The realistic fiction novel Schooled by Gordon Korman, takes place in Claverage Middle School during The early 2000’s. It tells the story of Capricorn Anderson, a middle school aged boy, who must be the middle school president at a school, in a world he does not know. He must fight against Zach the current hot shot at the school to not be the biggest loser of the whole school. In order to achieve this goal, first, he does a speech in front of the whole school and pledges to learn everyone’s name . It was funny when the kids in Zach’s group of friends pull a prank on him by placing a note in the suggestion box to get a bullfighting ring in the parking lot.
World War Video Games In Steven Johnson ’s essay “Games” (2005), he constructs his argument by saying that playing video games is no better or worse than reading, it is simply exercising different skills. What kept my interest in this short essay was the fresh take on the subject on how video games effect young adults. He addresses the audience knowing they will agree with his contrast of the two subjects or take it to be completely true. His explanation of it allows him to reach even the biased of readers to accept the rest of his argument.
Story: Seventh grade In the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto. I will be looking at the plot development in order to explain the story. By plot development, I say that the Exposition of the story in which it introduces the setting and characters and hints at the conflict. At the Rising action, the conflict unfolds and becomes more complicated and builds suspense.
The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez has been reviewed by many newspapers, like The New York Times, The Washington Times and The Guardian. All three start their reviews by giving a summary of the book. The book seems to be about Hispanic/ Latino families living in Delaware. From all of the reviews, The Book of Unknown Americans seems to be a fictional documentary that tells the stories of all of the people, from all across the Spanish-speaking world, living in the apartment building and the struggles they are going through in the United States.
The author Brandon King in his essay on, The American Dream: Dead, Alive or on Hold. Employs many different types of repetition, contras, anomalies and literary devices to help get his point across on why the American dream still lives despite the recession the country has faced where the existence of the American Dream has been questioned. Brandon begins to use repetition both positively and negatively with words such as dead and alive that describe the so called American Dream and where it stands in the eyes of many, although many think its dead for King it seems to be much alive and it’s no longer a rags to riches idea but rather an idea of the potential to, “work for an honest, secure way of life”. He Uses negative repetition to also point
“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor in seventh grade who has a crush on Teresa, another student. Victor likes Teresa so much, he embarrassed himself while trying to talk to her. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is a good book to recommend to middle school readers because it is relatable and entertaining. “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is a good book to recommend to middle school readers because it is relatable. Since “Seventh Grade” is about having a crush, many middle schoolers would be able to relate to this story since middle schoolers also have crushes.
Max Vandenburg, a Jewish man who first appears in front of Hubermann's place as weak and sick. He seems weak at first but he pushes all of that aside. Max also has a deep hatred for Hitler due to his acts on Jews. He spends most of his days in the basement doing whatever he finds entertaining like writing, drawing, or even exercising. Max once wrote a book for Liesel on her birthday by cutting out paper of Hitler’s book and painting them white and drawing the pictures with black paint.
If you are a gamer, then the Evil Geniuses Lair is the place to be. The story, “Grooming the Champions of the Keyboard,” written by Alan Feuersept is about men and their passion of video games. They lives in the Evil Geniuses Lair, or the EG. It is a house full of serious gamers, and Andrew Garfield founded the house. They are probably the luckiest people in the world, they live in their house for free, they get to do what the love for a living (video games,) and they get to live around people who love the exact same thing as they do.
“ I Saw You Walking Away”: Symbolism, Imagery, and Punctuation in Kooser’s “After Years.” In his poem “After Years” Ted Kooser deals with the subject of loneliness. He specifically talks about what he feels happens when somebody walks out on life. In the poem, the speaker is wondering about big catastrophic events happening once somebody he loves leaves him.
Urban legends have been around for a very long time. And they have also become a vile impact on the psychological and historical viewpoint of many people. A reflection of societies fears. Small campfire stories, or even miniscule urban myths to tell a child for their own protection. Psychologically, urban legends seem to manipulate people’s perspectives and in some cases their everyday life.
I have read the book If You're Reading This by Trent Reedy. This book would make a great class novel for many reasons. It appeals to boys with the sports and military talk. It also appeals to girls for the love and romance talk that Mike has towards the girl he likes, Isma. This book has a lot of suspense and you just have to read more.
John headed straight to the living room to play his video game. “When will you ever get off that video game?”asked John’s mother “I should be able to play my games all I want. There’s nothing better to do.” exclaimed John. “You could just read a book or do some chores.”
Additionally, it depends on whether the escapist is able to escape and return in a safe manner with the knowledge of his/her responsibilities in real life. It only becomes problematic if gamers continuously avoid the mundaneness, deny problems of daily life, cannot control their game playing activity, or confuse daily life with the games. It can be shown by the articles written by Steven Handel and Kollar which are contrasting each other; one focusing on the pros of escapism in video games and the other one focusing on the cons. The three articles emphasize the concept of escapism in video games and how it affects the life of an individual. Each paper cites incidents or examples on how video games could influence one's behavior and how it could be beneficial or non-beneficial to that person.
Over the years there has been a big controversy over whether video games are relatively good or extremely bad for children. Video games are super beneficial to a kid’s learning process and have been proven to increase social skills, productivity, and stress. The fear that video games are harmful to a child, is proven through countless experiments that they are actually great for their growth and brain capacity. Video games can increase the social skills in a child, Xbox and PlayStation provide great opportunities for cooperation and competition. Two different studies, one by Katherine Keyes and the other by Vinay Devnath, both have proved that the use of video games can increase the social skills that many children can’t grasp, “Video game playing is often a collaborative leisure time activity for school-aged children, and these results indicate that children who frequently play video games may be socially cohesive with peers and integrated into the school”( Keyes, PhD).
Various games are activities that have been around since the beginning of time has evolved into a technology based forum for all ages called video games. These types of games have become an extremely popular activity and are a big part of a lot of people’s everyday lives. Instead of looking at video games as a leisurely hobby that one plays in their spare time, it is now looked as a positive benefit for people to play. Playing video games are beneficial, according to some studies they can develop cognitive skills, create social connections, and stimulate creativity.
