Tears of a Tiger This book I am reading is written by: Sharon M. Draper. She was born August 21‚ 1952 (age 60). Sharon Draper is an author who has won multiple awards for her books‚ including the Coretta Scott King Award for Forged by Fire and Copper Sun. In 1971‚ she married a teacher named Larry Draper. A graduate of Pepperdine University‚ she is best known for her novel‚ Darkness before Dawn‚ as well as The Battle Of Jericho. Other books include Copper Sun‚ Double Dutch‚ Out of My Mind and the
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Tears of a Tiger By Sharon Draper 192 Pages This book deals the issues that can or already influence every teenager in America. It addresses the issues of peer pressure‚ sorrow‚ death‚ friendship‚ teen drinking‚ guilt and teen suicide. Various youth have said "That won’t happen to me" or "I can handle my alcohol" or "I am ok to drive‚ I just had a few!" As teenagers‚ you have countless ideas and myths about drinking alcohol in addition to its affect on you and your body! Teenagers do not
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Peirce‚ an insecure American woman from the 1860’s who looks up to Marian Evan Lewes and aspires to become a writer herself‚ Lewes uses rhetorical strategies to establish her position that writing is a process and that a writer must write faithfully and honestly and a writer should never be absolutely satisfied with their work. Perhaps the strongest rhetorical strategy Lewes employs to establish her position is her personal anecdote. She writes of her experience of being a writer and how as a writer
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In the first few chapters of the story In Cold Blood‚ by Truman Capote‚ Capote uses copious descriptive phrases to draw the reader into his story. Capote paints the setting of the novel perfectly with his descriptions. The illustration of the midwest‚ using imagery‚ brings the reader to feel as if they actually lived in Kansas in the late 1950’s. Capote’s use of diction creates a suspenseful‚ contradictory mood. These two rhetorical devices create contradiction‚ leading the reader in two directions
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East of Eden Rhetorical Analysis Excerpt John Steinbeck’s purpose of the excerpt with Alice and Cathy subsists on Cathy that finds a place to get away from her enemies‚ being lonely and hated by the world. In order to make his purpose expedient he writes‚ “Alice was her friend‚ always waiting to welcome her to tininess. All this so good-so good that it was almost worthwhile to be miserable. But good as it was‚ there was one more thing always held in reserve. It was her threat and her safety. She
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Analysis of Orthostatic Vital Signs The purpose of this assignment was to measure‚ document and analyse six recordings of orthostatic blood pressure‚ orthostatic pulse and respiratory rate on my lab partner. Orthostatic Hypotension is a condition when there is a drop in systolic pressure of more than 20 mm Hg‚ or orthostatic pulse increases of 20 bpm or more which occurs due to a quick change to a standing position (Jarvis‚ pp. 163). Six recordings were taken over a certain period of time to better
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Gatsby lived his American dream and in the end found his heart flooded by the power of love and its remarkable betrayal. In time‚ the clothes we decide to wear‚ or the objects we put faith into are but beautiful masks covering broken creatures. The desires Gatsby longs for‚ force him to remember the past in hope of strengthening the dimming light of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s life gives way to circumstances that connect two separate ideas in ways least expected. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals
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Michelle Obama was very passionate in her speech. She expresses her disbelief about what our society is currently allowing to happen in this election cycle. Using logic‚ emotions‚ and her undeniable credibility‚ she was extremely successful in her attempt to discredit Donald Trump even further‚ if that’s even possible. Although I didn’t agree when Michelle Obama said that "Hilary embodies that is great about America‚" her opponent is so beyond unqualified‚ that her scandals‚ flaws‚ and corruption
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The theme for Halima Bashir’s story Tears of the Desert : Survival in Darfur is “How are we shaped by society?”‚ society does not shape us‚ or who we are what so ever‚ I will prove this by using real life event s from this story. Firstly‚ in the story Halima belongs to a culture called Zagawha‚ they live in a small village in Darfur where everyone knows about everything‚ everyone follows the same rules. Halima despite what the society of her culture says goes to school in a Arab village where they
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J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech conveys the good in failure‚ while also telling the importance of imagination through informing the graduates of her own personal experiences and explaining how both can make a positive impact in a person. Rowling relates her fear of failure‚ and her parents fear of her living in poverty. Both factors tie together. She then goes on to tell how she did end up failing. This helps the audience to realize failure is okay because someone with as much success as her
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