The Red Tent

autism and developmental disorders. The red flags with communication include delay in or lack of speech, speaking with odd voice, tone, rhythm, or pitch, echolalia (repeating words or phrases), difficulty initiating or sustaining conversations, and incongruent facial expression and verbal content. The red flags with social skills include lack of interest in other friends, not sharing interests or achievements, and difficulty reading social cues. With behaviors, red flags include engaging in…

After a long and a frustrating day at school, you still have soccer practice to go to. What do you do? Oh wait, a can of RedBull should get me through the practice. But how good of a decision is this? It is a fact that energy drinks do give energy, but is it good for the human body? Energy drinks come in a tall cans with many different colors and a catchy slogans that grabs many teenagers attention. We see them all over the place like commercials, billboards, radio and even school cafeterias.…

In retrospect, I remember opening the refrigerator and was about to take a sip of that red bull. Out of nowhere I heard someone called my name really loud; “Leeeee!”. My father was the one who yelled at me and quickly took the red bull away from my hand. Even until this day, I never knew why he took away the away and won’t let me drink it. I always thought he yelled at me because he was attempting to protect his drink from me; from drinking it. As I grew up, taking health class made me realized…

thoughts and feelings the story is told making it seem very real. 2. I think the paragraph from The Red Badge of Courage makes the reader feel like they are actually experiencing the events. I think this is because in the passage from the successes and failures of Chancellorsville there isn’t any dialog between characters like there are in the one from The Red Badge of Courage. Also what The Red Badge of Courage has he describes things like gun locks clicking making it easier to get a sense of…

Operation Barbarossa On June 22 1941 Russian troops heard rumbling in the distance within a few hours millions of Russian troops were on the run the biggest operation in World War 2 had just been launched.These words paint a clear picture of Operation Barbarossa. According to Historian Sid Moody theses words are as true as could be. Moody states that the lives lost were completely unnecessary to the Operation causing millions of deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Operation Barbarossa is…

Being raised as 1 out of 5 children by a single mother, I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the sacrifices my mother has made to be a great parent. And I feel that the only way to show my gratitude to her is by becoming successful and being happy with the decisions I make in life. In the passage “The Good Daughter,” Caroline Hwang gives an account of the obligation she felt when it came to repaying the sacrifice her parents made of moving from Korea to America for her. The main idea in…

The development of one society is, to an extent, determined by the influences certain leaders have on the people in the times of hardship. It is simply a concept that is to convince a certain group of people to strive towards a specific goal or mission. Whether a Prophet, King, Writer, Leader of War, or a simple boy in society, they all can have an impact on ones society and forever more change the way people live in years to come. Isaiah was a Hebrew Prophet that lived about 700 years before…

Even though the hosts do not solely report on baseball, the opinions they hold are valued and worthwhile to the public. These opinions can show the public what some players are truly like. For example, Todd Frazier, ex-third baseman of the Cincinnati Reds became known for giving back to the city of Cincinnati in huge ways. Intentional Talk was the first and one of the few talk shows that reported how this man donates not only his money, but also his time to the city of Cincinnati. Cincinnati…

Hitler And Communism Adolph Hitler is usually a name that when mentioned is usually associated with death, hate, and suppressive dictatorship, but it can be surmised that without Hitler, Europe was at a great threat of the spread of communism. It is well known that many European Democratic countries were willing to sell themselves out to Hitler to try and stop the spread of communism. It is also said that if Germany was to fall to communism, the rest of Europe would fall shortly after. In fact…

Archetypes are elements of certain emotional complexes found in the unconscious minds of all human beings, charged with the potential for good and evil. This very theory is depicted in literature which expression and form pertain formal patterns of meanings from dreams, myths, and legends. A theory that comes up in stories that we read or movies that we have seen highlights the components of a good tale through the use of character development, setting, and moral lesson. Critics and proponents…