This summer I read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story begins with Melinda‚ the narrator‚ starting ninth grade. Everyone‚ even her old friends‚ won’t talk to her. It’s later announced that during the summer‚ Melinda called the police on a party and it got shut down. After this incident‚ Melinda became the most hated girl in her school. Something horrible happened to Melinda at the party that she hasn’t told anyone about. She shuts herself in‚ withdrawing from school‚ her family‚ and any possibility
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Mental Illness ‘Speak’ by Laurie Halse Anderson is an novel that explores a girl in high school who is raped at a party and she calls the cops and everyone hates her for it but she tells nobody about what happened which turns her to a very dark place and she ends up in a depressed state. Laurie Halse Anderson said herself "I’ve learned that Speak is not just a book about rape. Speak is a book about depression." Mental illnesses like depression are disorders that affect your behavior‚ mood and the
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millions of investors. During this hard time there seem things were very grim. These hard times during the depression era got documented in many forms like movies‚ music‚ photo‚ and other things. Two of my favorite documents is the photo listed below and the short story "The Marigold." While one is a photo an another is a short story I must say both tell and show a lot about the depression era. I can see why they say that a picture is worth a thousand words because this shows so much about this
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Depression Among the Elderly Though depression and anxiety are common throughout the life cycle; depression and older age have commonly been associated with one another (Mulsant‚ 1998). Unfortunately‚ many elderly people are not satisfied and look at this stage as depressing. After years of planning‚ dreaming‚ and expecting the golden years to be the highlight of one ’s life‚ the increased number of stressors related to aging causes feelings of depression. Depression can happen at any age from
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A Study of Depression and Relationships A primary concern for Psychology research is depression. Depression affects a great deal of our population and many aspects of an individual’s mental health and well-being. In my research of books‚ articles‚ and Internet pages on depression‚ I chose to base my paper mainly on a 1994 article of a study of depression‚ entitled Depression‚ Working Models of Others‚ and Relationship Functioning‚ by Katherine B. Carnelley‚ Paula R. Pietromonaco‚ and
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The Great Depression The next blow to aggregate demand occurred in the fall of 1930‚ when the first of four waves of banking panics gripped the United States (Romer‚ 2015). Millions of Americans lost their jobs during Herbert Hoover’s time as president. Many didn’t work for only a year‚ some longer than that. The time people spent unemployed lasted as long as more than four years during this crisis. It wasn’t until World War Two that America once again saw a rise in the employment rate. People
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Speak Readers Response Anderson‚ Laurie Halse. Speak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux‚ 1999. Print. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about the protagonist Melinda Sordino and her journey through her freshmen year of high school. She started school with no friends but in the end she had more than she thought she would. In school she struggles with paying attention and getting good grade and her home wasn’t much better. She had a mother that was always working and a father that really didn’t care
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Depression 1 Running head: CAUSES‚ SYMPTOMS‚ & TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION Causes‚ Symptoms and Treatment of Depression Stacey Benson Faulkner State Community College Depression 2 Causes‚ Symptoms‚ & Treatment of Depression Do you ever feel sad‚ lonely‚ hopeless‚ or suicidal? According to the National Institute of Mental Health website‚ Depression is the leading cause for mental disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44. Depressionpreception.com states that
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they haven’t half the strength you think they have." In the book Speak‚ Melinda a young girl just beginning her first year of high school has some obstacles from her past‚ destroying her future. Melinda was faced with the unfortunate affects of being sexually abused and it holds her back. Melinda goes through many different stages before all of the pain goes away. Melinda’s greatest obstacle is growing as a person; throughout the book she overcomes this by developing socially‚ academically‚ and
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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 the book‚ everyone
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