Sarah Koenig's Serial based upon the murder of Hae Min Lee and the investigation and legal proceedings that followed the murder. The primary suspect during the investigation, Adnan Syed, was eventually found guilty after a mistrial and has since spent his time in prison with an impeccable record. Both Adnan and Hae were outstanding students involved with various extracurricular activities and were generally considered friends, even after they broke up. Hae ended the year long relationship under what seemed to others as amicable terms. The primary motive the investigators presented was that the murder was simply a crime of passion.
What would you do if an innocent guy is behind bars? The story of Serial narrated by Sarah Koenig is about Hae Min Lee an 18 year old that was murdered in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. Adnan Syed is accused and convicted of killing his ex, Hae Min Lee. Jay Wild is the guy who´s involved in the crime of helping Adnan hide Hae’s body although the faces no charges. Who´s Adnan?
The story Cancer by Janice Deal is told from third person limited point of view. The author focuses primarily on the one character Janine, to the exclusion of the other characters. We know very little of the other characters, Janine’s coworkers and her male friend, but we are armed with a plethora of information about Janine. We get to know her intimately.
Canada Reads 2016 ( MD Edition) Robert Pickton is a well known farmer that confessed to murdering forty-nine women, making him one of Canada’s deadliest serial killers in history. Very few Canadians can name one of the women whose DNA was found on his farm. This is ultimately because the vast majority of his victims were from native descent and were involved in the sex trade workforce.
In the book Nineteen Minutes, Josie Cormier and her schoolmates were having a normal day of school when suddenly a school shooting began. Sterling police showed up and Detective Patrick Durchame headed in the school, ignoring protocol. Patrick looked throughout the school to find the shooter who turned out to be Peter Houghton, and Josie and Matt were found with him. Josie was still alive while Matt, Josie's boyfriend, was dead. There were ten people who died during the shooting.
Her and her mother’s exchange shows how Hatsue is growing into a young woman who acknowledges her past and is working to correct her
Sarah and Angelina Grimke The Civil Rights Movement gave freedom and rights to the African Americans who were being denied them. During this time period there were many people who greatly impacted this movement. Two of those people were Sarah and Angelina Grimke. The two sisters played a very important role in the Civil Rights Movement by campaigning for the abolition of slavery . Together, Sarah and Angelina Grimke inspired people all around the nation to join the North in abolishing slavery by publishing powerful pieces of writing and delivering eloquent speeches which included personal stories of their experiences with slavery from their childhood.
Almost 18 years old, a young teenager named Hae Mine Lee disappeared. On February 28, 199 Adnan Syed was arrested for the murder of his seventeen year old ex- girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Hae Min Lee was a senior attending Woodlawn High School located in Baltimore, Maryland. As a young teenager, she enjoyed sports such as lacrosse and field hockey. Sarah Koeing, an american journalist, describes her as smart, beautiful, cheerful and a great athlete.
The Erlking by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum confused me, even though the interpretation sounded interesting and fantastical. At first, I wondered if my confusion dealt with me not reading or hearing about “Der Erlkönig” before. After thinking that, I read the poem online; I really liked the poem because of creepy it is. I saw some correlations with Bynum’s version, but confusion still lingered in my head. I’m thinking a combination of the story structure and the lore (the fairies and elves) didn’t mix well with me.
Eventually, she left this environment and found positive influences, like Johnny, which developed her kind personality. Despite her triumph, she is insecure because she lacks domestic skills, this becomes the reason she refuses to tell Johnny about Minny, “Please, I want him to think I can do it on my own. I want him to think I’m… worth the trouble” (44). Furthermore, she strives to please others because of her lack of confidence. She also assumes the best in others, shown when Celia concludes that Minny’s warning about Hilly’s animosity towards her is a chance at reconciliation, “Well, no wonder she can’t stand me!..
In the article, Sarah Einstein, an undergrad professor, speaks about her experience teaching students to read like writers instead of reading for mere pleasure. She elaborates by pointing out that due to the length of flash fiction, students can read and reread the story numerous times to decipher the meaning behind certain literary choices. Growing as a writer is also about growing as a reader. Understanding why certain things work and why others do not strengthens the readers own prose. This ties into VTM in the sense that flash fiction, both writing and reading, can help us grow creatively to write larger works of fiction.
It is about is girl and growing up. The girl lives in a house that she isn't the most proud of. She's a Latina girl who's moved place after place and now she finally has a house. She described her experiences in short stories.
The whole novel develops in how she copes with her PTSD ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and tries to overcome her depression. The author of this book is Laurie Halse Anderson. Laurie is an American writer best known for children's and young adult novels. She won the annual award of The ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2009, which recognizes one writer and a particular body of work “for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature”. Anderson won the Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, for
Susie is the main character, she is murdered at the age of 13 and the book is her watching her family and friends deal with her death well they try to find the murderer. well susies in heaven she doesn't actually like all that much she wishes she could be back on earth growing up with her family, well in heaven she wonders “Heavens where a girl like me didn't fit in. Where they horrific, these other heavens? worse than feeling so solitary among ones living, growing peers?”(119).
With divorce comes many negative reactions and coping mechanisms. Famous psychologist John Bowbly, who introduced the Theory of Attachment between parental figures and children when born, attributed two main emotions that come as a package when divorce is present: anger and hostility. Negative emotions are directly linked to how the adults in the situation handle the divorce. It is stated that if parental figures show anger and hostility before, after, and even during the divorce, the children involved will learn from their behavior and replicate it as a “normal model”. This is what Bandura called “The Social Learning Theory”.
