halls‚ girls matched her style‚ and the teachers always favored her. Josie always seemed to fit in wherever‚ or whoever she was with... "but there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secret". There may be more to her than the eye can see. Peter Houghton‚ on the other hand‚ was the boy that nobody knew. That all changed when a private email‚ containing his love confession for Josie‚ was sent out to the entire school. Peter had been teased and bullied
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value on women being virgins when they marry. This value is one of the primary themes in Chronicle of a Death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In contrast‚ virginity does not appear to hold significance in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. However this is only on the surface but as one delves into the deeper meanings of each book it almost seems as if the authors view this social doctrine as childish. Throughout the stories contained within both books‚ a mockery is made out of the
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presents us with certain cultural/religious traditions as well as an outsiders view on this. Tomato day‚ as Josie refers to it ‘National wog day!’(p171). This is a day when all Italians come together and make tomato sauce. Josie is embarrassed about it and does not understand the true meaning and significance of it by asking her grandma why she can not buy a pre-made sauce. I can relate to Josie about being embarrassed about certain cultural traditions‚ which I did not want people to know about because
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protagonists’ fate is decided by the narrator’s hand. Just like the literary works we have recently read‚ including the poems “Sunday Greens” by Rita Dove‚ “Sinful City” by Jaroslav Seifert and the excerpt from Like Water for Chocolate from Laura Esquivel‚ the characters’ fate was sealed from that moment. Therefore‚ the most relevant theme through three works is that fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. We are fated‚ since everything has already happened. In the poem “Sunday
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References: De Janasz‚ Dowd‚ & Schneider. (2001). Conflict: Sources & Solutions. Interpersonal Skills in Organizations. McGraw-Hill Companies. Esquivel‚ M. A.‚ & Kleiner‚ B. H. (1997). The importance of conflict in work team effectiveness. Team Performance Management. 3(2)‚ pg. 89. Retrieved January 30‚ 2009‚ from ProQuest database. Intro to Teams: What is a Team. (2001). Unit 1 Introduction Retrieved
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LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative conventions seen
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We the kids around the world are not thrilled with the way our society behaves. We hate to turn on the news and see the way our youth act towards each other like who really wants to live in a world where this goes on every single day. The biggest problem that we have in society is school shootings. We bully each other until it gets to the point where we can’t take the bullying no more and start handling the situation ourselves and we will never know when it’s going to happen until it happens. And
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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Fiction Novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is a novel based on a school shooting in the small town of Sterling‚ but focuses more importantly on the feelings of the main characters‚ Peter Houghton and Josie Cormier‚ who experience insecurities and social acceptance‚ or lack of. The novel explores the damaging effects of bullying‚ peer pressure and the dynamics of group interaction within teenagers in a modern day society. Picoult’s novels are aimed at a
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grandmother‚ Katia or Nonna as Josie calls her. Josie has quite a strained relationship with her mother‚ and Christina also has a strained relationship with her mum‚ this also relates to their Italian background and can come between the relationship the three of them have. There is pressure from Katia towards Christina to be a better mother and then pressure from both Katia and Christina towards Josie. In the end though you come to realise that all the pressure put on Josie is for good measure as they
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you suffer on earth‚ the better the reward is in heaven. * Nonna is particular about Josie having Italian boyfriends because she doesn’t mix with the Australians. * Nonna claims that the Australians don’t know much about Italian culture. * “There are always jobs I have to learn because all good italian girls know how to do them and one day look after my Chauvinistic husband”. Plot summary * Josie had a fight with nonna‚ she met her father Michael Andretti for the second time in her
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