People fight. Do you fight? This is a girl named Janet and she is trying to get on the baseball team but richard said no. In concha the two boys were playing a game and they see an ant hole and they ask for help and they ask from comcha. These realistic fiction short stories southpaw by Judith viorst and concha by Mary helen ponce have many similarities and differences between them.…
In Cynthia Rylant’s short story, “Papa's Parrot,” the main character, a 12-year-old boy named Harry Tillian who can't seem to spare the time to visit his papa at the family candy store during the afternoons. I firmly believe that the message in this story is to always appreciate the people around you before it's too late.…
In the 1920’s, many towns suffered from the organized crime of bootlegging due to Prohibition. Newport, the town in which Ruben Hart lives in, was one of them. Everyone around him — his father, Jeddy McKenzie, Marina McKenzie, even the police chief is involved deeply with the illegal aspects of rum-running. In Black Duck, Janet Taylor Lisle uses multiple craft moves, such as experimental element of newspaper articles, symbolism, and imagery to demonstrate how the smuggling of liquor affected the Rhode Island town. To begin, Janet Taylor Lisle uses newspaper articles as an experimental element in Black Duck to show how rum-running affected Ruben’s town.…
In the book Luna by, Julie Anne Peters which is a young adult fiction novel. This book takes place at the high school that they attend and also in their home.…
“Hamadi” by Naomi Shihab Nye is a story about a girl from Palestine named Susan, trying to adapt to life in the United States. Susan cherishes her Palestinian traditions and heritage by incorporating aspects of her culture into her American life. This is demonstrated when Saleh Hamadi shows up, “With flushed red cheeks and a sack of dates stuffed in his pocket”(Nye IL14). Dates in Palestinian culture represent prosperity and are often included in the diets of Palestinians. Although Susan is now living in the United States, she doesn’t assimilate to American culture or beliefs.…
Life in the United States was anything but heavenly for Asian Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As vividly described in Mary Paik Lee's autobiography, "Quiet Odyssey", a very large majority of the Asian American population residing in America during this time period "never had enough money for a normal way of life" (Lee, p.9). They usually had to resort to difficult physical labor to barely get by, jeopardizing their health in the process. Japan's subjugation of Korea, even though it actually took place in Korea, greatly affected the Korean population in America, sometimes even causing some of the initial Korean presence in the States. Lee's story reveals some of the obscure aspects of Korean history that otherwise may be more difficult to excavate. It also depicts the racial discrimination severely rampant during this time, and how Asian Americans worked to better their position in American society despite this obstacle. Asian Americans in Mary Paik Lee's Quiet Odyssey brutally experienced the effects of poverty, degradation, colonialism, and racial discrimination, as reflected in Lee's accounts of personal experience and Asian American Cultures 101 of the University of Washington.…
Change is Good In order to be happy you need to be willing to change. This is true because most people do not get very far while being happy if they do not make the effort to change. In “Shells” by Cynthia Rylant, the two main characters have to have something change in order to be happier.”.…
I am reading Paladin by Sally Slater and I am on page 185. This book is about a seventeen-year-old girl named Samantha, who is the daughter of a duke and his late duchess. After her mother’s death, Samantha takes on the surname of Sam and joins the elite fighting group called the Paladins, who protect Thule from murderous demons. In doing so, she goes undercover as a boy so that she can receive training, and one day join the Paladins.…
In Dave Barry's essay "Lost in the Kitchen" Barry shares his opinion on sexual equality through a personal experience with his family on Thanksgiving. In the conclusion paragraph a point is made that before women's liberation, men took care of the cars and women took care of the kitchen. Now after women's liberation, men no longer feel obligated to take care of the cars. By this, Barry is meaning to say that before women's liberation, women had their specific, "feminine" jobs and men had their "masculine" duties to take care of. After women were liberated, those roles were disrupted and women became viewed as more qualified to take on those more "masculine" responsibilities. At first, one can imagine that men might have felt their definite masculinity slipping away from them and been insulted, but as time has passed that pride has subsided and men are now giving in to the new role women play in society, or as Barry implies, men have not only succumbed to this, but have gotten lazy. I disagree that the balance of responsibility between men and women is weighted more heavily on women due to men's passive or lazy tendencies because especially in a family situation, there are too many variables for the blame to rest on just one gender.…
This common question that migrant workers ask themselves daily because they are consumed with their own ambitions causing them to ignore that in order to be a person that they are obligated to have faults. Chumming was guided by her emotion of fear that she was “useless” which builds upon her character as being a person who is ambitious about being successful. To summarize, it is common for people to believe that they are…
As children grow, it is important to find materials that correspond to their growth in multiple areas in order to strengthen and further their development. Perhaps one of the best tools for accomplishing this task is books, which can be used to strengthen a child’s cognition, language, and understanding of the world around them. One such example is A Wonderful Wind from Disney’s “Out & About with Pooh: A Grow and Learn Library.” This book was written by Ann Braybrooks and demonstrates how a book, when written with appropriate developmental steps in mind, can be an excellent tool for helping children ages five to seven learn and develop in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains. Before one even begins reading the story, the…
One of the ideas Gilbert has in his essay that really shines through for me is specifically how he emphasizes the astounding price we pay. In reality, we do pay a lot for our children. We pay for their basic necessities like food, diapers, and clothing. We pay for extravagant cribs and top of the line car seats to ensure safety. Parents go into debt, take on multiple jobs and give up promising careers to provide.…
Exaggerate the event and the outcome. For example, if you write about your 6th grade soccer tryout, exaggerate the obstacles you faced, exaggerate how you overcame them, exaggerate how the news was given (remember Big Fish).…
That market gap is an opportunity for Apple, too. For example, businesses have been using iPhones more frequently for their employees as the device has grown and expanded its features.…
The birth and growth of human civilization and culture has been very intimately connected with the forests. Forests have had a great influence on human thought and way of living.…