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a major role in how ishmael acts as a soldier even though junior and ishmael were separated. for example when ishmael was going to reunite with his family just before he got there it was burned down causing ishmael to want to avenge his brother. Esther is a nurse at the rehab and has basically rehabilitated ishmael’s emotional outlook on the war. she has done this by bringing him back to his childhood through music and getting him to write down his feelings when…

“Shells” by Cynthia rylant this a realistic fiction story that is about a boy named michael that’s parents died and he is not believing that he can still live his life. Also he lives with his aunt esther and she is really does not know what michael is going through at the moment in the story and also wants to get rid of him by calling orphanages to see if there is room for another kid. Michael struggles being away from his parents that died and passed away, one way he struggles in paragraphs 6…

Donald Hall retells his grandfather’s stories about Washington Woodward in his essay, “A Hundred Thousand Straightened Nails”. Washington is a short and strong man who seems to have a life as monotone as his voice. He ran away early in his life to start working. Unfortunately, he was a slow worker that did not care if it took weeks to complete a simple task. All in all, Washington was a man of habit that had a certain way of doing things. For example, his sense of fashion rarely differed from…

Book Report The book A Long Way Gone by: Ishmael Beah is about himself and how he becomes a boy soldier during a war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael was a boy who performed in a rap group with his friends until Ishmael’s village was attacked by rebels. During all of the confusion and violence performed in the war, Ishmael Beah, his brother, and some of his friends walk to different villages to search for food and shelter. Although their struggle to get food for survival led them to attack young…

Dr. Armin Tehrany has once again shown his love and support for the movie industry. The second movie Dr. Tehrany is proudly part of called “Thirst Street” is set to have the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month in the US Narrative Competition. For this highly, Dr. Tehrany gladly joins the movie team as one of the executive producers. The “Thirst Street” is an intriguing retro-style psychodrama directed by Nathan Silver, and written by Silver and C. Mason Wells. This…

than their parents in a smaller amount of time and are pressured by their peers and those in the media. Simple exercises can make a difference in young people's lives that will help them in the future. In "Exercise Builds Brawn - and Brains" by Esther Landhuis, studies recently led by Audrey Duarte and her team have shown that young people who do 20-minute sessions of leg exercises are able to recall images about 10 percent better than those who don't (Landhuis…

Although “Johnny Tremain” by Esther Forbes and “No Promises in the Wind” are different in many ways, they both give a historical commentary of the hardships young people endured in life. “No Promises in the Wind” also conveys a message of how people, especially children, experienced life in the Great Depression (1929 – 1939). The book “Johnny Tremain” depicts the life of a young man in search of a new career after a mishap, which resulted in a hand injury. The main character had an extremely…

The film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete and the memoir A long way gone have many similarities and some differences. The main character of the film is Mister, a boy whose mother is an addict and is taken to jail. While his mother is gone Mister must take care are a young boy and survive with no food, no money, or sufficient shelter. The main character of the memoir is Ishmael Beah, who is a boy that has to become a child soldier to survive during the war in Africa. These events take…

Chronicles. Though in some schools some of his books are banned, in others it is required reading. Bradbury was a very achieved author. Inspiring young writers everywhere to “Live Forever!” just as he will through his work. On the 22nd of August 1920, Esther Moberg Bradbury and her husband Leonard Spaulding Bradbury brought to the world the famous author Ray Bradbury. As Bradbury grew up he absolutely adored magicians, fantasy, and adventure. (“Ray Bradbury Biography.") Eventually, at age 12,…

Brain Pathways When I say “macaroni,” you might think “cheese;” when I say “peanut butter,” you could possibly think of “jelly.” Often people refer to blue as boy’s color and pink as a girl’s color. You normally think that these things would coincide because we often see them together. This is an example of the pathways that the world around us has engraved in our brains. Researchers interested in neuro-pathways conducted a study on a group of dogs. At meal times, when the dogs would be fed,…