This book is a story of a girl named Lucky, the hard times she has faced in her short ten years of life and the ways she has overcome them. The setting of this book is in a town called Hard Pan in the California desert where Lucky has a few friends in the 43-town population; Miles, Lincoln, and Short Sammy. The book starts off with Lucky wanting to get this “higher power” that she overhears a few people talking about in a 12-step meeting in her town; she thinks if she gets this, all her problems will go away because of the stories she hears being told in the museum and visitor center. Lucky has been through what most ten-year-old girls today have not been through. Her mother passed away when she was eight and her father called his ex-wife,
This book is promoting the distribution of hard core drugs like LSD to young kids when the effects it has on a child's body would stunt the growth of the body as well as how the brain develops. This book is not a good influence for anyone under the age of 17 because it allows children the idea to distribute drugs on the street to get more bread in their
But she soon gets hooked on a new drug “Glass” or Mexican meth. The book takes the reader on a journey of how meth affects a person and the people around them
Commonly referred to as the “roaring twenties”, the 1920s was a crucial period in the changing role of women. No longer a dainty housewife, the Jazz Age woman was independent and ambitious. In “Bernice Bobs her Hair”, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces two young women, Bernice and Marjorie, who represent two contrasting personalities in 1920s society: a meek “girly-girl” with dated values and an audacious young lady who appears to not care what others think. Ironically, they both share a concrete definition of femininity. With their questions and concerns on what a woman should and should not do, both characters represent the role confusion shared by many 1920s women.
1. Fitzgerald’s boyhood Much of Fitzgerald’s boyhood was spent in Buffalo and Syracuse, New York 2. American Expatriates The American expatriates were family friends to Fitzgerald in Europe. They were Hemingway, Stein, Pound and many others.
This story is about a girl named Billie who was who lived with her father on a farm near the school. The students would bully her for being a tomboy doing things like playing cricket, wrestling, fighting and doing farm work or wanting to be a farmer like her father. They would call her “smelly Billie” and put her down because of her dreams to be a father saying thing like “who want to drive that noisy tractor. One day she didn’t come to school and rumor spread that her father died when she came back to class give her card because they felt bad for treating her bad. Billie didn’t appreciate the card seemed to act normal but days later she ends up crying in class and let go of all emotions that had been build up inside her.
Walking Away from Drugs Isn’t Easy The author of this story came from a good family. She was well off as a child and went to a Catholic school. She had five siblings, multiple of which had become involved in delinquency in their youth.
She loved the idea of travelling the world and adored almost every genre of music. Unfortunately, almost no one knew this side of her; instead the world saw a quiet, introverted girl with her nose always buried in a book. She wished she could show everyone her true self, have friends, go to parties, and just do normal teenager things, but that would mean putting off her studies and disappointing her parents, which was something she never wanted to do. Now do not get her wrong, she loved her family and they loved her. She had three little sisters, ages five, seven, and two, they were pains, but she loved them to death.
Some live with the idea that family will always understand you and be there with you. Although many people believe this to be true, in some cases it is not. Just like Alice Walker from the excerpt “Father” and Amir from “The Kite Runner”, where unfortunately their own fathers were not as understanding as they would like them to be. In the excerpt “Father” it explains Walker’s relationship with her father and how she regrets not having a stronger connection with him. In the novel “The Kite Runner” Amir describes his childhood memories with his only parent alive, his dad.
What’s that book called? The Great Carraway? That doesn’t sound quite right. The Great Gatsby is told through the perspective of Nick Carraway, but his role is just that, a narrator. While Nick is present throughout the entire novel, the intended purpose of this book is to tell Jay Gatsby’s story.
Throughout the 1960’s and into the mid 1970’s counterculture became a prominent aspect in everyday lives. Peaces signs could be seen everywhere and psychedelic prints became the norm. In the story Go Ask Alice counterculture takes an average middle class American and changes her life forever. 1960’s Counter Culture plays an important part in the story.
Susie Speeker attended Oliver Wendell Holmes High School, located town of South Bay. The community of South Bay sponsored a community-wide health fair which was held in a city park. Susie’s High School had a booth at the event. The school administration and teachers advocated students to attend the event and as a volunteer participation they will receive an “extra credit”. One of the themes at the event was toxic effects of drug use.
Children should be vaccinated for MMR because it saves a countless number of lives. Certain people can't get vaccines because they suffer from an immunocompromised diseases like leukemia, and thus become more susceptible to contract the viral infection. According to the “U.S. Department of Health & Human Services”, by getting vaccinated an individual " indirectly protects loved ones and communities". This essentially means that by getting vaccinated it limits and conceivably breaks the chain of infection. For example, if an unvaccinated child contracts either Measles, Mumps, or Rubella then he/she can potentially die from these highly contagious viral infections or spread the contagions to other children.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is a american writer. He is known for writing about the jazz age. His work is worldwide. He is known for writing novels and short stories. F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to be one of the greatest standouts of American literature including, equal parts celebrity, dreamer, and writer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in September of 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. With his father’s job at Procter & Gamble Fitzgerald and his family had to move back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse, New York. When his father lost his job they had to move back to St. Paul. At that time Fitzgerald started school at St. Paul Academy. This is the school where he saw writing that was not in cursive in a newspaper.
