...1. Josie receives a book on the probability and statistics of teen pregnancy from her mother during her thirteenth birthday. Alex uses the book as an indirect way of communicating the consequences of sex. However, like many times before the attempt to communicate comes off as cold and emotionless to Josie, which foreshadows issues concerning sex in the future. 2. Peter questions his mother on how her and Lewis came to be. Lacy advises him to share his heart and go for what he wants. Although, she provides Peter with hope she fails to let him know that if he does get rejected it doesn’t define him. 3. Lacy assumes Peter has developed a crush on girl after he takes an interest in how Lewis and her got together. 4. Sex is one of the most intimate actions between humans. As sexual interactions became a normal part of Josie and Matt’s relationship he began to feel entitled. Matt forced himself on to an intoxicated Josie without using protection, raping and endangering her. Personally, I fear for not only Josie’s physical safety but for how she values her life. 5. Peter gains confidence from his mother to ask Josie out through a sweet, cheesy email. 6. Courtney snoops through Josie’s mail and finds Peter’s message where he confessed his love to her. Instead of politely leaving Josie to handle the situation she sneakily emails her self and their schoolmates Peter’s email. 7. Josie couldn’t sleep due to her period being three days late and that there’s a possibility of her...
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...“Courageous” and “outgoing” are two words to describe Josie Cortez. One would not expect a 5’1” spitfire like her to be a five-star basketball player, but she defies all stereotypes and expectations. “You can accomplish anything with a good positive source of inspiration,” she said. “My biggest motivation has to be my baby brother, Jude, because I want to be someone he can look up to and a positive influence on him, he drives me to be the best person I can be because he’s so important to me.” In her short life, thus far, she has accomplished very much and has excelled in many things like basketball and golf, winning the first ever Chic-fil-ay Cup for achieving the lowest composite score in a regional golf tournament her junior year. She also won MVP and...
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...father, Michael Andretti. All of these changes help to shape the character of Josephine Alibrandi to allow her to realize what her place in life is. Josephine is confused about her identity and how society won't accept her for who she is. Josephine wants to be free and make her own decisions by expressing her wish to be emancipated, to be free from cultural judgment and the boundaries of social class. 'I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for me. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I'll run to be emancipated." (pg40). Josephine discovers the...
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...Every change has a positive or negative impact on our lives, however, the majority of them teach us valuable life lessons. Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi (LFA) and the film The Breakfast Club (TBC) directed by John Hughes, explores relational and personal changes through the experiences of central characters, therefore, increasing the audience's understanding of change. Relational changes often have major impacts on our lives, whether they are positive or negative. LFA conveys relational change most effectively through the Alibrandi family. The relationship between Josie and her Nonna is extremely important in LFA, as it is used to track her experiences involving change. Marchetta uses retrospective to give the audience an insight...
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...By the Bog of Symbolism By the Bog of Cats is a play that takes place in present day Ireland. Filled with suspense and tragedy, it tells a story of a woman by the name of Hester Swane, who copes with the separation of her and her husband. Throughout the play there were significant parallels between the setting and the plot. The landscape created by the author, Marina Carr, helps shape the characters and its outcomes of the play. She uses history and tradition of the Bog, use of time of day, the dead black swan and its color contrast, as well as the caravan; in order to create and set a presence. By the Bog of Cats, by Marina Carr takes place on a terrain of land known as the Bog. Bogs are one of the most distinctive pieces of wet lands. "its spongy ground consist mainly of partially decayed plant matter called peat. They are found in cooler climates that have poorly drained lakes and lake brazens" ("Ireland's Peat Bogs."). Bogs, also referred to as blanket bogs are deeply interwoven into Irish history, and have been useful in many ways. The peat found on bogs, were widely used to heat homes. They were also used for water storage. Because of the lack of drainage within bogs, rain water would be stored there, which prevents flooding. The bog also holds history; literally. Due to its denseness and many layers of turf, bogs are an excellent habitat for preserving things. A prime example of this would be a recent discovery made in 2011. The body of a man was found who is believed...
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...a support system some are just to scared to open up to them or go to them with their problems. Bullying is starting younger and younger these days and becoming more and more of a problem. You might ask well why do people bully and all thought there have been many studies done I do not believe this is a question with a direct answer. Instead, I believe this is a question with many answers. Some people bully to feel better about themselves; some people bully to gain power, some people bully for revenge and the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, some people bully just because they can or believe it or not because it makes them feel better about themselves. In the book Nineteen Minutes there is a group of your average typical jocks that are popular and they torture Peter everyday. One day they even went as far as pulling his pants down in the cafeteria exposing him to everyone. Where is the school administration in all of this? Support systems are people such as your friends, family or peers that you can talk to about anything and that you can trust with your life. In the novel Nineteen Minutes Peter felt like he did not have anyone but he actually did – he had the support of his mother he just neglected to see it. She tried so hard to be a part of his life and do things with him but he just shut her out time and time again. Josie in the novel also felt alone and like she could not act like herself around her group of popular...
