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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“Three Times My Life had opened‚” was written by Jane Hirshfield from her collection called The Lives of the Heart. A background of Jane Hirshfield is she had always wanted to be a writer since childhood. She was first inspired by Japanese Haikus and culture‚ and “dedicated [years] exclusively to learning and practicing Zen Buddhism” (Napierkowshi). This is show as see adopts many aspects of the practice in her poetry. Although‚ she had been inspired by some cultures writing. “She had mention
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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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Free Mary Jane Grass‚ weed‚ kush‚ ganja‚ reefer‚ smoke‚ J‚ hash‚ nug‚ bud‚ Mary Jane; the flower of many names‚ Cannabis sativa‚ but more commonly recognized as marijuana. Cannabis’ roots have been imbedded in American culture since the late 1800’s. And has been through a legal rollercoaster ever since. Cannabis has gone from a government mandated crop‚ one of which you could pay your taxes with‚ to an “evil weed” and slowly up to what some view as a miracle cure. Currently 17 states have legalized
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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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Like Character‚ Like Estate In the novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen gives more meaning to the estates belonging to each character instead of allowing the reader to only see them as Background information. Austen is able to paint the personalities and values of each character in the minds of the reader by describing the outer appearance as well as the interior of the houses‚ this is applied particularly well to both Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Lady Catherine of Rosings. Both appear proud and
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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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“I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.”‚ a quote from Valentino Garavani‚ when it comes to the play Beauty by Jane Martin this quite could not fit any better. This play is about a girl and her burning desire to be something she is not‚ and that is Beautiful. Around‚ the early to mid-90s is a good guess as to when this story took place. This play shows how at the culture shapes the way a play is written. The fashion and modeling industry were really taking off at a rapid rate. The culture
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