The Shout

that particular friend often enjoys going to parties. Once able to see things like this about people, one may feel like a part of their lives, and know more about others that would not otherwise be discussed. Users of Instagram can also use the app to elevate their mood. Everyone likes compliments and enjoys to feel loved. Think of that time you randomly received a compliment. How did it make you feel? Now Imagine there was a way to feel that on a regular basis. On Instagram, you encounter that feeling quite often. The comment feature of the app allows―and possibly even promotes―its users to leave nice comments. And it doesn’t just end there! Users are also able to give other accounts shout outs, which means telling their followers to follow an account. In turn, the person receiving the shout out gains followers, thus also increasing the amount of likes received on pictures. And the higher your follower and like counts get, the more popular you feel. Furthermore, Instagram is popular is because of the good “marketing” the interested buyer’s peers give the product, and humanity’s general willingness to conform. When people who use a popular product tell you good things about it, they get you interested. Personally, I found out about Instagram through a good friend, then decided to look into it because other friends of mine also started using Instagram and telling me about how cool it was. Because of all the publicity and how many good things I heard, I decided to look into it…

Anita Ross Professor Jordan EN201 19 October 2017 "Shout" By Dagoberto Gilb A Historical Criticism There are many stories written about growing up in tough economic times and the struggles faced by blue-collar families. This semester I had the pleasure of reading a story that stuck in my mind as one of the better ones. In “Shout”, Dagoberto Gilb pulls from stories of his childhood, his Mexican/American upbringing and the economic effects of the “Regan Recession” to portray a…

Dagoberto Gilb’s short story “Shout” addresses the idea of a life full of struggle. It begins with a guy struggling to open the door to his house. After moving to the states from Mexico, losing his old job, and losing the duplex apartment that they had lived in for years, they had to keep the door locked on their new apartment because they didn’t want the baby to get out into the bad neighborhood they now live in. From here the day just got worse, he had been working all day and was hot and…

Poems are majorly filled with content that has an underlying meaning opposed to what is initially perceived.Simon Armitage is able to describe an experience of an old friend committing suicide to the audience in his poem “The Shout” through the use of allegories and metaphors along with intentional line breaks to assist this point. The poem “The Shout,” strategically commences by alluding to the fact that the boy the author is describing was someone that he did not remember or know well,…

Edward Humes vents his disappointments about the juvenile justice system in No Matter How Loud I Shout. As a counselor and teacher of juvenile delinquents in LA County, Humes depicts huge numbers of his experiences. He talks about the general juvenile justice system in the United States, yet additionally limits it down to the system of his district as he depicts one year of cooperations with seven delinquents. All through, Humes brings up a significant number of the weaknesses that he has gotten…

Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar, Evans is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies. Nicholas Thomas Wright is a leading British New Testament scholar and retired Anglican bishop. In academia, he is published as N. T. Wright,…

When I first started reading ‘No Matter How Loud I Shout’ by Edward Humes, I didn’t know what to expect as I have not learned a lot about the juvenile justice system. After reading it though, I would say that what I’ve read has taught me a large amount of what really goes on in the juvenile justice system. Although there are several things I learned by reading the Humes book, three of the main things I learned is that the juvenile system doesn’t really work, there are programs which do help…

changed the way they perform in school. Two female students named Alicia and Octavia shared that every test they have to get at least one wrong, so they don’t look perfect or insanely better than others. Another situation is a Philip Atkins, where he told his honor roll sister and friend that, “The best way to avoid trouble is never to get all the answers right on a test.” It is insane to think of a place where students purposely try to get answers wrong, just so they don’t show their…

Edward Humes’s book, No Matter How Loud I Shout, follows the life of seven teenage boys who are working their way through the juvenile justice system and also serving time for their crimes. No Matter How Loud I Shout provides a clear and vivid picture in readers mind about the juvenile system and how it operates. It shows readers how unjust some situations in court can be. Humes spent a year researching California’s juvenile justice system and his book was inspired by his experience. In this…

In the novel No Matter How Loud I Shout, author Edward Humes’ addresses the dysfunctions of the juvenile justice system. For a long time, most people did not even notice that the juvenile justice system is dysfunctional in any way. Once people did notice, they would tend to only focus on the child’s age when a serious crime takes place. This creates the notion that states need to lower the age of children who may tried in adult court. This notion is an ineffective tactic to try to reduce youth…