“Speak”‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson characterizes of Joyce and Jack Sordino being neglectful and incompliant for parenting towards their daughter‚ Melinda Sordino. Essentially to start Anderson portrays Melindas parents as two different personalities. Joyce (Melindas mom) as the hardworking manager at Efferrs‚ a clothing store. Giving off that shes a practical yet busy woman who struggles to balance home and career. On the other hand‚ Jack (Melindas dad) sells insurance whom Melindas thinks is too
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State University. Sandusky was recently imprisoned for these crimes. His victims‚ much like main character Melinda Sordino in the novel Speak‚ suffered in silence until they revealed their secret helping to finally express inner emotions. As I read this novel I compared scenarios and found the similarity between Sandusky’s victims and Melinda‚ they needed to speak in order to heal. Melinda begins to develop a coping mechanism that negatively affects her psychologically. She withdraws from her family
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In author John Bell’s “Louder Than Traffic Bread and Puppet Parades” from {unknown book}‚ he discusses how puppetry can be expressive. In the case of this text‚ Bell chooses to discuss the participation of the Bread and Puppet theater in parades. Bell states that puppets “scream and dance and hit others on the head” (273). Rather than most parades and rallies where people go to take a stand for what they believe in‚ the Bread and Puppet theater uses oversized puppets to catch the attention of passersby
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Six Word Memoir Narrative Football requires determination‚ perseverance‚ and heart. These three things are what separates average players from great players‚ mediocre teams from excellent teams. Those six words not only describe football‚ but my look on life as well. In life‚ we all need determination‚ perseverance‚ and heart to succeed in life as well as football. Determination is having the willpower to work hard to achieve a specific goal. When I am determined to achieve a goal‚ I work hard
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Luis Hernandez English 3A Period 5 9/28/12 When someone describes their selves they usually say a ton of words that best fit them. Although many words help describe a person sometimes just one word is enough. The word that would best describe me I think would be pursuer. One thing that makes me a pursuer is my family‚ they raised me to never give up on my dreams and I want to do achieve my goals to give back to them. Along with that another reason is I am a pursuer because I try hard for
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Black Elk Speaks with Forked Tongue‚ Couser is giving his opinion on how he thinks that Neihardt was in actuality suppressing the Lakota way of life and Black Elk’s story. His opinion is backed by some good points from the text and as well as other scholars who have the same opinion as himself. Couser does believe that Black Elk Speaks is a well written book and he even respects and commends Neihardt in his attempt to honor Black Elk‚ “before detailing the short comings of Black Elk Speaks I would
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statement that I have interpreted. In the text‚ Speak‚ Melinda Sordino shows her bravery by facing her fears against Mr. Neck and Andy Evans. One example of Melinda’s bravery is when she defies Mr. Neck. This example is the conflict between Melinda against Mr. Neck which may be considered as man vs. man (woman). Melinda does not have any advantages against Mr. Neck but does have disadvantages such as not being able to speak. Melinda’s inability to speak gives an advantage to Mr. Neck so he changes
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My word is actually a phrase‚ my phrase is “sense of humor.” Sense of humor has a few different meanings I think. The dictionary definition for it is; the trait of appreciating and being able to express the humorous. It means to be able to appreciate‚ understand‚ and make your own humorous things. Understanding sarcasm in speaking‚ funny actions‚ and catching puns‚ etc. are some examples of things you need a sense of humor to understand. People’s sense of humor are not usually the same. Your opinions
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Three words. There may only be three simple words that distinguish who I am‚ but they’re frequently the hardest to speak. These words were unknown to me for years‚ though I always had the impression that I didn’t quite fit the typical label that was thrust upon me at birth. It may appear that it took only about seven and a half months to finally understand and speak these three words‚ though my lifelong friends know it took far longer; 15 years‚ to be precise. The uncertainty began when I was young
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