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School, also called King Middle School. The organization implementing and fully funding the project is the Edible Schoolyard Project (ESYP), which used to be called the Chez Panisse Foundation until 2011. The ESYP is a nonprofit organization started by Alice Waters the owner of the Chez Panisse Restaurant. The organization is involved in many different projects, but the first project was the Edible Schoolyard project in Berkeley. The ESYB program officially began in 1996 with its first…

Meta: Alice is a character whose abstract nature has insured her immortality. Alice’s Wonderland brings the classic tale to the reels; will you peer through the looking glass? Alice’s Wonderland Review Pretty much everybody is familiar with the famous book Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll’s seminary work has been a feature of pop culture for virtually the entire duration of its existence, spawning a whole franchise as well as a famous Disney movie. Naturally the creators at 888 Slots saw a…

Cats are crazy, silly creatures that tend to engage in odd behaviors such as going from being extremely grumpy one second to being unbearingly affectionate the next. They also like to eerily watch us while we pee in the bathroom and knock over things while looking straight into our eyes without a hint of guilt. Cats do the most random things that either make cat haters roll their eyes in frustration or make cat-lovers love them even more. However, there is one cat mystery that baffles even the…

forms of context, which Abbas and Rahman describe in detail, we are able to understand and therefore appreciate these jokes. They state, “Without the background knowledge of the real world, a reader would not have been able to consider the world of Alice as ‘Wonderful’” (Abbas 9). Without our existing schemas, Wonderland could be any ordinary place. Additionally, Abbas and Rahman’s article elicits reflection on the way readers of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland think about, or, rather, do not…

Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, reflects the feminist theory throughout the novel. Characters narrate the novel from different point of views to help understand the story of the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, and the hardships of growing up as a young black girl. The eleven-year-old fails to get help because of the suffering from other characters, which eventually contributes to her fate. The feminist theory is presented by Pecola’s desire to be beautiful, black women resisting…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…

“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, is a short story of Mrs. Johnson and her two daughters, Maggie and Dee, whose personalities are total opposites. Mrs. Johnson states that Maggie was the chosen daughter to receive the two hands- stitched quilts since she sees heritage as memories of past people in her life and understands how the hand-stitched quilts should be put to “everyday use.” On the other hand, Dee received an education and is modern; she left behind her quiet rural town life and adapted to…

The book that I have chosen is called Jenius The Amazing guinea Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Brain Floca. This book is a chapter book with seven chapters, but even though it is a chapter book it has pictures along with it. This book is a very funny book about a little girl and her guinea pig. This little girl named Judy had two guinea pigs and one day they had one little baby. She had told her class she could train a guinea pig and she was made fun of so she thought this was the…

The Lovely Bones The book I read was The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold. The book was published in 2002, and is 328 pages. In 2009, Dreamworks production company released a movie based on the book. The Lovely Bones is based on a true story. The book and movie are similar, but the movie dodged many details with it’s fast paced intake. It was set in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, in December of 1973. On December 6, 1973, Susie Salmon was murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey. Mr.…

Response to Literature The author, Kate Chopin, wrote a short story titled “The Story of an Hour” which took place in the Mallard family around the 18th century. In the short story, the main character, Mrs. Mallard experiences freedom rather than experiencing loneliness after she learns that her husband was dead. She also had a heart condition which played a big role to the end of the story. Mrs. Mallard did not like her marriage because she didn’t want her husband ordering her what to do all…