In the article "Don’t blame the eater" written by Zinczenko, he argues that fast food is the main reason why so many teenagers are suffering from obesity in United States. He explains that many companies will use advertisements to deceive customers. For example, a company’s website offers a chicken salad with less than four hundred calories per serving; however, they don’t label everything that the salad has In the first label. They will use separate labels in the products that the salad has on it, so the costumer gets confused and thinks that he is actually eating a four hundred calories salad that is "healthy". However, he is actually eating a seven or more hundred calories meal.
The conflict of English learners being in mainstream or private classes has been raging for decades. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is a work of historical fiction. First Ha, her three brothers, and her mother were forced to leave their home country of Vietnam due to the war. They have to face this hardship without the support of their father, who was captured by the Communists and disappeared many years before. Then they travel on a boat in terrible conditions to a refugee camp in Guam.
"Running for His Life" In the story "Running for His Life", Michael Hall explains the genocide Gilbert Tuhabonye experienced when he was in high school in East Africa and how he managed to escape and relive his life in Austin, Texas. Tuhabonye's teachers and the Tutsi teenagers were burned alive and beaten to death by friends of theirs. A couple of students tried eluding, but we're caught and killed by the killers. The building was on fire, burning corpses, and burning to death any students who remained alive.
David Malouf’s novella, Fly Away Peter, explores the brutality of war through contrasting settings. One of the key themes used by Malouf is the serenity of nature verses the destruction of war. This is shown through the contrast between the brutal, grotesque imagery of the Western Front and the tranquil Estuary in Queensland. To cope with the brutality of war, the characters use separate realities to escape the world around them. This is mainly evident while the main protagonist, Jim, is on the confronting battlefield of the Western Front and uses the peacefulness of nature and his imagination to escape the atrocities going on around him.
John is a book by Gary Paulsen. The book teaches many themes. Three themes I enjoy the most are leadership, freedom, and getting along with others. Getting along with others is a big deal. In John, Waller uses fear and intimidation.
The experiment in The Wave by Todd Strasser was successful because it showed what Nazi Germany was like and taught students never to follow a leader blindly. At the end of the book, when Mr. Ross is holding a Wave meeting, the students become unhinged when they realize they are completely obedient and act like a neo-Nazi group. Not only the students but also Ben Ross saw the experiment's impact. For example, “Ben looked down at them, a sea of faces stared back at him anxiously… It was frightening how easily they would let you decide for them”(133).
Who Had the Greatest Impact on Your Will? Rules don’t always rule. In Long Way Down, written by Jason Reynolds, the main character Will Holloman lost his brother to gun violence. In his neighborhood, it's a rule to avenge any loved ones death. So he grabs his brother's gun and gets on the elevator where he meets his loved ones who’ve died.
The opinion of adolescence is a war; no one gets out unharmed is true, in my defense people in adolescence are insecure of how others see them, feeling of loneliness, and not being popular. In Going Steady by Adam Bagdasarian, the narrator is afraid because he is insecure when trying to break up with Linda. The narrator struggles with breaking up with Linda because he is worried about her reaction to the breakup and his own weakness. He thought to himself, "I was afraid I wasn't good enough for her" (Bagdasarian).
The essay “The Joys of Reading & Writing: Superman & Me” by Sherman Alexie has three effective writing techniques: metaphor, title, and point of view. One metaphor, which is good, is “I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words” because “it worked together for a common purpose”. The paragraph held words that connected together. The title of the story is perfect because he uses “Superman and Me” superman saves people. Much like a comparison, Sherman also tries to save students by encouraging them to read and gain knowledge that can be achieved by books.
William Mann Amanda Holida C period 06 April 2023 Bombarding forces impact our daily lives everyday and it is often our choice as to how we will handle these obstacles. Last week my literature group and I finished the novel Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This is a story that takes place all in a minute time period in an elevator ride where the main character Will is facing the forces of his past. He experiences certain family members as well as friends enter the elevator as ghosts where they give him advice on his big decision.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
In 2017, Jordan Peele’s groundbreaking social thriller Get Out played a significant role in establishing a more nuanced dialogue around race and racism. Peele claimed that he wrote the film in the Obama era. Particularly, he claims the film was a response and a critique of the “post-racial-lie” that amassed in this country. Peele’s film suggests that racism is not only alive and well, but that racism is not always loud or “overt.” Instead, it can be disguised as “polite” and “inclusive.”
Mountains were ripped from the ground and flew hundreds of thousands of miles towards our city. We didn't know what to do, or how to stop it. People were not warned. The Government had been silent since “The Summa.” Summa is a Latin word for “Culmination”, or end.
It is very arduous to live in a world, in which one doesn’t feel they belong. The world being the traditionalist constraints society forces upon individuals. The majority of the novel, Meridian by Alice Walker, tells of Meridian Hill, an African American woman who is caught between conforming to society and her own virtues during the time of the Civil War. She was strongly against the Civil War activists because they try to use their anger and destruction to end segregation. The one person that first introduced Meridian to this notion was a 13 year old, pregnant, orphan people called Wile Chile or Wild Child.
Deja Vu is also defined from the French language, meaning “already seen” first used in the early 20th century. Most of us know the feeling. You’re introduced to someone, you watch a new movie, or you walk down a street in an unfamiliar city, and then suddenly, you’re struck by the uncanny sensation that you’ve been through this all before. You know it’s impossible — there’s no way you could have encountered this person, film or street — yet it all seems so familiar. We call this “déjà vu,” a French phrase meaning “already seen,” first used in the early 20th century.
