...Jessica Pulido Professor Aparicio English 1302 29 September 2015 Stuck In Another Life I’ve entered a time warp; I'm back in my seventh grade English class. I look around and I see old classmates. People I haven’t seen in years. My old best friend is on my left with her buck-toothed smile and a crooked ponytail. The white walls contain nothing but a solitary poster that reads, "Books are gateways to another life" in bright green letters drawn on a cartoon brain. I can never guess what it means. I walk in to that class after lunch every day, sit at my desk, and stare at it for an hour and a half, yet I can never relate to it in any way. My teacher, strict and on the heavy side, was the type of teacher you didn’t want to get on her bad side. If she even had sides. She was giving us a lecture on how to infer poems with the chalk screeching like nails on the board. Our eyes widened with horror while she talked to us like we were foreigners that didn’t understand the concept of the language. “Songs. Are. Poems.” Not only did I hate poems I hated analyzing them as well. Rock was never in my interest so I detested “Fully Alive” when Ms. Brock first played it for us to analyze. It was impossible to even concentrate on the first verse of the song due to the icicle forming on my nose. I guess since she was a heavy-set lady she got warm very easily and insisted on keeping the room temperature in the forties. The song itself was depressing but it only made it worse that I was having...
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...Other Information Key Facts full title · Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High author · Melba Patillo Beals type of work · Memoir genre · Nonfiction, memoir, biography language · English time and place written · 1990s, The United States date of first publication · 1994 publisher · Pocket Books narrator · Melba Patillo Beals point of view · The book is the story of Melba’s teenage life, and the adult writer, Melba, is both the narrator and the protagonist. Melba tells the story from the first person point of view. tone · Restrained anger tense · Past setting (time) · Early 1950s setting (place) · Little Rock, Arkansas protagonist · Melba Patillo major conflicts · The attempt made by Melba and eight other African-American students to integrate into Little Rock High School rising action · The Supreme Court rules in Brown v. the Board of Education that separate schools are not equal; Melba volunteers to go to the all-white Central High School; Melba and eight other African-American students enter Central High. climax · Ernie becomes the first black student to graduate from Central High School. falling action · Unable to return for a second year at Central High School, Melba moves to California and lives with a white family; she becomes a journalist and reports on injustices around the world. themes · The shifting of power through resistance, the prominence of race relations ...
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...in American cultural history, when rock and roll was giving birth to the Sexual Revolution and everything in America culture was about to be turned upside down. Record companies were releasing more than a hundred singles every week and the country was about to explode. Grease, generally considered a trivial little musical about The Fabulous Fifties, is really the story of America’s tumultuous crossing over from the 50s to the 60s, throwing over repression and tradition for freedom and adventure (and a generous helping of cultural chaos), a time when the styles and culture of the disengaged and disenfranchised became overpowering symbols of teenage power and autonomy. Originally a rowdy, dangerous, over-sexed, and insightful piece of alternative theatre, Grease was inspired by the rule-busting success of Hair and shows like it, rejecting the trappings of other Broadway musicals for a more authentic, more visceral, more radical theatre experience that revealed great cultural truths about America. An experience largely forgotten by most productions of the show today. Like Hair before it and The Rocky Horror Show which would come a year later, Grease is a show about repression versus freedom in American sexuality, about the clumsy, tentative, but clearly emerging sexual freedom of the late 1950s, seen through the lens of the middle of the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. It’s about the near carnal passion 1950s teenagers felt for their rock and roll, the first art form that actually...
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...Part 1 - Field Report: Hammocks in Academic Plaza The setting of this field report was in the Academic Plaza, which is on the west side of the Academic Building on the campus of Texas A&M University. My observation was completed on Friday, February 26th. The weather was in the lower sixties with a light breeze, which was perfect for observing, and I stayed for approximately two hours. I sat on a concrete bench on the west side of the Plaza for the entire span of my observation. I then scanned the entire area and noticed that the overall traffic through the Plaza was average for a Friday afternoon with a few bicyclists zooming by every few minutes, groups of friends walking towards destinations, and people strolling somewhere with their faces glued to their cellphones. Overall, I probably saw at least one hundred people walk through my observation field....
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...products. The company's major brands include Barbie, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Fisher-Price, and American Girl. With headquarters in El Segundo, California, Mattel has offices and facilities in 36 countries and sells its products in more than 150 nations throughout the world. In 1945, Ruth and Elliot Handler and Harold "Matt Matson develop this new company out of their garage workshop located in Southern California. Although the first products they create are simply picture frames, Elliot takes the left over pieces of these frames and put them to use to make dollhouse furniture. These dollhouse furniture pieces were just a side business for Elliot though. Harold Matson soon sells out his partner, and, being confident from the success of the dollhouse furniture, the Handler's decide to turn the companies' emphasis on toys. In the year 1947, the "Uke-A-Doodle is the first, in a line if musical toys. In 1948, Mattel is incorporated in Hawthorne, California. During the year 1955, Mattel becomes involved with "Mickey Mouse Club . This very popular show soon become the major spot of advertising for Mattel, which revolutionized they way the toys were marketed. It also introduced they another great product, the "Burp Gun , and automatic cap gun. During the late 1950's, well, 1959 to be exact, the most sot after doll, "Barbie makes her first appearance. This doll was named after a girl Barbie, short for Barbara, created by her mother Ruth Handler. When Barbie was a young child, Ruth...
