William T. Anderson

her Mother, Grandfather, and her cook Eliza. By the time the fever epedemic breaks out, Mattie has to be strong in order to survive. Anderson uses descriptive words and sentence varitey to show the theme of the story; bravery. The author creates this lesson to show that someones bravery can save an entire city. The theme in Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is bravery. Eliza, Mattie, and Stephen Girard all show multiple acts of bravery. For example, Eliza along with Mattie risk their…

lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone I don’t even know.” ( Anderson 17) Melinda cannot stop biting her lips. She wants to stop but she cannot do it. She does not recognize herself anymore. Symbolism can be used in so many ways in a book and it can have a lot of meaning in the novel when you use symbolism. Mouth and lips have the greatest impact in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson because it shows how she expressed herself throughout the story. First and…

Trees in Speak In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, a young girl named Melinda is raped at a party over the summer and calls the cops. The party is busted and everyone blames Melinda for ruining the fun, even though they did not know the full story. When school starts again, she is friendless and bullied. Nobody knows that she was raped; they think she called the cops because people were drinking. Melinda rarely talks because she is afraid of what people will think when she speaks. The…

heather “she collapses into the chair again. ‘You have to help me’ Me:’no, I don’t.’” Speak is a novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson about traumatized 9th grader with a dark past. People having a voice for themselves. In speak Melinda is never really has her own voice except in her art. But one time when she really has her own voice is when she said “no” to heather on Pg(Anderson 177-179), because it was a really big turning point for her and it made her feel like she really had a voice.…

Melinda’s surrounding of people creates her fears of speaking out about her rape case. At the beginning of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the freshmen are gathered up together in the auditorium, where she see’s her ex-best friend, Rachel, “This was the girl who suffered through Brownies with me... If there is anyone in the entire galaxy I am dying to tell what really happened, it’s Rachel. My throat burns. Her eyes meet mine for a second. “I hate you,” she mouths silently. She turns her back to…

happened to her and why she called the cops at a party with lots of high schoolers that summer. Her ex-best friend Rachel, who understood everything about Melinda, now hates her, and Melinda feels like an outcast. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda randomly chooses trees as her art project for the whole year, and is expected to find herself; with no idea how to bring her trees to life, she faces many struggles and different media, and as she begins to grow her trees begin to…

You are facing a choice that will alter your entire life. It can be difficult to make these kinds of choices, but everyone needs to make these decisions at some point. While you do seem to be having fun at your resort job, I believe that pursuing the nursing degree program will make your life better in general. It may be challenging, but the satisfaction and rewards from achieving your goal will be worth it. From a purely ethical standpoint, pursuing higher quality pleasure or happiness usually…

The etiology and pathogenesis of RA are complex and multifaceted. A range of predetermined (genes) and stochastic (random events and environment) factors contribute to susceptibility and pathogenesis.(kelly). The initiation of RA probably begins years before the onset of clinical symptoms. This process involves certain specific genes that can help break tolerance and lead to autoreactivity. It is likely that the earliest phases are marked by repeated activation of innate immunity Cigarette smoke…

present in exocytosis of mast cells which play important roles in late- phase inflammatory response. The mast cell is a source of cytokines such as IL-1, -2, -4, -5, -6, TNF-α (85). IL-1 functions to grow T-helper cells and B cells with its proliferation whereas IL-2 influences the proliferation of T lymphocytes and activation of B lymphocytes. IL-4 helps to differentiate B lymphocytes into plasma cells secret IgE. With TNF-α, IL-4 regulates the expression of both high- and low-affinity IgE…

This particular research document will provide a thorough investigation into the various components that revolve around; those individuals who have are corrupt with power. Furthermore, this particular document will showcase several different variables when making an assessment with regards to power and corruption. The different variables being highlighted that will be critical in making a connection between corruption and power are as follows. One needs to understand, does the amount of power…