My project consists of a PowerPoint with slides that contain images and text that visually represent “The Hate You Give” by Angie Thomas. These images include colors and symbols that allow the audience to see the meaning and purpose of the text. These images are also placed in a chronological order that allow the audience to experience danger, violence, power, unity, and corruption as the story unfolds. Overall, the author, Angie Thomas, wrote the story to present events from a perspective of a Black teenage girl to help see things through a different telescope. The second slide contains an image of the cover of the book.…
This author would recommend this book to any University of North Texas Applied Technology & Performance Improvement (ATPI) graduate. This author realizes, as the book outlines, that changing old habits is a hard thing to do. Consequently, this author would go as far as to recommend “Crucial Conversations” be added as required text for LTEC 4741, Technology, Performance Improvement Capstone course to ensure University of North Texas ATPI graduates know how to talk to people after…
Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School by C.J. Pascoe (2007) is an important piece of sociological research about the intersection of sexual identity and masculinity in adolescent males. Though ten years out of date, and sidetracked by the topic of female gender identity, this book provides an in-depth look at the behaviour of teenage males within educational institutions. I would recommend this book for people who interact with children and teenagers on a regular basis, such as educators, athletic coaches, and parents. This essay explores three sociological concepts that are prominent in Pascoe’s book: queer city life, Marxism in relation to education, and hidden curriculum.…
Hurd 1 Jacqueline C. Hurd Professor Hendrickson Govt 2305-43502 31 March 2017 Book Report The Party is Over by Mike Lofgren In America, when presidential elections are nearing, we experience happenings, most of which had remained hidden from us. Most of these happenings take the form of propaganda, where political aspirants come up with or reveal shocking details concerning other aspirants. Although some of these details remain speculations, they add to the anticipation that comes with presidential elections.…
Max isn’t allowed to visit Freak right away, and he’s really frustrating him to the point that he’s going crazy. While Max wanders around the hospital, he runs into the Fair Gwen, who gives him a big hug. She later takes Max in to Freak’s room, but Max isn’t prepared for what he sees; tubes and wires all connected to Freak. But Freak is still Freak and is playing the Star Trek theme song with his tracheotomy tube. Max asks when he will be coming home, but Freak replies saying that he won’t be coming home in this present condition.…
The Gathering Curiosity, it is seen in everyone, it is part of the human brain. The thing about a story that is full of curiosity is that it is hard to get bored and easy to get lost. Maya is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a small town, Salmon Creek. Salmon Creek is a medical research town as well as very small containing approximately only 200 people, which always makes new people interesting to the town. We see Maya and Daniel who is her best friend thinking a lot about the mysterious death of their friend Serena.…
“Unspeakable Conversations” by Harriet McBryde Johnson and “An Animal's Place” by Michael Pollan are both amazing stories about life and death. With the question, to what extent is it possible to define what makes a “good life” for humans and other animals, it’s difficult to find the right answer if there is one. There is no doubt that animals don’t have rights in the traditional sense, or in any other sense. Should we live with the same concept for humans born with mental illnesses? Singer’s arguments are strong but though some illnesses may lead to a person being stuck in a vegetable state of mind, we must understand that anything is possible in this day and time.…
In the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman has some major issues with the new television culture we are now actively living in. In his book, his main goal is to convince us that if we live in a culture where what we attempt to communicate is highly affected by its medium, and that television is an extremely specific and exclusive medium, then our interpersonal communication will then be negatively affected by this. He would then argue that we do, indeed, live in this type of culture. He does this by teaching us about the “peek-a-boo” culture, the effect of television on politics, and on the effect of television on religion. Postman describes the changes in our culture by explaining what used to be, in print culture, and comparing it to…
Summary Slaughterhouse Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, details an account of the life of protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Told through a third person limited point of view, the story does not follow the traditional chronological pattern of storytelling, but rather is told through a number of flashbacks and instances of time-traveling that occur. Born in 1922, Billy Pilgrim grows up in Ilium, New York. He performs decently well during high school and ends up enrolling in the night classes taught at the Ilium School of Optometry, but although a scrawny-looking kid, the United States Army drafts him during the Second World War. He trains in South Carolina as a chaplain's assistant where he then is shipped off to Luxembourg to be deployed with an infantry regiment.…
With statement 1 I strongly disagree because people should have be stereotyped by just where they lived crime can come out of anyone no matter where you live or where you are from I have seen many police stories and news shows on small-town have crimes I personally think small towns can have just the same as big city places have crime , On statement to it states that traditions and should not have gotten I agree and I also disagree I love following traditions in my family and I think it's very important but some traditions are great to just be left behind If we follow traditions like we used to do then we'd still be Getting punished like we getting physically punished like we used to do in schools I don't know about you but I would not like to be part of that tradition,…
The book I chose to read for the third quarter is called “The Anybodies”. This book was written by Julianna Baggott (N. E. Bode). I was excited to read this book because the cover looked very interesting and it seemed like a book I would be interested to read. This book is about a girl named Fern who was switched with another baby at birth and she lived with a very boring family, the Drudgers, her whole life. Eleven years later, Fern’s biological father comes to their front door and the families agree to exchange their kids for the summer.…
In Anne Lamott’s article “Shitty First Drafts,” she believes that every good writer should write shitty first drafts because the writer will produce better second drafts and “terrific third drafts.” she said when you write your shitty first draft, just write whatever you have on your mind because no one is going to see your first drafts. She said it is okay to make mistake because you don't get better if you don't try it and mistakes make you better. All writers struggle to write shitty first drafts, but they never give up. After you’re done reading the first draft, start revising your first draft then begin to structure into the second draft.…
A Perfect Red discusses the search for the “elusive” red dye and the impacts of the color red with a Eurocentric perspective. The book begins by providing a historical overview of the color red. Several cultures have displayed strong religious, psychological and political affiliations with the color through out history. Red was considered sacred to many ancient cultures, and appeared in funerals and religious ceremonies. Some societies associated red with magical powers and its ability to cure illness and ward off evil.…
- Regularly people win a good prizes, and a lot of money. I do not who was the lucky winner, but I think the winner of the lottery in this assay does not won money or a different good prize. 2.)…
Divergent is a Superb Movie Summary By. Maverick R. McEntire Director Neil Burger did a good job remaking the book into a motion picture which is called Divergent it's about a woman named Beatrice who chooses what faction she will be in. The Factions are Abnegation (the Selfless),Dauntless (the Brave),Erudite (the Intelligent),…