Speak: Perfectly full of flaws Art has the power to express what words cannot; it describes what one is feeling and thinking. The novel “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson demonstrates how art can express more than a thousand words. Her artwork is a symbol of how she struggles with finding her herself like she struggles to create the perfect tree. Melinda’s efforts to create the right tree in her art class represent her hardship and her ability to overcome them. Melinda is struggling with hiding
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the gardens were small and they were covered with soil. 2.25 million families had Anderson Shelters located in their homes. One of the most important advantages of Anderson Shelters is that they had a very little chance of falling apart‚ however‚ there was a very little chance that they would not be able to survive a direct hit. They were cold and damp and often flooded when it rained. There were four types of Anderson Shelters: Semi-sunken‚ sunken‚ surface and deep shelters. Semi-sunken shelters were
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Anderson Cooper was born on June 3‚ 1967 in New York City‚ NY as Anderson Hays Cooper. He was born to Wyatt Emory Cooper‚ a writer‚ and Gloria Vanderbilt‚ an entrepreneur. Early in his life Cooper was exposed to his mother’s glamorous lifestyle and the media. He
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I really enjoyed listening to renowned author Laurie Halse Anderson because she is different author than I’m used to reading/hearing about. She said that she was born in 1961 and she was raped at age 13‚ which prompted her style of writing. She had a broken childhood and she was on the path of living a broken life until she decided to take a different path down the writing lane. One of the main things that Anderson repeatedly mentioned in her talk is that she writes about the things that are hard
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------------------------------------------------- William Faulkner William Faulkner (September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the20th century‚ his reputation is based on his novels‚ novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in his native state of Mississippi. He is considered one of the most important Southern writers along withMark Twain‚ Robert
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inner city neighborhood in Philadelphia written by Elijah Anderson. The “code of the streets” combined with respect‚ loyalty‚ and honor is a system used to regulate social interactions within the city. The people within the inner city are pressured into living by the code of the street as a survival mechanism. The book describes the issues that are present within the city like teen pregnancy and the absence of economic opportunity. Anderson used ethnography research methods to obtain his information
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are‚ and constantly giving more and more of our “private information” to big corporations. In ‘Feed’‚ the novel by M.T. Anderson‚ we are taken a step towards our possible future‚ where computers have become so integral to our society that they are now implanted in our heads‚ connected to our brains. This is called the feed. While this seems like a wonderful innovation‚ Anderson reveals the detriment all this new technology is causing our society. The feed‚ and inventions like it‚ are causing the
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As soon as I walked through the front doors of Anderson High School‚ I knew my feelings and thoughts would fly around all over the place. It was almost like my stomach was turned completely inside out and all I could do was stare as people of all kind wandered to their first class. I did not know where to begin looking; I had just been here five days ago but my mind went blank as soon as I stepped foot inside. Eventually the school bell made a noise almost similar to something you might hear in
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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Ever wonder what was really going through Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily’s lives? In the novel Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson‚ Tiger Lily is a young indian teenager faced with a forced marriage with a abusive young indian boy‚ Giant‚ or to run away from the tribe and find new adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. In the novel it tends to show you a different view of what’s happening‚ from Tinker Bell’s point of view. It shows how she feels about other characters and what happens as she joins
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