Speak

faith. In this report we will be focusing on Chapter 2 of the book, which focuses on the biblical teaching of Revelation: God Speaks. In today’s day and age communication has become a necessity for our everyday lives to run smoothly. While there are many different ways that we as the human communicate, the question of how do we hear God is frequently posed. Does He speak through my spirit, through a holy man, or some ancient wisdom? One of the first things we have to understand is that…

Much like Melinda, in the novel Speak, I have had multiple experiences in which I have been humiliated, frightened, and even abused. Not quite exactly the same experiences, although. I was an anti-social child up until I moved to Walkerton. I had no friends before the move, ever. I was always the kid picked very last, the one who never did anything correct, who had no friends, the loner, etc. I always kept to myself even before I had started elementary school. I never quite fit in, anywhere I…

wants to stop but she cannot do it. She does not recognize herself anymore. Symbolism can be used in so many ways in a book and it can have a lot of meaning in the novel when you use symbolism. Mouth and lips have the greatest impact in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson because it shows how she expressed herself throughout the story. First and foremost, Melinda starts to bite her lip when she remembers that she was raped. Melinda hates to think about the time that she was raped, but…

Cult dialects, text speak (which is over-emphasized than it actually is), and acronyms have arisen from the internet as well. “Do you speak American?” Mainstream English in America is shaped by the middle class women before spreading to other classes. Resistance to such changes can usually be seen in higher-status groups in order…

Speak for Free The right to speak freely among society in today's environment is one of the most valuable rights an individual has as a citizen of country. Freedom of Speech gives the people an open minded thought to freely speak about their opinions on present day situations on what they think should happen. Not only has this right caused problems for past decades, but it proceeds to produce definite events that have occurred throughout history. Although many have taken the law into their own…

Memories are significant in the novel Speak, as well as in the two pieces of literature, The Third and Final Continent and The Art of Resilience. In the novel Speak, horrific memories were used to inform a peer according to the peer’s relationship. The text in The Third and Final Continent suggests that a person’s memories may be used to benefit themselves or others. Finally, The Art of Resilience states that one’s memories are used to seek hidden powers inside themselves. In each of the…

I overall found Zhuangzi Speaks to be a very interesting book with a lot of insight. Even more so, I feel that even though the book was written so many years ago, it still has relevant information and solid advice more the modern day. With this in mind, a story that I though was the most interesting and particularly profound was the story of Zi Gong’s Snow-White Clothes. The story follows two students of Confucius, Yuan Xian and Zi Gong. Specifically, the story focuses on the differences in…

Courage in Speak. What would someone do if something horrific happened to them? Would they call the police and leave the scene without telling the police what happened, making the whole student body hate them, or would they stay and stick up for themselves? Speak, a book written by Laurie Halse Anderson portrays a girl named Melinda, who was raped at a party and later called the cops. After she had called the cops she ran away and the whole student body began to hate her because the police…

dreamed of, and worked for in this life is virtually useless. Our imminent demise will slowly reach out, and one day snatch us away from everything we have ever loved; at face value it sounds absolutely terrifying. However, throughout the book Zhuangzi Speaks, the parables we read reveal to us that the reality of life is death. After actually analyzing and taking his lessons to heart, we are ultimately able to find the way to take comfort in this truth through the teachings of the Dao,…

It all started in English class. I sighed as I stretched, ready for another uneventful class on another uneventful day. Oh how wrong I was. On that day, we were on the first reading of a book called Speak. We began the discussion with a summary of the main character, Melinda. I realized that I related to Melinda. Maybe a little too much... Melinda calls the cops on a party that she went to at the end of eighth grade. Because of this, when she starts Freshman year, she is ostracized. No one…