book report*** Response Journal #4: Just Listen By Sarah Dessen From Pages 296 to 371 I thought that this last quarter of the novel‚ Just Listen by Sarah Dessen‚ was a real disappointment‚ in my opinion. First of all‚ when Annabel and Owen parted ways for such along time‚ I was very disappointed. Then‚ on top of that‚ the ending was a cliché‚ because it was too corny and too much of a happy ending. Anyway‚ since I finished reading this novel‚ I have to say that it was well written‚ in exception
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Eventually‚ junior high had come around and that was when he finally started getting some answers. And‚ as expected‚ those answers were ones that he would always regret hearing for the rest of his life. After all those sleepless nights of researching he had finally understood what homosexuality was. At first‚ he was really scared. Such a thing wasn’t accepting in society‚ and it didn’t help that he lived in South Korea. Also‚ it wasn’t like he could talk about this kind of stuff at school with his friends
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Brooks‚ M. "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up"; Paradise Café and Other Stories‚ Thistledown Press Ltd.; Saskatoon‚ Saskatchewan; 1988 Martha Brooks’ short story called "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up" is about a 14-year-old junior high student‚ Andrew‚ who has to take the public bus to his orthodontic appointment every third Thursday of the month. After this particular appointment‚ for which he was late‚ he got sick on the bus on the way home. A man that he’d seen on the bus a lot of times before
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Even though this does happen in real life sometimes‚ I think it is best for the teenagers to listen to their parents. Although some kids run off to be with the person they love no matter what their parents say‚ they normally do not have a strong relationship or connection with their parents in the future. This proves that some people think that only their decisions matter and they think everyone else is against them when they disagree. When Juliet’s family wants her to marry Paris and are trying
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Bryan Stevenson’s Talk I attended to the simulcast of Bryan Stevenson’s talk. His one-hour lecture went by so fast that I did not realized that one-hour past by so fast. I really liked his speech‚ and there was nothing I did not liked. By hearing his talk‚ I realize he talk a lot about what he mentioned on his book. I really liked the fact he started by mentioning statistics about our nation’s incarceration. That our nation has the biggest incarceration in the world‚ that women incarceration has
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Have you ever heard so many stories about one subject that when you finally learn about the real thing‚ it is radically different from what you expected. THis is the danger of a single story‚ you only get one small part of the entire subject. Without the full story‚ you make stereotypes and make assumptions that sometimes just aren’t true. In Chimamanda Adichie’s talk‚ she explains the single story as where a subject is shown from only one point of view. You get so used to seeing this subject from
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Analysis of “Women Talk Too Much” In “Women Talk Too Much” Janet Holmes debunks the stereotype of the garrulous woman‚ which reflects sexist prejudice rather that objective reality (301). Holmes dispels the “language myth” that women talk too much. Holmes provides proverbs from different centuries‚ cultures‚ and countries to show that the perception that women talk more is a universal stereotype. Holmes provides research studies and facts to prove the amount of a talk depends. From this article
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Daytime talk shows are certainly controversial there are those who find some of these types of show informational and helpful. There are others who view these shows as pointless and inappropriate. Daily viewers turn on there television and are bombarded with images of sex‚ drugs‚ and violence on some of the talk shows. The essay "Talk TV: Tunings into Trouble‚" written by Jeanne Albronda Heaton and Nana Leigh Wilson is about TV talk shows that are influencing many people. In their essay "Talk TV: Tuning
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Identity in Things Fall Apart and “I Lost My Talk” Identity can be explained as the state or fact of being a specific person or thing. [definition is good‚ but needs to be more specific] A specific person or thing can be defined by his/her personality‚ interests‚ family‚ community or culture. [connect your definition to the novel and poem—that’s why previous sentence was inserted] In both Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and in Rita Joe’s “I Lost My Talk”‚ Okonkwo and the persona‚ become
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death. In the poem " I heard a fly buzz- when I died‚" seems like the speaker is passively sitting there waiting for death. In "Because I could not stop for death" the character is not just going to sit and wait for her life to end. Instead the speaker is going to live life and just let death come to her naturally. In the poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" the feeling of death being present in the room is the tone. In the poem the speaker writes "For that last onset- when the King/ Be witnesses-
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