Bridget Jones's Diary

Benefits of Technology Do you consider modern technology advances a positive direction for us to tread or a negative ideal towards a world with less interpersonal communication? Many would argue these advances have more pros than cons. Such as, Kris Axtman, a staff writer at The Christian Science Monitor, in “’r u online?’: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens”, where he discussed how technology is effecting our youth’s communication (247-49). “Note to Selfie”, by American journalist John…

1. Title: Zlata’s Diary 2. Setting/Time Period(s): 1991-1993 3. Write a paragraph summary of the story. Zlata Filipovic is a young pre-teen living in Bosnia. She is an average girl that loves to play the piano, listens to MTV, and plays with her friends in her nearby park. All of that changes on March 1st 1992 when the Bosnian war breaks out in Zlata's home country. As a young girl, she never expected the war to reach her hometown of Sarajevo. When it did, she learnt the lesson of war-…

High School, her yearbook quote was, “When’s this due ?” “Stefen, I love you.” Vampire Diaries, “The Turning Point.” As Sarah watches this show intensely, with the lights off, she hears a thunderous bang. Sarah is home alone, so most people would go and check it out, but she is not in any way intelligent, so she doesn’t. Then another bang, she ignores it,“Stefan, why do I look like her!” Vampire Diaries, “Bloodlines.” Sarah is now crying, because her favorite television couple are having a…

Personally, I have always thought teachers were inspiring and enthusiastic people, recently I have learned not everyone agrees with this statement. Some believe teachers are extremely positive and overly peppy, others believe teachers are negative people that do not care about their students. I have also learned, a lot of these viewpoints come from the media by over exaggerating a teacher’s role or not giving them enough credit. Teachers in the media are portrayed differently than actual…

For example, when Ms Gruwell introduces the book called “Diary of Anne Frank” to the whole class. Marcus reads this book and realises that ordinary people can perform extraordinary things, such as when Miep Gies faced death for hiding “Anne Frank”. She still did the right thing by helping the Frank family. As…

Richard Cory: True vs Apperecur Happiness I was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my family are a middle class family and we are Jews. My father is Otto Frank and my mother is Edith Frank and my sister Margot. I go to a wonderful school and have lot of friends. But my father said that we will be moving to Amsterdam in a week which means I will have to make new friends all over again. A week has past and we are all packed ready to go to Amsterdam i said my goodbye to my…

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, written by Leah Hager Cohen, is a biography of the author who has a relationship with Lexington School for the Deaf and a portrait of two deaf students (Sofia and James) throughout their time at the school. She switches her delivery, telling her family’s story and the stories of the two teenagers to narrate the truth about the deaf world. The book sheds light on the deaf school in New York, the stories of the two students, deaf culture, and various…

The Diary of Anne Frank : Movie V.S. Play Last week, our class viewed the Anne Frank movie, shortly after finishing reading the play. Anne Frank was and still is one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, a dark and bleak time in human history. Many people know of her time spent in the “Annex”, the attic above her father’s office. But many people don’t know of her life before, or maybe even after she was arrested from the Annex. The last week, we studied the life of this young girl in…

Introduction In the film, “Mean Girls”, a young girl named Cady Harson enters the American School system after being home-schooled in Africa. For the first day of school, she finds herself overwhelmed with fear being surrounded by so many teenagers in the school. She was introduced as a new student to the many different social groups, but she was especially introduced as one of the Plastics. The plot begins when Cady decides to take down the group’s leader, Regina George, in order to sabotage…

Introduction The Book Thief is a Bildungsroman of sorts, dealing with the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The odd narration by Death supplies it with a sense of ambiguity that no other book seems to emulate. This novel regarding the journey of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who was given up by her mother in 1939, she embarks a new life living with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the humble town of Molching. Liesel’s journey evokes many mishaps and moments of joy; the book…