Neil Gadingan Mr. Bambrick English Period 1 Speak In the novel Speak‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda Sordino is the protagonist who was raped and traumatized in a summer party. She was unable to speak as she became emotionally distressed. She struggled in school as she was not focused and her relationship with other people changed negatively ."When people don’t express themselves‚ they die one piece at a time." p122. The essence of the story is about secrets and what it can do to a
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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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In the book‚ “Speak” by‚ Laurie Halse Anderson‚ we are taken on a journey through the life of a young girl‚ named Melinda Sordino. We quickly learn that Melinda is a rape survivor that becomes mute after encountering sexual violence at a party during summer break‚ right before the start of her freshman year of high school. Melinda carries the burden of this secret with her in shame and in silence‚ from the hallways of her school to the doors of her home; internally isolating herself from everyone
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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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Technical University Food Engineering Department Ankara 06531 November 25‚ 2011 Dear Mr. Ungan‚ Please accept the accompanying Work Term Report‚ aimed designing a toasting oven in order to produce corn flakes. In the designed system 10 tons corn flakes per day is produced. After some processes‚ corn flakes enters the roasting oven at 20% humidity and exits at 4%humidity.The roasting oven can operate at (±10 ºC) 225 0C.Toasting oven is designed by considering its length‚ area and operating temperature
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implementation of new strategies and how the process is completed (Kaplan & Norton‚ 2007). Kellogg’s was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19‚ 1906‚ by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work with his brother John Harvey Kellogg (Kellogg‚ 2015). The company produced and marketed the hugely successful Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes and was renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922. The company’s products are
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In the short essay “Corn-pone Opinions‚” Mark Twain clarifies his position on self-approval and the adaptation to the “normal” standards and the trends of society. The author starts off the short essay by reminiscing back fifty years to his childhood where he first learned about conformity from a friend‚ which happened to be a black slave. On the contrary‚ the fact that Twain learned conformity from a slave already adds credibility to the short story because slaves were rejected in society. Conformity
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“Every scar I have makes me who I am” proclaimed an anonymous author. Sometimes people make decisions that will stick with them forever‚ even if they don’t want it to. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ she writes about a teenager named Melinda who goes through a ton of drama over the summer before and during her freshman year. A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. He stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her
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In Inside Out‚ Peter Docter gives Riley Anderson (the main character) several emotions. The emotions/characters that Riley deals with throughout the movie are Joy‚ Sadness‚ Fear‚ Disgust and Anger. Joy played a major role in Riley’s life while she was growing up. In the beginning of the movie‚ Joy was in most of her core memories. According to Pixar‚ “the core memories are objects of major importance in Inside Out. Like all memory orbs‚ core memories represent past events of Riley’s life. However
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