...This week, I am going to tell you about a funny book I am currently reading. The title of the book is Dear Dumb Diary, Let's pretend this never happened. When I first opened the book it was like light shining towards my face (Sarcasm) When you first start to read it, it makes you want to flip into the next page when you are not even finished with the first page. The book made me wonder why Angeline was being so nice to Jamie after she was so mean to her all of the time. I enjoyed predicting what would happen next when weird things happened. Angeline and Jamie are two interesting characters because they are mean in different ways. One day they're nice to each other, and another day they're mean. I also enjoyed the illustrations because they...
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...parties and much more. This report starts with a summary of the book, descriptively introducing the prime characters and setting while leading to the conclusion At first, we’re introduced to Charlie the protagonist, who seems to be a rather smart, yet troubled boy. He’s 15 years of age and a recently freshman in High School. The novel is written in letters, starting with Charlie sending out letters to an anonymous receiver, while only giving his first name, to also remain unknown. Charlie doesn’t have many friends, considerably due to his major intellect compared to the other kids. He had a friend named Michael, who unfortunately killed himself for a reason Charlie didn’t know. He actually wondered a lot how Michael could avoid talking to him about his problem, which surely must’ve had a huge impact on his mental state of mind. Charlie and Michael used to do sports together, just to have something to do, not because they urged to, but because there wasn’t much for them elsewhere. Now, Charlie is pretty much alone and as for girls, Charlie doesn’t really know how to communicate with them either. The first person for Charlie to really talk to is a senior named Patrick who people calls “Nothing”. He gets to sit with Patrick and his stepsister Sam, who he later gets a major crush on. They all went to a diner where Charlie finds out, that Patrick is gay, but he’s truly honest about it. Patrick is the funny guy and Sam is the beautiful and smart girl, while Charlie has his charming...
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...In the book her father Atticus is a lawyer in the small town of Maycomb Alabama, he takes up a case in which a black man (Tom Robinson) is accused of raping a white woman Mayella Ewell. The Ewells are considered the some of the poorest and least mannered people of Maycomb however they still has an advantage over Tom because she is white and he is black. If Tom lost he would be given the death penalty. Atticus presented an immense amount of evidence against the Ewells however, in the end he lost and was killed trying to escape from prison. This just goes to show how unjust the system was at the time. Jim Crow Laws made it impossible for a man of color to win against a white man because of the laws set in place, if a black man touches a white woman he runs the risk of being charged with rape and in the end the everything the white woman says has to be the truth because there is a law that says the word of a white person is greater than that of a colored man. What makes it all worse is that there was no direct evidence to go against mayella's claim of the rape but there was so much going against the fact that Tom was the one who raped her. For instance Tom had a crippled hand and no official doctored report states that she was raped the only thing to imply that she was raped was the fact that she was covered in bruises aside from this no official doctor's note was given. Despite the fact that his is just a book it depicts a very real subject matter...
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...Gender Roles in Disney Movies It is undeniable that the company that is leading to many generations in their child age is Disney. Who does not remember Mickey and Minnie Mouse?, Who has not thrown a tear when Snow White was poisoned by the evil witch?, Who did not want to ever be in the place of handsome John Smith or Pocahontas herself to revive their love story?, that tender these films, is not it, for example the Little Mermaid and Sebastian the crab song, who does not remember that song from "under the sea”? Has anybody ever wondered why the dwarves themselves did not do the housework when they came home once Snow White "moved in" with them? Or why an Indian as Pocahontas, falls for a murderer of thousands of his countrymen as was John Smith? Or why witches are always bad? Or why women are always in the background in these films (Hubka, Hovdestad & Tonmyr, 2009)? The world of Disney Princess began in 1937 when Snow White entered the world with the Seven Dwarfs (McRobbie, 2008). Since then it continued to add princesses in this world and the most recent movie was Tangled (Rapunzel) in 2011. In the past years, due to the lack of portraying ethnicity, Disney movie makers were highly criticized by their audience. Therefore, Pocahontas appeared in 1995 and after three years in 1998 came Mulan, which created a racially diverse collection of Disney princesses. After a decade The Princess and the Frog was released in 2009. It is important to understand that Disney plays an important...
