Summer Ball also includes literary devices, theme, and connections throughout the story. An example of simile was when Coach Powers compared Danny to a Soccer player while he was running. This was significant because Coach disliked Danny in a way and thought he should play soccer. An example of a metaphor is when the text said “This time danny ran like he was in the last leg of those olympic relays.” The author used this to express how fast Danny was running.
Freedom Summer, by author Bruce Watson examines the courageous and passionate efforts of roughly 100 predominantly white college students as well as several local black Mississippi residents who stood up for change and equality while pushing the limit of uncertain futures. The book discusses the journey these students encountered in order to reach their aim of voter equality and opportunity for blacks in the south. The objective of these students was to create a voter registration system in the heart of segregated and unjust Mississippi. In 1964, they did just that. This “Mississippi Project” as it was sometimes called was run by local civil rights group council in the state known as the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO).
In the essay, “School’s out for Summer,” by Anna Quindlen, she writes about the prevalent hunger problem in the United States that’s amplified in the Summer months. Anna Quindlen uses many familiar rhetorical devices to efficiently get her point across to us, the reader, throughout the entire essay. Anna Quindlen effectively gets her message about child hunger in the United States across by using rhetorical devices and appealing to emotions. The main message of the essay is to inform the reader of the child hunger problem in the United States that spikes during summer months.
An Analysis of Argument As the summer job declines, it poses many questions. Why do you need to be a member? How do I get started? And when will it be available? In Ben Sasse's article “What to Do with the Kids This Summer?
In Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, Janet Poppendieck points out in the very beginning of the book, that school food isn’t healthy at all and most aren’t helping break the chain of overcoming these issues. She starts off by explaining her visits to various schools and her hands-on experience into the world of school lunches. Poppendieck explains how nutrition-deficient meals came to dominate America's schools and discusses the problems in the national school lunch/breakfast programs. Even how those in charge of creating these menus overlook what is really being given to these children for lunch/breakfast just because they can label it as a fruit or a vegetable. She shows how many key figures are looking for reimbursement from the free, reduced, or full priced meals because they can claim some federal dollars, and make sure that kids at least taking three out of five items offered to them; this is what congress called “offer versus serve”.
She talks about how the children who don’t eat much at home usually eat Breakfast and lunch at school, to fill them up, but when school is out in the summer hunger becomes a big issue for the children because they don’t have any food to eat,“But that sort of summer has given way to something more difficult”. Some
Summer Time is Starving Time Anna Quindlen’s essay “School’s Out for Summer” touches on a very important topic in America through current and rough times. Her soul purpose for writing the essay is to get the word out about how children are starving from schools letting out for the summer. Many excellent pieces of evidence are used to bring her point across to the reader.
Benchmark B In the article, “A Tale of Two Summers for Parents” by Belinda Luscombe it is said that elementary kids should require adult supervision and should not be left alone. I say elementary kids should not be left unsupervised because they aren’t old enough to take care of themselves and they still don’t know how hazardous the things around them could be. For example, I’m already 16 and when i'm home alone I still do things that are careless now imagine a young kid home alone it would be a disaster. Also how Deborah Harrell left her 9 year old daughter at a public park unsupervised.
Over the summer I read the book “That Summer” by Sarah Dessen. Haven is a 15 year old girl with a lot of family problems. Her mom and dad are split up and her mom is going through a lot . Her dad that is not there have the time is getting re married to a new woman. In addition to that her sister is getting married to a guy she can’t stand.
Summary Response Paper #1 In “Poor Shaming-But This Time in the School Cafeteria”, author Shayna Cook introduces the idea of inequality in the lunchroom. The term Lunch Shaming is defined as “...a general term referring to when a student is singled out and embarrassed or ashamed due to them or their parents not being able to pay for school lunches, or if they have any unpaid lunch debt.” This idea is becoming very familiar to students in New Mexico schools, although it is not limited to just them. The article can show the raw realities of what everyday children are facing trying to obtain a school lunch and the movement to fix it.
Someone once said, “The most important thing you wear is your personality”, but what determines your personality? Is it already cut and dried from the moment you are born, or does it shape itself throughout your life? In Two Summers by Aimee Friedman, Summer has the opportunity to go to France or stay home for the summer, and her personality could suffer some major changes depending on where she goes. Summer Everett is a timid, indecisive, superstitious girl who learns who she truly is throughout one summer that forever changed her.
In the United States there are many children and adults that go hungry, due to financial problems. With the economy and how high cost of living is, it’s hard to provide, food for the family. The results of hunger on children in America are not having the right nutrition, can have serious implication for a child’s physical and mental health. Also food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is particularly devastating to children.
A little boy, no older than 12, rests his head on his mother’s lap. Tears creep down her sunken cheeks as she hears the hunger biting at her child’s belly. He fights to block out the pain as his stomach grumbles, to ignore the hurt of his Mom’s muffled sobs, and to avoid the haunting question… “When will I see my next meal?” The little boy understands that his mother has tirelessly been slaving away at 2 different jobs and has skipped a countless numbers of meals, so he could have food on his plate; however, he is tired, hungry, and needs help. Not only that, but he is our neighbor.
Not being able to have food, not having enough for the week, and not knowing where to get food for your starving child are all defined in what is known as “food insecurity”. According to the resources, nearly 84 % of client households with children report purchase the cheapest food available knowing that it wasn’t the healthiest option just as an effort to provide enough food for their family. On top of that, Among Feeding America, a federal program, client households with children, nearly 9 in 10 households are food insecure (“Child Hunger”). This is not okay for anyone but most importantly children. According to another source, children are growing and need healthy food sources in order for them to grow into healthy, confident adults.
The Kid Who Saved Summer Story by Ben Burie Summer was the best time of year in Jelter, the Capitol of Jupiter. Summer meant that kids could go on vacation to earth, or Mars. In Jupiter the last day of school was June 10th, and it was May 17th. Zim Bim lived on Earth Road. They tried to build it so it looked like Earth.
