On March 31, 2017 at approximately 0747 hours I responded to intersection of Franklin Street and Elaine Avenue, Altamonte Springs, Seminole County in reference to found property. Upon arrival I made contact with reporting person Charles Benedetto. Benedetto stated that as he was driving along Elaine Avenue when he observed something shining a tree. he Benedetto stated he exited his vehicle to take a closer look and discovered it was a purse hanging from the tree.…
The book that I chose to read and review was A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker in 1986. Walker's autobiography focuses around her own life growing up in the 1950's and into the 1970's with her family of two other siblings and two deaf parents. Throughout the book it seems as though Walker is struggling with her own identity and how her upbringing around her parents and the environment has ultimately changed her. The struggle of always being depended on just being a child and having so many responsibilities shows through Walker's words a sense of guilt later on in life. With her growing up in a loving home and being her parent's voices she found a cruel world who judged them and labeled them as "deaf and dumb" without…
An idea that I found important in Stephen King's memoir "On Writing" is his statement "stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position." Personally, I found this statement inspiring. Often, I find myself creating excuses which keep me from writing. This is often because I believe a certain topic is hard to write about, or I am not particularly interested in my subject.…
Clarabeth Maire Grainer laid in her bed unable to sleep, she stared at the white ceiling above her as she thought to herself. She eventually closed her eyes and fell asleep, the next thing she knew her alarm was screaming at her with loud beeping. She woke up with a sigh knowing that school started in an hour. She got out of her warm bed and got dressed in an army green sweater, gray jeans, and pulled on some brown boots. She walked out of her room and into the bathroom.…
In the discombobulation of day to day life, all types of people are going to try to knock you down. This hardship was experienced personally by Brenda Roza as she realized that “there may not be that person next to you that's going to speak up for you”. There is no reason for strangers being malicious, to try to knock other people down when they’re not even known to you. Regardless, it is imperative that you are able to defend yourself- just as Brenda Roza did. Having been told throughout her entire life that she couldn’t do certain things, Brenda thought that that being a successful person might be beyond reach to her - impossible.…
Lit a Memoir In the following paragraphs I will provide with a brief review of Lit a Memoir by Mary karr. Lit depicts Mary’s life growing up to be a mother, wife and her issues with drug use. She struggles with drinking and it took a toll in her family and more specifically her marriage.…
Ahmee Henderson When Jenny screamed for us we thought she was hurt but was far from she found 2 campers a big tree and a little river. Gina and I were in awe and when we saw white beef jerky and beans in one of the campers. we were about to pass out and there was a working stove, hose, and a working radio but it was to far to try and get a battery we took our baths with the hose. We ate a can of beans and drank the hose water it was the best water but the worst water hot and salty/gritty feel.…
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates is the story of Connie, a 15 year old Texan girl, and one fateful summer day. Through characterization and symbolism the author shows that often teenagers rush into the fantasy of adulthood, never expecting how real it can get. By using the summer to represent her fall from innocence, music to show how Connie feels, and her habit of checking her reflection to prove she’s still young and insecure- despite how she may act, Oates provides an intense look at how there is always more to what is going on than initially appears.…
To Bring the Horse Home Julie Bruck after Philip Larkin Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive forged from a night when giant ladybugs with toothpick antennae patrolled my wicker nightstand. Yes, I’ve been with horses since, travelled illegally with them in trailers, known certain landscapes only framed by alert ears, and with one in particular, spent whole afternoons with her big jaw heavy on my shoulder. Still, I hatched plots to bring a horse to the house, to ride to school, to pasture one or even three in the garden, shaded by that decorative willow, which could have used a purpose.…
In his article “What is literacy?”, James Paul Gee maintains that the definition of discourse: “a socially accepted association among the ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or ‘social network’”. In the reading, discourse talk into production of goods in a society “dominant discourse” and assent to talk about those groups that have disagreement when using them as “dominant groups”. When people discuss something with other, they are not using their own ideas. At the same time, he goes on to explain that there are many points can make about discourse, such as the direction and significant in term. Important to realize, the author organizes discourse that…
There are good writers and there are good writers who work hard to become better. Mrs. Fiske, my English teacher junior and senior year of high school always told me that I was one of the best writers in my class but I could always be better. Spelling has always been one of my strong suits and I always get bothered when people can’t spell simple words. I’m pretty good at writing essays but I do not enjoy writing them at all.…
In The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy Sayers, introduced a new idea about how we go about education. Miss Sayers thinks we need to change how we educate our people by “turning back the wheel of progress”, to the end of the Middle Ages (p. 1). She suggests that we keep our children in school longer, and teach them to teach themselves. She says this because she believes that our current educational system only teaches kids to do things like read, but not fully understand what they are being taught. This leaves the children vulnerable to the written word because they can only read it, but not be able to tell if it is true or not.…
Kantz conducted the research for this article as a graduate student. Her professor was Linda Flower and one of her classmates was Christina Haas. This is significant because Haas and Flower have a piece in the same book. This tells the reader that Kantz knows what she is talking about because of her credibility.…
I grew up knowing death too well. I was sort of like a modern day Lydia Deetz. Both my parents were morticians and they recall me talking to corpses and singing to the stillborns. I of course didn’t marry a demon but I did happen to wear a lot of black and fully understand death and both it’s beauty…
Strong Woman Would Never Give Up It is a movie to honor a great woman that never give in to difficulties and insist to her career. The Freedom Writers states a strong woman’s voice. A woman could be strong and never give up. At the beginning, we could see the background of the story, it is real, and really happened in America, gang violence could be a horrible threat to people while racial discrimination were terribly happened. And voluntary integration was taken into actions.…