A couple years ago at my homeschool‚ I once read a book titled Identical that was written by the author‚ Ellen Hopkins. The story involved a girl and her sister in their teen years with names I cannot remember. The girls were twins‚ basically identical‚ but they were very opposite of each other on the inside. The story takes a crazy turn towards the ending when revealing that the girls were in a terrible car accident‚ causing one of them to lose their life‚ and the other one to be hospitalized. After
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Romanticism and "Young Goodman Brown" Romanticism was a literary movement that occurred in the late eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century which shifted the focus of literature from puritan works‚ to works which revolved around imagination‚ the beauty of nature‚ the individual‚ and the value of emotion over intellect. The ideas of the movement were quite revolutionary as earlier literature was inhibited by the need to focus on society and the rational world it effected. Romanticism allowed
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When someone is perceived as a threat to their social class structure as Ellen was‚ then a defense mechanism would be used to contain their structure by using cruelty like spreading rumors and defaming the person. Ellen Olenska was looked upon as a scandalous women who would ruin the class of New York’s elite. They were neglecting her presence in their society to an extent where no one even decides to show up to her introductory dinner. In chapter 6 it states‚ “New York society was‚ in those days
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What Mary Ellen Richmond contributed to the profession of social work were her efforts to find the causes of poverty and social exclusion in the interaction between an individual and their surrounding environment. She helps Improve and professionalize the care for the poor and individual who were in need of assistance. She was the Founding Mother of social work and the first to develop a Processes in recognizing the problems of applicant‚ furthermore she introduces the world to the professional side
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The Allegorical Nature in Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne is notable for his works that portray the darkness hiding behind the images of goodness rooted into Puritan society during the 17th century. Hawthorne’s image of hidden darkness is emphasized in “Young Goodman Brown‚” as a short story published in 1835‚ about a Puritan man who sets out on an unknown journey only to come to the realization that everyone he knows has sinned in one way or another‚ causing him to question the righteousness
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The readership that Ellen Hopkins targets in her novel Impulse would be teenagers and up‚ since the story follows three teens (who are nearly eighteen years old). I think within that‚ she targets readers who maybe can relate. Impulse deals with a lot of heavy topics‚ most notably suicide‚ and I think Hopkins targets a readership that can relate to what these teens are going through. The readership could even be those who have similar issues in their lives. Her target readership could also be people
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "Young Goodman Brown" is an excellent example of an allegory. Allegories use events‚ characters or symbolism as a bizarre or abstract representation of ideas in the story‚ and throughout "Young Goodman Brown"‚ Hawthorne uses a heavy amount of symbolism‚ as well as his characters and the events of the story line to develop a religious allegory. A large symbolic role is played by protagonist Goodman Brown’s wife‚ Faith. Also‚ the main event in the short story‚ Brown’s
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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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