liberated. Unspeakable horrors took place and Americans learned about man’s inhumanity‚ the disturbing crematoriums‚ and trains that arrived right in front of the gas chambers. The terrible history has more recently be compared to current events. Ellen Goodman‚ author of the short essay Becoming Desensitized to Hate Words‚ has long been an opponent of using Hitlerian language and other hate speech in everyday language. Her essay briefly discusses the improper analogies that people in the present
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The Westing game starts out when Barney Northrup the realtor‚ is renting an apartment named Sunset Towers to six different families. The Wexlers‚ the Hoos‚ the Theodorakises‚ J.J. Ford‚ Sydelle Pulaski‚ and Flora Baumbach. One of these was a bomber‚ a bookie‚ a burglar‚ and a mistake. Also in Sunset towers there is a Doorman who is Sandy McSouthers‚ a Delivery boy who is Otis Amber‚ a cleaning lady Berthe Erica Crow‚ and a coroner Dr. Sidney Sikes. When Sam Westing the founder of Westingtown is found
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article‚ “Mindlessness and Mindfulness‚” illustrates people’s way of acting without thinking or questioning their behavior. There are two ways to approach daily activities; one being mindfully doing so and the other to perform the task mindlessly. Ellen Langer argues that we tend to mindlessly perform many of our daily activities. We do this either through repetition of a task or on a single exposure to information. Langer also identifies how we do not question rules based on the context or the authority
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Period: 4th 8/30/12 Slob: Ellen Potter Slob is about an overweight twelve year old genius named Owen Birnbaum. He is bullied because; he is the fattest kid in school. P.E is a nightmare for Owen. His evil gym teacher bullies him just because he is overweight. He only has one
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“You’ll only find happy endings in books. Some books.” In the novel‚ Burned‚ by Ellen Hopkins portrays a story of a young girl going through a rough life with no way of escaping from her past. Pattyn‚ the protagonist‚ grows up in a busy household with 7 other sisters‚ a mom‚ and an abusive father at the age of 17‚ her household was never quite peaceful due to her father who abuses the mother and herself both verbally and physically‚ till Pattyn finally stand up herself. She dreamed on meeting the
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by Son on Thanksgiving On Thursday‚ a man murdered his mom and stepdad during thanksgiving dinner. The man was arrested without commotion but his motives behind the killing remain undiscovered. Ellen DeLoach was Dustin Ray Dixon’s sixty years old mother who had married Mitchel Brad DeLoach in 2010. Ellen was also reported to be mother of a daughter and a grandmother of one boy as well. The pair was slaughtered in their home in Acworth‚ Georgia‚ while two of the relatives looked in mortified shock
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Journal 2 In this roller coaster of a book‚ I am currently on page 326 out of 537. The author of this book is Ellen Hopkins. When I started this book I thought it was just another story about a teenager that didn’t have any friends but that all changed when she went to Nevada. Throughout this journal I will be visualizing‚ predicting and questioning. To kick off this visualization‚ the first thing that really stood out and made me really think about what I was reading was when the main character
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Would you save someone who is very close to you even if it is illegal? In The Adoration of Jenna Fox‚ by Mary E. Pearson‚ Jenna gets into a horrific accident. In an accident so severe as this one‚ most people would have been killed or crippled for the rest of their lives. Jenna’s parents‚ Matthew and Clair Fox‚ take the choice to save her. They basically remade Jenna into a new one. This was dangerous and illegal but they thought it was the right decision. I also very strongly think that saving Jenna
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Graded Assignment Journal: Macbeth Answer these questions in complete sentences. You will need to turn in this assignment to your teacher by the due date to receive full credit. Score 1. Macbeth is a play that remains relevant and interesting over 400 years after it was written‚ as is the case with many of Shakespeare’s works. Why is Shakespeare still worth reading? Answer: Shakespeare is still worth reading because the stories are interesting with amazing plot twist and characters. For
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Although past traditions have installed norms and standards regarding who may be considered as true ‘family‚’ Ellen Goodman effectively employs a variety of rhetorical strategies including figurative language‚ perspective‚ and Aristotelian appeals to highlight that in choosing to disregard these pre-established conditions and/or labels‚ individuals have the ability to progress with society in a manner that will encourage them to ultimately embrace the many intricacies of an extended family. To begin
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