This One's for the Girls

John Grisham’s Bleachers captures the insight of American football in small town Messina. Every Friday night, Coach Eddie Rake and his Spartans storm the field preparing for battle. Anyone with a heartbeat attends the games. To the Spartans and their fans, the football field is a sanctuary and the bleachers are its pews. The Spartans are worshiped. They were given the special treatment and, “during the season, each football player could eat once per week at Renfrow’s at no charge” (Grisham 62).…

People with anorexia see themselves as fat, and try to fix this themselves by self-starvation and excessive weight-loss. People suffering from anorexia are usually very skinny and underweight. “Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents” (ANAD). This means that anorexia can not be prevented by vaccines or medicine, and once diagnosed, no medicine will make the disease disappear. The person suffering has to overcome this mental disease on their own. The next eating…

had this concern for their reputation were, young teen Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and his wife Elizabeth Proctor. Towards the beginning of this story a woman of the name Mary warren come into play, a group of teenage girls had sworn they had seen her practice illegal witchcraft acts. When this assumption got out, they were taken to court, Ms. Warren stated and promised that she had never done such a thing, but the teenage girls, including Abigail williams promised Judge Thomas that this…

and one that is continuously growing. A fixed mindset allows the mind to settle for one’s first nature, it allows for no room to grow and sticks to what is initially given or shown. To those with a fixed mindset believe that we can achieve a certain thing in that moment or that it is not possible. While attending my previous school I often found myself being caught up in a fixed mindset. I was surrounded by many girls that possessed the same amount of talent, knowledge,…

When beautiful images from the merchants of consumer dreams flood one’s computer screens, or when the ugly or unpleasant sounds of the world can be shut out by one’s MP3 music player, then one’s vision, one’s perception of reality, one’s desiring can also remain shallow. When one can become “friends” so quickly and so painlessly with mere acquaintances or total strangers on one’s social networks – and if one can so easily “unfriend” another without the hard work of encounter…

school boys in their adolescence. Adolescence is a stage in one’s life that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood. It is a point where one becomes rebellious and curious, with a desire to resist or go against authority and eager to discover new things. At this stage, teenagers mostly engage indecent behaviors such as; drinking alcohol, substance abuse, and sexual activities. This stage is the most crucial as it shapes up one’s life. It can either destroy or make a teenager’s future.…

Abigail Williams: The Ultimate “Mean Girl” Abigail Williams serves as the ultimate mean girl; manipulating her friends, telling lies to save herself, and accusing others of death punishable crimes. She does not care what she has to do, she will get her way in the end even if that means others have to die. Abigail serves as the antagonist throughout The Crucible destroying other people 's lives with the only intentions of self happiness. It does not matter who one is, Abigail would throw them…

history. Given that, it can even occur in the everyday lives of the people around you or everyone will have likely seen it happen at some point in their life. It is discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Nevertheless, It can have an effect others to There is some many examples of racism towards all kinds of races’ throughout history, like the discrimination against blacks in America that has been going on for over 100…

balance of emotions and applies logical reasoning to their thinking. The divergent differences stem from the traditional gender roles, which classifies women and men into different categories and classes. For instance, according to “Girl”, Kincaid explains how the girl is expected to clean the house, cook, sew and be submissive to her male counterparts. In contrast, “Even an Android Cry”, Nelson explains how men are perceived to be the ones who are like superheroes with strong mentalities and…

In "Why Kids Sext," Hanna Rosin addresses the phenomenon of teen "sexting," a term which she attributes to the sending of nude photographs. This includes everything from willingly sending a photo of oneself, to sending a photo of someone else to a group of one's friends. Rosin states that this practice has been on the rise since around 2003 and that it became evident that it was a problem in 2009, with a scandal in Pensylvania. Since then, sexting has continued to be a serious issue in many high…