You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…
Basic Information Nine-year-old Louise Belcher is the youngest of three children. She is a fourth grader who attends Wagstaff School alongside her brother and sister. With an ethnic background of French/Canadian/German/Greek, she is a lovely young lady with jet-black hair and fair skin, it is clear who her parents are. Today, Louise has been brought in by her school counselor Mr. Frond, who is worried about the safety of the school. Client History and Background -Family…
6. How do the townspeople react when one townsperson speaks out? When a person dares to speak out against the Hangman, their fellow villagers are quick to shun this outcry for fear it will turn the Hangman against them as well. They remain quiet once that person is acknowledged by the Hangman without ever realizing that they could save everyone by simply standing as a group instead of allowing the Hangman to torment them.…
Lorena Ervin is a vibrant 16 year old,senior in high school, with a passion for theater. She has been performing on stage for 7 years and this will be her 16th production. Lorena has been performed at Lake Wales Little Theater previously in the shows Grits and Gravy and Diary of A Wallflower. In the future, Lorena strives to become a mental health therapist or a Broadway Actress.…
Throughout the story of Maus, Vladek (who is a Jew) established multiple ways to get himself and others away from various forms of danger during the Holocaust. Since he discovered ways to overcome his problems, he has a growth mindset in the view that he was always overcoming challenges. Furthermore, Vladek placed effort into his works which displays his growth mindset. In the story Maus, many challenges arise for Vladek, from his everyday life to his life during the Holocaust.…
The Beautiful Struggle is about the personal experience of Ta-Nehisi Coates and his brother Bill growing up in West Baltimore. The book takes place in 1980s Baltimore during the Crack Epidemic and explores issues of survival, morals and family. The book is a coming of age story that looks at multiple perspectives. Ta-Nehisi is a boy who isn’t cool, doesn’t understand the rules of the street, and generally doesn’t apply himself in school. His brother Bill on the other hand, is known for being cool, charismatic, and street smart.…
Becca Bruss, a student at Wabash Middle School, is lonely. She’s wanting someone who is daring, mischievous, but sweet. The perfect man is out there somewhere. Like Robin Goodfellow! He has all these qualities.…
Melba Pattillo Beals is one of the Little Rock Nine Kids who had written a story about what happened during integration. She had to find her strengths when she was chosen to integrate into Central High School. She had found out how to find her strengths from different sources, such as her family, her religion, her friends and other African-American leaders. She had many times in her life at Central High School to find a strength on her own. Such as when the white girls in the girls bathroom through fireballs at Melba and trapped her in a stall.…
Julia means youthful and charming. Doing more research I found out that the name Julia defines someone who is a romantic, someone who is tough, bold and acquire a ton of leadership strengths. Making the connection to the character Julia in the novel 1984, I believe that all of these qualities fit flawlessly well with her personality. The term ‘youthful’ defines Julia really well since she is young; only 27 years old while Winston is 39. In addition, there were many descriptions in the book that complimented on how beautiful Julia was, even Winston noticed how charming she was numerous times; “The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all around him.…
The main female character, Meg Murry, is a complex person, in A Wrinkle In Time. This character acts wildly at school, and is very protective of her brother, Charles Wallace. I can say this for many reasons. I realized how protective, after beating up a boy that was making fun of Charles. Meg also had a strong bond with her father and was devastated when he disappeared.…
Everyone has a Story Final Walking seems like an easy task, but in Kathy’s situation, it’s the very opposite. As she walks through the grass to the car, she loses her balance and topples to the ground. To some it is funny, to others it is embarrassing, to Kathy it is an everyday possibility. This is just one example of what her challenge has limited her from doing. Kathy Shilt is 73 years old and was born on December 7, 1944.…
“If someone loves you for what you can do then it’s flattering, but why do they love you? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them” this sentence was said by Roxane Coss. Coss is a lively, compelling character who balances all that symbolic things while being provocative as a person in her own right. She has a center stage personality which means she likes to being noticed, but she is really wise. Coss is flattered by her fans’ admiration, and she enjoys it.…
Many studies show what personality traits can affect schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash Jr. showed an interesting personality trait that amplified his schizophrenic disorder. According to Capps (2004), his narcissism not only intensified his schizophrenia, but it helped in his recovery or repression of his schizophrenia. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, attempts to convey the life of Nash in a way that is understandable to all. The movie begins while he is in graduate school at Princeton University and it goes throughout his life, showing his falling in love with his wife, the birth of their first son, and his first admittance into a mental hospital.…
A Not-So-Silver Lining The stigma of mental illness is as follows: crazy eyes, a lot of violence, mood swings every two seconds, and not a lot of friends and family to help. But, there are multiple factors and explanations for why a person is the way they are, and why they developed the mental illness that they did. Pat Solitano, a middle-aged white man with a lot of great qualities, was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He had a wife, a great job as a high school history teacher, and was living comfortably in the middle class.…
Being the youngest in the Sober Living, I live at, it’s like I have six moms and/or older sisters. All of the women have inspired me with their recovery and learning a new way of life, as so am I. One of the ladies I live with Tiffany P. (for anonymity reasons can’t write her full name; she is in a 12 Step program as I am) is a Hawaii-born lady, straight from Honolulu, Hawaii. The reason why I’m writing about her and not the other five ladies, is because our story starts in Acton Rehab almost nine months ago. We both learned how to live clean, and trust me it’s not rainbows and unicorns, but, it’s a journey we both take still to this day together in our sober living. I look up to her and she guides me in the right direction because there is…