The Progression of Melinda Sordino Melinda Sordino‚ the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson’s award winning novel‚ Speak‚ is a 9th grade student attending Merryweather High. In a flashback it is discovered by the reader that Melinda‚ Mel for short‚ was raped by an upper classman during a party in the summer between 8th and 9th grade. Mel calls the cops but by the time they arrive Andy‚ her rapist‚ is gone so everyone who attended the party was lead to believe Mel called the cops because of
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systematic theory of personality in order to answer some of the bothersome questions that have developed in psychology regarding this phenomenon. Personality is believed to be possessed by all people in differing degrees. How people tend to think‚ feel‚ and behave and what causes individuals to have these tendencies are questions addressed by personality theory and research. Whereas developmental psychology and social psychology have merged as a subject matter in psychology‚ personality has never truly
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Anderson’s novel Speak focuses on this very issue. The protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ must face the challenges of high school‚ family issues‚ and the inability to express herself. Mr. Freeman‚ David Petrakis‚ and sports are the things Melinda relies on to overcome the past that haunts her. Mr. Freeman is a factor that motivates Melinda Sordino to learn from her mistakes and took look beyond times of difficulty. On the first day of school Melinda is an outcast who encounters Mr. Freeman‚ an art teacher who
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5 Sentences on the Big Picture • I think that the author wants you to remember or provides you‚ the foundation of a theory that allows treatment of corporations as members of the moral community‚ of equal standing with the traditionally acknowledged residents: biological human beings‚ and hence treats Wicker-type responsibility ascriptions as unexceptionable instances of a perfectly proper sort without having to paraphrase them. • In my view the author’s thesis is that corporations can be full-fledged
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a brighter future. This theme is demonstrated through the context of hope and a new beginning. After the traumatic experience that Melinda goes through‚ she is isolated due to her action of calling the police.This puts a negative effect on Melinda’s life and led her towards depression due to her friends and students in her school excluding her. At school‚ Melinda is faced with many challenges and eventually changes her perspective‚ and she sees a new beginning including knowing what is wrong and
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Melinda in “Spotlight” has a vivid inner voice‚ where the reader can make an inference that she is a analytical introvert. The quotes “I see a few friends - people I used to think were my friend - but they look away” and “There’s that new girl‚ Heather‚ reading by the window. I could sit across from her. Or I could crawl behind a trash can. Or maybe I could dump by lunch straight into trash and keep moving out the door.” shows how the author’s use of diction helps create her voice as analytical
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Psychology Research paper The Application of the Big Five Model In HR Practice Jackie BO YU Advisor: Prof. Rakesh Mittal New York Institute of Technology Abstract This research paper gives a brief introduction of the big five model and applies it into real business work place. Personality has a big influence on how an employee thinks‚ feels‚ and behaves when working. As employers
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Imagine being an outcast have no friends and have everybody hate you. That’s just one day in the life of Melinda Sordino‚ Melinda Sordino is a protagonist in the “novel Speak” she is an outcast and is afraid to speak up for herself and face the world out of her safe zone. I describes melinda in three traits Insecure‚ Sarcastic‚ Unspoken Melinda thinks that she is an outcast she even said “I am an outcast there is no point looking for my ex-friends” she doesn’t have any friends because she called
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traits of individual group members. With regards to the Big Five Model‚ we investigated how group success relates to these five traits: conscientiousness‚ agreeableness‚ openness to experience‚ emotional stability and extroversion. We searched for indications that would support the notion that the personality traits pertaining to the Big Five Model positively affect group success. The personality trait conscientiousness is a component of the Big Five Model that contributes to group performance and group
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The Five Factor Model of Personality The precise definition of personality has been a point of discussion amongst many different theorists within many different disciplines since the beginning of civilisation. Personality can be defined as "the distinctive and characteristic patterns of thought‚ emotion‚ and behaviour that define an individual’s personal style and influence his or her interactions with the environment" (Atkinson‚ Atkinson‚ Smith & Bem‚ 1993: 525). It can be proposed that personality
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