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...Laurie knows how to cheat the system. Laurie is a loud, rambunctious, naughty kindergartener blind to his parent’s eyes. When his behavior becomes a problem in class Laurie blames it on Charles…a figure of his imagination. Laurie proceeds to home, telling his parents how Charles was disruptive in class, not even mentioning his own bad behavior. Once his parents hear bout Charles he becomes and institution in the household. Laurie seems to know too much about Charles to only know him from school. In the text it stated, “Did Charles tell the little girl to say that?’ he asked respectfully. ‘She said it twice,’ Laurie said. ‘Charles told her to say it twice.” When I was reading the story the first time, I didn’t recognize there was more importance to that passage. When I read it the first time, I thought it was just another conversation between Laurie and his father. However, Laurie couldn’t have known that Charles told the little girl to say the appalling word twice. Another example of how Laurie seems to know a lot about Charles is when he said, “Because she tried to make him color with red crayons,’ Laurie said. ‘Charles wanted to color with green crayons so he hit the teacher and she spanked him and said nobody play with Charles but everyone did.” Yet again, how could Laurie have known Charles wanted to color with a different colored crayon. The irony of the situation was that Laurie’s parents thought Charles would be a bad influence on their faultless son when...
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...Introduction When a child is diagnosed as deaf, parents are faced with a critical decision to make in the first few years of their child’s life. Deafness as defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), means “ a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance” (34 Code of Federal Regulations [section]300.8[c][3] [2013]). Parents can choose to either communicate with the child in English, the major language of society, or teach the child manual language such as ASL and become a part of the Deaf culture. This decision is especially hard for parents to make who were never exposed to the non-hearing world before, and see deafness as a medical problem that needs to be fixed. This can become critical for the child’s future years and development as a person in the society since the child will always be viewed and judged as different. It is mandated that each child with a disability will be viewed individually to make the best decision in how to treat and help the child. The oral approach, audism, is a method in which children learn to use whatever residual hearing they have, in combination with lip-reading and contextual cues. The children will also thus use an auditory approach, in which they receive amplification devices to correct their hearing and to make use of the residual hearing they have as much...
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...Before the United States became militarily involved in defending the sovereignty of South Vietnam, it had to, as one historian recently put it, "invent" the country and the political issues at stake there. The Vietnam War was in many ways a wild and terrible work of fiction written by some dangerous and frightening story tellers. First the United States decided what constituted good and evil, right and wrong, civilized and uncivilized, freedom and oppression for Vietnam, according to American standards; then it traveled the long physical distance to Vietnam and attempted to make its own notions about these things clear to the Vietnamese people—ultimately by brute, technological force. For the U.S. military and government, the Vietnam that they had in effect invented became fact. For the soldiers that the government then sent there, however, the facts that their government had created about who was the enemy, what were the issues, and how the war was to be won were quickly overshadowed by a world of uncertainty. Ultimately, trying to stay alive long enough to return home in one piece was the only thing that made any sense to them. As David Halberstam puts it in his novel, One Very Hot Day, the only fact of which an American soldier in Vietnam could be certain was that "yes was no longer yes, no was no longer no, maybe was more certainly maybe." Almost all of the literature on the war, both fictional and nonfictional, makes clear that the only certain thing during the Vietnam War...
