I really enjoyed listening to renowned author Laurie Halse Anderson because she is different author than I’m used to reading/hearing about. She said that she was born in 1961 and she was raped at age 13‚ which prompted her style of writing. She had a broken childhood and she was on the path of living a broken life until she decided to take a different path down the writing lane. One of the main things that Anderson repeatedly mentioned in her talk is that she writes about the things that are hard
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inner city neighborhood in Philadelphia written by Elijah Anderson. The “code of the streets” combined with respect‚ loyalty‚ and honor is a system used to regulate social interactions within the city. The people within the inner city are pressured into living by the code of the street as a survival mechanism. The book describes the issues that are present within the city like teen pregnancy and the absence of economic opportunity. Anderson used ethnography research methods to obtain his information
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are‚ and constantly giving more and more of our “private information” to big corporations. In ‘Feed’‚ the novel by M.T. Anderson‚ we are taken a step towards our possible future‚ where computers have become so integral to our society that they are now implanted in our heads‚ connected to our brains. This is called the feed. While this seems like a wonderful innovation‚ Anderson reveals the detriment all this new technology is causing our society. The feed‚ and inventions like it‚ are causing the
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As soon as I walked through the front doors of Anderson High School‚ I knew my feelings and thoughts would fly around all over the place. It was almost like my stomach was turned completely inside out and all I could do was stare as people of all kind wandered to their first class. I did not know where to begin looking; I had just been here five days ago but my mind went blank as soon as I stepped foot inside. Eventually the school bell made a noise almost similar to something you might hear in
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High Fructose Corn Syrup We owe a great deal to the Native Americans who introduced the Pilgrims to the maize plant. They were the first to realize its great potential as a main stable in our diets. We took that simple little plant and transformed it into the most grown grain in the United States. It has been genetically enhanced to the point that it can now produce two hundred bushels of corn or better per acre (Pollan‚ p.37) making corn the ideal item to be transformed into our sweetener
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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Ever wonder what was really going through Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily’s lives? In the novel Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson‚ Tiger Lily is a young indian teenager faced with a forced marriage with a abusive young indian boy‚ Giant‚ or to run away from the tribe and find new adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. In the novel it tends to show you a different view of what’s happening‚ from Tinker Bell’s point of view. It shows how she feels about other characters and what happens as she joins
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Publishers: USA‚ 2008‚ 222pp. By Michael Wiame Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy and Religious studies and a research fellow in the Princeton University. He published several books including The Declaration of Independence and God the Natural Moral Law. He specializes in epistemology‚ ethics of belief and Religion in America among others. In his exciting publication on the Clarity of God’s existence: The Ethics of Belief in the Enlightenment‚ O. Anderson pointed two principles of importance. His emphasizes
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1. Jamaal L. Shields 2. Reading #11: “The Code of the Street” by Elijah Anderson 3. The argument Elijah Anderson is trying to make is that the behavior of the children today is greatly influenced by the street culture. In this street culture‚ he describes it as being violent when they’re faced with impersonal attacks and any type of disrespect shown. 4. I think this course reading fits with two course concepts from the lectures in class and the textbook. The first concept would be ethnography
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High fructose corn syrup is a well-known food additive that is listed as a primary ingredient in most food products. It is very common is most of the population’s daily diet and it is ordinary to find it in our foods. People are constantly advised to minimize the consumption of it because of the variety of negative health effects it causes from in-taking too much of this factor. But what really is high fructose corn syrup? What foods is it found in? Is it really as unhealthy as it is claimed to be
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