Alexandra Schleicher Mr. Farsad Grade 9 English May 23‚ 2014 Evolution of Ian ’s character throughout the book Shattered by Eric Walters. `Ian from the book ‘Shattered’ by Eric Walters is a fifteen-year-old student passionate about friends‚ his social life‚ wealthy lifestyle and the hope of getting a car for his sixteenth birthday. He is selfish‚ lazy and lacks interest in school‚ especially his social studies class. He is reluctant to complete his mandatory community service hours that he needs
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Juice Book chat The book I read was written by Eric Walters and is called Juice. The book Juice was about a football Star named Michael Monroe (nicknamed Moose). Juice takes place in a small farm town in Georgia. The book starts off with Moose’s team winning the state championship. Which after they win later in the locker room Moose’s coach announces to his team that he has decided to retire from coaching. So it’s announced that a Division 1 coach‚ which is the level above Moose’s High school
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The novel‚ “The Bully Boys” by Eric Walters chapters 15-18 continues about a farm boy named Thomas who rides alongside James FitzGibbon as a companion due to the fact the Americans are hunting him down. First‚ FitzGibbon is hit by a musket ball and is injured. Thomas needs to defend FitzGibbon from getting hit again so‚ Thomas kills 1 soldier‚ badly wounds 1 while the third one escaped. The injured soldier tells Thomas to deliver a letter to his wife and kids because he thinks he is close to death
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Bobby Taggart December 10‚ 2012 Tracy Crow Journalism Shattered Glass Response The movie “Shattered Glass” is about a journalist who writes for the New Republic Newspaper‚ who later gets caught for fabricating 27 of his stories. The journalists name is Stephen Glass. Glass was 24 when started working writing and reporting for the New Republic. The New Republic is a well-known newspaper located in Washington D.C. Glass has had a reputation for having the most vivid stories. Glass’s first
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Does it mean that black parents are very negligent? Or the fact that they are very poor? This reading tells us about a book by Dorothy Roberts titled Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. This book tells us that poverty is the leading cause of children being put in foster care. We see that poverty led to women losing their children as a result of lack of healthcare‚ inadequate housing and an inability
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Pre Trip Ideas 1. Introduce the community helper‚ the baker a. Tell what the community helper does b. And where he works c. Read the story: Walter the Baker by Eric Carle 2. Pretend Play – set up an area in the classroom where there are materials such as: measuring cups‚ measuring spoons‚ rolling pins‚ baking sheets‚ cookie cutters‚ donut cutters‚ pastry bags‚ large plastic bowls‚ wooden spoons‚ spatulas‚ egg beaters‚ plastic food items. Children can use them when they pretend to bake various treats
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The film Shattered Glass presents the ethical issues of fabrication and the deception of the writer‚ Stephen Glass‚ to his editor and co-workers. He deliberately sensationalized his stories in order to gain his reader’s attention. His facts were partially‚ if not completely‚ inaccurate and he presented notes that he fabricated as facts for each of his pieces at the New Republic. Journalists in the media have a duty to the people to report the truth and follow an ethical code whenever reporting stories
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1. How has Altera modified its strategy? Why? Altera learned a hard lesson in inventory management after losing $115 million worth of inventory in the 2000-2001 timeframe. Altera produced its programmable logic devices and stocked them in warehouses waiting for customer demands. Their thought was to provide a cost advantage to their customers by having readily available stocks. Altera also leaned forward to help customers by building new products from specs. This push strategy backfired‚
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The film Shattered Glass directed by Billy Ray was an intriguing film for today’s world as it shows that the events in Shattered Glass play a big role in today’s world on how it relates to fake news as a potential marketing tool‚ political tool‚ or bureaucratic tool. In the film Shattered Glass Stephen Glass‚ was an infamous writer who turned out to have fabricated most of his articles. More often than not‚ Stephen Glass made his articles up with observations‚ random settings‚ and characters. Shattered
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The film Shattered Glass by Billy Ray depicts a true story about how a young journalist wrote and published fake stories to The New Republic‚ the magazine that he worked for‚ until he got caught. The movie reflects on the do’s and dont’s that a journalist should always follow in order to maintain his/her reputation as an honest and accurate journalist as that is not only the right thing to do but it is one’s duty as a journalist. Stephen Glass‚ the name of the character of the protaganist is
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