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...The movies starts off with a picture of a red scarf hanging off a street lamp and then flying through the air. Harlem, 1987. Clarice Precious Jones (Gabourey Sildibe) is in a math class, daydreaming. She is wearing a red scarf. Much of the film is in first-person narration. She narrates, My name is Clarice Precious Jones. I want to be on the cover of a magazine. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with good hair. But first I want to be in one of those BET videos, and we see a fantasy sequence of her dressed in a photo-shoot, accompanied with a light-skinned boyfriend (who will be in all her future movie sequences.) She also says I 'm gonna break through, someone is going to break through to me, ima be normal and sit in the front of the class. She has a crush on the math teacher Mr. Wicher (Bill Sage). She narrates that she likes math. The class is rowdy and when a student responds to Mr. Wicher with cuss word, Precious slaps that student and says to Mr. Wicher, I got your back. She narrates that she and Mr. Wicher will move away and live together in Westchester. A student comes in with a note saying that the principal wants to see Precious. In the principals office, the principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein asks if Precious is pregnant again and how could this happen. The principal lays out the facts for Precious: shes 16, pregnant again, and attends junior high. The principal wants to move Precious to an alternative school. The principal asks the mom to come to a meeting but...
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...real issue here relies on bullying. Bullying is the root of the problem and must be dealt with first to keep violent situations on school grounds from occurring. To resolve the issue of school crimes caused by bullying, school psychologists should mandate peer mediation programs for all students. According to Kathleen Winkler, bullying is defined as “Any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim. It usually, but not always, means a bigger, older child picking on a smaller or weaker one, or a more popular child on a less popular one,” (Winkler 15). The word ongoing is crucial to its definition because the victim is often bullied nonstop. In the book, Invitation to the Life Span, the author Kathleen Strassen Berger explains, “Almost everyone experiences an isolated attack or what is called a derogatory name at some point in middle childhood. Victims of bullying, however, endure shameful experiences again and again- being forced almost daily to hand over lunch money, laugh at insults, drink milk mixed with detergent, and so on- with no one defending them,” (Berger 306). There are several different types of bullying, physical bullying, verbal bullying, and cyberbullying; these are most common in schools. Bullies who take the physical approach often times cause bodily harm to their victims, where the bully has a bigger advantage against his/her victim. Those who are verbally bullying others...
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...Plot: This book starts off in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning center, where the Director of the hatchery and his assistant, Henry Ford, are giving a tour of the facilities to a group of young boys. The Director explains to the students the process of Bokanovsky and Podsnap by which humans are grown inside bottles and then conditioned/brainwashed to believe the moral “truths” that the World state wants to implant in them. This conditioning, also known as hypnopaedia or sleep-teaching, instructs the citizens to believe in the value of society over the individual. Each person exists to serve the community. It’s their job to be consumers and workers, which in turn keeps the economy stable and strong. Buy lots of clothes. Use lots of transportation. For example they use electrical shocks o young children to make them afraid of books and flowers, this allows the government to install fear of knowledge and nature in the society. To assure the stability of the society, the bottles are divided into castes: the alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. The alpha embryos are the highest cast for they are designed to become the leaders and thinkers of the world state, they are smart, tall, and muscular. Epsilons are the total opposite; they are short, dumb, and ugly. The government implies that the best way to keep non-Alphas stupid is to give them dangerous substances, such as alcohol and oxygen deprivation, while they’re still in the test tube. Epsilons are also grown in...
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...[No Subject] Me to Fatema SunelSent Nowadays, people are getting more & more involved in Music & for them, it has become a part of their daily life. Their mind has become so saddled with tension, & tempo of life is so fast that they seem to accept high blood pressure & nervous breakdown as the unavoidable side effects of modern civilization. It is a pity that they do not pause to think the adverse effects of music on their physical & mental health. I have endeavored to present in this booklet the scientific & spiritual points of views on music & dance etc. These observations have been quoted from various books of Persian, Urdu & English languages. I am very grateful to Maulana Seyyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi, the Chief Missionary of the Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania for editing & scrutinizing this effort of mine. I hope this booklet will help the readers in understanding the philosophy of the rule of Islam which forbids music. A.H. Sherriff 1/5/1983 W H A T IS M U S I C ? Music, according to the New National Dictionary, means "Art of combining sounds or sequences of notes into harmonious patterns pleasing to the ear & satisfying to the emotions; melody" According to the Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, this combining of sounds is "for reproduction by the voice or various kinds of musical instruments in rhythmic, melodious & harmonious form so as to express thought or feeling & affect the emotion;" & the word is also used for the "sound so produced," & for 'written...
