Lice

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill tells the story of a young girl named Baby with little fortune and a young drug addicted father. Grown accustomed to the constant changes in her living situations and long periods of loneliness, Baby finds herself lacking affection when the other half of her two-person family goes to rehab. This launches her on a quest to find love. Throughout her protagonist’s expedition, O’Neill directly criticizes social institutions by displaying their…

The Hiding Place, an inspiring nonfiction novel written by Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom with the help of John and Elizabeth Sherrill, describes Corrie’s personal experience as a prisoner during World War II. Over two million copies of The Hiding Place have been sold, and countless readers—myself included—have been inspired by this true story. This book tells of the trials and tests the God-fearing ten Boom family faced, and how they continued to do what they felt led by God to do despite their…

Ken Leland, a Vietnam veteran who produced a website about his time as a soldier, recalls his experience. “Vietnam was a nightmare, twenty-four hours a day, and at any time, that nightmare could turn into reality.” He remembers an operation from September 19, 1966 when his squad was ambushed: “I tried to yell out orders, but there was so much firing going on, I could not even hear myself yelling. As I looked back, our company corpsman ran toward us and was shot, got up, was shot again, and…

The in-between place that Lazarus seems to reside in is exemplified in the how he is alive to his mother while he is physically dead. Brik imagines that while the letter carrying the news of Lazarus’ death traveled across the ocean “Lazarus was still alive for her...then she got the letter from Olga and read it and reread it...thinking up misunderstandings that could be undone so he could be restored to life” (Lazarus 74). In this imagining, Lazarus is both alive and dead, while maintaining the…

In Maus II, and Persepolis, Artie and Marjane continuously struggle with their familial and cultural identity. Similar to most youth, they have a strong desire to understand their parents’ values and their ethnic identity. Yet, in contrast, they are trying to cope with severe political unrest that is causing horrific violence and supreme prejudice against their ethnicity and political ideology. They see their parents as “heroes”, but later are disillusioned by their parents’ imperfections.…

Passover recall and celebrate? The events that are recalled and celebrated by the Jewish people are the 10 plagues that God sent on the land of Egypt. The 10 Plagues are: the river Nile was turned into blood, Egypt was overrun by frogs, Dust turned into lice, a swarm of flies came to Egypt, All Egyptian livestock died, Egyptian got boils, The worst hailstorm in Egyptian history struck, A swarm of Locust at all the Egyptian’s crops, Egypt came into total darkness and, the firstborn of all the…

Picture a young girl in rural Waynesburg with her parents and five siblings. The little log house she called home had 2 foot walls and was only big enough for a person to stand in the middle of the room. The papered walls required scrubbing every week because the gas lights spread soot and, sometimes, if the wind came through the windows strong enough, they would shatter. Every day, she would lead the two horses, Pearl and Prince, out to the field to gather up the hay and to plow. She was not…

D1: Play is defined as ' to occupy oneself in ( a sport or diversion); amuse oneself in (a game) '. Play is said to be an innate drive in children as they have always played throughout time. Researchers believe that children are born ready to play and explore the world around them. This is said to be the case because children have played throughout time without the help of an adult and this play could go on for hours without any adult help. Play has not always been seen as innate though, in…

2.5 Describe how to challenge discrimination. Challenging discrimination is a must in any sort of situation. To do this you need to make sure you know your anti-discrimination policy within your school. The role as a teacher or teaching assistant is to protect children and young people from discrimination. If you was to overhear or receive a complaint from a parent or pupil about a discriminatory act that has taken place and you ignore it ,you are giving the person victimising the victim the…

Both of her parents had AIDS. Liz rarely went to school. In one occasion she went to school only three times in one month. Liz got bullied at school because she never showered and itched from lice. Liz had a teacher who once told her, “You are way too smart to not be in here”. The teacher donated clothes to her. Liz’s mother never went to school and her dad seemed to be very smart. Her mother was too sick and her father could not take care of…