Julia Gariepy Period 2 12/11/12 Literacy Letter #2 Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson The summer before her freshman year of high school‚ Melinda Sordino‚ meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods‚ Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911‚ but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her‚ and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast‚ shunned by her friends for calling the police. She
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Why Should We Study the Past? Pearl S. Buck once said‚ “If you want to understand today‚ you have to search yesterday.” In order for us as a people to know where we are going in life‚ we must study the past of our ancestors to find out where we have been. The human animal by its very nature is curious. We must know the answers to‚ who‚ what‚ where‚ when‚ why and how. We cannot help ourselves from asking these questions‚ and we cannot stop ourselves from going in search of the answers. We have
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Why should we study Chemistry? Well I’ll tell you why I think I would study Chemistry‚ why it’s so important and crucial to know and understand. A couple reasons why are that I want to become a doctor in the future‚ I can see Chemistry in life‚ and I want to make a difference in the world. Can’t you agree that Chemistry is everywhere you look‚ I would definitely say so? Clearly‚ then we can see Chemistry in our daily lives. Just stop and look around you sometime. Look at a car for instance‚ you
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Mandatory Military Essay While many people feel that mandatory military service protects the United States‚ ultimately in reality it sacrifices numerous of our fellow young citizens to death. Therefore‚ we should not have mandatory military service even as a proposition. Till this day there is a huge debate about whether or not people of a certain age should be forced to go to war. People question‚ should young men and women attend the military service? Is it really worth it? Supporters
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As children‚ there tends to be little to no thought about the type of language we are taught to speak‚ read‚ and write. Far from our thoughts‚ are the long term evolutions from years before and after us that will shape what remaining languages will be in existence‚ and the ones that have gone extinct. In the article‚ “What the World Will Speak in 2115”‚ by John H. McWhorter‚ the reader is presented with the concept that there needs to be an overall common language‚ over time language will become
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the characters overcome the evil. This is especially true in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Evil may appear to be dominating‚ but in the end‚ good prevails. The major evil that Melinda‚ overcomes is that she has been raped. This is the main conflict of the story. This is a man vs. man conflict. Melinda‚ the main character‚ overcomes the evil that is Andy Evans‚ her rapist‚ by telling him no and to stop. Later‚ when Evans tries to rape her again‚ she screams and the lacrosse team finds
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When Should we Discard Explanations that are Intuitively Appealing? Intuition‚ knowing or considering something to be likely from an instinctive feeling and not from conscious reasoning‚ is a difficult concept to deal with. Intuition can be often be true‚ but also lead us down a path of poor judgement. The difficulty with intuition is knowing when to accept it or when to reject it. Complicating this dilemma is dealing with explanations that are intuitively appealing. The more we want an explaination
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Why we lie Lying has been around since the creation of human. Adam and Eve lied to god because they were scared after they ate from the forbidden apple tree. There are lots of reasons that could make people tell lies‚ Even though each reason might be different from the other in the end they all of them stem from one root cause which is being unable to bear the consequences of telling the truth. On the other hand‚ sometimes we lie because the truth may hurt someone we care about so we lie and
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"Why do we need/don ’t need government?" The topic of government has always been a large area of conflict. In the following‚ I will discuss why we need a government. First‚ what all is the government responsible for? We can begin to address this question by looking at the United States Constitution. We the People of the United States‚ in Order to form a more perfect Union‚ establish Justice‚ insure domestic Tranquility‚ provide for the common defense‚ promote the general Welfare‚ and
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WHY WE SHOULD RESPECT OUR TEACHERS We should respect our teachers because if we don’t respect people‚ that are more complex and more experienced than us it will reflect on us earlier down in our lives. Although sometimes our teachers may make a fool of us and humiliate us and sometimes embarrass us in the cruelest ways we should not retaliate in a bad way. If we know all the rules in the school we should report it to the principal or someone that is a part of the school and is able to tell the teacher
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