Speak is a short 208 page novel focusing around a highschool girl named Melinda Sordino‚ a school outcast who doesn’t speak at all. She lost all of her friends after she broke up a party that had occurred over the previous summer by calling the police. Now in high school she is completely isolated and never speaks‚ though since the book is from her perspective we see that her internal personality is sarcastic and slightly rude. On the first day a girl named Heather attempts to speak to her but she
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aren’t ready for the power and responsibility that adults have. In the story “Conversion Of The Jews” the author Philip Roth uses characterization to explain how Ozzie Freedman and Rahbi Binder cooperate inside of the temple classroom as Ozzie pushes for his ideas to be heard. In the middle of the story‚ Ross uses conflict to show the differences and arguments between the Rahbi and Ozzie. Philip Roth incorporates symbolism towards the end of the story as he points out the
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In 1971 Dr Philip Zimbardo and a team of psychologists conducted an experiment of a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University. The experiment was set out to study the influence of social roles in human behavior. In our daily lives we are expected to fulfill the social expectations of our “roles”‚ our roles will have different expectations depending on the situations we are faced with. The psychologists designed an experiment to find out how much we are truly influenced by the social
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Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds shows the reader how one felt happy while living in hard environments with rude people. These two books compare and contrast in interesting ways that are extremely noticeable to the readers. The book SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson is very problematic and realistic. When the protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ got raped‚ it turned her whole world upside down. Her friends turned against her because they didn’t know what happened. She was also
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A world without any feeling or past is a scary thought to think about but can be seen in the world of Feed‚ by M.T. Anderson. The world that is seen in Feed may not seem realistic or may not be seen as our future‚ but there are many similarities within our world that should be taken into account. Some similarities are that everyone in the book has a chip that they cannot live without‚ but in today’s society chips are being put in newborns. Also‚ the Feed is the internet which has every social networking
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PHILIP LORCA DI CORCIA Philip Lorca Di Corcia was born in 1953‚ in Hatford‚ Connecticut. He studied with Jan Groover who taught him a new approach to photography that included not only the recording of reality‚ but inventing another way for expressing his point of view. At the beginning Lorca Di corcia portrayed his family and his friends. He has never been a prolific photographer‚ he takes about a dozen shots a year. After
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In the world of art‚ the photograph has conventionally been used to establish original subjects that document and reflect cultures as accurately as possible. However‚ in Philip Gefter’s essay‚ “Photographic Icons: Fact‚ Fiction‚ or Metaphor”‚ Gefter points out that‚ “just because a photograph reflects the world with perceptual accuracy doesn’t mean it is proof of what actually transpired. (208)” What Gefter is telling us is that it is that the ordinary reality of the image is not what is important;
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Death in Larkin and Abse Death pervades The Whitsun Weddings and in Ambulances is reflected on in terms of the significance of our response to seeing an ambulance stop. Passers-by view them as ‘confessionals’‚ secretive‚ mysterious places where we confront our deepest nature. They are impersonal and unpredictable‚ resting ‘at any kerb’ and reminding us of our mortality because ‘All streets in time are visited’. The contrast of the mundane reality of a visit to the shops with the ‘wild white
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The Women in Philip ’s life In the novel Of Human Bondage‚ the main character‚ Philip Carey‚ has a myriad of people whom are very influential in his life. William Somerset Maugham portrays Philip as having three women in his life that are of great importance to Philip ’s character. These three women are Mildred Rogers‚ Norah Nesbit‚ and Sally Athelny. Mildred is a negative influence on Philip whereas the other two women serve as positive influences in Philip ’s life. Of the three‚ Philip loves Mildred
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As with factual knowledge‚ Anderson and Krathwohl’s (2001) learning taxonomy on conceptual knowledge involves understanding systems of classification and categories‚ principles and generalizations‚ and theories and models‚ as well as the relationships and interactions between various concepts. The researchers recommend assessments that ask the subjects to define or state the kind of knowledge in order to discover and validate gaps in conceptual knowledge (Anderson & Krathwohl’s‚ 2001). To validate
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