Chris Webb Period 8 12/2/10 Essay 3 Speak Essay Speak is an inspirational story of a young girl struggling to manage her teenage life. Melinda‚ the protagonist of the book‚ transformed from a withdrawn girl to a outgoing one. Melinda changed dramatically from the beginning of the book to the end. Melinda started off the story as an outcast in her school of Merryweather High School. She was kneed in the back by a girl at the school pep rally and taunted by kids in the hallways. All
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back from many things you can do here in the states. I’ve been illegal all my life but found out when I was 15. I came to the United States when I was 5. I lived the life of a normal kid with school and friends and just being a kid. When I got older I couldn’t get a normal job or even go to school or even get my first car. It is hard and it keeps getting harder for some reason. I’m 24 and don’t really know where to turn to.” This was spoken by a man named Jose who speaks out about the hardships of being
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receive any punishment was to punish the individual him/herself” So he is telling us that any “criminal” should receive any kind of an abuse to be punish. I doesn’t matter who it is that is being arrested police have the right to any kind an abuse to do such anything to be punished. That is incorrect why would a police treat anybody in a way to harm when not needed. It’s a shame to see what police have done to innocent citizens. In the article “Why Are police so violent?” states the way police use
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Central High School in Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ he was voted class poet and editor of the yearbook. In 1920‚ Hughes went to live with his father in Mexico where he taught English to the children of wealthy Mexicans. In spite of fact that his materialistic father had little regard for his son’s artistic aptitude/propensity. When his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” appeared in The Crisis in 1921‚ the young writer became more
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"You see a bird trying to fly‚ falls down‚ and gets back up to try again." That is how it is in the novel "Speak". Melinda keeps trying to pull her self up. But Melinda keeps collapsing‚ Melinda was nearly Going to give up‚ although she got up and started over. In the novel "Speak"‚ Melinda progressed very uniquely‚ and this is important. In the novel “Speak”. Melinda is the main character
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We certainly do not want to degrade the value of an African American‚ for they should be considered citizens‚ not three fifths of a human being. A solution for this dilemma can be solved if we eliminate the house of representatives to make decisions for a short period
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child is taught to have relationships not only with people‚ but also with the environment such as the animals‚ plants‚ waters‚ spirits‚ skies‚ weather and the land. “Like a human mother the land gives us protection‚ enjoyment‚ and provides for our needs economic‚ social and religious. We have a human relationship with the land.” (Coombs & Dodson‚ 1994). Each group of families lives in a specific area that they own in relation to its own ancestral law. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
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At this age we don’t find much importance on what science has to bring to us but as we grow older we will realize that it will play a much bigger role in our lives than what we can imagine right now. There are always times when we get asked‚ “What do you want to be when you grow up?” At a younger age we would say a popstar or ballerina‚ as we leaned in towards our teen years we aspired for something higher like a doctor or a lawyer ‚ and once we got to highschool where things started to get real
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Nooo! In Speak by Laurie Anderson. Speak is about a young woman Melinda who just started high school and everybody hates her because she was rapped at a party before school started and she called the cops. When Melinda is given a project in art to make a tree come alive the projects she made showed how melinda changd after being rapped ecause‚ She iked to hid in a closet her tukey sculpture‚ her dead tree face‚ and her cubist tree phase. Melinda likes to hide just like her turkey sculpture
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the only ones doing it either. The parents will be as well. The parents will be because they are very expensive‚ causes controversy between the students‚ and it goes against students freedom of expression. Students already do not have much freedom at school but what we do have left‚ is being taken away. School uniforms restrict students’ freedom of expression. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that all individuals have the right to express themselves freely. (teen nick). In
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