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...bullied. Peter had been getting bullied since he was in kindagarden. This lead Peter closer and closer to the school shooting because he was tired of being humiliated and embarassed by everybody. This had a negative impact on Peter because it made him feel like he was alone as if he was a different species other than human. He felt isolated and held in his anger until the day of the shooting when he would release it. Another force that led Peter to commit the school shooting was the loss of Josie Comier as a friend. Josie was the only real friend that Peter ever had. He wold talk to her about anything and they would always have a good time. Josie made Peter feel like there was at leat one person on earth who accepted him for who he was. During the first year of High school, Josie and Peter grew apart. Josie no longer wanted wanted to hang out with Peter because she was afraid of how other people in the school might have looked at her if she did so. This led Peter closer and closer to commiting the school shooting because now he had nothing to lose. Before, he had Josie to look forward to everyday and brighten his life but now that she was gone he no longer had a reason to hold in the anger that was built up in the years of him getting bullied. This had a negative impact on Peter because it made him feel empty that he no longer...
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...in. They will stick to their beliefs no matter what, even if some other person says different. Josie Augustine is from Elsipogtog, NB First Nations and I believe that she is the most honorable person that I have met in my entire life. I feel that she practices honor in her everyday life and shows it to our community and many other communities. She has taught many children to adults to elders on our culture. Josie Augustine has taught me to give thanks and pray to the creator, plants, and animals. She has explained and taught me why we do such things and why it is so important to us. Not only has she taught me as I was growing up but she has taught people from the community. When I decided to fancy shawl dance and to jingle dress dance that was when I became closer with the creator, and she was there to guide me. When I smoke my language and mispronounced she would not judge me or laugh at me for speaking it incorrectly. Josie would simply say “it’s alright douce, try it again”. She has travelled from Elsipogtog, New Brunswick to Potlotek, Nova Scotia to teach children at the Elementary School. She has introduced different dance styles to the children, and I had gone in one day to teach them how to fancy shawl and jingle dress dance. She has taught them to try and speak mi’kmaq, make their very own regalia’s to wear at pow wows, and also different crafts. She volunteers every other day to help teach children on our reserve and several others because she has so much belief in our...
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...Nineteen minutes is the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. In nineteen minutes you can order pizza and get it delivered. You can sew a hem. You can walk a mile. In nineteen minutes you can stop the world, or you can jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. so writes Jodi picoult in the introduction of Nineteen Minutes a crime fiction novel that was published on the 6th of march 2007, a novel that lets you see into an ordinary town called New Hampshire where nothing ever happens- until a student known as Peter Houghton enters a local high school with an arsenal of guns and heart full of scars and starts shooting and chaos strikes. Chaos is a foreign word for the town of new Hampshire. But let me tell you Chaos that day was a constellation of students, running out of school and trampling the injured. A boy holding a handmade sign in an upstairs window that read HELP US. Chaos was blood melting pink on the snow, it was the drip of parents screaming out the names of their missing children. Chaos was not enough ambulances, not enough officers and no plan for how to react when the world as you knew it went into pieces....
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...societies and doesn’t know where she belongs nor does she feel accepted in both, she undergoes social issues such as experiencing stereotypes and social statuses which makes her relatable to the profusion of age groups. Identity crisis and belonging is one of the main problems faced by Josie. When she first came to St Martha’s she longed to belong to Ivy Lloyds group where she imagined “the slumber parties and holidays” they would be spending with each other but later on realized otherwise when she was made fun of because she was a part of the scholarship program in her school which made her feel as if she wasn’t important and she wished “to be accepted by someone other than the underdog”. When a person can’t belong into their area of work they lose themselves which leads to identity crisis because they don’t know who they are and they can’t develop a sense of purpose, this problem is faced by many teenagers today which is why they relate so much...
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...one faces when undergoing a transition through Tom’s first person narration, as feelings of guilt and denial can obstruct an individual’s ability to manage new phases of life. The Brennan family was forced...
