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In the short essay “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan tells us a story about how when she was younger she was embarrassed by her culture when her mother invited the minister’s family, which included the boy she was in love with, over for her Chinese Christmas Eve dinner. After the dinner she realized she had nothing to be embarrassed about because her culture is who she is. Which isn't something you can change. When I was younger I too was embarrassed by something I couldn't change. Since I was 10 years…

The author uses a lot of figurative language to show what the bullying felt like. Swift uses words like “words like knives” and “like nails on a chalkboard” to shows the words she has to deal and that they hurt a lot. Let it Go deals with loneliness instead an outer conflict. In the text it states, “But the cycle ends right now, 'cause you can't lead me down that road.” The words “ends right now” and…

Analysis of Alma’s Suspense As defined by Oxford Dictionary, suspense is a state of feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. In the suspenseful short film Alma, directed by Rodrigo Blaas, a young girl is lured into a shop containing dolls, including one which looks like her, only to become trapped in one of the dolls. The director’s use of different techniques creates a suspenseful mood for the viewer. Blaas uses sound, setting, and camera work to create the mood of the…

Never Always Sometimes “As long as we don’t get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I’ll be okay,” said Julia (page 17). Julia is one of the main characters in the book the other main character is Dave. In this part of the book Dave and Julia are talking before High School has started. They are talking about how they don't want to be “cliche ” and how they don’t want High School to change them. I chose this passage because I think…

that “words could become as excruciating as rusted nails piercing the heels of her bare feet.” She later learns from Perfecto, the names of the tools that before “made no sense” and were “foreign and meaningless to her as the chalky lines on the chalkboard.” Estrella learned the names of the tools, which gave them a meaning, she reaches for a pry bar and “felt the coolness..and power of function,…

Communication Process Five-year-old girl who has articulation disorder. Child will use a piece of paper, and markers where she will draw a picture about her favorite activity in summer time. During this month, we covered different seasons: Summer, fall, winter, spring. This week, we covered Summer. The book we explored during story time is Summer by Alice Low (hardcover). The students will be divided in two groups, and each student will describe his picture and explain to the class why the…

As technology has gotten better and more console varieties have come out, video games have become a huge part of people’s lives. Over sixty-five percent of households in the U.S., play video games. The average time spent people use playing video games is around eighteen hours per week. Though this is the average, there are larger percentages, especially close to the teenage years and younger. What is so off turning about this though, is that there are beneficial educational learnings within…

In the US going to school is usually mandatory, whereas in Afghanistan simply getting to school is an accomplishment. In afghanistan our classrooms were naked chambers with nothing on the walls except for a chalkboard (Ahmedi 36). To a multitude of people in the US, having a school like this would most likely be frowned upon and shut down. Yet in afghanistan this is perfectly normal, schools who have this much are considered very fortunate. More so than in the…

An atomic model is a proposed idea of what an arrangement of an atom thought to look like. Many physicists such as Dalton Billiard, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Neil Bohr proposed these ideas and made models based on their own ideas. Out of these physicists, Ernest Rutherford’s planetary model is the most generally accepted atomic model. Ernest Rutherford is a New Zealand born son to a Scottish wheelwright and an English schoolteacher. He did well in school academically as a child and…

"It was open --wide, wide open --and I grew furious as I gazed upon it." This quote from the Tell Tale Heart in which the narrator speaks of the old man's eye is just one of the many examples of how he is truly a mad man, a mad man with multiple psychopathic tendencies. He not only killed the old man that he liked so very much because of his sinister eye but he also cut him up into tiny pieces and hid him in the floorboard beneath his feet! The narrator didn't have a heart, he didn't feel…