In the novel‚ Speak the author uses the protagonist‚ Melinda‚ to teach the reader the importance of verbal expression. Melinda refuses to speak about an event that occurred in her life; therefore others cannot show her empathy toward her. Melinda’s lack of speaking lead to her being judged and bullied by her friends. Melinda’s silence slowly erodes her self esteem and leads to depressive behavior. Melinda’s lack of verbal communication conveys its merit. Melinda refuses to speak about an event that
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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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Anderson’s novel Speak shows how the main character‚ Melinda‚ has to face and overcome her biggest fear‚ speaking up against Andy Evans. When Melinda gets locked in the closet with Andy Evans‚ she is scared for her life. She sees him as “made out of slabs of stone”(193). Melinda still thinks of Andy as an invincible beast and she is still obscenly afraid of his strength. She envisions his hands as “enormous”(193). Therefore showing how frightening his size and physique is. She knows he can and will rape
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Mackenzie Calderon Miss Bone English 2 Period 2 14 December 2012 English Literature Data Sheet Quarter 2: Speak Summary & Theme: The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about an incoming freshman named Melinda Sordino. She’s riding the bus to school but she doesn’t have any friends to sit with. While she’s looking over the crowd of kids on the bus she spots her ex best friend‚ Rachel‚ but even she mouths “I hate you.” After Melinda attends her first few classes she already hates high
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Autism-speaks Just imagine your child was diagnosed of having autism. The realization of your child perhaps being autistic may be lurid. You now know that your child will be found with many challenges‚ and may have a severe difficulty making sense of the world. Autism is an illness that can affect your communication‚ socialization‚ intelligence‚ and you may act in many unusual behaviors. To try to help an autistic child is being very courageous. Having a child‚ who is autistic‚ will be a struggle
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Throughout the book Speak Melinda had many topics in each of her many passages. These passages help us find out what type of a person Melinda is and what her character is all about. The entire book is narrated by Melinda. In the beginning we find out that she busted a party by calling the cops during the summer right before high school. Everyone thought she was a rat. Little do we know is that she never spoken up that at the party Andy Evans raped Melinda. During her freshman year nobody likes her
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Rape is a difficult subject to explain to others because it is traumatic experience that people not involved will be unable to deal with the situation. Laurie Anderson’s novel Speak focuses on this very issue. The protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ must face the challenges of high school‚ family issues‚ and the inability to express herself. Mr. Freeman‚ David Petrakis‚ and sports are the things Melinda relies on to overcome the past that haunts her. Mr. Freeman is a factor that motivates Melinda Sordino
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Why Speak English? English. What is English? English is a language spoken by the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England a long‚ long time ago. I speak English. Am I from England? Of course not‚ I am a Filipino. But why do I need to speak English? They say English is the international language. Well‚ history reveals that Filipinos started speaking English when the Americans came to the country. They spoke American English. Anyway‚ American or English‚ they’re the same foreign language to my tongue
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and it becomes each employee’s job to answer it. When answering the telephone‚ use a friendly‚ professional manner. Our greeting is the first thing heard by callers; you are setting an example and making the first impression for the department. Speak distinctly‚ with a warm welcoming tone. Let your caller know which office he or she is talking with‚ by identifying the division/agency and telling him or her your name. Imagine that you are the caller‚ and answer in the way that you would want to
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assertions. A stereotype can be defined as a “representational practice” that categorizes an individual or group of individuals based on their differences‚ often classifying them with a positive or negative label. For example‚ the classification of an individual based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds (Hall 225). The image of Africans as savages is a common stereotype seen in American and European films that show Africans as barbaric and primitive creatures. Specifically‚ a savage can be defined as an
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