Marlet Garcia Bingham‚Kelly. Shark Girl. Cambridge: Candlewick Press‚ 2007. Jane Arrowood is a fifteen year old girl whose arm was amputated when she was bitten by a shark. Jane is really stubborn and she doesn’t let herself try new things. She was still finding out how to be courageous and brave after what she had been trough. Justin is a kid who is around eight or nine or ten years old who lost his leg below the knee. He was a brave kid because he never was arguing about his disability. He was
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As the data states‚ most of my students did very well with recalling information and selecting the right choice on the quiz. However‚ there were still a few students that did not get 100% of the questions correct. One reason that students could miss the question is because they were absent that day. Student 17 has a history of being out‚ and is a TCT participant which means they leave school and come back but because they are being bused from point A to point B and back‚ they are usually 10 minutes
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“Mean Girls” Behavioral Analysis The movie “Mean Girls”‚ featuring Lindsay Lohan and Tina Fey‚ is a comedic film about a girl in high school who has to deal with all the problems‚ pressures‚ and choices of growing up in American society in comparison to that of being homeschooled in Africa. This motion picture was the perfect platform for showcasing various types of behavioral psychology. When Cady first moves from Africa to attend a public school she is a nice‚ innocent‚ respectful teenage girl
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Susanna Kaysen‚ in her memoir Girl‚ Interrupted‚ recounts her eighteen-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. The events in the book took place in the 1960’s‚ meaning outside the hospital’s reinforced walls‚ the world was bustling with racism‚ social activism‚ and the Vietnam War. The story is not told as a chronological series of events‚ but rather as a collection of memories‚ darting between various periods of Kaysen’s visit. Throughout her stay at the hospital‚ Kaysen met a variety
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Not all songs about ghosts and haunting have to be creepy or spooky (those tracks I’ll save for a future Halloween playlist‚) but some are downright upbeat or catchy. Here‚ you’ll find songs about literal and figurative ghosts‚ whether we’re talking about supernatural phenomena or ghosts of relationships past. (FYI- Tracks that almost made the cut were “Ghost” by Michael Jackson‚ “Ghost I” by Nine Inch Nails‚ “Ghost” by Neutral Milk Hotel‚ “Glass and the Ghost Children” by Smashing Pumpkins and “Ghost”
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the hospital to right before the girl next door rang at Lena’s doorbell‚ a song that the soundtrack for the Joy Luck Club could include is the song “Unsteady” by X Ambassadors. The song “Unsteady” could be used in this scene because it describes Ying-Ying’s breakdown after losing her baby.” Hold on to me ‘Cause I’m a little unsteady ‘A little unsteady”. In the novel‚ Lena thinks that her mother might have become a little crazy and is falling apart. “I could not tell my father what she had said. He was
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Being a recent graduate from high school‚ all of my experiences are still fresh in my mind. I still remember all the clicks‚ the dances‚ the teachers and most of all the immature drama. Tina Fey’s Mean Girls is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be‚ and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan)‚ a "home schooled jungle freak" recently moved from the jungles of Africa to a city in America ready to start her first year at a public high school
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“The living dead girl” The first main characters name is Alice‚ this is a five year old girl. She is stolen away from her family and friends at the local playground. She was stolen by a man called Ray‚ which is the second main character. This is the horrible man you took this five year old little girl away from her childhood. He makes her life a living hell‚ the only thing he is concerned about is keeping her looking like a little girl forever‚ keeping her below 100 pounds. He renames all of
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Nichole Alfeche Musser Lit Film & Media 20 September 2014 The Written Word to a Larger Picture Literature is the written word. It may include a poem‚ play‚ or novel. The book “The Last Song” written by Nicholas Sparks‚ originated as a novel before proceeding to then is translated onto the big screen as a movie. The film was directed by Julie Ann Robinson. Books are written to tell a story through literary devices and descriptions. When translated into movies‚ the outcome is not always as
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Songs as Poems It ’s My Life Bon Jovi This ain ’t a song for the brokenhearted No silent prayer for the faith departed And I ain ’t gonna be just a face in the crowd You ’re gonna hear my voice when I shout it out loud [Chorus] It ’s my life It ’s now or never I ain ’t gonna live forever I just wanna live while I ’m alive (It ’s my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said‚ "I did it my way" I just wanna live while I ’m alive ’Cause it ’s my life This is for the ones who
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