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...Brianna Harden English 214.05 Baldwin April 12th, 2013 Emotional Consequences Faced By Veterans and Their Families Many books, articles, or even essays that are read throughout one’s life, can at times be slightly unclear about what precisely the main idea is or what the authors true purpose is for writing that text. Most people do not understand that every writer uses rhetorical strategies throughout their writing to make their text clear and understandable for the reader. These rhetorical strategies are particularly important because they help with the clarity of complex ideas and assist the writer in getting their point across. In doing so, writers are able to make their text more effective for a wider range of people to read. In the article “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma,” by David Wood, and in the short story, “Gold Star,” by Siobhan Fallon, the authors use numerous amounts of rhetorical tools to help guide the reader through the text. While “Gold Star” is a short story about a wife who has lost her husband due to the war and “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma,” is an informative newspaper article about how the war can have severe consequences on not only the soldiers themselves but their loved ones back at home too, both text use emotive appeals that aim to inform the general public of the various emotional and psychological tolls faced by veterans and their families today. Furthermore, throughout both texts...
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...by Theodore Witcher examines the battle of the sexes by asking (1) whether the third time is, indeed, a charm and (2) can your soulmate of the opposite sex be found, and if so, can the faith, and love between you move mountains? Struggling photographer Nina Mosley (Nia Long) and struggling writer Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) have a lot in common, but they aren’t exactly prime candidates for a serious affair. The consummate ladies man, Darius’ silky smooth presentation promises more sell than substance. And Nina’s recently jilted heart isn’t looking for anymore of love’s kind of trouble. love jones begins with Nina and her good girlfriend Josie Nichols (Lisa Nicole Carson) packing up what’s left of Nina’s disappointing relationship. Fearful that the scars left from this failed romance may be too deep for her to heal, Josie takes her to a night-time poetry-slam at the Sanctuary, where she encounters Darius for the first time. The Sanctuary is the local haven where poetry is the prime draw, and a favorite night spot for Darius and his friends Savon Garrison (Isaiah Washington), Eddie Coles (Leonard Roberts), Sheila Downes (Bernadette Clark, and Hollywood (Bill Bellamy). “The romance dies between couples,” we overhear Darius telling his friends from his intellectual set, “because they’ve (people) given up on the possibility of it.” In an awkward introduction at the bar, Nina catches Darius off-guard and, uncharacteristically, he fumbles and spills his drink on her...
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...that by ruining God’s creation, religious transgenders are alienating themselves from their place of worship and God himself. Others who do not follow a religion are usually bound to one by their parents who are desperately trying to bring back the child that they believe is lost. Calpernia Addams explains in a letter to her younger self, “. . .Mom and Dad currently have you bound up in the ludicrous trap of religion, so tightly that you will be crippled by it a little bit for the rest of your life. . .” making her idea sound as though her parents and religion took away a part of her life that she can never get back (James and Thornton 65-68). Many parents relationships have been severely damaged by transgender members decisions to tell the family. It has even gotten to the point where some transgenders were abandoned by their families and the opposition and I agree that it should not have to resort to this, but for different reasons. Finally, the most difficult part of anyone’s life, work. Transgenders are said to have Health is always a main concern on everyone’s mind, especially for transgenders. It’s especially important for cisgenders (those who feel that they fit the gender they were assigned at birth) to know that there are differences of the term gender. The first type, gender orientation, is physical sex, the second, gender identity, is cultural sex, and the third, gender expression, is combining and expressing both (Intro). In a simpler way as I understand it...
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...role of relaxation in hypnotherapy. It will give a brief history of hypnosis. It will look back over the century's to the many people who have influenced the progression of hypnosis, to how it is seen and practiced to this day. It will discuss the role of relaxation and what happens to achieve relaxation. What is Hypnosis? Hypnosis is nothing new, in fact it has been widely practiced since the early 1700”s Most people are familiar with the term 'mesmerized', which in fact came from an Australian doctor named Franz Anton Mesmer who lived from 1733-1815 (1) Mesmer had a theory that he could heal people with the use of magnets and Franziska Osterlin was his first patient in 1774, followed shortly in 1777 to a young lady musician who had been born blind and was unable to be treated by any doctor. Mesmer did in fact restore the ladies site but in the process she lost the ability to play the piano. Mesmer was accused of magic and was forced to leave Austria. (2) Mesmer moved to France and by the 1780's he moved away from using magnets and instead used a 'healing tree'. He was evaluated by King Louis XVI who concluded that his results were due to individual fantasy and in 1785 he was forced to leave the city where for the next 30 years he lived a secluded life. (2) Shortly before Mesmers death in 1815 he was visited by Karl Christian Wolfart to learn of his ideas and methods. It was suggested by Abbe Faria that it was the suggestions used by the practitioners rather than the magnetism...
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