victim to do.…
Imagine the irony. A brain scientist that had a stroke. My Stroke of Insight is a biography through the eyes of Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. She was a Harvard medical student who had her own experience of what she studies. One day she woke up and realized she something wasn’t right.…
Erica Bohuski History 1203 Dr. Meyer November 13, 2014 The Legend of Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, who later on mysteriously disappeared on her flight over the Pacific Ocean. In modern day society, she is known for her countless accomplishments and successes in the world of aeronautics. Amelia…
Introduction (AGG) Najmah has survived a bombing and lost her whole family except her brother, In the book Under The Persimmon Tree. In this book she will go through hell and back for her family./ (BS-1) Najmah will begin her journey with no loss and experience loss as she goes building up. (BS-2) Najmah has experienced a loss and is changed quickly and adapting to her situation.…
Considering a medical diagnosis to explain my protagonist’s strange behaviour After having spent a while researching the basic construction of writing the project, I wanted to concentrate on building up a distinct profile of my protagonist Anna , particularly about determining the root cause of her unstable mental state. First evidence that something is wrong with her is subtly given away in the very first opening lines of my first chapter: ‘Raindrops; dull thumps of wet splatter my face, slithering down my cheeks in place of what should be salty liquid sorrow whilst my eyes remain dry. Unless someone licks me I’ll be fine. Fortunately sampling the tears of the bereaved isn’t exactly the done thing at funerals.’ That dry humour and the later…
Since the beginning of English settlement in North America, there are many documents that make America as it is today. From the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the United States Constitution in 1787, then come the Bill of Rights in 1791. These documents became the “official” documents of the United States. They shaped America to become the nation of freedom with freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote. However, what happen to documents that are not official?…
Without her doing things her way she wouldn’t have been where she was because she would’ve done what people told her to do. When all her husbands wanted her to obey them she putted up with it for awhile then stopped because she didn’t what to do what she was told. When Joe Starks died she was happy she didn’t care nothing about him. People told her she should’ve been mourning the loss of Joe because he did everything for her but in reality he was cruel and mean to her.…