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...turn, there are magazines, movies, music, television, video games, and internet websites used to constantly promote and market violence. There is a distinct difference between the way that today’s youth are confronted with media, than what their parents or even their grandparents faced. Most children no longer go outside to play after finishing their homework, or take a walk to the local library to check out a book. To today’s youth, this type of entertainment is almost extinct. Instead, youth attention and time is grasped by some form of digital communication technology, such as an iPods, television, the internet, and video games. Marketing, advertising, and branding companies have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars to target and capture and keep the interest and wallets of youth. In January 2001, America Online, the largest internet service provider, and Time Warner, the world’s biggest entertainment company, joined forces to what is now known as the largest media merger in history. Together, these two media giants own four film studios, several book publishers, three major record companies, a large cable television system, and more than two dozen popular...
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...self-help, addiction recovery, and childhood trauma. … Choke’s funny, mantra-like prose plows toward the mayhem it portends from the get-go.” —The Village Voice “Oddly, defiantly, addictive.” happily —Daily News “[Choke] shines a flashlight into America’s dark corners. … As darkly comic and starkly terrifying as your high school yearbook photo.” —GQ “Palahniuk is a gifted writer, and the novel is full of terrific lines.” —The New York Times Book Review “[Palahniuk’s] most enduring trait … is that marvelous quicksilver voice of his. … The exuberance of his language makes it still worthwhile to brave these often chilly and dark waters.” —The Oregonian “Choke is another welcome antidote to antiseptic consumer life, and you can’t blame it for grabbing you by the throat.” —Maxim “Palahniuk is a cult writer in the truest sense.” —Entertainment Weekly “His subversive riffs conjure a kind of jump-cut cinema of the diseased imagination, resulting in an outlandish allegory that is as brutally hilarious as it is relentlessly bleak.” —Book Magazine “This is Catcher in the Rye with gloves off, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on ecstasy. … Brilliant isn’t the right word, but it’s the first word that comes to mind.” —Fort Meyers News Press Chuck Palahniuk Choke Chuck Palahniuk’s novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which...
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...impulsive actions. Yes, Jack only had a few of the listed symptoms for PTSD, but what’s really chilling to the core is that Roger fits one disorder to the letter. Many people who have this condition can only be diagnosed at the age of eighteen or older, but often show signs and symptoms before the age of fifteen! How old is Roger again? Although Golding never specifies his age, Roger is noted to be younger than Jack, and Piggy, and Ralph (who’s said to be the eldest at only twelve-years-old) but older than those designated as “littlun’s.” In short, Roger fits into the perfect time frame to be showing signs of a disorder known as “antisocial personality disorder.” Now antisocial personality disorder is nothing to be taken lightly as stressed in a report on the subject in Conditions & Procedures InBrief. The author, Laurie Rosenblum, MPH, lists a few symptoms such as, “repeated law breaking, repeated lying/deceitfulness, impulsiveness, irritability and aggression, disregard for safety of oneself or other, lack of guilt over hurting others, destruction of property, bullying or cruelty to animals and/or other humans,” and so much more! Overlooking such an extensive list, one cannot help but wonder if William Golding read these symptoms when designing the character of Roger. From jabbing a pig up the derrière to killing a fellow boy, Roger is just one character added to a bountiful list of villains suffering from antisocial personality disorder. The media loves associating this disorder with...
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...Kelly will turn 5 this summer and will be a bit on the young side in the fall when he starts kindergarten. The school where Kelly will attend kindergarten has started a kindergarten prep session over the summer that lasts for a couple of weeks and involves group as well as individual work on letters, numbers, etc. You enroll Kelly at the age of 4 years, 10 months. He is assessed by one of the kindergarten teachers, who observes him during free play and tests Kelly one-on-one. Then the teacher sits down with you and your partner and gives the following report: The teacher thought Kelly was doing well with the peer group. He made several little friends in the kindergarten prep session. He could read a few short words and write his name and could name most of the letters on sight at the time of testing. He also showed an age-appropriate understanding of phonological awareness (e.g., deciding whether two words started with the same sound, picking out the two words that rhymed from a list of three words). The teacher recommended continuing to enjoy reading and writing activities - Kelly was well-prepared for literacy activities in kindergarten. The teacher noted that Kelly had no difficulty adapting to the "practice" kindergarten activities the children were asked to do. Kelly was generally cooperative, avoided getting distracted, and stayed on task. Kelly did not get upset when mild stress occurred (such as an instruction to hurry up). The teacher recommended that Kelly be given...
