very touchy topic in young adult literature; people often debate that the book is inappropriate for the targeted audience. The book Thirteen Reasons Why‚ By: Jay Asher‚ is about a young man‚ Clay Jensen‚ who returns home from school one day to find mysterious box with his name on it sitting on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes with thirteen reasons why his school crush‚ Hannah Baker‚ committed suicide and he’s one of them. Parents‚ and teachers complain that a book containing sexually explicit
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13 Reasons Why Critical Review The plot of Thirteen Reasons Why consisted of a girl named Hannah Baker; who over a course of three years undergone many conflicts that led to her suicide. The twist to this high school teen’s suicide story is she recorded her last moments on audiotapes. She had everything planned out from the start. Where each tape would go‚ what order‚ and a map; so they could visit exactly where each event had occurred. On those tapes Hannah talked about thirteen people and their
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Why were Jews treated different in the middle ages? The Middle ages In Europe was not a very good time for the Jews‚ many Jews lived in Western Europe‚ all of the people that ruled were Christians and also the people that had the power were Christians‚ the Jews were thought of being different from all the people‚ in some places they were not able to own lands so they would not be able to be farmers. They had to live in special Jewish towns called ghettos; they were killed in many different ways
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Colton Landaiche Ms. Dehorn Period 3‚ English October 20‚ 2015 Thirteen Reasons Why A: Thirteen Reasons Why‚ an adult novel by Jay Asher‚ is written from the point of view of a Junior in High School‚ Clay Jensen. To some extent‚ however‚ the story focuses primarily on Junior Hannah Baker‚ Clay’s crush. One day‚ when Clay returns home from school‚ he finds a strange package on his doorstep -- addressed to him. Inside‚ he discovers thirteen tapes‚ all recorded by Hannah Baker. One thing is very confusing
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life. We may think that the rich get rich and the poor stay poor‚ because that is just “the way it is.” However‚ this is not the case. In Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times economic journalist David Leonhardt’s article from May 2014 “Inequality Has Been Going on Forever...but That Doesn’t Mean it’s inevitable‚” Leonhardt learns from French economist Thomas Piketty that income inequality occurs due to some individuals having extra capital to make more capital. Leonhardt specifies in his article that
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Standing on the Sun is a book that pretends to be full of provocative ideas about the future of capitalism; in reality‚ it makes weak‚ pie in the sky arguments full of flawed reasoning. The book is foolishly optimistic and idealistic in some instances‚ while also managing to ignore staggering upside in other situations. My criticism will focus on four instances of flawed reasoning. Firstly‚ the author takes something that is rare (a fundamental economic revolution like the industrial revolution)
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“There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex You may have heard about his odd complex. His name appears in Freud’s index ‘Cause he loved his mother.” To what extent do you think the tragedy of Oedipus Rex has been simplified over time? The way in which the tragedy of Oedipus Rex is interpreted has changed significantly since its first presentation to audiences in ancient Greece. The ways in which audiences over many years have interpreted it have changed because of changes to society in matters such
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choice‚ and no other way to end the emotional agony they endure daily. 13 Reasons Why‚ a book written by Jay Asher in 2007‚ tells the story of a teenage girl‚ named Hannah Baker‚ who committed suicide. When Hannah Baker killed herself‚ she left behind her story‚ telling the thirteen reasons why she felt there was no choice for her but suicide. She explains her thirteen reasons in the form of seven cassette tapes‚ with a ‘reason why’ recorded on each side except for one‚ hence
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Thirteen Reasons Why‚ by Jay Asher‚ is a story told from the perspective of Clay Jenkins‚ receives a box in the mail full of 13 cassette tapes recorded by one of his friends‚ Hannah Baker‚ who committed suicide. Hannah left behind these 13 tapes to explain the 13 reasons why she killed herself. As you read this novel you will feel all the emotions that not only Clay feels as listening to the tapes‚ but Hannah as she is living through all these moments. A shoebox- sized package gets left on by
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have been made on these. Such a book is Schindler’s List by Thomas Kennelly. First this book was published and later on a movie was made about it with the direction of a great director‚ Steven Spielberg. Schindler’s List is about the holocaust and what the Nazi did during the World War II. The movie covered the whole story so beautifully that the viewers could see by themselves what massacre happened during the war days. The cruelest part of Nazi fascism has been depicted in Schindler’s List. My
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