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Fiona Chen, Prelude English 10, Block 2-1 FLIP Journal entries, Term 1: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Entry 1: The Power of Jazz Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford mainly takes place in Seattle during World War II. Despite the international poverty, animosity, and discrimination during this time, there was one thing that seemed to connect many around the United States: jazz. It is considered to be one of the first forms of music originating from the…

You nail it into our heads like you nail bullets into our brains, you set us ablaze with ice and fire until all we know is agony, consumed by your words but we can't say much for fear you'll kill us, beat us, 'cause any news we see of us are only of our ghosts. We are not your toys and we are not we are not your over-dramatic shopping buddies and we are not your excuse to be like that. You take the love away from this earth and let everyone else cower before you. You let us cower before you. You…

During World War Two, Germany was mostly under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Before Hitler received his dictatorial power, he was the leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party and later the Chancellor of Germany. He ruled Germany through totalitarian means. Hitler promoted German pride and anti-Semitism. He also frequently expressed frustration with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and widespread unemployment in 1929 (History.com).…

Now we will discuss some of the average milestones, developmental skills, and tasks associated with children from 3-5 years old. These standard guidelines are to assist us to evaluate where a child might be, in comparison to his or her age with peers of their own age. The anticipatory guidelines are not always cut and dry but do give us an idea at what level the children are on and how we can relate, teach, and communicate with them the best, on their level. When looking at a three-year-old…

Q1.2 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth to 19 years. A (1.2) there are major theories of child development and these are known as grand theories; they attempt to describe every aspect of development, often using a stage approach. Others are known as mini-theories; they instead focus only on a limited aspect of development, such as cognitive or social growth. These are the following milestones/guidance which again can be reached at different rates/times. There…

Introduction This essay will examine the different ways in which Roman culture is detectable archaeological throughout the landscapes of both Campania and Etruria. Through the different archaeological, techniques epigraphy, ground surveys, Roman architecture and excavation we will discover that Roman empire was busying itself and expanding it influence. For this discussion, one will look at Pompeii in Campania, Cosa in South Etruria and Volaterrae in North Etruria and will find that there is a…

Day 6: Koblenz, Germany I will spare you the tedious travel details and go directly into the one sight we saw today, Marksburg Castle, high in the hills. It looked like something out of a children’s book, with a yellow facade and tall towers trimmed with red. It wasn’t originally built for residence, but for defence. It turned residencial unexpectedly, so consequently it hadn’t the tradition comforts. The rooms were tiny and lacked significant decor. Most of the rooms were dedicated to arms, or…

The Berlin Wall On August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall had been placed; Berlins demise was now imminent. The Berlin Wall was a major result of Cold War tensions. “From the 1940s on Germany itself had become a monster of the communist-capitalist conflict. It divided West Germany into the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ and the smaller East Germany the ‘German Democratic Republic’.”(Taylor,1) It divided a city from the outer world and completely separated family and friends. At the end of World…

of the people who were thinking this did not end up homeless, but some did. Some people who didn’t think this also ended up homeless. Cabrini-Green did not need to be torn down because it left some people homeless. In Ben Austen’s article, “The Towers Came Down, and the Promise of Public Housing Down With It”, he tells the story of a woman named Annie Ricks was one of the last people in Cabrini-Green before she was forced to move out, and when she moved out, she had nowhere else to go, so she…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) is a story about a photographer on his last week of recuperation from his last assignment where he was severely injured on the race track taking a picture of the wreckage. While recuperating Jeff has come into the deplorable habit of people watching his neighbors outside his rear view window, while watching he suspects one of his neighbors to have murdered his wife. Not being able to provide an eye witness account to what he believes happened he has his…