Straight

The novel, “Aquaboogie” by Susan Straight, depicts the art of survival through various short stories by piecing together the adversity that each character faces. Substantially, the aquaboogie is a euphemism for dancing under water, meaning that an individual can still make something out of their strife just as how one may “dance” under water to keep from drowning. Each story within this novel introduces a unique character dealing with their own internal struggle and, in progression, they learn…

A lot of people till this day think that the “Scared Straight Program” is very effective. During my research on the program multiple sources says that it’s a good program because of how inexpensive it is to get these juveniles in these programs, in some states it only cost a dollar each participant. Based on the research the “Scared Straight Program” it has succeeded because it gets the attention of the youth, especially with it being on television…

“Life Almost Straight” a phrase that could be used in quite a few people’s lives to describe a multitude of scenarios, however, in the instance of using it in a high school English class to title a series of articles and images, it really only comes down to a few meanings. One of these would be in reference to graduating and heading off to college. This period is almost the biggest case of “get your life in order” that one could have in their time here, and considering some of the articles are…

and manipulating for centuries is the appeal to fear in order to use as the best motivational force. Fear is the best motivational force and these forces can be found in the non-fictional article “Scared Straight”, Jonathan Edwards’s sermon “sinners”, and the TV episode Scared Beyond Straight. For years people have tried using scare tactics in order to persuade someone to believe something or change their mind about a decision they have/ or is going to…

in their community. Throughout the years, there had been many prevention programs to help at-risk youth. Most of them were successful. However one of the programs that were not fully successful to help youth was the Beyond Scared Straight program. The Scared Straight Program was established in the 1970s. It was used throughout the U.S in order to deter juvenile crime. The program is a visit for at-risk youth who get the experience of being in adult prisons. The experience involves tours of the…

Openly Straight exhibits the destruction unfavorable labels can inflict upon individuals. While readers attempting to cope with their sexual identity may find this novel enlightening as they endeavor through the process of removing themselves from the pigeonholes other’s have relegated them to. Rafe’s belief that the only way for him to succeed in this world is through the concealment of his sexuality: proving to be the weakest point of this novel. Whereas Rafe’s English teacher is truly the…

originated in the aircraft industry (Wright, 1936). This study introduced the straight line power model which states that the cumulative average time taken to finish a specific activity decreases by a constant rate whenever the number of repetitions is doubled. Later, in the 1940’s, after World War II, the learning curve received more attention. At this time, the Stanford-B model was introduced as a modification of the straight line power model (Stanford Research Institute, 1949). In 1946, an…

Openly Straight Rafe is the main character in this book. He was a great writer and he played soccer, but nobody paid attention to that. They only paid attention to the fact that he was gay. By telling Rafe’s story the author is giving the message of being yourself. During Rafe’s ninth grade year, he came out to the whole school. After he revealed that he was gay he was surprised to find he was treated differently. Some of the changes were good, like his soccer team stopped saying “gay” as an…

think that the way people act is shows how they were raised and what you have been through, people change when they go through a hard time in the life like divorcing parents, drug headed parents, and even no parents. In the tv show “beyond scared straight” the kid says 2 hours cannot change a lifetime of broken families and drugs. But in them 2 hours it makes kids think about the hard times in there…

The introductory text is titled “Life Almost Straight” because generally the idea of something being straight is that it’s perfect. Like a perfectly straight line. However life is almost straight, not perfect, and will never be perfect. These texts are written in a way that explains this in a way where the real meaning is hidden you just have to find it. The three best texts that show this are “College Should be an Adventure”, “Peanuts” comic strip, and “Sorrow Teeming with Light”. These texts…