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...1. Introduction 1.1 Definitions of entrepreneur An entrepreneur is an enterprising individual who builds capital through risk and/or initiative. The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to help launch a new venture or enterprise and accept full responsibility for the outcome. Over time, scholars have defined the term in different ways. Here are some of their definitions. a. 1725: Richard Cantillon: An entrepreneur is a person who pays a certain price for a product to resell it at an uncertain price, thereby making decisions about obtaining and using the resources while consequently admitting the risk of enterprise. b. 1803: J.B. Say: An entrepreneur is an economic agent who unites all means of production- land of one, the labour of another and the capital of yet another and thus produces a product. By selling the product in the market he pays rent of land, wages to labour, interest on capital and what remains is his profit. He shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield. c. 1934: Schumpeter: Entrepreneurs are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and services, to set up new products, new services. d. 1949: C.H. Danhoff: Entrepreneurship is an activity or function and not a specific individual or occupation . . ....
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...Sexual Offences The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 It amends Section 100, 228A 354, 370, 370A, 375, 376, 376A, 376B, 376C and 509 of Indian Penal Code, 1860. It also inserts new sections 166A, 166B, 326A, 326B, 354B, 354C and 354D in Indian Penal Code, 1860. (NOTE: Kindly go through these provisions mentioned above) Cases: Tukaram v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1979 SC 185 Facts: Mathura is the girl who is said to have been raped. Her parents died when she was a child and she is living with her brother, Gama. Both of them worked as labourers to earn a living. Mathura used to go to the house of Nunshifor work and during the course of her visits to that house, came into contact with Ashok, who was the sister's son of Nunshiand was residing with the latter. The contact developed into an intimacy so that Ashok and Mathura decided to become husband and wife. On the 26th of March, 1972, Gama lodged report at police station Desai Gunj alleging that Mathura had been kidnapped by Nunshi, her husband Laxman and the said Ashok. The report was recorded by Head Constable Baburaoat whose instance all the three persons complained against as well as Mathura was brought to the police station at about 9 p.m. and who recorded the statements of the two lovers. By then it was about 10:30 p.m. and Baburao told them to go after giving them a direction that Gama shall bring a copy of the entry regarding the birth of Mathura recorded in the relevant register and himself left for his...
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...walks into a bar Punchline: Ouch! He didn't get it and I spent the better part of 30 minutes trying to explain it to him. -His view of income tax/home buying. We were in a situation where we were losing the annual equivalent of my take home pay to income tax. Our rent was significantly more than what we would be paying if we bought a starter house or condo. I did the numbers and buying looked good and we qualified for a mortgage. "Why do we have to buy a house? I don't see why we should worry about the government taking our money, after all, they do good things with it, right?" I am not joking. This is almost exactly what he said. My mouth was agape. I filed for divorce soon after that conversation. And if he did something dumb, guess who got to clean up his mess? Yes, yes, yes, it is VERY important in a relationship. To the second part of the question: I have to say I was young when I married, so I was looking for a nice guy who treated me well. I didn't think much about intellectual compatability. I believe I was too young to realize...
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...Keller With Her Letters (1887-1901) And Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, By John Albert Macy Special Edition CONTAINING ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS BY HELEN KELLER To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life. CONTENTS Editor's Preface I. THE STORY OF MY LIFE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII II. LETTERS(1887-1901) INTRODUCTION III: A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HELEN KELLER'S LIFE AND EDUCATION CHAPTER I. The Writing of the Book CHAPTER II. PERSONALITY CHAPTER III. EDUCATION CHAPTER IV. SPEECH CHAPTER V. LITERARY STYLE Editor's Preface This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss Keller's story and the extracts from her letters, form a complete account of her life as far as she can give it. Much of her education she cannot explain herself, and since a knowledge of that is necessary to an understanding of what she has written, it was thought best to supplement her autobiography with the reports and letters of her teacher, Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The addition of a further account of Miss Keller's...
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