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...One instance from Cullen’s report of Eric’s life seems to be a rather good warning sign. Eric had tried to impress a girl the liked so he invited her over and then pretended to be dead by laying his head by a rock and using special effects fake blood (Cullen, 2016). The earliest memory Eric Harris can remember is of fireworks. That wouldn’t seem unusually to anyone, so why would it be a warning sign of psychopathy? The fact that in his journal he writes about explosions, and the idea of being able to obliterate alien hordes. (Cullen, 2016). He thought that fire was beautiful and a lot of journals, he self-claims, were filled with gunfire and explosions. When Eric was eleven, iD Software released the video game Doom, and Eric found it perfect to act out his...
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...This book is about a child and her father who defends a black man who has been falsely accused of raping a young woman. The trial in the book is fake but it gives a real illusion of how a trial like that would go. Tom Robinson walked by Mayella Ewell's house everyday to go to work. Sometimes Mayella would ask Tom to help her with heavy liftings in her house but other than those briefs visits there was nothing going on between the two. Mayella did not have any friends at all besides her brothers and sisters and she felt alone. One day Mayella tricked Tom and she threw herself at him hoping he might feel the same way. Tom was married and did not like Mayella that way. Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell, hated African-Americans and had seen what had happened through a window. Bob beat Mayella and pressured her into lying and saying that Tom had raped her. Mayella of course was weak and agreed. The trial made is completely clear that Tom had not touched the girl but the jury was all caucasians and in 1935 there was no way Tom would have been let go. This and the rest of the trials take place 70 to more years after the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments had been passed. These Amendments states that slaves were free...
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...Chloe Orme Pre- production portfolio Interrogation of the Brief ------------------------------------------------- Brief Three: ------------------------------------------------- You work for (1)the marketing department of a small record company called Nutune Records, and are involved in the promotion of a new band/musical act for their forthcoming debut album and twelve date tour. ------------------------------------------------- As part of the promotion, the act needs to create an image that will allow them to appeal to an audience with an interest in an (2) established musical genre. Their (3)marketing materials should also contribute to constructing a recognisable ‘brand’ for the act. ------------------------------------------------- You are targeting a largely (4) youth-based market but are keen to promote the act in a way that will appeal to more than a (5/6)niche audience. The act already has a (7)Facebook and MySpace presence, which has generated some interest, and the record company now wishes to use (8)more mainstream marketing techniques to reach a bigger and more diverse audience. 1)What does the marketing department of a company do? -The marketing department plays a large role to the sales department. The main role is to make the product look and feel attractive enough to purchase. For the band I’m working on. It develops the campaign to promote the product to both distributors and customers. In this brief, you work for a record label (nutunes). The job...
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...Samantha Wilson Dr. Carter English 112 FO1 24th February 2013 Pop culture and Our Society Pop culture gives the notion of having a lot of negative implications associated with it. Opponents accuse the mass media of minimizing the intellect of society. Pop culture has grown increasingly more complex over the past thirty years. Some of the biggest influences of style in pop culture stems from watching television, genres of music, video games, the internet and individual trends and fashions. Television plays a major role in present day pop culture. The Nielsen Company estimates that there are 114.7 million United States households with a television. Commercials, music videos, and television shows that push the limits of the FCC, are in a continuous rotation on most networks. TV shows have changed a lot over the past thirty-five years. Also, people have changed their thoughts and perceptions about family concepts, social behaviors, personal interactions, and what’s acceptable in society. Families are no longer viewed perfect as they were once portrayed. Television shows with families like the Cosby’s, the Cleaver’s (Leave It to Beaver), and the Brady’s (Brady Bunch) have become obsolete to today’s suggestive humored sitcoms. Nowadays most television shows are based upon sex, drugs and violence. Sex and murder have become the norm on primetime television. Media news today did a study with 600 films and 5,000 students to find that movies play an important role in people lives (medical...
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...structure of strictness and obedience. This was very apparent during the mid 19th century in Berlin, with the Foundry and Engineering Works of the Royal Overseas Trading Company, which through a new work code, established regulations to create order for maximum production. Their workers were set to restricted times of when they needed to be at their station, could have a break, and when they could leave. Everything that involved the workers in the industry, had to go through officials who had the authority to beat the workers if they disobeyed (Document 8, 157-159). These rules through the Industrial Revolution, demonstrated the increase of rules and regulations placed on laborers. This change in the workplace was depicted with photos from The Book of Trades and Time Life...
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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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